Scientists Fight to Save Environmental Fellowship Program

The Science to Achieve Results fellowship, the government's only graduate-fellowship program focused on the environmental sciences, is nicknamed STAR, but it will be extinguished within a few years if President Bush has his way.

The president has offered no money for the $10-million fellowship program in the budget for the 2003 fiscal year, and college lobbyists and scientists are trying to save it.

Under the Bush administration's plan, the agency would support the current 211

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