Proper effort reporting is, ultimately, a matter of federal accountability and compliance, and is subject to federal audit. This program supports doctoral candidates who have successfully completed their comprehensive examinations or the equivalent by the time of award and will be performing dissertation research and training. D. Recipients will receive a fixed stipend and tuition allowance. Also, an allowance will be provided to the sponsoring institution to help defray such expenses as research supplies, equipment, travel to scientific meetings, and related items for the individual fellow, and to otherwise offset, to the extent possible, appropriate administrative costs of graduate research training. The Sandler Program for Asthma Research provides awards to individual scientists for studies about the pathogenesis of asthma.
Awards are available for junior investigators and senior investigators.
Technological Innovations in Neuroscience McKnight Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Awards will be given to projects that utilize novel approaches to exploring and understanding how the brain functions. The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience is particularly interested in catalyzing new ways to image brain functions and to monitor and manipulate gene expression in the developing and functioning brain. The American Association for the Advancement of Science will award Policy Fellowships to physical, biological, or social scientists and to engineers for year-long experiences in federal public policy, beginning Sep. 1, 2001. Fellows will be placed in Congress, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Departments of State, Defense, Agriculture, and Justice, the Agency for International Development, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Food and Drug Administration, and other federal offices. The Merrill Lynch Forum awards prizes to doctoral students who can put their dissertation research to commercial use.