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Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research
Organization
American Philosophical Society
105 S 5th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Phone Number (215)440-3400
Emails orders@dianepublishing.net
Level of Study Bachelor's Degree
Graduate Degree
Award Type Grant
Purpose To encourage exploratory field studies for the collection of specimens and data.
Focus Biological and clinical sciences.
Qualifications Applicants must be doctoral students. Postdoctoral fellows, master's degree candidates, and undergraduates are not eligible; applicants who have previously received a Lewis and Clark Fund grant may reapply after an interval of two years; preference is given to applicants who have not yet been granted an award from the Fund; U.S. citizens and residents wishing to carry out research anywhere in the world. Foreign applicants must either be based at a U.S. institution or plan to carry out their work in the United States; Applications are invited from disciplines with a large dependence on field studies, such as archaeology, anthropology, biology, ecology, geography, geology, linguistics, paleontology, and population genetics, but grants will not be restricted to these fields.
Criteria Selection will be based on the Committee criteria.
Funds $5,000
Duration Annual.
Number of Awards Varies.
To Apply Applicants must be submit online; should ask their academic advisor to write one of the two letters of recommendation, specifying the student's qualifications to carry out the proposed work and the educational content of the trip; the proposed work should be dissertation directed to the extent possible given the applicant's year in the doctoral program; letters of Support; must submit brief reports on their trip for archiving in the APS Library.
Deadline November 15.
Contact Linda Musumeci, Director of Grants and Fellowships, at LMusumeci@amphilsoc.org, or 215-440-3429; lettersofsupport@amphilsoc.org. applications@amphilsoc.org.
For more information http://www.amphilsoc.org
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