2025 Corteva Travel Scholarship

Introduced in 2016 to foster interaction between graduate students studying plant breeding at Texas A&M and the students studying plant breeding or related science at other institutions. The program encourages information exchange on research ideas and promotes networking among students at the symposium. The scholarship is solely administered by the symposium organizing committee and is fully funded by Corteva.

Graduate Travel Scholars Division

ABSTRACTS DUE JANUARY 15TH, 2025

Three students will be selected to present oral keynote lectures during the day of the symposium. The presentation will be a 10 minute oral followed by 5 minutes of questions. In addition, awardees may present a poster of their research to allow for follow-up discussion during the poster session. Selected student finalists will receive a travel scholarship and hotel accommodations for the symposium. Finally, visiting travel scholars will have the opportunity to arrange meetings with local researchers the following day.

Eligibility for the Corteva Travel Scholarship

  • Applicants must be full-time graduate students at United States college affiliated institutions.

  • All applicants must upload their "Presentation Title”, "Presentation Abstract," and other required information into the student competition sign-up form.

  • All applicants must follow the abstract submission guidelines.

  • All applicants must send their research presentation electronically no later than the day prior to the scheduled presentation.

  • Applicant must agree to arrive on February 19th and leave on February 21st.

Criteria for selection of oral presentations for the prize-winning presentations

  • The originality of the research presented, which may or may not be explicitly related to the symposium theme

  • The quality of the writing (including clarity, grammar, and understandable)

  • The interest of the subject matter and approach

  • The suitability of the conference presentation (including appropriate length, clear results obtained, and appropriate conclusions).

  • The Graduate Student Organizing Committee will evaluate blind abstracts to select the three awardees.

  • In fairness to other participants, abstracts that are over the specific word limit will automatically be disqualified.