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...National Science Foundation (NSF) informed GSAS in January that it would award only 1850 fellowships this year-400 fewer than last year-Thomas K. Sisson '48, associate dean of GSAS, said yesterday...
Sisson said that 100 fewer NSF fellowships have been awarded this year than in previous years to incoming Harvard graduate students and present-second-year students seeking award renewals. Ten per cent of the 3000 GSAS students hold NSF grants...
...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...