I have been feeling a bit discouraged lately because my health has really been making it hard for me keep up with my class work and research, but today that all changed. The first thing I do when I get into my office is to check my email. One sender caught my eye: GRF Operations Center. The subject line read: 2010 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Award Notification. I opened the email to see this:
I know it is hard to read so here is the first part blown up.
I was so psyched that I started jumping up and down in my office. I didn't stop bouncing for about an hour. The best part about getting the NSF is that I don't have to apply for the other grants my advisor wanted me to apply to. Unlike the NSF, those grants required a real research proposal (think around 12 pages) which followed all normal proposal formats. This meant a lot of writing and paper research work that I would have had to do this summer. I now have funding for three years and hopefully I can use this as leverage to fast track my studies here.
If you wish to know more about my research, you can read my proposal below. My project focus has changed slightly to study the effects of aging, but the idea is essentially the same.
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