Get Involved in Research Today!

At VSU, you can pursue research and scholarly endeavors, enhance leadership skills, connect with faculty mentors, and much more. Our portfolio includes a wide range of exciting research activities across academic disciplines for graduate students, faculty, and staff.

Student Research Opportunities

• Graduate Assistantships – Check out graduate assistantships that offer valuable research experience and significantly reduced tuition fees!
• Graduate Research Symposium – Learn about the high quality of our students' research and/or scholarship which has placed them on an elite list of graduate students nominated by faculty in their graduate programs to present posters or Three Minute Thesis (3MT™).
• Thesis and Dissertations Preparation

Seek Funding for Travel to Present your research

Graduate Student Application for Travel Funds (Now Open for FY25!)

Application and Instructions (PDF) First- Students must print, complete, sign, and attach supporting documentation. Originals must next be routed through faculty mentors and department heads for their signatures and then sent to the Graduate School.

STOP!  Do not use the forms below unless awarded travel funds!

• Request for Authorization to Travel Form If awarded funds, submit at least three weeks before travel.
• Travel Expense Statement Non-Employee (PDF) For non-GAs.  Submit with original receipts.  (GAs must complete expense form in PeopleSoft if travel is performed as part of job responsibilities.)
• Travel Information-FAQs, Tips, Mileage Charts, Flight Cost Comparison, etc. must be submitted with expense form!

• Questions?  E-mail gradschool@valdosta.edu.

SGA Funding for Graduate Student Travel to Present Research or Other educational or Professional Development

Visit the SGA website for more information. 

Additional Research Resources

• Finding Funding
• Publishing Writing Resources
• Library Resources
• IRB or IACUC Approval Information-Office of Sponsored Programs and Research