14186 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 57 / Tuesday, March 25, 1997 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[CFDA No. 84.170]

Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program;

Notice Inviting Applications for New

Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 1997

Purpose of Program: To award

fellowships to eligible students of

superior ability, selected on the basis of

demonstrated achievement and

exceptional promise to undertake

graduate study leading to a doctoral

degree or the Masters of Fine Arts

(MFA) at accredited institutions of

higher education in selected fields of

the arts, humanities, or social sciences.

Eligible Applicants: Eligibility is

limited to students who at the time of

application have no more than 30

semester hours or 45 quarter hours or

equivalent of graduate credit applicable

to the eligible field of study. Eligibility

for fellowships to pursue a doctoral

degree or the MFA that will not lead to

an academic career is limited to U.S.

citizens, permanent residents of the

U.S., certain other eligible non-citizens.

Eligibility for fellowships to pursue a

doctoral or MFA degree that will lead to

an academic career is limited to U.S.

citizens.

Deadline for Transmittal of

Applications: May 19, 1997.

Applications Available: April 3, 1997.

Estimated Available Funds:

$2,200,000.

Estimated Range of Awards: The

Secretary has determined that the

fellowship stipend for academic year

1997–1998 is $14,400, which is equal to

the level of support that the National

Science Foundation is providing for its

graduate fellowships, or the fellow’s

financial need, as determined by Part F

of Title IV of the Higher Education Act,

whichever is less. The institutional

payment for academic year 1997–1998

will be $10,051.

Estimated Average Size of the

Awards: $24,000.

Estimated Number of Awards: 90

individual fellowships.

Supplementary Information: Sixty

percent of new awards will be available

for fellowships to eligible applicants

who have earned no credit hours

applicable to a graduate degree. The

remaining forty percent of new awards

will be available for fellowships to all

otherwise eligible applicants. In each of

these two categories, sixty percent of

these new fellowships will be awarded

to applicants in the humanities, twenty

percent to applicants in the social

sciences, and twenty percent in the arts.

Note: The Department is not bound by any

estimates in this notice.

Project Period: Up to 48 months.

Applicable Regulations: (a) The

Education Department General

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in

34 CFR Parts 74, 75 (except as provided

in 34 CFR 650.3(b)), 77, 82, 85 and 86;

and (b) The regulations for this program

in 34 CFR Part 650.

For Applications or Information

Contact: Uri Z. Monson, Jacob K. Javits

Fellowship Program, U.S. Department of

Education, 600 Independence Avenue,

SW, Portals Building, Suite 600,

Washington, DC 20024–5329.

Telephone: (202) 260–3574. Individuals

who use a telecommunications device

for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–

800–877–8339 between 8 a.m. and 8

p.m., Eastern time, Monday through

Friday.

Information about the Department’s

funding opportunities, including copies

of application notices for discretionary

grant competitions, can be viewed on

the Department’s electronic bulletin

board (ED Board), telephone (202) 260–

9950; on the Internet Gopher Server (at

gopher://gcs.ed.gov); or on the World

Wide Web (at http://gcs.ed.gov).

However, the official application notice

for a discretionary grant competition is

the notice published in the Federal

Register.

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1134, 1134hk-1.

Dated: March 18, 1997.

David A. Longanecker,

Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary

Education.

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