To support the next generation of bioethicists, the Cross-Institutional Undergraduate Sponsorship Program (CUSP) in Bioethics will financially support a limited number of undergraduate students to attend in this year's American Society for Bioethics & Humanities conference in Portland, Oregon from October 22-25. CUSP will provide (i) conference registration at the student rate, (ii) up to $500 in travel costs to Portland, (iii) accommodation in Portland and (iv) some meals. In addition, selected students will be given opportunities for cross-institutional faculty mentorship and a pre-conference workshop designed to help undergraduate students get the most out of the conference. If you are selected for this sponsorship, we will help you contact a faculty member at your university to seek additional support for conference attendance, but our financial support is not contingent on whether or not your university is able to provide you any support.

More information about the ASBH Conference is available here: https://asbh.org/annual-meeting/bioethics-humanities-meeting

If you are an undergraduate student and would like to receive financial support to attend this year's ASBH conference, please complete the following application by August 22, 2025. Please note that all self-identifying questions related to race, ethnicity and gender are optional. As this application form has multiple questions, we recommend completing your answers in a separate word-processing application (e.g. Word) that you can save and then copying your answers into this form.

As this application is used to assess your personal ability to academically and professionally benefit from cross-institutional mentorship and attending the ASBH conference in-person, AI is not suitable for this application. Do not use AI to generate or modify any material for this application.

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* 1. Name

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* 2. Email Address

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* 3. Which category or categories do you use to describe yourself? Check all that apply.

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* 4. Which category or categories do you use to describe yourself? Check all that apply.

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* 5. Are you a first-generation undergraduate student? (Namely, are you a student who is the first in your family to ever attend a four-year undergraduate university?)

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* 6. Do you identify as disabled?

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* 7. Undergraduate University

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* 8. Undergraduate Major

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* 9. What is your expected graduation date (month/year)?

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* 10. What is the location (city/state/country) that you will be traveling from to get to the ASBH Conference in September 2025?
Please note: The conference will be in Portland, Oregon from October 22-25, 2025

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* 11. We are planning on having students share accommodation. Please let us know any information you would like to provide about your preferences regarding sharing accommodation. 
Please note: Once students have been selected for the program, we will discuss individual preferences regarding room sharing (e.g. sharing a room with another student of the same gender).  

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* 12. Have you attended an academic conference before? If so, when, and which one(s)?

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* 13. Do you have any special travel needs?

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* 14. Please identify the name and email of a faculty member at your undergraduate university that we can contact if your application is selected for sponsorship. We will contact them to let them know about the cross-institutional mentorship you will receive and to see if your university can provide you with any additional support. They will also serve as an institution-to-institution contact for administrative or logistical purposes. They will not be required to provide a reference for you.
Please note: Ideally, it is beneficial to identify a faculty member who you have had some contact with and works in bioethics or health humanities or a related field such as moral philosophy, healthcare or public health.

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* 15. Please submit a two-paragraph statement of interest that explains your future academic and professional goals as well as how those goals are furthered by attending this year's ASBH conference.

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* 16. Please identify three sessions at the ASBH Conference that you wish you to attend and why. The 2025 schedule can be found here: https://asbh25.eventscribe.net/agenda.asp?BCFO=&pfp=Browse%20by%20Day&fa=&fb=&fc=&fd=&all=1

First Session

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* 17. Second Session

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* 18. Third Session

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* 19. In order to complete your application you will need to submit a writing sample. You can use a writing sample that you have already written. Writing samples should be a maximum of 5 pages long, 12 point font and double-spaced. If you would like to submit a portion of a longer paper, please offer a brief description of what you have removed or abridged. Although your writing sample does not need to be about bioethics, related topics such as public health, philosophy, etc. are encouraged. Please submit your writing sample by uploading the document, label the file name with your last name and first initial (e.g. LASTNAME A.PDF). If you have issues uploading your document, please email mabioethics@emory.edu.
Please note: Only PDF, DOC, DOCX files are supported. File size limit is 16MB.

Thank you for taking the time to complete this application!

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