by Guest | Aug 22, 2022 | Career Navigation, Personal Experiences
Guest author Alex Belles tells us about his experiences in science policy as a grad student in NASEM’s Mirzayan Policy Fellowship program
by Ben Cassese | Jul 22, 2022 | Interviews, Personal Experiences
For today’s Beyond post, we spoke with Dr. Julie Davis, the AAS’s Bahcall Science Policy Fellow
by Ashley Piccone | Oct 22, 2021 | Career Navigation, Daily Paper Summaries
As a 2021 AAAS Mass Media Fellow, I learned what it meant to be a science journalist. Here are some tips that might help you do the same!
by Avery Schiff | Apr 27, 2018 | Career Navigation, Guides
Wondering what fellowships are available for graduate students in astronomy? Here are some of major the fellowships in the US.
by Ashley Villar | Sep 17, 2015 | Applications, Career Navigation, Personal Experiences
Advice on the NSF essays.
by Astrobites | Oct 2, 2011 | Career Navigation
In this post, some of the astrobites authors share their experiences applying for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). In a previous astrobite, we discussed the application process and materials. Applications for the 2012 fellowship are now open (at http://www.nsfgrfp.org/) and the deadline for astronomy is November 15th.Ellie: My officemate at the time was the first to read my essays and probably had the biggest impact (thanks Anna P!) She helped me structure my essays so that they presented my accomplishments clearly and concisely, such that a hurried reader would easily be able to get a sense of who I am and what I’ve done. The result was that my essays had a thesis, a conclusion and topic sentences for each paragraph. My advisors also read them; one memorable piece of advice they gave me is to say “I” instead of “we” when talking about my research project. I also asked an exoplanet expert to check the facts in the proposed research essay (who kindly obliged despite having only just met me).On that subject – I wrote my project proposal on a different area of astronomy than I had done my undergrad research. That meant I spent a lot of time on astro-ph, familiarizing myself with totally new material; additionally, I made sure to point out that the skills I had learned were applicable to a new subject. I think that it would have been helpful to enlist the aid of someone familiar with exoplanets early on, but the benefit of going at it myself is that I really had to read the papers and think about what I...