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Field of study question... my proposal falls into the Life Sciences - Ecology field of study, so that is what I will put on the Proposed Field of Study page. On the Education and Work Experience page, we also have to enter field of study for each university we've attended (for me this is undergrad, and grad which is in progress). For this section, should I also put Life Sciences - Ecology to match, or should I put the actual name of my degree program as it appears on my transcript? For example, Life Sciences (other) - Wildlife Biology and Life Sciences (other) - Aquatic and Fishery Sciences. Confused about this!

Looking for advice on the Fastlane section on academic honors, fellowships, scholarships, publications and presentations... Is it appropriate to put in citations or links for popular science articles that featured my previous research? I just interviewed for the articles and didn't write them myself. I know that sort of thing doesn't usually go on an academic CV so maybe it doesn't belong here either, but I wondered if it might be good to have given NSF's focus on Broader Impacts and communicating science to the general public. I do talk about these in my personal statement. On a related note, should I list presentations for which I did not actually present but was a co-author?

Thank you, although unfortunately the cutoff is this evening! I ended up standardizing where possible and explaining where I couldn't, and hopefully that's okay. Best of luck to you too!!

I'm wrapping up my DoD NDSEG fellowship application, and just discovered that it is automatically removing the units from the "rate of pay" fields in my work history. I had previously entered things as $10/hr, $280/mo, etc. as in biology there is a quite a range of pay formats from hourly to per diem and monthly stipends, and my work experience falls under a range of these. It appears impossible to enter a unit, so numbers are shown simply as $10, $280, etc. Should I leave the pay field blank, try to pick a constant unit and make my pay rates fit into that where I can (although this will be awkward), or try to explain in another field what the unit of pay is? NDSEG isn't picking up the phone and I would appreciate anyone's help on this!