The deadlines for the NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program are approaching this Monday. If you have applied or are finishing an application for the program, be sure to mark your calendars and be attentive of the impending deadline dates.
Application Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. submitter’s local time):
November 02, 2009
Interdisciplinary fields of Study
November 04, 2009
Mathematical Sciences; Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering
November 05, 2009
Social Sciences; Psychology; Geosciences
November 06, 2009
Life Sciences
November 10, 2009
Chemistry; Physics and Astronomy
November 12, 2009
Engineering
The Department of Energy has opened a new fellowship for undergraduate seniors and graduate students interested in pursuing research based graduate degrees in physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics, engineering, computer science and environmental science.
The $12.5 million fellowship budget set aside for the new program is essential to training the next generation of U.S. scientists and engineers, according to U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu.
Members of the DOE hope that this new fellowship opportunity will encourage students to pursue research based graduate degrees in science and mathematics in order to make lasting contributions in their respective fields.
Students are encouraged to begin applying now and are able to do so until the November 30 deadline.
DOE fellowships are scheduled to be awarded in early 2010.
“Training the next generation of U.S. scientists and engineers is critical to our future energy security and economic competitiveness,” says DOE Secretary Steven Chu. “This fellowship is part of the administration’s effort to encourage students to direct their talents towards careers in science and our nation’s next technology revolution.”
The National Science Foundation hopes to jump-start women’s involvement in STEM fields by awarding $250,000 to create a Fast-Track Math for Women program at Sacramento State in California.
This K-12 program provides public school math teachers and community college professors with techniques to utilize in the classroom such as “creating a friendlier environment for female students and encouraging them to do well in math,” according to Program Researcher and Sociology Professor Mridula Udayagiri.
“If a woman or anybody is going to go to these technical fields”, Director of Sacramento State’s Mathematics Engineering and Science Achievement program, Madeline Fish, said, “ the key classes that they have to do well in and keep taking are math classes.”
Educators dedicated to the program trust that Fast-Track will raise awareness of gender issues in the classroom, especially among women in STEM fields.
“We believe that a lot of students, after taking a lot of years in math, very often end up with gaps in their math education, and those gaps make it impossible for them to really be math thinkers,” Fish said. “We have a math program that we think can help repair those gaps. What we’re doing is we’re isolating each student’s problem area or gaps and we’re filling those. So we’re going to teach math teachers how to administer that math program.”
Teachers who participate in Fast-Track‘s summer training sessions will begin training fellow teachers at their schools in addition to teachers throughout their respective school districts.
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