National Research Council Fellowships
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[Andrew Knutsen of the National Research Council asked us to
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though the posting is not directly related to CPSR, programs
like these that open up opportunities in computer science
will promote greater diversity in the field and therefore
furthers our interest in social responsibility. Please
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August 1994
The Fellowship Office of the National Research Council administers the
predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowship programs outlined briefly below.
Additional information and application materials will become available in
September 1994.
Telephone: (202) 334-2872
E-mail: infofell@nas.edu
Snail mail address: Fellowship Office, National Research Council, 2101
Constitution Avenue, Washington, D.C. 20418.
Application deadline: November 4, 1994
- Open to United States citizens who are members of the following
minority groups: Alaskan Natives (Eskimo or Aleut), American
Indians, Black/African Americans, Mexican Americans/Chicanos, Native
Pacific Islanders (Polynesian or Micronesian), and Puerto Ricans.
- Awards are made for study in research-based doctoral programs (PhD
or ScD) that will lead to careers in teaching and research at the
university or college level in the behavioral and social sciences,
humanities, engineering, mathematics, physical sciences, and life
sciences.
- Study in programs that are practice-oriented is not supported.
Awards are not made for work leading to degrees in areas related to
business, administration, management, health sciences, home
economics, library science, speech pathology, audiology, personnel,
guidance, social work, fine arts, performing arts, or education.
- Awards are not made for work leading to terminal masters degrees,
doctorates in education (PhD or EdD), Doctor of Fine Arts (DFA)
degrees, professional degrees in such areas as medicine, law, or
public health, or for study in joint degree programs such as MD/PhD,
JD/PhD, and MFA/PhD programs.
- Persons holding a doctoral degree earned in any field at any time
are not eligible to apply.
Predoctoral Fellowships are intended for students who are at or near
the beginning of their graduate study.
- Applicants must not have completed, by the beginning of the fall
1994 term, more than 30 semester hours, 45 quarter hours, or
equivalent, of graduate-level study in fields supported by this
program whether or not credit for that study is applied toward another
advanced degree (including a master's degree).
"Graduate-level study" includes course work, research, and seminars.
This guideline is applied to graduate study completed after October 1,
1984.
- Predoctoral Fellowship applicants are required to submit GRE General
Test scores from tests taken since October 1, 1989.
Dissertation Fellowships are intended for PhD or ScD degree candidates
who have finished all course work, examinations, language
requirements, and all other departmental and institutional requirements
except for the writing and defense of the dissertation, and who have
gained approval of the dissertation proposal/topic.
- Applicants must have satisfied all of the above conditions by
February 14, 1995, and expect to complete the dissertation during the
1995-96 academic year, but in no case later than fall 1996.
- Fellowship support is intended for the final year of dissertation
writing.
Application deadline: January 6, 1995
- Open to United States citizens who are members of the following
minority groups: Alaskan Natives (Eskimo or Aleut), American
Indians, Black/African Americans, Mexican Americans/Chicanos, Native
Pacific Islanders (Polynesian or Micronesian), and Puerto Ricans.
- Applicants are required to have earned the PhD or ScD degree by
January 6, 1995, and may not have held the degree for more than
seven years as of January 6, 1995.
- Only those individuals already engaged in a teaching and research
career or those planning such a career are eligible to apply in
this program.
- Awards are for postdoctoral research and will be made in the
behavioral and social sciences, humanities, engineering, mathematics,
physical sciences and life sciences, or for interdisciplinary
programs composed of two or more eligible disciplines.
- Awards will not be made in professions such as medicine, law, social
work, library science, public health and in areas related to
business, administration, management, fine arts, performing arts,
speech pathology, audiology, health sciences, home economics, personnel,
guidance, and education.
Application deadline: November 4, 1994
- Open to citizens or nationals of the United States or foreign
nationals for graduate work in research-based doctoral programs (PhD
or ScD) in biological sciences.
- The following fields are eligible for support: biochemistry,
biophysics, biostatistics, cell biology and regulation, developmental
biology, epidemiology, genetics, immunology, mathematical biology,
microbiology, molecular biology, neuroscience, pharmacology,
physiology, structural biology, and virology.
- These fellowships are intended for students at or near the beginning
of their graduate study toward a PhD or ScD degree in the
designated biological sciences. Applicants must not have completed, by
the beginning of the fall 1994 term, one year or more of
postbaccalaureate graduate study in biological sciences,
whether or not that study was toward a master's or doctoral degree or
was outside of a degree program.
- The following will not preclude eligibility: 1) graduate study that
took place more than 10 years prior to application, 2) graduate study
toward a Master of Public Health degree, 3) study in biological
sciences that was toward a medical or dental degree (MD, DO, DVM, or
DDS), and 4) graduate study prior to entry into medical or
dental school.
- If study has been part time, the applicant must not have completed
more than seven courses in a semester system or more than eight
courses in a quarter system. To be considered part-time, the program
of study must have been limited to no more than two courses each
semester or quarter.
- Individuals who are pursuing or who hold medical or dental degrees
(MD, DO, DVM, or DDS) may also be eligible to apply for
predoctoral fellowships. As in the case of other applicants, support
is only for full-time study toward the PhD or ScD degree in the
designated biological sciences and is intended for those at the
beginning of their graduate study toward such a degree. These
applicants also must not have completed, by the beginning of the fall
1994 term, the first year of a full-time graduate program
in biological sciences, or the equivalent in part-time study.
- Medical students who have received financial support through a
funded MD/PhD program (whether formal or informal) are not
eligible for these fellowships.
- Applicants must have scores from the GRE General Test; if not
provided, the fellowship application will be withdrawn from the
competition.
- Foreign nationals whose primary language is not English are required
to submit scores from the Test of English as a Foreign Language
(TOEFL). If a required TOEFL score is not provided to the NRC, the
fellowship application will be withdrawn from the competition.
Andrew Knutsen,
Fellowship Office TJ2042, National Research Council, 2101 Constitution
Avenue, Washington DC 20148, tel: 202-334-2413, email aknutsen@nas.edu.