> From: AMS Washington Office > Date: October 5, 2011 1:25:22 PM EDT > To: > Subject: Graduate Research Fellowships > Reply-To: > > Good News! > > The National Science Foundation (NSF) has offered 2,000 students Graduate Research Fellowships in 2011, with 80 of these math students (i.e., students in the mathematical sciences). The 80 offers are the most ever to math students and the increase in the number of applications from math students is the reason for this result. We think this number should and can be higher. > > We write this fall (as we did in 2010) to seek your help in encouraging graduate-school-bound seniors and first-year math graduate students to apply for NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. A higher percentage of applications submitted by students in mathematics will result in a higher percentage of NSF graduate fellowships allocated to our students. The 80 awards in 2011 to math students is 4 percent of the total number of awards and the number of applications received from math students (520) is 4 percent of the total number of applications (12,719). > > What we are asking you to do: > > - Encourage your graduate-school-bound seniors to submit a fellowship > application by holding a workshop or Math Club event where you supply all of > the forms, instructions, and advice on writing a statement. Please see > http://tinyurl.com/NSFGraduateResearchFellowships for further information and > forms. Applications are due by 7:00 pm Eastern Standard Time on November 15, 2011 > > - Strongly encourage your entering graduate students to submit a fellowship > application. Make an NSF application-writing session part of new graduate > student orientation or activities at the start of the semester. > > - Educate your faculty about the benefit to each student of formulating a > career plan and preparing a grant application. > > - Give the AMS feedback about this effort and more ideas about how to > accomplish this change. > > Thank you for helping to increase the number of mathematics graduate students > receiving NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. > > > > American Mathematical Society * 201 Charles Street * Providence, RI 02904