A Program to Award Dissertation Fellowships in Hazards, Risk, and Disasters

博士学位候选人的奖学金计划支持自然，技术和人为危害，风险和灾害的自然和物理科学，社会和行为科学，工程专业的任何相关领域的论文工作，以及环境研究等跨学科项目。 今天，有必要鼓励许多不同学科的博士生在危害领域进行跨学科的学术工作。 没有其他的财政资源存在，博士生可以获得金钱的论文领域研究的广泛学科跨越各个方面的危害。 赠款是灵活的，可用于数据收集、实地工作或在会议上介绍调查结果的旅行、购买软件等（但不用于津贴或学费）。 奖学金计划提供财政支持，促进在支持危害研究和推进相关科学发现的学科论文的进行。 该计划促进了学者的发展，这些学者对危险，风险和灾害的研究有着长期的职业承诺，这些研究伴随着论文研究，从而为国家做出贡献。未来的研究能力和基础设施对这些科学课题和社会问题。该计划要求将论文研究成果转化为简短的非技术报告，供政策制定者，政府官员和其他非科学受众使用，这有助于改变公众对危害，风险和灾害的理解。 该奖学金计划由两个以危害和风险为重点的非营利组织管理，其主要任务是传播危害，风险和灾害信息，培训和教育材料。 他们的非营利地位和低管理费用创造了一个高效的收益率。

The fellowship program for PhD-level candidates supports dissertation work on natural, technological and human-made hazards, risk and disasters in any relevant field of the natural and physical sciences, social and behavioral sciences, specialties in engineering, and interdisciplinary programs such as environmental studies. Today there is a need to encourage PhD candidate students in many different disciplines to conduct interdisciplinary scholarly work in the hazards field. No other financial resource exists where doctoral students can obtain money for dissertation field research for a wide range of disciplines across all aspects of hazards. The grants are flexible and can be used for data collection, travel for field work or for presentation of findings at meetings, purchase of software, etc. (but not for stipends or tuition). The fellowship program provides the financial support that facilitates the conduct of dissertations in the disciplines that support hazard research and advances pertinent scientific discovery. The program fosters the development of scholars who have the career-long commitment to research on hazards, risk, and disasters that comes with doing dissertation research and, consequently, contributes to the nation?s future research capacity and infrastructure on these scientific topics and social problems. The program requirement to translate dissertation research results into short, non-technical reports for use by policymakers, governmental officials, and other non-scientific audiences helps transform public understanding of hazards, risk, and disasters. The fellowship program is administered by two nonprofit, hazard and risk focused organizations whose principal missions are to disseminate hazard, risk and disaster information, training and educational material. Their nonprofit stature and low overhead creates a highly efficient benefit ratio.