Scholarship Announcement

We anticipate having a limited number of partial scholarship (registration fee reduced to $250) and travel awards available (up to $500 USD) to assist junior practitioners/researchers and students in attending the event by helping to offset expenses related to the conference.

We typically begin accepting scholarship applications earlier and apologize for the delay for this conference.  We also typically award higher levels of travel funds to accepted scholarship applicants than we will be able to offer for this conference.  Due to the uncertainty of government funding to support travel awards through NIH, we have been seeking alternate scholarship sponsors and will announce when the application process is open as soon as possible. 

Meanwhile, this information is posted so that those intending to apply for a scholarship have a heads-up about requirements and process.

(Notes:  For those who are awarded travel reimbursements, up to $500 USD travel reimbursements will be mailed out within 3 weeks following the event once we receive your travel receipts.  You MUST request a reimbursement form at the conference registration desk, which should accompany your receipts so that we know where to send payment.  If you reside outside of the U.S., please note that on your application so that we can make alternative reimbursement arrangements by bank wire transfer.)

CRITERIA

Scholarships are limited to applications who meet one of these criteria:

• Student engaged in a master’s or doctorate level program or training with an accredited university or Chinese medical school, though other student levels would also be considered based on overall merit of their application
• Junior practitioner working under the supervision of a senior practitioner or principal investigator with a demonstrated interest in learning more about acupuncture research to support an evidence-based practice

Current conference registrants are NOT eligible to receive registration fee scholarships or travel awards, so please wait to register until you have received notification about your application status.  Students or junior practitioner/researchers who have been approved to present an abstract orally or as a poster abstract at the conference will receive highest priority.

Scholarships will be awarded based on each application’s demonstration of the following qualifications (not all qualifications are required…simply provide as much information along these lines so that our Scholarship Committee may evaluate your application in relation to others we receive):

• Letter of recommendation (this item is required and must be provided by either a professor, senior researcher, or senior practitioner);
• A list of presentations or projects related to acupuncture research conducted within the past three years;
• A list of publications or papers where the applicant is listed as an author;
• Any other activities demonstrating your commitment and/or accomplishments related to acupuncture research.
• List of your degrees (OMD, DOAM etc).

APPLICATION DEADLINE: to be announced once our funding to provide travel awards is confirmed