Science To Achieve Results (STAR) Fellowship Program

Program Objectives

The National Center for Environmental Research (NCER), as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, is offering graduate fellowships for master's and doctoral level students in environmentally related fields of study. The purpose of the fellowship program is to encourage promising students to obtain advanced degrees and pursue careers in environmentally related fields. This goal is consistent with the mission of EPA, which is to provide leadership in the nation's environmental science, research, education, assessment, restoration, and preservation efforts. This program will benefit both the public and private sectors which will need a steady stream of well-trained environmental specialists if society is to meet the environmental challenges of the future. These fellowships are intended to help defray costs associated with advanced environmentally-oriented study leading to a master's or doctoral degree. Funding Priority-Fiscal Year 2006 The STAR Fellowship Program will support 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 research (limited to projects in community-based participatory research, intervention strategies, environmental behavior modification, environmental education, environmental justice); 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 research involving 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 -the animal research need not be the primary focus of the project).