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Awards and Award Applications

Alan H. Monroe Graduate Scholar Award

The Alan H. Monroe Graduate Scholar Award has been established to recognize the scholarly activities of graduate students in the School of Communication at Purdue University. Named for Dr. Alan H. Monroe, the founder of the school at Purdue and a pioneer in the discipline of communication, this award is presented to each graduate student in the School of Communication whose cumulative record demonstrates professional scholarship according to the criteria outlined. Once named an Alan H. Monroe Scholar, all recipients shall henceforth be so designated. These individuals exemplify the standards of scholarly excellence pursued within the Brian Lamb School of Communication at Purdue University.

This award is made on the basis of points assigned to various scholarly activities and accumulated over the course of one’s graduate career. Scholarly work completed before enrolling in the graduate program in the School of Communication at Purdue may be included in this point total, if the requirements specified are met.

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Monroe Coversheet

Travel Awards

In addition to Lamb School professional development funds that students can use for travel, there are other areas where students can apply for travel awards.

Purdue Graduate Student Government provides a limited number of awards to graduate students across campus to support travel to professional conferences. For more information on those awards, click here.

The College of Liberal Arts also provides PROMISE (Promoting Research Opportunities to Maximize Innovation and Scholarly Excellence) grants, which can be used to support graduate student travel to conferences.  See the following link for more information: https://www.cla.purdue.edu/research/grant-support/grad-student-research-support/promise/index.html