EPA STAR Fellowship

[seaside]

Received my rejection letter in the mail today.

[frenchpress]

Received my rejection letter in the mail today.

Did they include the peer review stuff? If so, how did the comments compare in helpfulness to the GRFP?

Keeping an eye out for my rejection notice..

[seaside]

Did they include the peer review stuff? If so, how did the comments compare in helpfulness to the GRFP?

Keeping an eye out for my rejection notice..

Yup, they included hard copies of the peer review material, and the format is virtually identical to that of the GRFP. Came in a packet in a big manila envelope.

[kona]

any awardees receive paperwork yet?

[frenchpress]

I'm still waiting to hear anything. I wonder if there's a method to their madness because it seems like they're doing this very piecemeal.

[UnlikelyGrad]

I'm still waiting to hear anything. I wonder if there's a method to their madness because it seems like they're doing this very piecemeal.

For those who have heard: did you hear by email or some other method?

[seaside]

Good luck to those of you who haven't heard yet!

[EDUSCI]

The number of people at my university that have been contacted, including myself, is up to three.

Congrats on the fellowship! Do you know which FONs the students' received the grants through from your school? I'm looking for someone with info. on the Ecology/Water Quality (D2) FON...

[Cacao412]

FYI: Got my rejection letter in the mail today (May 3). Good luck to those who still havent heard.

[UnlikelyGrad]

I got mine today too. I wish they'd sent it in a smaller envelope--the big manila envelope in my mailbox sent my hopes skyrocketing. They crashed soon enough.

[science time]

Have any of the finalists received any further contact/information (email, usps or otherwise) regarding the next steps?

[outdoorathon]

It seems like decisions are still being made. I'm in the global change FON, and hadn't heard anything. I finally got ahold of someone today, and I said I was still in the running, and expect to hear something in the next week.

So good luck to those who haven't heard, except those competing with me.

Have any of the finalists received any further contact/information (email, usps or otherwise) regarding the next steps?

[crimsonengineer87]

To past applicants or anyone who knows, does anyone have some sort of statistics or the competitiveness of each of the different FONs? http://www.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2011/2011_star_gradfellow.html

(i.e. Global Change vs. Terrestrial Ecosystems)

Thanks!