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Initiated in 2006, the Fulbright International Science & Technology Award provides students in science and technology with the US government’s most prestigious and valuable scholarship. It is advertised internationally to attract the most highly qualified young women and men in the countries in which Fulbright operates to study at America’s leading universities. Each year it provides approximately 25 successful candidates with fully funded PhD studies (approximately $60,000 per annum) for a maximum of 5 years.
 Ireland’s Jacqueline Hynes is a 2009 - 2010 Fulbright International Science & Technology Awardee. She will begin her PhD in Neuroscience at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island in September 2009.
The closing date for the 2011 – 2012 competition is 30th April 2010.
The annual competition opens in the February and closes in the April two years before the relevant academic year.
The 2011-12 competition for the International Fulbright Science and Technology Award will open February 2010. The following are eligible disciplines:
- Aeronautics and Astronomics/Aeronautical Engineering
- Agriculture (theoretical or research-based focus only) While agriculture tends to be a fairly applied field of study, those wishing to pursue theoretical and research-based study in such areas as entomology, plant biology, plant pathology, and soil science are eligible for this Award
- Astronomy/Planetary Sciences
- Biology
- Biomedical Engineering
- Chemistry
- Computer Sciences/Engineering
- Energy
- Engineering (electrical, chemical, civil, mechanical, ocean, and petroleum)
- Environmental Science/Engineering
- Geology/Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
- Information Sciences/Engineering (engineering focus only; business-focused study is not eligible)
- Materials Science/Engineering
- Mathematics
- Neuroscience/Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- Oceanography
- Physics
- Public Health (theoretical or research-based focus only)
See http://www.foreign.fulbrightonline.org/thinking_of_applying.html for further information on the eligible disciplines.
Successful candidates:
- will receive full funding (approximate value $60,000 per annum) for a maximum of 5 academic years
- will receive accident and emergency insurance while in the United States
- can participate on a range of cultural and professional programs in Ireland and the US
- must apply for and be granted a J-1 visa for the United States which will remain their status until the completion of their approved academic PhD program
- are subject to the 2-year home rule. They will not be eligible for a US residency or work visa until they have fulfilled the two-year home residency requirement of the J-1 visa
- must take up their award within the academic year for which the award is granted. If an awardee is unable to take up the award within that period, s/he will be required to request a deferral of their award
- must submit progress reports during the course of their award.
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