Research & Funding

International Travel Awards (ITA) for Faculty

The competitive International Travel Award Program provides assistance to full-time faculty up to $1000 per academic year toward participation in an international conference outside the United States within the participant’s professional field.

(At this time these awards are only open to Drexel University faculty. DUCOM is currently not included for these awards.)

  • Internationalization is a major trend in leading Universities today. This trend reflects concerns with global issues in science and technology, politics, economics, and culture; read more.
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  • Dr. Sonya N. Martin
    Assistant professor, School of Education, Goodwin College

  • This award made it possible for me to present my research in urban science education to an international community. I presented the following two papers and spoke as part of an international panel on educational research methods focusing on...; more

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  • Dr. Roberto Ramos
    Assistant professor, Department of Physics

  • The conference is the largest international assembly of low-temperature physicists and convenes every three years. Around 1500 participants, including several Nobel Laureates, attended to discuss advances in superconductivity; more

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  • Dr. Richard Cairncross
    Associate professor, Chemical and Biological engineering

  • Met with the director of the Masters in Renewable Energy Program, Rodny Penafiel. Presented a talk on biodiesel production, “Diseño de un Reactor para la Producción de Biodiesel de los Ácidos Grasos” ;more

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  • Eugenia Victoria Ellis, PhD,AIA
    Associate Professor of Epidemiology & Med

  • Mimesis and (eco)Logical Design: the Cosmotheistic Basis of Sustainable Architecture&hellip. Third Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture Amsterdam, Netherlands ;more

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  • Dr. Longjian Liu
    Associate Professor of Epidemiology & Med

  • Cardiovascular disease is a global heath issue. The 17th Asian Pacific Congress of Cardiology (17th APCC) was held from May 20‐23, 2009, in Kyoto, Japan…more

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  • Joseph Lema, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor of Hospitality Management

  • Traditions and Transformations: Tourism, Heritage and Cultural Change in the Middle East and North Africa Region…more

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  • Devon Powers
    Assistant Professor, Culture and Communication

  • In July 2009, I traveled to the University of Liverpool to attend the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) biennial international conference. The conference was hosted by the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Popular Music…more

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  • Kathryn Steen
    Professor of History, College of Arts and Sciences

  • Dr. Steen's presentation, "Isolation & Innovation: German Chemicals and American Political Economy after World War I," discussed the American effort to build a domestic synthetic organic chemicals industry after the war...more

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  • Robert Palisano
    Professor - Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences

  • Robert Palisano was invited as a keynote speaker in the Third International Cerebral Palsy Conference in Sydney. Australia, February 18-21, 2009, gave three oral research platform presentations, and served on the Scientific Committee for the conference...more

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