Travel Grants & Scholarships
The Coblentz Society is committed to fostering the understanding and application of vibrational spectroscopy and the professional development of scientists practicing in this area. To further these aims, the Society has three grants designed to assist students and early-career professionals. Preferences for these grants will be given to Society members.
Spectroscopy Conference Grants
Early Career Travel Grants assist in defraying the cost of travel to one of the conferences where the Coblentz Society is an active participant. These include Pittcon, SciX, EAS, ICAVS, ICORS, and ISMS. The travel grants will be awarded based on participation in the scientific community as well as presentations of research at the conference. Travel grants are intended to assist early-career professionals (applicants must have completed their terminal degree no more than 10 years ago).
Dependent Care Grants are designed to assist professionals, especially when both members of a couple are involved in the scientific community, by defraying child or other dependent care costs. The dependent care may be provided either through a conference or at the applicant’s home to allow scientific professionals to attend one of the designated conferences. Dependent care grants are available to both students and early-career professionals.
Application Deadlines: January 15 for Pittcon; March 15 for Spring SciX, ISMS, and ICORS; August 15 for SciX, EAS, and ICAVS.
Scholarships For The Study Of Spectroscopy
Scholarships are offered to help defray part of the tuition costs for courses offered by Infrared & Raman Courses, Inc. These courses are Coblentz-affiliated activities and have been presented annually for over 50 years, historically at MIT and Bowdoin College. In 2026 the course is being offered in Glasgow. The aim of the courses is to provide a rigorous foundation for interpretation of vibrational spectra.
Application Deadline: May 1, 2026
How To Apply For The Grants And Scholarships
Applications for grants can be obtained from the Society by contacting office@coblentz.org. Remember: (1) Early Career Travel Grants are for early-career professionals only; (2) Student Travel Grants are for SciX 2026 only. We encourage those who are interested to apply soon; applications for SciX and EAS must be received by August 15.
Recent Grant & Scholarship Winners
2026 Travel Grant Winners:
Lamyaa Almehmadi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Sevde Dogruer Erkok (Florida International University)
Ailsa Geddis (Université de Montréal)
Ragib Ishrak (University of Houston)
Sila Jin (Kangwon National University)
Ayse Mine Saridag (Gaziantep University)
Srilakshmi Premachandran (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
William Tipping (University of Strathclyde)
Lintong Wu (Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School)
2026 Dependent Care Grant Winners:
Salma Akter (Texas Tech University)
2026 SciX Student Travel Grant Winners
Adewale Adehinmoye (University of Cincinnati)
Somali Dhal (Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, Ireland)
MacKenzie Gascon (University at Albany, SUNY)
Uziel Gonzalez Salazar (University of Utah)
Noelle Grant (University of New Haven)
Lottie Murray (University of Delaware)
2025 Travel Grant Winners:
Marisia Fikiet (Henry C. Lee College, University of New Haven)
Mohamed Amin (University at Albany, SUNY)
William Skinner (Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard)
Alec Walter (Vanderbilt University)
Alexis Weber (PerkinElmer)
Chalapathi Gajjela (University of Houston)
Steve Driscoll (Repligen)
2025 Dependent Care Grant Winners:
Chalapathi Gajjela (University of Houston)
Ewelina Mistek-Morabito (Center for Biophotonic Technology and Artificial Intelligence, University at Albany, SUNY)
2025 Scholarship – IR & Raman Courses
Caelin Celani (University of Delaware)
ICORS 2026 Early-career Poster Award Winners
Jin Guo, Peking University, Instrumentation for Super-broadband Stimulated Raman Scattering Spectroscopy and Imaging
Klaudziya Kamiak, Leibniz Institute Of Photonic Technology, Immune Monitoring by Raman Spectroscopy from Acute Inflammation to Stress-induced Dysfunction
Lucia Ďuríšková, Faculty Of Mathematics And Physics, Charles University, From 5’-GMP To G-Quadruplex: Raman Spectroscopy as a Quantitative Probe of Supramolecular Nucleotide Self-Assembly”
Yujin Cha, Chung Ang University, Potential-Controlled Binding and Readout in an EC-SERS Aptamer Sensor for Rapid and Sensitive Thrombin Detection
Jiadong Chen, Chung Ang University, A Molecularly Imprinted SERS Sensor for Label-free Quantitation Whole Exosomes in Biofluids
ICOB 2026 Student Poster Award Winners
(International Congress on Biophotonics, 2026 awards sponsored by the Coblentz Society)
Cody Silverman (Department of Chemistry, University at Albany, SUNY) – Deep UV Resonance Raman Spectroscopy (UVRR) for the Detection of Gunshot Residue for Forensic Purposes
Dwiti Krushna Das (College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering, University at Albany, SUNY) – Grating-Coupled Fluorescence Plasmonics (GC-FP) Biosensor: Expanding from Protein to Nucleic Acid Detection
From left, Alireza Sheikhsofla, Cody Silverman, and Dwiti Krushna Das.