Emergence Grants

The CPPG accepts requests for support to travel to in-person meetings, register for virtual meetings, classes or other training. 

The four major goals of the Emergence grant are:

  • Expand CGE member collaborations
  • Expand CGE member outreach activities;
  • Encourage involvement in STEM for underrepresented students, and
  • Produce a long-term impact

Specifications:

  • Applications will be accepted annually in December (for travel occurring between January-June) and June (for travel occurring between July-December).
  • Postdoctoral associates, graduate students and staff who work in laboratories belonging to CPPG member faculty are eligible to apply.
  • An individual may receive funding once per calendar year.
  • Grants will be awarded in varying amounts with preference given to requests <$2,000.

The application form for the spring 2025 funding cycle will become available here in May 2025. 
 

Grant Recipients

2025: Shengsong Guo (Zhang lab), Kabita Poudel (Curtin lab), Alina Smolskaya (Stupar lab), Ashish Srivastava (Kianian lab), Abraham Steinberger (Voytas lab)

2024: Paul Atkins (Stupar lab), Jacob Botkin (Curtin lab), Jon Cody (Voytas lab), Sara Endejan (Voytas lab), Shengsong Guo (Zhang lab), Jitesh Kumar (Zhang lab), Erik Myers (Voytas lab), Kabita Poudel (Curtin lab), Abraham Steinberger (Voytas lab), Clair Wootan (Zhang lab), Alveena Zulfiqar (Greenham lab)

2023: Can Baysal (Voytas lab), Juan Armando Casas Mollano (Smanski lab), Jonathan Cors (Smanski lab), Samatha Gunapati (Stupar lab), Ritesh Kumar (Stupar lab), Junqi Liu (Stupar lab), Erik Myers (Voytas lab), Zachary Myers (Greenham lab), Vidhyavathi Raman (Zhang lab), Angela Ricono (Greenham lab), Abraham Steinberger (Voytas lab), Redeat Tibebu (Voytas lab)

2022: Mary Jane Espina (Stupar lab), Jonathan Cors (Smanski lab), Jitesh Kumar (Zhang lab), Trevor Weiss (Zhang lab), Madeline Oravec (Greenham lab), Angela Ricono (Greenham lab)

2021: Zhikai Liang (Springer Lab), Angela Ricono (Greenham lab), Colby Starker (Voytas lab), Trevor Weiss (Zhang Lab)