Grants are used to support the travel of graduate students and underemployed and low-income countries scholars to the annual 4S meeting (this year in a joint conference with ESOCITE). This year the usual funding coming from the National Science Foundation was not available and the total amount invested totaled $ 10,000 coming from sustaining/society membership and the Society’s reserves to support meeting participation by students and other low-income scholars.
The number of applications received this year (56) was considerably lower than in the pre-pandemic conferences, i.e. 369 for New Orleans 2019, 155 for Sydney 2018. Also, the applications came from a narrower set of countries.
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