AAA SHORT-TERM VISITING SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

The AAA Short-term Visiting Scholarship Program is intended to provide travel expenses to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows or faculty to facilitate visiting a laboratory or participating in a course. The Scholarship consists of up to $1,000, plus registration fee and partial travel support to the next appropriate AAA Annual Meeting/ EB. Program start-up will cover up to ten (10) scholarships per year.

ELIGIBILITY
• Visiting Scholarships may be used in any country.
• Scholars may be graduate students, postdoctoral fellows or faculty.
• Each Scholarship is intended for a short-term (typically, 1-8 week) visit to a laboratory or participation in a course.
• Funding cannot be used to attend a meeting or conference.
• Scholars must have been AAA members for one year prior to application deadline and are expected to remain a member for at least one year after the scholarship is awarded.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS
• Each Scholarship will have a value up to $1,000.
• Recipient must provide proof of course registration & completion or letter from host laboratory verifying completion of visit.
• Each Scholar will be reimbursed up to $350 to defray the cost of attending the annual AAA Annual Meeting/EB, in addition to free registration.
• Scholars must write a short report of their visit or course within two months of completion.
• Scholars may be invited to participate in AAA outreach activities.

APPLICATION AND PROPOSAL GUIDELINES
Applications should be submitted electronically, via the linked application form. Each application must include
•  CV (NIH four page biosketch format preferred)
•  For a course, the course description must be included.
•  For a laboratory visit, an invitation letter from the host laboratory’s principal investigator must be included.
•  One-page summary of:
     • intended destination
     • research goals that the visit or course will help achieve
     • budget outline

PROPOSAL REVIEW
AAA’s Short-term Visiting Scholarship Committee is comprised of five (5) members appointed by the current or incoming President to represent various areas of education or research. Committee members will serve a two-year term with one member serving a one-year term as chair in the final year. (The initial committee will vary slightly until the appropriate staggering of terms is achieved.) The committee will review all applications and select up to five (5) Scholars in each of two awards cycles per year. It is not required that five awards be made in each cycle. Under special circumstances, the committee may make more than five awards in the first cycle of the year and fewer in the next, so long as they do not exceed a total of ten (10) awards per year.

The Short-term Visiting Scholarship Committee will review all applications online, will score them based on a process established by the inaugural chair, and will confer by conference call to determine the scholarship recipients. They will provide their recommendations to AAA by March 15 (for applications due February 1) and September 15 (for applications due August 1).

• Applications will be reviewed twice per year, by a committee of five AAA members.
• Criteria for decision will include:
     • track record of the applicant;
     • importance of the visit or course for the applicant’s research success.
• The AAA Executive Committee will receive a list of recommended recipients; if no questions or objections are raised within one week, recipients will be notified.
• Critiques will not be provided to applicants.

TIMELINE
• Submission deadlines: February 1 & August 1
• Committee report due: March 15 & September 15
• Scholarship presentation: Scholarship funds of up to $1000 will be distributed upon verification of course or visit completion, as described above.

Application Form

For further information or clarification regarding the process or the forms, you may call or email:

301-634-7910 (phone)
301-634-7965 (fax)
exec@anatomy.org

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