The Application Portal for the GPPD Career Development Award to attend the 2026 POD Conference will open May 12th and remain open until 11:59 PM (Pacific Time Zone) July 26, 2026
In 2026, Graduate Student, Professional Student, and Postdoctoral Development Special Interest Group (GPPD SIG) will award up to 15 grants for the 51st Annual POD Network Conference held from November 18-21, 2026 in Baltimore, MD. These include:
- 11 Conference registration fee waivers
- 4 Conference travel awards, each of which includes a waived conference registration fee and a fixed travel grant of $1500 to cover expenses associated with attending the conference
Applicants will be able to select which awards they wish to be considered for on the application form; separate applications are not required. Awardees are invited to attend all GPPD hosted or related events or sessions at the conference and will be honored at the conference awards banquet.
Eligibility
Current graduate students, professional students, and postdoctoral scholars who will still be students/postdocs at the time of the conference are eligible to apply. Presenting at the conference is not a requirement to receive this grant. POD membership is not a requirement to apply for or accept the grant. Past GPPD Career Development Grant awardees are not eligible for the 2026 grant. Recent graduates are not eligible for the grant.
Applicants will be notified of their application status no later than September 1, 2026. Please email [email protected] with any questions.
Grant Recipients
- AraOwula Adaramola, Cornell University
- Amanda Mai Becker, Michigan State University
- Eda Bozkurt, University of Michigan
- Jennifer S. Brown, University of Georgia
- Freddie Brown, Lady of the Lake University
- Ly Duong, Michigan State University
- Jamie Elsey, University of Utah
- Alyssa Enriquez, University of Alaska Fairbanks
- Inês Forjaz de Lacerda, Yale University
- Sabina Iturralde, University of Arizona
- Jo Hurt, University of Texas at Austin
- Deepak James, Michigan State University
- Nicole Keough, University of Georgia
- Eun Bin Ladner-Seok, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
- Ian Lim, University of California, Davis
- Lloyd Lindley, Texas Woman’s University
- Yetunde Mabadeje, University of Iowa
- Molly Nichols, University of Virginia
- Temilola Tolulope Oyenuga, Florida International University
- Emily Potratz, University of Illinois, Chicago
- Thomas Preston, Columbia University
- April Andry Rah’man, University of Texas at Austin
- Claire Ravenburg, Cornell University
- Aswathy Shailaja, Duke University
- Shana Sandborn, Ohio State University
- Carmi Milagros Thompson, The Ohio State University
- Jennifer Torres, University of Illinois, Chicago
- Snow Webb, Colorado State University
- Sandy Zeyue Xie, Cornell University
- Jason Wu, Cornell University
- Muhammad Adil Arshad, University of Calgary
- Harem Baban, University of Raprarin-Iraq
- Calvin Bates, Brown University
- MacKenzie Bonnier, University of California, Irvine*
- Jada Childs, University of Michigan
- Karin Christiaens, Columbia University
- April Crenshaw, Vanderbilt University
- Ruilin Fan, Columbia University
- Hannah Feiner, Northwestern University
- Daisy Haas, University of Michigan*
- Felicitas Hartung, University of California, San Diego
- Ziming Liu, Yale University*
- Connor Martini, Columbia University
- Irene Morse, University of Michigan
- Deborah Moyaki, University of Georgia*
- Sarah Otterbeck, Clemson University
- Cody Limber, Yale University
- Silvia Mazabel, University of British Columbia
- Graham Read, University of California, Los Angeles
- Ligia Pamfile, Wayne State University*
- Nicole Strombom, Washington University in St. Louis
- Francisco Alfredo Reyes Roch, Pennsylvania State University
- Laura Seaberg, Boston College
- Kay Bourke, University of Illinois, Chicago
- Katherine Tilghman, Washington University in St. Louis
- Ali Yalgin, Columbia University
- Hilary Zeditz, University of Michigan
- Anna Yinqi Zhang, Pennsylvania State University
*indicates recipient of travel fellowship
- Da’Ja’Nay Askew, Indiana University
- Richard-Andre Bachmann, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Nur Yasemin Bavbek, Brown University
- Min Kyung Boo, Temple University
- Parla Buyruk, UC San Diego
- Klaudja Caushi, Boston University
- Samara Chamoun, Michigan State University
- Gavin Frome, American University
- Luis Garcia, Carnegie Mellon University
- Delfina González, Yale University
- Asta Habtemichael, University of Rhode Island
- Audrey Holt, Yale University
- Anthony Howcroft, Drexel University
- Boyun Kim, UC Irvine
- Cody Limber, Yale University
- Paula Marcelle, Indiana University, Bloomington
- Silvia Mazabel, University of British Columbia
- Graham Read, UCLA
- Jacques Safari Mwayaona, Syracuse University
- Lexi Schlosser, University of Denver
- Benjamin Silver, Columbia University
- Sharon Ultsch, University College Cork
- Collins N. Vaye, Florida International University
- Anlly Merlano Villalba, Universidad del Norte
- Lingyi Wei, University of Utah
- Ina Zaimi, University of Michigan