The American Statistical Association, with the NSF, offers fellowships which strive to fund interdisciplinary research at federal agencies for up to 1 year. National Science Foundation, along with the ASA, offers competitive fellowship programs. The general objective of the program is to foster collaborative and interdisciplinary activities that will stimulate the development of methodology and analytic research relevant to the sponsoring Federal agencies. Those federal agencies are: the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Census Bureau, and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The duration of the fellowships is six months up to a year depending on the center. For the ASA/NSF/BLS fellowships, it is expected that Fellows will conduct much of their work at BLS in Washington, DC. DISCIPLINES
Physical Sciences. Social Sciences. School of Engineering. Statistics, social science research, computer scientists, geographers. ACADEMIC LEVEL
Prospective Graduate Students. Current Graduate Students. Students Working on Master's Thesis. Students Working on Doctoral Dissertation. Postdoctoral Scholars.
CITIZENSHIP No citizenship requirements. U.S. citizenship is not required, but applicants must be affiliated with a U.S. institution. ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS Applicants for fellowships should have academically recognized research records and considerable expertise in their areas of proposed research. A CV. Names and addresses of 3 references. A research proposal with background information, expected results, relevance of the research to BEA's mission, and budget. U.S. government employees are not eligible to apply. STIPEND The stipends received by researchers in this program are commensurate with their qualifications and experience. Budget may include salary, benefits, travel towards work and conferences, and housing and travel in DC. Possibly renewable. DEADLINES 12/10/2017 12/15/2017 1/2/2018
The first deadline corresponds to the Census Bureau fellowship, the second to the BEA, and the third to the BLS.
CONTACT
Ms. Joyce Narine ASA/NSF/Census Bureau Research Fellowship Program American Statistical Association 732 North Washington Street Alexandria, VA 22314-1943 (703) 684-1221
joyce@amstat.org |