Announcing the ASM Robert D. Watkins Graduate Research Fellowship

The ASM Robert D. Watkins Graduate Research Fellowship is aimed at highly competitive graduate students who are enrolled in a Ph.D. program and who have completed their graduate course work in the microbiological sciences. The fellowship encourages students to continue and complete their research project in the microbiological sciences.
Students will be:

• Required to submit an abstract each year to ASM for presentation at the annual ASM General Meeting
• Required to attend the ASM Kadner Institute or  the ASM Scientific Writing and Publishing Institute one time during the three-year tenure of the fellowship

Eligible candidates must be from groups that have been determined by the applicant’s institution to be underrepresented in the microbiological sciences.
The application deadline is May 1st, 2016. Click here to apply.
Please email fellowships@asmusa.org for more information.