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The UTHSCSA School of Nursing
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Delta Alpha Chapter-at-Large
Sigma Theta Tau International

Grants and Awards

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Professional Development Awards

The purpose of these awards is to assist our members to pay for expenses to attend conferences for professional development and/or to present at such conferences. The awards will be given annually in the amount of $3000 ($500 to 6 members). Three awards will be offered in the fall for travel in the spring and three offered in the spring for travel in the fall. The deadline for submission of applications for fall, 2007, is November 1. The deadline for submission of applications for spring, 2008, is April 1.

Each award recipient will be asked to sign an agreement to write a summary of the conference highlights within six months post attendance. Summaries will be published on the Delta Alpha-at-Large website and/or shared by email distribution. To be eligible for this award the applicant must be a Delta Alpha-at-Large member. Individuals will be limited to one Professional Development Award within a 2-year period. Applications will be judged on the quality of the conference and relevance to the applicant’s practice and/or scholarship.

Application:  Professional Development Awards Application

Research Awards

One of the purposes of Sigma Theta Tau International is to encourage professional nursing scholarship. Toward that end, Delta Alpha Chapter offers to its members financial support for conducting nursing research.

Deadline: April 1 and November 1.

Amount of Award:

The maximum award is $3,000 ($2,000 for Doctoral Students and $500 for Thesis Students). The amount of each award is based upon:

  1. the amount of chapter funds available
  2. the number of proposals that meet the criteria for funding
  3. the appropriateness of the budget submitted

Eligibility:

The Principal Investigator (PI) on the study must hold current membership in Delta Alpha Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International. Investigators may receive more than one award; however, priority will be given to investigators not previously funded.

Application:

An updated Grant Application Guidelines and Grant Application Forms may be obtained from this website or from the Office of Nursing Research (ONR), The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

The criteria for completion of the application are found in the packet.

Completed application forms should be returned electronically to Bina Prakash, Prakash@uthscsa.edu, in the Research Office, UTHSCSA-SON no later than 4:30 PM on the date of the deadline.

Special Awards:

A separate award is available for students conducting research leading to the MS degree in nursing. Two awards are available annually up to $500 each. Students must document in the submission packet that the proposal has been approved by the institution’s supervising committee. The applicant’s proposals will be evaluated using the same criteria as used with general applicants, but will not be included in that competitive ‘pool’.

Sigma Theta Tau International also has a number of research grants available to its members. For furtherinformation and for an application visit www.nursingsociety.org/research/research_grants.htm

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