<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><b class="">*** </b>SIGCHI Student Travel Grant (SSTG) Program<b class=""> *** </b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">27th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2019)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Golden Bay Beach Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus, June 9-12, 2019</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><a href="https://www.um.org/umap2019/" class="">https://www.um.org/umap2019/</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">We are pleased to announce that the SIGCHI Student Travel Grant (SSTG)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">program is offering support opportunities for students to attend UMAP 2019.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">This grant is for students who lack other support opportunities and whose</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">intention is to present their work at the conference, not just plan to attend</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">the conference.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">The goal is to pre-approve students for grants before the conference</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">submission deadline, so if a student gets a submission accepted, the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">student can count on having a grant awarded for travel to the conference.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">More information about this program and the application process: </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; color: rgb(87, 157, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><a href="https://sigchi.org/conferences/student-travel-grants/student-travel-grant/" class="">https://sigchi.org/conferences/student-travel-grants/student-travel-grant/</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Relevant deadline for UMAP 2019: November 1, 2018</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">(application will open in October)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Notification of pre-approval: November 15, 2018</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Information on additional funding options for students will soon be available</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">on the UMAP 2019 web site.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>