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Annual Grant Fund Apply for the Graduate Assistants United (GAU) Annual Grant Fund The GAU will continue to offer graduate assistants limited financial support via a newly established GAU Annual Grant Fund. The Fund was established last year in order to help support the growing financial needs of graduate assistants at the University of Rhode Island. Funding is available for reimbursement of expenses directly related to presenting papers, delivering poster sessions, performing or exhibiting creative work, or other pursuits of professional/educational advancement. The awarded funds can be used to help cover registration fees, travel expenses, and accommodations, to purchase necessary supplies or equipment related to research/teaching endeavors, and to organize events which further academic advancement at the University of Rhode Island. If you are interested in applying for a GAU Grant please print out the application found in the Bulletin's section on this website and send or fax it to the GAU office: 302 Roosevelt Hall (fax - 874-5147, phone - 874-5148). Applicants under consideration of reward may be asked to attend a regular GAU meeting and briefly justify their funding request to the executive committee. All final decisions, including the award recipients and the amount of funding provided, will be voted by the GAU executive committee at two meetings during the academic year. The Fall deadline is October 12, 2007 and the Spring deadline is March 1, 2008. Decisions will not be based solely on academic performance. Funding can and will be provided prior to actual need, although proof of usage must be provided to the GAU in the form of receipts, brochures/program booklets, photographs, etc. Awards must be used within six months of disbursal and GAU executive committee member and stewards are not eligible to receive Grant funds.

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