Applications for RUMC Funding
Awards
The awards are intended to cover a portion of the typical expenses involved with hosting the conference. These include travel expenses for invited speakers, lunch and refreshments for participants, and duplicating and postage for advertising. The awards might also cover expenses that are often part of an undergraduate conference such as travel reimbursement for participants. It is anticipated that most awards will be between $1,000 and $4,000, but smaller and larger requests will be considered where appropriate.
Preference will be given to proposals received by June 1 of the academic year prior to the proposed conference. Although proposals may be submitted at any time, those which do not meet the deadlines can be funded only if sufficient funds remain. In any case, you can expect to receive information regarding the funding of your proposal within two months of submission.
Talks presented at funded conferences should be accessible to a wide range of undergraduate students. Conferences may assume any format that accomplishes the object of the grant, but deviations from successful formats should be fully explained.
Application Materials and Handbooks
If you would like to apply for support, please download and follow the instructions on the Application Form.
For further guidance, please see the Conference Program Director's Handbook, or view one of our sample proposals:
Please contact Doug Faires, the Project Director, at faires@math.ysu.edu or Robert Vallin, MAA Associate Director for Student Programs, at rvallin@maa.org with questions about the RUMC program.
The MAA Regional Undergraduate Mathematics Conferences program is supported by National Science Foundation grant DMS-0846477.