Force and Motion Scholarship

Website: Force and Motion Foundation

Description

Quarterly $1000 Academic Travel Scholarships for Scientific Posters and Podium Presentation Abstracts

The Force and Motion Foundation offers up to seven $1000 travel scholarships each quarter to assist students with costs for travel to scientific conferences. The travel awards are open to applicants worldwide. To apply, you will need either a poster for a poster session or an abstract for a podium presentation.

*F & M foundation allows for one submission per year, per individual, with a total maximum award to be granted per individual of $2,000 over their lifetime, (2 submissions)

 

All submitted materials will be judged by the Foundation review board based on quality, contribution, and innovation. Travel award recipients will be posted on the Foundation's Facebook page and Twitter feed, and will be notified at the email address associated with their user account. Travel awards are expressly for students enrolled at a university at the time of the award (the end of the calendar quarter when the application was submitted).

Eligibility

All awarded funds will be transferred to the appropriate department at the recipients’ academic institutions. Current US restrictions on non-profit organizations require that all applicants be actively enrolled students at a US or international university.

Student Type
  • graduate
Citizen Type
  • US Citizen
  • Permanent Resident
  • International or Other Visa Status
  • Undocumented
Procedure

To Apply:

1. Upload a scientific poster or abstract related to multi-axis force measurement and testing to the Force and Motion Foundation website. PDF format is required. Only posters or podium presentation abstracts that have been accepted into a conference may be submitted. If your abstract includes figures they can be in the abstract file that you upload. Posters and abstracts from past conferences are eligible as long as the applicant is a currently enrolled student.

 

2. Complete a travel award application, including a text abstract of up to 250 words. The text abstract must be submitted in English; for poster submissions, the preferred language is English but other languages are acceptable.

All submitted materials will be judged by the Foundation review board based on quality, contribution, and innovation. Travel award recipients will be posted on the Foundation's Facebook page and Twitter feed, and will be notified at the email address associated with their user account. Travel awards are expressly for students enrolled at a university at the time of the award (the end of the calendar quarter when the application was submitted).

 

History

About Force and Motion Foundation:

The Force and Motion Foundation is a newly created 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, fully funded by AMTI to support students in fields related to multi-axis force measurement and testing.

The Force and Motion Foundation sponsors travel awards and educational scholarships for graduate students on a continual basis. More than $50,000 in funds have already been allocated for distribution in the coming year.

The Foundation also serves as creator and curator of the Virtual Poster Session, an international resource for information exchange and networking within the academic community.

The officers of the Force and Motion Foundation invite qualified educators in related fields to e-mail them and discuss the opportunity to join the scholarship selection committee.

 

 

About AMTI

 

 

For more than 30 years, AMTI has specialized in the design and manufacture of multi-axis force measurement and testing machines.

 

As an ISO 13485- and ISO 9001-certified company, AMTI is committed to the constant evaluation and refinement of its force measurement devices, orthopedic implant testing machines, and other specialty instruments. The company’s rigorous TQM (total quality management) program aligns AMTI’s management system with the FDA Quality System Regulation (QSR) requirements.

AMTI fully funds the Force and Motion Foundation and forceandmotion.org so that users of all force measurement and testing equipment can share, learn, and network with each other.

Contact Information

scholarships@forceandmotion.org
Force and Motion Foundation
176 Waltham Street Watertown, MA 02472