EPA STAR Fellowship 2012

[sdhkenyon]

Anybody heard anything yet? Based on the last few years it looks like phone calls should be going out in the next few weeks.

[me_davis]

Nope. Nothing yet.

[FunkySoFresh]

Nothing here.

[FunkySoFresh]

And I applied under Aquatic Systems Ecology.

[withoutwords]

When do you think this is coming out, end of April? Getting rejected by NSF is the begining of obsessing over this.

[ayerswg]

Nothing yet.

[student1282]

Nope, haven't heard (applied in A3 - social sciences). Last year rejection letters went out mid-april (and lasted through the summer!). Maybe this year it will be more organized. Good luck everyone

[11_desperado_11]

No word yet. I applied under F5: TRIBES AND AMERICAN INDIAN/ALASKA NATIVE/PACIFIC ISLANDER COMMUNITIES.

[psommers]

No word yet, and I applied under Air Climate and Energy: Global Change (B2)

[FunkySoFresh]

This is KILLING me! I dread going to the mailbox everyday...

[entodc]

Does it comfort you to know that you're not alone?

[FunkySoFresh]

The nice thing would be to say "yes" but the truth is "not until I recieve SOMETHING from the EPA ".

[ughgradschool!]

Anybody know how many applicants they got/usually get? I can't find anything about that on the website...

[zhang22]

I applied for E3: Surface water and Hydrogeology. I haven't heard anything yet. Notifications are supposed to come no later than May 1, and I'm guessing they'll start calling people alphabetically. This next part I'm unsure about, but I THOUGHT that 80 awards were given out and thousands applied. In my department alone, I know about 10-12 people applied.

Edit: From the EPA website, "Estimated Number of Awards: Approximately 80 awards"

I would imagine that we have somewhere between a 1-5% chance.

Edited April 14, 2012 by zhang22

[withoutwords]

If you count on this webpage for the 2010 winners, I think it was like 140 or so, someone should double check that. http://www.epa.gov/ncer/fellow/recipients/star_fellow10.html

I thought I read somewhere else too, it was a 2006 document maybe, that they have had like 1,600 applicants.

[zhang22]

It would be great if there were only 1600 applicants, but I know that 2600 applied for NSDEG in 2010 (not sure how many this year). That one seems to be less general than the EPA STAR, so I'd expect even more applicants. Could be wrong there, but I know from the EPA website that they are only giving out 80 award from a total pool of $4.5 million.

[ughgradschool!]

Yeah the 80 awards is definitely right for 2012...was just curious on how many of us were competing for that . I guess it doesn't really help me to know that number for sure - it just fuels my obsessing!!!

[dornos]

Here's a link to the number of proposals they received for each section: http://www.epa.gov/ogd/competition/closed_awards.htm

Overall, I counted roughly 1500 props. Climate change (B2) received the most with 237.

[withoutwords]

So they are reducing the amount of the awards since 2010, why?

[withoutwords]

Also does anyone have an idea if they give out more awards to highly applied to areas, eg. Climate change

[dornos]

Also does anyone have an idea if they give out more awards to highly applied to areas, eg. Climate change

I think they try to spread them across the different topics and grant more awards to topics that got more submissions. So the climate change topic should be granted the most awards.

[zhang22]

Our odds seem to be around 5% then, with everything being equal. Better than I had thought, but a little scary still.

Edited April 15, 2012 by zhang22

[student1282]

I'm surprised by how many people applied in the social sciences division (190), the second most behind climate change.

[FunkySoFresh]

Has anybody seen any announcements on the EPA website about notifications being pushed back to a later date than May 1?

[11_desperado_11]

Last year the award announcement date was originally 4/1 and they didn't announce the extension (5/30) until 4/5.