ECS Travel Grants provide financial assistance for early career electrochemists and Society members to participate in ECS meetings.
What is an ECS Travel Grant?
Many ECS divisions and sections offer travel grants to undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, young professionals, and faculty presenting papers at ECS biannual meetings. Applications must be submitted no later than the deadlines listed on the ECS website. ECS divisions and sections may have additional application requirements. Please review these additional requirements before filling out the online application.
PRiME 2020 Travel Grants
COVID-19 didn’t slow ECS down; instead, it gave us a chance to rise to the challenge. This year, for the first time in its 33-year history, PRiME was held entirely online. Travel grants were awarded to fund meeting registration fees for presenters giving oral/poster presentations at PRiME.
Of the 107 PRiME 2020 travel grants applications received, 86 were approved. Registration fees were waived for 86 students, researchers, and young professionals presenting at PRiME 2020. Many also received a year of ECS membership.
PRiME 2020 Travel Grant Testimonials
ECS student members provided positive feedback about receiving travel grants to participate in PRiME 2020.
Derrick Butler
PhD candidate
Department of Electrical Engineering
Pennsylvania State University
“Even in these challenging times, the organizers have done an excellent job bringing the electrochemistry community together and transitioning the conference to an online platform. I am very grateful to have been awarded a travel grant, enabling me to share my work and to learn from the great work of others at PRiME 2020. The experience was truly rewarding, and I greatly appreciated the opportunity to exchange ideas with researchers from all over the world, even in these unprecedented times.”
Rebecca Skelton Marshall
Graduate Research Assistant
University of Virginia
“It was an honor receiving the travel grant from The Electrochemical Society! Although everything looked a lot different this year, and we were not ‘traveling’ to the conference, ECS provided a complimentary registration to the conference and year membership to the Society as a whole! Receiving the email of acceptance was a highlight of my week, encouraging me to continue in the midst of a very unprecedented time.”
Rashin Basiri Namin
MS student
University of New Brunswick
“I am a master’s student at the University of New Brunswick, and I cannot thank ECS enough for the travel grant. I am grateful that PRiME gave me the opportunity to present my research and build up connections with the community in my field by providing me with the registration and membership. I have learned a lot and I am motivated more than before to do research and increase the quality of our lives by my contribution in science.”
Jungeun Lee
MS/PhD candidate
Sookmyung Women’s University
“I believe that PRiME 2020 was an opportunity to share and communicate my research not only in journals, but also with researchers around the world. I was worried that the conference in Hawaii would be postponed (or) canceled due to a pandemic. However, PRiME 2020 was transformed into an online event, and it was a new and state-of-the-art conference. I am very grateful that it was not canceled, and the researchers from around the world could benefit from it. Even in such a difficult situation, the researchers were constantly conducting research in their respective positions.
As a result, I think PRiME 2020 as an online event was unprecedentedly successful. It is very important for researchers to lead their own careers. With this travel grant, they will be able to learn how to keep their research up-to-date and relevant for the real world. This travel grant award gives me the opportunity to connect with other researchers and disseminate my research internationally.”
Watch what 2019 winners have to say about winning the travel grant.
