The National Science Foundation has announced the 2006 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship winners. Four recent Williams graduates won fellowships and twelve more won honorable mentions. For comparison, here is how our students and former students have done since 1993.
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Year |
# Fellowships |
# Honorable Mentions |
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1993 |
8 |
? |
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1994 |
11 |
? |
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1995 |
14 |
11 |
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1996 |
8 |
12 |
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1997 |
5 |
8 |
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1998 |
6 |
13 |
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1999 |
7 |
9 |
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2000 |
6 |
4 |
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2001 |
12 |
4 |
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2002 |
5 |
7 |
|
2003 |
3 |
12 |
|
2004 |
8 |
13 |
|
2005 |
9 |
12 |
|
2006 |
4 |
16 |
Nationwide the NSF awarded 927 Graduate Fellowships in 2006. The data through 1998 includes both NSF Graduate Research Fellowships and NSF Minority Graduate Fellowships. Starting in 1999 the NSF rolled both of those programs into one.
The of number of NSF fellowships awarded to students from an individual institution varies considerably from year to year. Averages over several years allow meaningful comparisons between institutions. Below is the average number of NSF fellowships per year over the 1997-2006 time period for Williams and for a few comparable undergraduate liberal arts colleges.
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Williams College |
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Swarthmore College |
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Carleton College |
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Amherst College |
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Reed College |
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Pomona College |
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Wesleyan University |
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If you are interested in doing a more comprehensive analysis, click here for the complete lists of fellowship awardees and honorable mentions. You can export the data into a spreadsheet and sort in any way you please.