FW: American Philosophical Society Launches New Grant Program

[Rankin, Robert L]

Just for everyone's information.
 
Bob
 
 
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The Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research

The American Philosophical Society (APS), the oldest learned society in
North America and sponsor of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery in
1804, announces a new program of research grants in support of graduate
students, post-doctoral students, and junior and senior scientists and
scholars undertaking field studies for their theses or other projects.

The Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research was
established through the Stanford Ascherman/Baruch Blumberg Fund for
Basic Science, thanks to a benefaction from Dr. Ascherman that is
administered by Stanford University. Dr. Ascherman, who passed away in
November 2004, was a noted surgeon and philanthropist in San Francisco.
Dr. Blumberg, a Distinguished Scientist at Fox Chase Cancer Center in
Philadelphia, former Director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute, and
Nobel Prize in Medicine recipient in 1976, initiated the establishment
of the Lewis and Clark Fund.

SCOPE The Lewis and Clark Fund encourages exploratory field studies for
the collection of specimens and data and to provide the imaginative
stimulus that accompanies direct observation. Applications are invited
from disciplines with a large dependence on field studies, such as
archeology, anthropology, astrobiology and space science, biology,
ecology, geography, geology, oceanography, and paleontology, but grants
will not be restricted to these fields.

ELIGIBILITY Grants are available to graduate students, post-doctoral
students, junior and senior scientists, and social scientists who wish
to participate in field studies for their theses or for other purposes.
Undergraduates are not eligible. A graduate student applicant should ask
his or her academic supervisor or field trip leader to write one of the
two letters of recommendation, specifying the role of the student in the
field trip and the educational contribution of the trip. Budgets should
be limited to travel and related expenses, including personal field
equipment. U.S. nationals and others may apply. Funding will be given
foreign nationals only for projects within the United States or for
field studies elsewhere originating from a U.S. institution.

AWARD Amounts will depend on travel costs but will ordinarily be in the
range of several hundred dollars up to about $5,000. 

DEADLINE There is no deadline. Applications may be submitted at any
time, and the Committee for the Lewis and Clark Fund will evaluate
applications several times during the year.

HOW TO APPLY Applications are available online at
www.amphilsoc.org/grants/lewisandclark.htm
<http://pull.xmr3.com/p/2343-2788/63428231/Applications_available.html>
. The completed application is to be sent as an e-mail attachment to the
address on the form. 

The American Philosophical Society
104 South Fifth Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106 

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Thank you very much for helping us to spread word of our program. If you
post our program announcement in electronic newsletters, please be sure
to say that all information is available at our website,
www.amphilsoc.org/grants/lewisandclark.htm
<http://pull.xmr3.com/p/2343-E189/63428239/Website.html> . 

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