NSF Trainees

The article "NSF Offers Funds For University Buildings And Staff" (The Scientist, Jan. 6, 1992, page 3) discusses the new National Science Foundation graduate traineeship program. The article states that the program "creates university traineeship programs for doctoral students in the range of disciplines in the natural and physical sciences that NSF supports" (my emphasis). This gives the impression that the social and behavioral sciences, which NSF also supports, are ineligible. There is noth

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HOWARD J. SILVER
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Consortium of Social Science Associations
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