[Bme-student] BMES Last Call - MUST RESPOND for CBS

[Betsy Tedder]

OK guys,
This is the last time I am going to send out an email asking who is
interested in attending BMES with CBS support. The people who have responded
thus far are:
1. Betsy Tedder
2. Kirk Pirlo
3. Jai Kutty
4. Aditee Kurane
5. Tom Chuang
6. Lee Sierad
7. Tripp Mostertz
8. Erin Pardue
9. Changhong Zhang
10. Honghai Liu
11. Dev Raghavan

If your name is not on this list and you would like to be considered for CBS
funding or a CBS organized room or flight, you MUST let me know by FRIDAY,
AUGUST 10th by 5pm.
I have to set this deadline so we can go ahead and make flight arrangements.

As I have said before, this is a much more expensive conference than SFB. We
have calculated that, conservatively, it will cost ~$710 to attend the
conference per person (that includes registration,hotel for 4 nights
(Wed-Sat) and flight). We have a very limited budget (as it is the beginning
of the year and we have not had fundraisers, and the student government will
not approve the budget for this year until the 1st meeting (which will be
mid Sep.), so we do not know how much we will get from them). We will
definitely not be able to completely fund everyone and will not be able to
offer the amount of funding that will cover complete costs for those
students presenting that do not have funding from their advisors . If you
are presenting, please talk to your advisor about funding before you ask
assistance from CBS. They are aware that it is their responsibility to
provide funding if they encourage their students to submit abstracts. As I
stated before, there are travel awards offered by BMES (
http://bme.usc.edu/bmes2007/events.html) and volunteer opportunities
arranged at BMES that provide reduced registration fees (
http://bme.usc.edu/bmes2007/volunteer.html). There are also travel awards
from the University that you can apply for. By early next week, we will be
able to tell everyone now much CBS can contribute.

We would like to be able to fund everyone who wants to attend, but it is
just not financially possible. We will do what we can with the financial
resources we have at this moment.

Betsy

-- 
Mary E.(Betsy) Tedder, PhD student
President, Clemson Bioengineering Society
Graduate Research Assistant:
Biocompatibility & Tissue Regeneration Lab
Department of Bioengineering
507 Rhodes Research Center
Clemson University
Clemson, SC 29634
cell: 864-508-1473
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