Mathematics Graduate Research Fellowship
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American Mathematical Society :: Graduate Research Fellowships
MEMO TO: Mathematics Department Chairs & Graduate Directors
SUBJECT: Graduate Research Fellowships
MEMO TO: Mathematics Department Chairs & Graduate Directors
SUBJECT: Graduate Research Fellowships
We write to seek your help in encouraging graduate-school-bound seniors and first-year graduate students to apply for National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships. A higher percentage of applications submitted by students in mathematics will result in a higher number of NSF graduate fellowships allocated to our students in future years.
Applications in the mathematical sciences must be submitted no later than 8:00 pm Eastern Standard time on November 14, 2012.
We ask you to:
Encourage your graduate-school-bound seniors to
submit a fellowship application. We suggest holding a workshop or Math
Club event where you supply forms, instructions, and advice on writing a
statement. Please see the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Operations
Center site for further information and forms.
Encourage your graduate-school-bound seniors to
submit a fellowship application. We suggest holding a workshop or Math
Club event where you supply forms, instructions, and advice on writing a
statement. Please see the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Operations
Center site for further information and forms.
Strongly encourage your entering graduate students to submit a fellowship application. Make an NSF application-writing session part of new graduate student orientation or activities at the start of the semester.
Educate your faculty about the benefit to each student of
formulating a career plan and preparing a grant application.
Give the AMS feedback about this effort and more ideas about how to accomplish this change.
formulating a career plan and preparing a grant application.
Give the AMS feedback about this effort and more ideas about how to accomplish this change.
The NSF offered 2,067 students Graduate Research Fellowships for 2012, with only 80 of these being math students (i.e., students in the mathematical sciences). The number of fellowships awarded to math students can and should be higher; this will be achieved if we can increase the number of applications to the NSF for these fellowships.
Thank you for helping to increase the number of mathematics graduate students receiving NSF Graduate Research Fellowships.
Eric M. Friedlander
University of Southern California
AMS President David A. Vogan, Jr.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
AMS President-Elect
University of Southern California
AMS President David A. Vogan, Jr.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
AMS President-Elect
Kenneth M. Golden
University of Utah
Chair, AMS Committee on Science Policy
University of Utah
Chair, AMS Committee on Science Policy
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members, was founded in 1888 to further the interests of
mathematical research and scholarship and serves the
national and international community through its
publications, meetings, advocacy, and other programs.
