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For a comprehensive look at applying for NSF (and other similar fellowships), you should check out Philip Guo’s Fellowships Tips page, which is really good and very comprehensive. I personally learn best by example, so in this post, I’d like to provide a personal perspective on the application and review process; hopefully, this will prove helpful to some of you applying in the coming fall. While I did not win this year, I think it’s helpful to see the essays of others with reviews to get a real sense of what the reviewers are looking for.
This is a duplicate of my very first post on the PARC blog!
Last month, PARC hosted the first of two National Science Foundation-funded workshops on Technology-Mediated Social Participation, co-organized by PARC’s Peter Pirolli and the University of Maryland’s Jennifer Preece and Ben Shneiderman. The primary goal of the workshop has been to produce reports which will address participants’ government, academic, and education recommendations, and implications for a National Initiative for Social Participation.
