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Graduate research can take students far beyond the classroom and laboratory. Graduate College Travel Awards provide support for students to share their research, build professional connections and pursue opportunities that advance their academic and professional goals. Here are six graduate students putting that support into action.

For graduate students, some of the most important work happens far beyond the classroom: in communities, at research institutions and alongside collaborators who can offer new perspectives on their work.

Formatting can feel like the final obstacle between you and graduation. The Graduate College is here to offer support to make sure you can finish strong.

Three professionals in energy research, local government and nonprofit leadership share what their winding career paths can teach graduate students about expertise, relationships, risk and meaningful work.

Through flexible, unrestricted awards, ARCS helps promising researchers stay focused during critical years of their programs, supporting the people behind future discoveries before their breakthroughs are known.

Cindy Vargas turned a childhood dream of protecting the ocean into award-winning research focused on sea turtle conservation and sustainable fisheries. In this spotlight, the first-generation scholar and NSF Graduate Research Fellow shares how working alongside fishing communities in Mexico reshaped her approach to science, strengthened her storytelling and deepened her belief that conservation starts with people.