NSF Summer Fellowships to Visit Japan

[Jerome Soller]

	The following is a summary of the official announcement for the
NSF Summer Institute in Japan sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
It provides a fellowship for graduate and/or medical students to spend
the summer in Japan at a Japanese research lab.  Last summer, I had the 
opportunity to spend the summer working with the Exploratory Research 
Laboratory of the Fundamental Laboratories of 
NEC Corporation doing models of visual biological neural networks.  Another
student in the neural network area, Hank Wan of CMU, worked with RIKEN.

					Sincerely,

				Jerome B. Soller
			Ph.D. Candidate, U. of Utah Dept. of
						Computer Science
			and 
			VA Geriatric, Research, Education, and
						Clinical Center
			soller at asylum.utah.edu
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          The National Science Foundation and the National Institutes
          of Health announce...

          ... that applications are now being accepted for the

                      1993 SUMMER INSTITUTE IN JAPAN

          for U.S. Graduate Students in Science and Engineering,
          including Biomedical Science and Engineering.


                  APPLICATION DEADLINE:  December 1, 1992


          Program's Goal:

          to provide 60 U.S. graduate students first-hand experience
          in a Japanese research laboratory


          Program Elements:

          **    Internship at a Japanese government, corporate or
                university laboratory in Tokyo or Tsukuba

          **    Intensive Japanese language training

          **    Lectures on Japanese science, history, and culture


          Program Duration and Dates:

          **    8 weeks;  June 25 to August 21, 1993

          Eligibility requirements:

          1.    U.S. citizen or permanent resident

          2.    Enrolled at a U.S. institution in a science or
                engineering Ph.D. program,

                Enrolled in an M.D. program and have an interest in
                biomedical research,

                or

                Enrolled in an engineering M.S. program of which one
                year has been completed by December 1, 1992.


          For application materials and more information:

          Request NSF publication number 92-105, "1993 Summer
          Institute in Japan," from NSF's Publications Office at

                pubs at nsf.gov (InterNet)  or   pubs at nsf (BitNet)

                         Phone:  (202) 357-7668

          Be sure to give your name and complete mailing address.


          To download application materials:

          Send e-mail message to

                 stisserv at nsf.gov (InterNet)  or
                 stisserv at nsf     (BitNet)

          Ignore the subject line, but body of message should read as
          follows:

                 Request:   stis
                 Topic:     nsf92105
                 Request:   end

          You will receive a copy of publication 92-105 by return
          e-mail.

          Further inquiries:

          Contact NSF's Japan Program staff at

                 NSFJinfo at nsf.gov (InterNet) or
                 NSFJinfo at nsf    (BitNet)

                 Tel:  (202) 653-5862