United States Grants

The Josephine De Karmen Fellowship Trust was established in 1954 by the late Dr. Theodore von Karmen, world renowned aeronautics expert and teacher and first director of the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, in memory of his sister, Josephine, who passed away in 1951. The purpose of this Fellowship program is to recognize and assist students whose scholastic achievements reflect Professor von Karmen's high standards. The fellowship is for one academic year and may not be renewed or postponed. Students in any discipline entering their senior undergraduate year or a candidate for a PhD who will defend his/her dissertation by June 2009 are eligible for a 2008-2009 fellowship. Postdoctoral and masters degree students are not eligible for consideration.

While university researchers are scrambling to find grants, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security can't seem to give its money away. The department has nearly $2 million dollars to pay for research into security-related video technology, and it hasn't been getting many takers, according to Jennifer White of the Touchstone Consulting Group, which is supervising the grant application process. For the last round of funding, she says, they had only 18 inquiries and nine actual proposals. "And only two of them were deemed acceptable, leaving us with more than $1-million that we couldn't give out." They hope to do better this time around. The money is supposed to go for research into "interoperability": systems that can move video data from one agency to another or from one type of technology to another. The deadline for applications is June 25.

This program provides funds for academic year and summer fellowships to IHEs in order to assist graduate students in acquiring foreign language and either area or international studies competencies. Students apply directly to IHEs that have received fellowship allocations from the Department of Education. Applicants must meet eligibility criteria in order to receive fellowships.

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