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A. Application Materials
Electronically submit personal information, cover letter, and contact information for your three referees via the web form. The second page of the web form will also ask you to upload a SINGLE .'pdf' or '.doc' file containing the following items:
All applications must be in English. Once your application is submitted it cannot be modified.
B. Letters of Reference
Each applicant must submit three letters of reference. Before you submit your online application, please notify your referees that they will receive an email from fuller.fellowship@wwfus.org requesting a letter of reference. Based on the email addresses provided by the applicant in the online application form, each of the three referees will receive an email message asking him/her to upload a letter of reference to a password- protected website. Please enter only one email address per referee in the form. If one of your referees does not receive an email, please check the email address that you entered, resend the request online, and check to make sure that the email is not being filtered by his/her ‘spam protection’.
Letters of reference must be in '.pdf' or '.doc' format, should be no longer than two pages, and cannot be written by family members. You must submit letters of reference from the following individuals:
Applicants will receive an email notification when each letter of reference is received, and should use those emails to track which letters have been received. All letters must be received by 5 pm Eastern Standard Time (Washington, DC) on January 30, 2009.
Please note that it is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure that all letters of reference are submitted before the deadline, and that referees have sufficient time to submit letters.
Review Process: Evaluation and Selection of Fellows
Fellowships will be awarded in a merit-based competition looking at each applicant’s 1) demonstrated ability, accomplishments, and potential to become a leader in his/her field, 2) scientific merit, feasibility, and significance of the research proposal, and 3) relevance of the research to WWF’s mission in general and to tiger conservation in particular.
Applications will be initially reviewed by external (non-WWF staff) and internal reviewers to ensure eligibility and relevance to WWF's mission and its tiger conservation goals and objectives. A committee of WWF staff will interview each finalist. This committee will make a final selection based on the potential of the applicant's work to inform tiger conservation practice and WWF programs and the applicant's performance in the interview. WWF will help match finalists with their WWF mentor at this stage in the review process. Please note that the interview will be conducted in English.
If you wish to be considered for a Fuller Fellowship, please read the fellowship terms, review the application process, and apply online.
The Kathryn Fuller Science for Nature Fund