Astronomy.com Blog: Posted on behalf of the Uwingu team; Astronomy magazine is a proud partner of this effort to raise funding for space science. Space startup Uwingu announced today that it is soliciting applications from planetary science graduate students to support their travel to report research results at scientific meetings in 2014 and early 2015. Applications are due by April 30, 2014, at 11:59 p.m. PDT. Uwingu expects to make 10-15 awards of travel grants from this solicitation by early June. Any graduate student completing their Ph.D. in 2014 who is studying planetary science and/or exoplanets are eligible. Recipients must use the funds to present their research at a research conference occurring by April 30, 2015. Selections will be made based on material provided by applicants in the form at: http://tinyurl.com/Uwingu-TravelAwards. Uwingu is a for-profit, public engagement space company based in Boulder, Colorado, led by senior planetary scientists and astronomers. Uwingu’s mission is to connect the public to space exploration in new ways and to create a grant fund to support a wide range of space efforts by individual space researchers, educators, and organizations. Uwingu’s Mars Map Crater Naming Project, which is funding these student grants, allows anyone with a connection to ...