The Graduate Fellowship Award is based on merit (not needed) and consists of a cost-of-education allowance and a personal-support stipend. The Foundation supports graduate students working towards a Ph.D. degree in the applied physical, biological, and engineering sciences. These fields include applied mathematics, statistics, and quantitative aspects of modern biology. Here, “applied” is broadly construed to mean fields of endeavor in which one applies, invents, and/or develops results from the basic physical sciences to generate solutions to problems of comparatively near-term, widespread human interest.