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CAST Colleagues: This is a reminder of the August 1 deadline for CAST Graduate Travel Award nominations. Please be sure to include the student's AIChE membership number in the application. Thanks, --Ray -----Original Message----- From: Chemical Engineers in Computing and Systems Technology, AIChE on behalf of Raymond A. Adomaitis Sent: Tue 5/6/2008 12:50 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [CAST10] CAST Graduate Travel Grant Awards CAST Colleagues: As you prepare your submissions to the area 10 sessions, please keep in mind that we will be continuing the graduate travel grant program that was started last year. The CAST Division will make up to 10 travel awards to assist graduate students with their travel expenses so that they can attend the AIChE Annual meeting to present the results of their research. The awards will consist of $500, plus a ticket to the CAST Division Dinner where the recipients will be officially recognized. To be eligible, the student must be a member of AIChE and present a paper at the Annual Meeting in a CAST sponsored (or co-sponsored) session. The nomination for this award should be made by the student's research advisor. Each advisor may nominate only one student and only members of the CAST Division can nominate students. Students can win this award only once during the course of their graduate studies. The nomination package, in the form of a single PDF file, should include: 1. The student's AIChE member number; 2. The presentation abstract; 3. A single page resume, highlighting the student's accomplishments; 4. A single page recommendation letter from the faculty advisor. The nomination material must be sent electronically as a single package to: Raymond A. Adomaitis, CAST Graduate Travel Grant Chair, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and ISR, University of Maryland; E-mail: [log in to unmask] Deadline August 1, 2008. Award winners will be announced by September 1, 2008. Review process The review process will be coordinated by the Graduate Travel Grant Chair Awards The awards consist of $500, plus a ticket to the CAST Division Dinner at the Annual Meeting, where the recipients will be officially recognized and presented with the check. Ray Adomaitis Associate Professor Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Institute for Systems Research University of Maryland Energy Research Center Maryland Nanocenter University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 301/405-2969 www.isr.umd.edu/Labs/CACSE/A-Team