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<P class=style1>The Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research</P>
<P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>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.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>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.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><STRONG>SCOPE</STRONG> 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.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><STRONG>ELIGIBILITY</STRONG>
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.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><STRONG>AWARD</STRONG>
Amounts will depend on travel costs but will ordinarily be in the range of
several hundred dollars up to about $5,000. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><STRONG>DEADLINE</STRONG>
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.</FONT></P>
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<P align=center><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><STRONG>The
American Philosophical Society<BR>104 South Fifth Street<BR>Philadelphia, PA
19106 </STRONG></FONT></P>
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