Graduate Student Research Enhancement Award
Graduate Student Research Enhancement Award supports graduate students’ beetle research, funding substantial research activities or specific objectives to advance their overall graduate research goals.
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Funder: The Coleopterists Society
Due Dates: March 1, 2027 (Annual proposal deadline)
Funding Amounts: Two $5,000 Program Awards and two Improvement Awards of up to $2,000 each
Summary: Supports graduate students’ beetle research through funding for substantial research activities or completion of a specific objective.
Key Information: Applicants must be graduate students and Society members in good standing; only one award per degree is allowed.
Description
The Coleopterists Society’s annual Graduate Student Research Enhancement Award supports research concerning beetles by graduate student members. The Program Award is intended to fund a significant portion of a student’s graduate research, while the Improvement Award helps complete a specific research objective. Both support activities integrated with the student’s overall graduate research goals, with the funded objective completed while the recipient remains enrolled.
Research support can cover expendable materials, time on analytical equipment, and travel for fieldwork, offsite laboratory work, or visits to museum collections. Previously funded work includes systematic revisions, generic classification, phylogeny, evolution, ecology, morphology, defensive chemistry, colour patterns, antennal traits, and relationships with fungi and other symbionts. The awards provide research funding rather than salary.
