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PROGRAM NAME

National Science Foundation
Graduate Research Fellowships - Academic Year  2001-2002


DESCRIPTION

The National Science Foundation (NSF) aims to ensure the vitality of the
human resource base of science, mathematics, and engineering in the United
States and to reinforce its diversity.  To that end in March 2001, the NSF
will award approximately 900 new three-year Graduate Fellowships, including
awards offered for women in engineering and computer and information
science.

FIELDS

Fellowships are awarded for graduate study leading to research-based
master's or doctoral degrees in the mathematical, physical, biological, and
behavioral and social sciences; engineering; and history of science and
philosophy of science, and to research-based PhD degrees in science
education.

TARGETED GROUPS

NSF Graduate applicants  must be United States Citizens or nationals, or
permanent resident aliens of the United States.  In most cases an
individual has two opportunities to apply:  during the senior year of
college and in the first year of graduate school.   Specifically,
eligibility is limited to those individuals who, by the beginning of the
fall 1999 term, have completed no more than 20 semester hours, 30 quarter
hours, or equivalent, of graduate study in the science and engineering
fields supported by this program since completion of their last
baccalaureate degree in science or engineering.  One year or more of
full-time study in any medical, dental , or veterinary school is considered
to be greater than 20 semester or 30 quarter hours of graduate study.
Graduate study includes course work, research,  seminars, and independent
study.  These guidelines are applied to graduate study completed after
October 1, 1989 regardless of purpose or whether credit for that study has
been or will be applied toward an advanced degree.  Students in four or
five year joint baccalaureate master's degree programs are eligible to
apply in their fourth and fifth years; for eligiblilty purposes, the fifth
year is considered graduate study.  No individual will be eligible who, at
the time of application, has earned after October 1, 1989 and advanced
degree in science or engineering.  applicants who have earned any medical
degree, such as the MD, DDS, or DVM, are ineligible.

The Women in Engineering and Computer and Information Science (WECS) awards
are limited to women who intend to pursue graduate degrees in one of the
listed under the headings "Engineering" or Computer and Information Science
and Engineering" in the Fields of Specialization" list in the Announcement.


AWARD

The NSF Fellowship stipend during 2001-2002 will be $16,800 for 12-month
tenures, prorated monthly at $1,400 for lesser periods.  There is no
dependency allowance.  In addition to the funds for stipend payments, the
NSF provides the fellowship institution, on behalf of each Fellow, a
cost-of-education allowance of $10,500 per tenure year.  At international
institutions, all tuition and assessed nonrefundable fees will be paid by
the Fellow, with reimbursement by NSF, up to a maximum of $10,500.  A
one-time $1,000 International Research Travel Allowance is also available
under the conditions specified in the Program Announcement.

Application booklets are available now in the Fellowship Resource Advising
Center, 429 Fourth Floor, Warner Hall.  The NSF also encourages applicants
to download the application (available early-August) at the NSF website at
http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/ehr/dge/grfp.htm


CONTACT

NSF Grad. Research Fellowship Prog.
National Science Foundation
P. O. Box 3010
Oak Ridge, TN  37831-3010

PHONE: (423) 241-4300       FAX: (423) 241-4513
E-MAIL: nsfgrfp@orau.gov       WWW: http://www.orau.org/nsf/nsffel.htm

DEADLINE: November 7, 2000 (application deadline)

Updated: 09/22/2000