Student Travel and Participation Grants
Applications Open: Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Application Deadline: Friday, August 15, 2025
This year the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics (APS DPP) is offering a limited number of student participation grants to enable DPP student participation during the 2025 annual meeting in Long Beach. The grant offer applies to students who participate and who submit an abstract presenting their research at DPP 2025.
Grant recipients must be currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program, or an undergraduate program at a U.S. or international institution and conducting cutting-edge research in plasma physics.
If funds allow, a few qualified U.S. high school students will also be considered for a DPP participation grant.
Advisors of prospective student candidates should email a one-page statement of need, motivating the request for a student grant, to the DPP 2025 Program Chair Carolyn Kuranz with a copy to the DPP Administrator Saralyn Stewart. The statement of need should include a brief description of the student’s research and how participation at DPP 2025 will benefit the student. The statement should clearly justify the student’s qualifications for a grant.
Application Deadline: Friday, August 15, 2025
Include the student’s information:
- First Name and Family Name
- Affiliation
- Postal Mailing Address
- Email Address
- Abstract Presentation Title (indicate Oral or Poster)
DPP Policy: An advisor must apply for only one student and a request is appropriate only if the student would not participate, or have difficulty participating, without a student grant. A student who is first author and presenter are more likely to receive a grant than a student coauthor. The advisor’s email message should clearly justify the student's qualifications for a grant.
The selected student grant recipients will be informed at the end of August 2025.