The sponsor provides scholarship support to minority graduate students majoring in geoscience, including the geoscience subdisciplines of geology, geophysics, geochemistry, hydrology, meteorology, physical oceanograph planetary geology, or earth-science education. Applicants must be U.S. citizens. The sponsor supports research projects in hydrology and water resources, with the goal of fostering graduate stude research leading to the completion of doctoral dissertations. The sponsor provides support for a research project related to aerospace history. The sponsor makes an award to recognize and stimulate distinguished writing that improves the general public's understanding and appreciation of physics and astronomy.
Eligible applicants are journalists or feature writers.
Eligible entries must have been written by working physicists, astronomers, or other scientific membe of the sponsor's Member and Affiliated Societies. The recipien are expected to become members of the American Library Association and the Association for Library Service to Children. Applicants must use the award to pursue an M.L.S. or advanced degree in an ALA-accredited program. Only citizens of the United States and Canada are eligible. The sponsor provides support for a scholar to pursue an MLS degree in a sponsor-accredited program.