Lisa Walker Travel Grant
Lisa Walker Travel Grant
Each semester the Secretary of CBE Women invites applications for the Lisa Walker Travel Grant. The award funds female members of CBE for travel for unique professional development opportunities up to $2000.
Opportunities funded:
- Specialty Conferences: e.g. Gordon Research Symposium, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, Perovskite Solar Cells and Optoelectronics Conference, The Advanced Automotive Battery Conference, etc.
- Collaborative research: e.g. industrial internships, research internships, collaborative research, field work
- Other non-conference events such as training or classes e.g. Cold Spring Harbor, start-up management workshop, on-site experience
Eligibility:
- Applicants must be female members of CBE, and priority will be given to PhD students. MS students and postdocs will be considered with an additional justification of why they are well suited for this award.
- Travel must occur within the 12 months following the application due date.
- Each student is eligible to receive this award in each category only once
Spring 2025 Lisa Walker Travel Grant Application – Important Dates:
- Call for Applications: Monday, March 10, 2025
- Application Deadline: Thursday, May 1, 2025
- Award Announcement: TBA
Spring 2023 Grant Recipients
Lisa Walker Travel Grant: Laura Sinclair
I will use my travel grant in October 2017 to observe a pilot copper mining operation in Florence, Arizona. We are collaborating with the Florence mine as part of our research into copper in situ leaching. Observing this pilot plant will be a valuable opportunity...
Lisa Walker Travel Grant: Ghazal Shoorideh
Lisa Walker Travel Grant gave me the opportunity to go to a Gordon Research Conference, where I interacted with biggest names in nanomaterials for energy and learned so much about the exciting research that is being undertakenelsewhere. Through mydiscussion and...
Lisa Walker Travel Grant: Siyu Zhu
Thanks to the Lisa Walker Award, I got an opportunity to travel to U.C. Davis and U.C. Berkeley to test our newly developed water stress sensor, called a micro-tensiometer, with our collaborators. In Davis, I learned to improve the in-plant installation skills. In...
Thank you, Lisa Walker!
We are grateful to CBE alumna Lisa Walker for her generous contributions of $25,000 to our organization that have helped us run an ambitious programming and provide travel grants to female CBE graduate students.
Lisa Walker '86
Managing Partner, DHR International
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