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Scholarship to Promote Master and Doctoral Students' Competency For International Academic Presentations, Fiscal Year 2016

The Faculty of Graduate Studies aims to provide scholarships for our master and doctoral students in presenting their own academic research in an international presentation. The application procedure and selection criteria for Fiscal Year 2016, are as follows:

1. Qualifications

  1. An applicant must be a master or doctoral student of Mahidol University. He/she must have been invited to present his/her research in an international academic conference/seminar while he/she is studying or, if already graduated, the date of the presentation must be no more than one year after the date of graduation.
  2. An applicant who is a master student must be studying in Plan A only. His/her thesis proposal must have already been approved and the thesis committee must have been officially appointed. An applicant who is a doctoral student needs to pass the Qualifying Examination, and must not be a student under the Royal Golden Jubilee Scholarship (RGJ).
  3. An applicant must not have previously received this scholarship from the Faculty of Graduate Studies, Mahidol University to present his/her research in the 2 prior fiscal years (2012-2013).
  4. The name of the applicant has to be listed as the first auther in the presentation abstract. The name "Mahidol University" must be written after the names of the presenters. Moreover, the applicant's presentation must prominently display the Mahidol University emblem (in both oral and poster presentations).
  5. If an applicant has received any scholarship or scholarships from other financial sources for this presentation, he/she must specify all scholarship titles in the application form for the committee's consideration.
  6. If the Faculty of Graduate Studies later finds that an applicant cannot fulfill all stated qualifications, the scholarship can be terminated and the Faculty has the right to demand reimbursement from the applicant.

2. Types of Scholarship Support

Support for an international academic presentation.

3. Financial Value of the Scholarship

The maximum values of the scholarship can be classified according to the presentation locations:

  1. Asia up to 15,000 – 30,000 for each
  2. Australia up to 30,000 - 35,000 for each
  3. Europe up to 45,000 for each
  4. Africa up to 50,000 for each
  5. America up to 50,000 for each

4. Application Submission Periods

  1. Student are required fill out the application form online.
  2. Round Month/ Year Period Announcing Results Date, Month, Year
    1 October 2015 16 August – 15 September 2015 30 September 2015
    2 November 2015 16 September – 15 October 2015 30 October 2015
    3 December 2015 16 October – 15 November 2015 30 November 2015
    4 January 2016 16 November – 15 December 2015 31 December 2015
    5 February 2016 16 December 2015 – 15 January 2016 29 January 2016
    6 March 2016 16 January – 15 February 2016 29 February 2016
    7 April 2016 16 – 29 February 2016 31 March 2016
    8 May 2016 1 – 31 March 2016 29 April 2016
    9 June 2016 1 – 30 April 2016 31 May 2016
    10 July 2016 1 – 31 May 2016 30 June 2016
    11 August 2016 1 – 30 June 2016 29 July 2016
    12 September 2016 1 – 31 July 2016 31 August 2016
  3. If an applicant has been given very short notice of his/her acceptance for participation in the conference and cannot submit the application before the date stated in
  4. he/she must specify the reasons. Nonetheless, the decision depends on the consideration of the Chair of the Scholarship Committee.
  5. The student cannot apply for the grant to receive a refund for a conference/seminar that he/she has already attended.

5. Scholarship Committee

  1. Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies   Chair
  2. Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies   Committee
  3. Head of the Student Services Section, the Faculty of Graduate Studies   Secretary

6. Selection Criteria

  1. An applicant must receive an acceptance letter for his/her presentation.
    • If the seminar/conference is open for both oral and poster presentations, a priority will be given to an applicant accepted for an oral presentation.
    • In the case of an international conference that is open only for poster presentations, the applicant will be given a similar priority to those accepted for an oral presentation in other conference.
  2. If there are many applicants and the number of scholarships is limited, the values of the scholarships might be lower than the stated amount, in 3.1
  3. The Faculty may set other criteria when considering an applicant's application; for instance, that an applicant receives partial financial support from the Conference organizers, that the research that he/she will present has been published in the year of application or that the applicant has received a publication acceptance letter from a Journal.

7. Terms and Conditions

  1. Students who receive the scholarship must submit all required documents as stated in the announcement to the Student Services Section, the Faculty of Graduate Studies, within the given period otherwise the grant will be cancelled.
  2. The student must submit his/her presentation report to the Faculty of Graduate Studies within 15 days after the seminar/conference participation.

8. For more Information

The Student Services Section, The Faculty of Graduate Studies, Mahidol University. (Salaya) Tel : 0-2441-4125 Ext 211-213, Fax :0-2441-9511


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