Thanks to an award from NSF’s CNS Division, we have funding to sponsor travel and registration costs for 15 students affiliated with US institutions to participate in CPHS 2024! 

Beyond providing financial support to cover (or largely offset) meeting participation costs, we seek to create a sense of community among CPHS Fellows by establishing formal Mentorship and Orientation structures (details to come – if you are interested in serving as a Mentor, please email Kadriye Merve Dogan at dogank@erau.edu).

You are in the best position to determine whether you are a student identifying as a member of a historically-underrepresented group in your research community or from a socioeconomically disadvantaged background. You will not be expected or required to declare the group(s) you identify with to participate in the Fellows program. 

We encourage folks to apply regardless of whether they are co-author on a paper accepted for publication at the meeting – our intention is to help broaden participation in the community in this and future years.

The deadline for applications is going to be announced later (with a likely due date in October), but we will continue to evaluate applications on a rolling basis until all of our funds have been committed.

We aim to make initial selections by early November for prospective Fellows that apply by the deadline.

The eligibility requirements to receive travel funds are that you:

• self-identify as a member of a historically-underrepresented group or from a socioeconomically disadvantaged background in your research community;

• are currently affiliated with a US institution.

• have an accepted paper in CPHS'24

There are no eligibility requirements related to prior participation in CPHS or similar conferences, authorship of papers published in this or prior CPHS conferences.

The selection criteria we will use are:

• financial need;

• institutional affiliation;

• potential benefit to applicant;

• potential benefit to CPHS community.

Our primary goal is to incorporate people who do not currently identify as being a part of the CPHS community but are in adjacent areas of research (e.g., neuroscience, neuroengineering, health, human-computer interaction, accessibility, etc.) who may be interested in participating.

The support per student will cover the hotel, per-diem, registration ($275), and up-to $500 flight costs, and in total not exceed $1300. 

We are still determining the exact processes for how travel expenses will be reimbursed – we will update this page and notify Fellows as soon as we are able.

However, all travel will need to conform to the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University travel policies, including the Fly America Act.

A central part of the hidden curriculum in academic research is how you as a researcher present yourself to the community – there are specific types of information and styles of presentation that people expect to see, but this “folk knowledge” is often not explicitly discussed or taught. To help break down this barrier to participation, we are providing some examples and guidance for creating a professional resume, curriculum vitae (“CV”), and/or website.

This Cornell University’s Graduate School page provides an excellent overview of the structure and purpose for creating an academic resume or CV.

We have provided an academic CV template that is representative of a (highly-accomplished) early-career graduate student – you are welcome to copy and edit this document to draft your own CV.

If you have not previously created one of these documents, it is important to know that there are no expectations or requirements regarding the number of pages or exact formatting. Although fancy fonts and stylish layouts are commonly seen in resumes prepared for positions in private industry, on the academic side things are usually more plain and conventional. (You are welcome to express your individuality and creativity if you’d like! But it is not expected or required.)

Similar guidelines apply to professional websites: although some people’s sites are fancier than others, the most common approach is to find and edit a simple template to include essential information (e.g. your current position and institutional affiliation, any publications or presentations, and contact information). Some common tools with excellent templates to create an academic website are GitHub Pages, WordPress, Jemdoc, and Jekyll.

As a final note: although having both a professional resume / CV and website would be ideal by the time you apply for jobs or internships, only one of these is required for the Fellows application (resume / CV or website).

The CPHS Fellows program is being co-created by Merve Dogan. Please direct questions to dogank@erau.edu . 

We want to thank Prof. Sam Burden of Univ. of Washington and Prof. Momona Yamagami of Rice University, who ran a similar program at CPHS 2022 in Houston, Texas, for their guidance and sharing valuable resources.