The North Dakota Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research call for Doctoral Dissertation Assistantships proposals is available at www.ndepscor.nodak.edu. Applications are due by May 30 at noon. 

Applications must be made by the students with supplemental information provided by their advisers, along with endorsement from their department’s graduate program director and the department chair. 

North Dakota EPSCoR’s Doctoral Dissertation Assistantships program is designed to increase the completion rate of doctoral students enrolled in science, engineering and mathematics disciplines at North Dakota’s two research-intensive universities; and increase the number of competitive proposals submitted to the National Science Foundation. 

North Dakota EPSCoR is a federally and state funded program designed to improve the ability of university researchers to compete more effectively for federal, regional and private research grants in sciences, engineering and mathematics. 

For more information on Doctoral Dissertation Assistantships, visit www.ndepscor.nodak.edu/programs/DDAndsuRFP2012.htm. 

For additional information, call the ND EPSCoR office at 701-231-8400; Sheri Anderson, interim co-project director, at 701-231-7516 or sheri.anderson@ndsu.edu; or Elizabeth Jung, program coordinator at 701-231-1048 or elizabeth.jung@ndsu.edu.