ANNOUNCING THE 2025 CONFERENCE TRAVEL AWARDS
Congratulations to the recipients of the conference travel awards. These awards were administered by Adriana Maldonado-Chaparro, with the assistance of Swanne Gordon and Eva Fischer (the Members at Large or MALs). For both the Latin American Travel Awards (LATA) and Graduate Student Travel Grants (GSTG), 1-2 MALs independently rated each application, and those scores were combined with a score designated for previous attendance to ABS with higher scores given to participants that have either never attended ABS or only attended ABS virtually. Within those rankings, ties were broken by giving preference to PhD students who were further along in their graduate studies. The top 12 applicants were provided with a $700 award and the others were provided with a $500 award. This year, we received many more deserving applications than we were able to fund, and we appreciate the widespread interest in these awards. We were able to fund 8 of 9 applications for the Latin American Travel Awards, with the top 4 attendees receiving $1400 awards, and others receiving $1100 awards.
