Agency to give out 12 fellowships

By Janet Sugiyama, Forty-Niner Online
Sept. 20, 1995

Twelve fellowships by the U.S. Department of Energy will be awarded for three years of full-time study toward a doctoral in an area related to manufacturing large scale systems and integration of product design with manufacturing processes.

Applicants must have a master's degree by the beginning of the fall 1996 term or have been admitted to a doctoral program prior to the fall 1996 term.

Applicants must also intend to work toward a doctoral degree at an academic institution that offers a such a degree program. They must also be U.S. citizens or permanent resident alien. The application deadline is Dec. 1.

In addition, the National Research Council plans to award about 20 Ford Foundation postdoctoral fellowships for minorities selected from among recent doctoral recipients who show the greatest promise of future achievement in academic research and scholarship in higher education.

This fellowship program is open to U.S. citizens who are members of designated minority groups and who are engaged in or planning a career in teaching and research.

Awards will be made in the behavioral and social sciences, humanities, engineering, mathematics, physical sciences, and life sciences. The deadline for submission of applications is Jan. 5, 1996.

The Research Council will also offer about 50 three-year pre- doctoral fellowships and 20 one-year dissertation fellowships to designated minority groups.

Citizens of the United States who are members of one of these designated minority groups and who are working toward or planning a doctoral degree, may apply.

Pre-doctoral fellowships are intended for beginning graduate students and all applicants must have their Graduate Record Examinations General Test scores for tests taken since Oct. 1, 1990.

Dissertation fellowship applicants must have completed all requirements for the doctoral degrees except for the writing and defense of the dissertation by Feb. 14, 1996.

The deadline for entering the fellowship competition is Nov. 3, 1995.

For more information on any of these fellowships, contact the Fellowship Office at (202) 334-2872.