Professional Travel Grants

The Getty Foundation is funding professional travel grants for attendees from Latin America and the Caribbean. Click here for an application.
Solicitud De Asistencia Para Gastos De Viaje Profesional

These competitive grants cover airfare, lodging, and a small per diem. Grant applications must be submitted with your registration by August 1, 2008.

2008 Student Scholars

The following students have been selected to attend the APT Montréal 2008 Conference and present their abstracts during the paper sessions.

Doug Appler
Climate as Architect: How French Colonial Residential Architecture Responded to the Elements in Canada and Greater Louisiana
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY USA

Josh Bodenweiser, Jeannette Ransom, and Jocelyn Widmer
Conservation Strategies to Protect Historic St. Augustine, FL Neighborhood
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL USA

Piotr Bojakowski - Winner of the Martin Weaver Scholarship
Conservation Aspects of the 16th century Western Ledge Reef Wreck
Texas A&M University
Bryan, TX USA

Lacey Bubnash
Conserving Dalle de Verre: New Approaches to a Modern Material
Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
New York, NY USA

Andrea Buono
An Evaluation of Creep in Stone Adhesives
Columbia University
New York, NY USA

Kara Dotter
40 Years of Conservation Mortars: Evolution and Effects
Queen's University Belfast
Belfast, United Kingdom

Alice Finke
Implementing Preventive Architectural Conservation: Do historic property stewards in the United States possess the tools to meet the challenge?
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA USA

Meisha Hunter
Preservation Planning and Sustainability for Historic Waterworks Systems
GSAPP, Columbia University
New York, NY USA

Negin Maleki and Will Raynolds
Lessons from the Hadramaut: Recent Results of the Tarim Documentation Project
Columbia University
New York, NY USA

Aabby Martin
A Modern Artifact : The Nuclear Reactor Building
University of Washington
Seattle, WA USA

Will, Ben, Anna R., S., S.
Sicilian Stucco and Carthaginian Colors
Columbia University, New York University
New York, NY USA

Maryam Rafiee Fanood
The Use of Bacteria for Stone Conservation
Iran University of Science and Technology
Tehran, AL Iran