Greater Research Opportunities Fellowship Program

Program Objectives

The National Center for Environmental Research (NCER) is offering graduate and undergraduate fellowships to students in environmentally related fields of study. This program is intended to strengthen the environmental research capacity of institutions of higher education that receive limited funding to build such capacity, including in particular institutions with substantial minority enrollment. Funding Priority-Fiscal Year 2006. The Greater Research Opportunities: Fellowship Program will support graduate fellowships in the following areas: Environmental Engineering (limited to pollution prevention, includes sustainability; treatment and remediation); Atmospheric Sciences; Environmental Chemistry and Environmental Materials Science; Geology (includes hydrogeology); Economics (includes market incentives and health and ecosystem valuation); Geography; Environmental Decision-making (limited to environmental education, environmental justice, community-based participatory research, intervention strategies, environmental behavior modification); Urban/Regional Planning; Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, and Genetics (includes genomics, proteomics, and bioinformatics); Microbiology; Public Health Sciences (includes environmental epidemiology, exposure assessment, biostatistics, and health risk assessment); Toxicology (includes pharmacokinetics and toxicodynamic modeling); Health Physics (limited to radiation interaction, detection, and dosimetry; radiation protection standards and regulations; biological effects, risk assessment and ALARA (As Low As Reasonably Achievable radiation exposure) concepts; facility design and nuclear safety; radiological emergency management; environmental monitoring and assessment; and nuclear waste management); Aquatic Systems Ecology (freshwater systems only); Oceanography and Coastal Processes (includes ecosystems ranging from estuarine to marine); Terrestrial Systems Ecology (plants and soils only-limited to soils, plants and the microorganisms that inhabit them; includes animals -limited to animal research, the animal research need not be the primary focus of the project). The Greater Research Opportunities: Fellowship Program will support undergraduate fellowships in the following areas: Natural and Life Sciences; Environmental Sciences; Engineering; Social Sciences; Physical Sciences; Mathematics and Computer Sciences; and Economics.