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- Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA): Community Planning Fellowships
- PURPOSE:
- Annual program to provide master's degree students with learning
opportunities for incorporating hazard mitigation into community
planning practices. The program is managed for FEMA by the Multihazard
Mitigation Council of the National Institute of Building Sciences.
- FIELD OF STUDY:
- Urban, regional, and environmental planning fields. Especially,
research to incorporate hazard mitigation planning into historic
preservation, economic development, transportation, land use planning,
site planning and design, zoning, etc.
- ELIGIBILITY:
- Citizens and permanent residents of the U.S. Students who will
have completed at least one year in a master's degree program in
planning by the start of the summer following the application deadline.
- AWARD:
- A stipend (not specified), travel and housing allowances for the
field work as well as for an 8-week orientation at FEMA headquarters in
Washington, D.C. Fellowship year runs from the summer after the
application deadline to the end of the following academic year.
- DEADLINE:
- January 21
- APPLICATION:
- For further information and application form, contact: Claret M.
Heider, National Institute of Building Sciences, Multihazard Mitigation
Council, 1090 Vermont Avenue, N.W., Suite 700, Washington, D.C.
20005-4905. Telephone: 202-289-7800 extension 131. FAX: 202-289-1092.
E-mail: <cheider@nibs.org>.