Society for Scholarly Publishing Announces 2010 Travel Grant Recipients

The following individuals were selected from a highly competitive group of applicants:

Five Early Career Awards:

Joe d’Angelo, Earthscan

Matthew Judd, Professional Engineering Publishing (Inst. Mech. Engineers)

Regina Mays, Center for Information and Communication Studies, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Anne Roecklein, Indiana University Press

Megan Stevens, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Five Student Awards:

Alissa Centivany, University of Michigan

Katharine Dunn, Simmons College

David Rosenfeld, University of Michigan

Katrina Swartz, Emerson College

Xiaohua Zhu, University of Wisconsin – Madison

Awardees will be paired with mentors who hold senior management positions within SSP member organizations.   Mentors will help the award winners connect into the educational and networking opportunities available at the Annual Conference, which will be held June 2-4, 2010 in San Francisco.

“We are eager to bring new perspectives and ideas into the scholarly publishing community,” said Ray Fastiggi, President of SSP.   “The Travel Grant program helps us realize this goal.  The program will be beneficial not only to the professional development of the awardees, but to all the members of SSP who will be enriched by their participation in the conference.”