This will be the last year of Lucent Foundation's support of this Fellowship Program, however, as the Lucent Foundation's Board continues to shift focus toward support of K-12 educational activities. NSF and Lucent Technologies are interested in research addressing these issues. Higher education is of special importance with respect to educating the next generation of environmental scientists and engineers and carrying out fundamental environmental research. We have a special interest in the interaction between environmental matters and technical fields that are crucial to the communications and manufacturing industries. It is our hope that the Industrial Ecology Research Fellowships will help academia lead the way in new approaches to these opportunities.
More detailed information discussing the newly emerging field of industrial ecology is attached.
Applications from non-U.S. organizations will not be considered. Appendices are not permitted and proposals containing appendices will be returned without review. We strongly encourage the electronic submission of proposals using the NSF FastLane system for electronic proposal submission and review, available through the World Wide Web on the NSF Home Page. Proposals received will be reviewed by interdisciplinary panel using the new review criteria described in the NSF Grant Proposal Guide, NSF 98-2. It is anticipated that approximately 10 awards will be made by NSF and Lucent Technologies Foundation and will be funded in FY98.