Word: nsf
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...NSF fellowships are two-year awards to doctoral candidates in the natural and social sciences. The grant provides for each year a $2500 cost of education allowance to the University and a $2400 stipend for living expenses to the student...
...GSAS students will be affected by the cuts," Sisson said. Since the University will now have to find financial aid for needy graduate students who before would have received NSF awards, it will have less money to help those in non-science fields, he said...
...Sisson said that the NSF allowance for the cost of education usually exceeds tuition charges, leaving the University with "residual funds." GSAS uses the left-over money, along with alumni gifts and endowment income, to provide scholarships to other graduate students...
...often have trouble with a pyramiding of resources among the ablest students, One student may be an NSF grantee, a teaching fellow and a resident House tutor, while another receives very little financial aid," he said...
Francis G. O'Brien, an NSF official in Washington, said yesterday. "Part of the slack caused by the reduction in direct support to students will be taken up through increased funding for research...