PDA Funding Opportunities
Career Development Awards
The University of Minnesota Postdoctoral Association provides bi-annual career development awards for the purposes of supplementing and encouraging attendance to events and programs furthering professional development such as conferences, workshops and seminars. Twice a year, three successful applicants will receive an honorarium of $500 to be used to supplement costs of travel and/or registration of such events.
See last cycle's application form here
Spring 2022 Career Awards
Beatriz Baselga, PhD
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
Attending: Evolution 2022 Conference
Hector Chapoy Vilanueva, PhD
Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology
Attending: International Society for Heart Research Conference
Dennis Cladis, PhD
Department of Food Science and Nutrition
Attending: Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Annual Meeting
Sarick Matzen, PhD
Department of Soil, Water, and Climate
Attending: American Chemical Society Spring Meeting
Serap Vatansever, PhD
Department of Food Science and Nutrition
Attending: 2022 American Oil Chemists' Society Annual Meeting & Expo
Xinru Wang, PhD
Department of Entomology
Attending: American Society for Rickettsiology 31th meeting
Spring 2020 Career Awards
Gabriela Bustamante, PhD
Program in Health Disparities Research
Attending: Society for Epidemiologic Research Meeting
Adrian Moore, PhD
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
Attending: Freshwater Mussel Conservation Society Workshop
Aleta Steevens, PhD
Department of Neurosurgery, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Neurosciences
Attending: The American Society for Neural Therapy and Repair
Fall 2019 Career Development Awards
Srinidhi Balasubramanian, PhD
Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering
Attending: 2019 Women in the Sciences Leadership Workshop
Irene Bueno Padilla, PhD
Department of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Attending: Annual Meeting of the Raptor Research Foundation
Elizabeth Martinez, PhD
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
Attending: National Latinx Psychological Association Conference
Spring 2019 Career Development Awards
Rayma Kumar, PhD
Department of Chemistry
Attending: Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering Future Faculty Symposium
Sushan Ru, PhD
Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics
Attending: 2019 National Association of Plant Breeders Annual Meeting
Elaine Norton, DVM, MS
Department of Veterinary Population Medicine
Attending: American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine Annual Forum
Postdoc Career Awards: Sustaining Professional Development During a Pandemic 2020
Lisa Harn Elliott
College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences
Attending: Ecological Society of America (ESA) 2020
Beth Adamowicz
College of Biological Sciences
Attending: 2020 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Microbiome Virtual Meeting
Tolutola Oyetunde
College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences
Attending: Three online coursera specializations
Ke Shi
College of Biological Sciences
Attending: Schrödinger's online course: Introduction to Molecular Modeling in Drug Discover
Manish Shetty
College of Science and Engineering
Attending: 2020 ACS Fall Meeting
Diego Morales-Briones
College of Biological Sciences
Attending: Botany 2020
Marie Maneka Malalgoda
College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences
Attending: The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) meeting. Secured the founding by other grant*
Manbir Rakkar
College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences
Attending: 2020 ASA-CSSA-SSSA
Zhiyue Wang
College of Biological Sciences
Attending: IWA Leading Edge Conference on Water and Wastewater Technologies
Carolina Soto Palma
Medical School
Attending: 25th Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics (SISG)
Zhikai Liang
College of Biological Sciences
Attending: Plant Biology Worldwide Summit 2020
Ariel Alperstei
College of Science and Engineering
Attending: ICONS workshop
Lisa Anderson
Medical School
Attending: Crash Course training
Nick Lambrecht
College of Biological Sciences
Attending: ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition
Previously offered funding that is unfortunately unavailable this year... Interested in accessing this funding in the future?? Please email pda@umn.edu and let us know!
Postdoc Career Awards: Sustaining Professional Development During a Pandemic
Deadline has passed
Given the limitations on travel and conference attendance during the COVID-19 pandemic, the UMN Postdoctoral Association wants to help support the postdoc community as they continue in their positions. We accepted applications for financial support to enable participation in professional development or training activities such as virtual conferences, workshops, or courses (also inclusive of anti-racism and diversity, equity, and inclusion training) that support career advancement.The amount of support requested is up to the applicant, but needs to be justified and cannot exceed $500.
See last cycle's application form here
