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Haha I feel ya. Although I got Medium Priority the experimental design "concerns" were ridiculous and nearly impossible for me to satisfy.

I just got my rejection email. Good luck everyone

I wish they would be more open about this delay in decision - for whatever the reason is.

Well there isn't an abstract for the grad student winner from the link above (Washington University in St. Louis), so who knows how many winners there have been so far. I got an email from Dr. Ali and his response "Announcements are anticipated within the next two weeks." Here is to hoping it doesn't get pushed back again! Edit: another postdoc recipient was added to CRIS. I doubt this is fully up to date

Good call. It appears that it's 1 postdoc fellowship, 1 grad fellowship, and an unrelated grant. I wonder if we won't hear the final announcement until Fiscal Year 2015 - October 1st.

someone needs to get ahold of Dr. Ali and find out what is actually happening. I will try again but of the 3 times I've left a voicemail or emailed him I never got a response.

Agreed!

Pullman can be a very lonely town for grad students. If you want to grab a cup of coffee let me know - Cafe Moro is a great place to unwind and there are many fellow grad students that spend many hours there.

This is ridiculous wait time.

Anyone hear anything? I've tried to email Dr. Ali and once again he has not replied. I think I've emailed and called him 3 times over the last several months and I never get a response back.

I think it's probably not the case, but I applied for Animal Health and Production and Animal Products.

Same here

I agree that at this point it's not good. I think the best situation would be to get reviews back saying to resubmit next year. Has anyone thought of other fellowships to apply to? I would really like to be done in 1.5 - 2 years, so applying to NIFA for 2015 would be out of my scope - at least for predoctoral.

Nothing here. I emailed Dr. Ali and got an automatic response that he is out of the office until August 20th - so maybe later this week we will here something.

Super bummed. I find it strange that all the grad students that are active on this forum were unlucky.