Cooperative Research Fellowship Program

Graduate Research Program for Women Cooperative Research Fellowship Program... 

The Cooperative Research Fellowship Program (CRFP) provides support for minority students engaged in doctoral studies in disciplines relevant to AT T s research activities including chemistry, chemical engineering and materials science. Tuition, fees, books and an annual stipend of 11,500 (for the 1990-1991 academic year) are provided. In addition a summer work experience, mandatory for the first summer, in association with a Bell Laboratories mentor is part of the program. More will be said of this later. 

We thank Drs. H. Sato, C. Yamanaka and M. Katsura for helpful discussions. We are indebted to Dr. T. Ikeda at the Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research of Osaka University for Co y-ray irradiation. One of the authors (K. T.) expresses special thanks to 21st century center of excellence (COE) program Creation of Integrated EcoChemistry . We are also grateful to Prof T. Kasai (a cooperative research member of COE) for valuable suggestions. This study was supported by the grant from Research Fellowships of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for Young Scientists (No. 17-9677). We thank Dr. S. H. Kirby for helpful review. 

The authors thank the National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Department of Education (FCAC program) of the Province of Quebec for support of this work and for giving a fellowship to Claude Lavall e. The authors also thank the "Cooperation France-Quebec" program for supporting their collaborative effort. 

Dr. Garcia was supported by a postdoctoral fellowship provided by the Spanish Research Council (CSIQ. Financial support for the experimental work was provided by The Pennsylvania State University Cooperative Program for Coal Research, llie authors are grateful fcH the sample of yhiran lignite provided by the Istanbul Technical University. 

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