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The NorthEast SAS Users Group (NESUG) Conference is an educational event that encourages knowledge sharing among SAS users. With support from SAS, NESUG is pleased to offer a limited number of Junior Professional grants to selected users who have been using SAS in the workplace for less than three years and would not otherwise be able to attend NESUG 2012 in Baltimore, Maryland.

Each grant will cover the NESUG Conference Registration fee (allowing attendance at presentations and included events from Sunday evening, November 11 through noon on Wednesday, November 14) plus a half-day workshop (morning or afternoon) on Sunday, November 11. Travel expenses, accommodation and meals will be the responsibility of the attendee and will not be covered by the grant.

Junior Professional grant applicants are encouraged to also submit an abstract for a conference paper. Preference for grants will be given to those who submit an abstract. Topics for conference papers may be your experience with SAS for your research, whether it be a technical tip that helped you organize or analyze your data, how you used SAS to run your analyses and answer a research problem, or any tip or trick for using SAS that may benefit others. You can visit the Online Proceedings to see papers from previous conferences as examples. If you’re interested in this opportunity to improve your public speaking and professional writing as well as adding a publication to your resume, then refer to the Call for Papers page for information. The deadline for submitting an abstract is May 11, 2012. If your abstract is selected, our Section Chairs will guide you though the process of preparing your paper for publication. Please note that acceptances are independent; acceptance of your abstract does not guarantee a scholarship, nor does a receipt of a scholarship guarantee acceptance of your abstract.

Selection Criteria for a Junior Professional Grant includes:

Submission of a complete application by May 30, 2012.
Employment, using SAS as a part of your work, for less than 3 years at the time of application and at the time of conference (November 2012).
Commitment to volunteer at NESUG for ½ day during the conference. NESUG is an all-volunteer organization made up of SAS users. We expect that our scholarship recipients will volunteer at least ½ day of their time during the conference to assist NESUG, as many of our attendees do. Volunteering is a great way to meet other SAS users and contribute to the success of the conference.

Submission of a paper abstract by May 11, 2012 is encouraged but not required.

The Application Form can be completed here. The grant application deadline is May 30, 2012. Decisions for both grants and abstract acceptance will be communicated by email around mid-June.

For more information, please contact NESUG's Junior Professional Program Co-ordinator.