Travel Awards & Lectureships
APS Awards and Lectureships
The following lectureships and award program are intended to encourage collaborations with physicists in developing countries and to bring international speakers to the annual APS March and April meetings.
International Travel Grant Award Program
The International Travel Grant Award Program (ITGAP) was established to promote international scientific collaborations between APS members and physicists in developing countries. Grant recipients receive up to US$2,000 for travel and lodging expenses for international travel while visiting a collaborator for at least one month.
Beller Lectureship
The Beller Lectureship was endowed by Esther Hoffman Beller for the purpose of bringing distinguished physicists from abroad as invited speakers at APS meetings.
Marshak Lectureship
The Marshak Lectureship, endowed by the late Ruth Marshak in honor of her late husband and former APS president, Robert Marshak, is to provide travel support for physicists from "developing nations or the Eastern Bloc" invited to speak at APS meetings.
APS and the Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) have signed an agreement establishing program that sponsors the exchange of physicists and physics graduate students between India and the United States. Read more in APS News.
Other Awards and Lectureships
IIASA's Summer Fellowship in Austria for Graduate Students in Natural and Social Sciences, Math, Policy and Engineering. Each summer the unique three-month program offers 50 successful applicants the opportunity to work alongside distinguished IIASA scientists on a project related to their own doctoral research.
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) has issued a call for applications for its Research Internships in Science and Engineering (RISE), RISE Professional, and RISE in North America Programs.
- RISE
Research Scholarships for Undergraduate Students from the United States and Canada. RISE Poster, RISE Flyer (PDFs)
- RISE Professional
Summer Internships in Germany for Master and Ph.D. Students from the United States and Canada. RISE Professional Flyer (PDF)
- RISE in North America
Host an undergraduate from Germany for a summer internship at your U.S. or Canadian university or college. RISE in North America Flyer (PDF )
