Funding Announcement: ORS Undergrad URM Travel Grants

CMTM and the Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS) invite you to join us in building a diverse pipeline of the next generation of musculoskeletal researchers. CMTM will sponsor the attendance of up to two undergraduate students from underrepresented backgrounds to ORS’s Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona on February 7 – 11, 2025.

CMTM will cover the travel expenses (airfare, ground transportation, meals, and lodging), and ORS will provide complimentary registration, so that the students’ attendance will be fully sponsored. Our faculty and the ORS will also assist with mentorship and support of the students’ experience while at the meeting.

The ideal candidate for this award must identify as a member of at least one underrepresented group as follows:

• Race and ethnicity: American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Black, Hispanic or Latinx, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander
• Disability
• LGBTQAI+
• Gender identity and expression
• Veteran status
• First generation college
• Socioeconomic status

Additionally, they must be majoring in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math (STEM) program, will have an interest in orthopaedic research and/or medicine, have not attended an ORS annual meeting in the past, and be located in the Northeastern region of the US (not necessarily at Boston University). The students do not need to be presenting an abstract at the annual meeting to attend.

Undergraduate students may apply using this form no later than December 2, 2024.