Doctoral students beginning their second, third or fourth years of graduate studies are eligible. Students selected will be required to take one course in biology or related science each of the two semesters of the first year of support and to participate in a symposium held typically on the MIT campus to discuss research before Merck representatives and MIT colleagues. The application deadline is April 1, 1999. Graduate Fellowship Competition Dean Isaac Colbert s office holds competitions for several industrial and endowed fellowships, which are administered and awarded, through the Graduate Education Office. One unrestricted award, for tuition and health insurance for one semester, not renewable.
Eligibility is supplemental scholarship aid for students of Belgian nationality.
Nominees must be entering women graduate students. Graduates of Boston College, born within a 20-mile radius of the Massachusetts State House. Eligibility includes women graduate students. Nominees are recommended to the Hugh Hampton Young Memorial Fund Council which makes the final selection. Possess strong interdisciplinary interests.