Word: sisson
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...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...
...Sisson said that other Harvard graduate students would be hurt by a $500,000 decrease in grants from the U.S. Public Health Service and loans issued under the National Defense Education...
...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...
...Sisson said GSAS will not adopt the deferred tuition plan recently instituted by Yale and Duke. Under such a plan, a student defers payment of his tuition until after graduation...