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Student Travel Funding

We are pleased to announce that the Educational Psychology Department is allocating funds for reimbursement of student travel this year. Award amounts will be up to $250 per student per year.

To qualify for these funds:

• You must be an active Educational Psychology graduate student.
• You must travel to and present at a national or international conference or professional meeting.
• Your faculty advisor must approve the travel.

Please note that these funds may not be used for state or regional conferences nor can they be used for training or workshop participation.

To receive reimbursement, you must submit all of the following to the staff member in your area:

• Student Travel Funding Request form
• proof of attendance
• a copy of the conference program showing your presentation
• original receipts for expenses for which you are requesting reimbursement. (Do not include meal receipts.)
• signed and completed expense reimbursement form (available at http://intranet.cehd.umn.edu/EPsy/). Be sure to include detailed information about your travel: who, what, when, where and why. (For example, I traveled to Indianapolis, IN to present a poster at the national meeting of ABC Society, December 1-3, 2011. In addition, include a sentence on how your presentation benefits your research or project.) Detailed instructions are available at http://policy.umn.edu/prod/groups/president/@pub/@forms/@procurement/documents/form/um1612instructions.pdf)
• We don't reimburse for poster printing UNLESS the poster will also be used at Graduate Student Research Day




Submit to your program staff within 30 days after the conference. Last date to submit for reimbursement is June 5.

There are other sources for student travel funding. Check with Grad SEHD (http://www.tc.umn.edu/~gradsehd/index_files/Page517.htm) and Council of Graduate Students (http://www.cogs.umn.edu/awards.html)


Posted by kwalter at 9:42 AM

Dissertation Seminar

The Scholarly Community is cordially invited to share the final oral dissertation presentation by

Catherine Close

in partial fulfillment of requirements for PhD in Educational Psychology

A thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota

An Exploratory Technique for Finding the Q-matrix for the DINA Model
In Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment: Combining Theory with Data

Tuesday, December 13, 2011
8:30-9:30 a.m.
250J Education Sciences Building

COMMITTEE:
Professor Michael Rodriquez, chair
Professor Mark Davison, co-adviser
Professor Ernest Davenport, co-adviser
Professor Singdhansu Chatterjee

GRAD RESEARCH DAY -- Proposals due January 30

Graduate Student Research Day will be held on Friday, March 2. The Educational Psychology Department instituted this annual event in 2001 in recognition of the abilities and talents of its students. This annual event has been designed with three purposes:

-- to provide a format for graduate students to present their research and be recognized locally by peers and faculty
-- to provide students an opportunity for professional development and practice for future state or national conferences, and
-- to promote a department-wide activity that brings faculty and graduate students together around a common goal of disciplined inquiry.

Proposal forms are available at http://www.cehd.umn.edu/edpsych/forms/default.html. Submit proposals to Kathy Walter (kwalter@umn.edu) by Monday, January 30.