For more information, please e-mail Bart Michalczuk, the GPSC Treasurer and Chair of the Group Funding committee, at bartosz.michalczuk@duke.edu or email GPSC with the subject line "Group Funding."

The purpose of GPSC group funding is to support events that enhance the educational experience of graduate and professional students by promoting educational, cultural, and social interactions. Events which may be considered for GPSC funding include (but are not limited to) charity work, community service, speakers, journals, cultural presentations, discussions, and social events that are open to all graduate and professional students. Priority for funding will be given to those events that impact a high number of Duke graduate/professional students, are multi-disciplinary, and are held on campus. Priority will also be given to events that are scheduled to occur in the current funding cycle.

Events and items that will not be considered for funding include (but, again, are not limited to) scholarships, individual stipends, travel expenses to or from an event, and food for social events. Events that have already occurred or are scheduled to occur in a future funding cycle may be considered by special arrangement with the Finance Committee.

GPSC's fiscal year (September - June) has been divided into three funding periods. Application forms must be submitted via the GPSC online funding application by 5pm on the day of the deadline. The listed contact person who will be notified of the funding decision through e-mail within two weeks of the submission.

The three funding periods are as follows:

• For events going through the end of January - September 19th, 2007 8pm,
• For events going from the end of February through the end of May - January #,
• For events going from June through the end of September - May #.