Scholarship International

Jefferson Science Fellowship

Office of the Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State
Jefferson Science Fellowship

The National Academies is pleased to announce a call for nominations
and applications for the 2010 Jefferson Science Fellows
program. This program establishes a new model for engaging the
American academic science, technology and engineering communities
in the formulation and implementation of U.S. foreign policy.

Jefferson Science Fellows will spend one year at the U.S.
Department of State in Washington, D.C. and may periodically
travel to U.S. foreign embassies and/or missions.

Jefferson Science Fellow awards are open to tenured academic
scientists, technologists and engineers from U.S. institutions of
higher learning. Nominees/applicants must be U.S. citizens and
will be required to obtain a security clearance.

Detailed information on the Jefferson Science Fellows program is
available on the web:
www.nas.edu/jsf

The deadline for nominations and applications for the 2010
program year is January 15, 2010.

The Jefferson Science Fellows program is sponsored by the
U.S. Department of State.

THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES

Advisers to the Nation on Science, Engineering, and Medicine

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