Professional Development Funding will provide financial assistance to eligible graduate students enrolled in the Masters of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies (MAIS) program. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the fund is exhausted. All applications must have faculty mentor support. In the rare cases when it may be appropriate to apply before a mentor has been approved, Program Director support can be used in place of mentor recommendation.

The reward amount is up to $400.00, and is not renewable. To be eligible, a student must meet one of the following:

• Present at a graduate student conference (or a fully-fledged conference, if applicable)
• Field work
• Archival work

To be eligible for up to $250 in rewards, a student must be eligible for one of the following:

• Attending a flagship conference in the relevant area without presenting
• Acquisition of materials: audio, visual, or print materials that are unavailable in the Phoenix area and cannot be used through ILL (works that are critical to a capstone project and thus needed for more than a month)

Cost of attending performances that are critical to a capstone project.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. If there is funding still available after April 15th, all MAIS students will be invited to reapply.