graduate fellowship

Dr. Levy, who is 55, credits her focus on aging to an after-college job at a psychiatric hospital in suburban Boston, a graduate fellowship in Japan and an errant crate in a Florida grocery store.

An analysis published in 2018 showed that over 16 years, through academic year 2017-18, the number of graduate fellowship programs that train geriatricians, underwritten by Medicare, increased to 210 from 182.

He had planned to pursue a career in physics but experienced a change of heart after learning that the only graduate fellowship available was funded by the Atomic Energy Commission.

This is why HHMI’s Gilliam graduate fellowship programme — which aims to increase the diversity of students who will become scientific leaders — requires recipients’ thesis advisers to engage in programmes to explore cultural identity and practise communicating across cultures.

He emerged with strong recommendation letters and a research statement that enabled him to secure a graduate fellowship with the US National Science Foundation.