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<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3C4144">Dear SIGCIS Friends:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3C4144">The
<a href="https://www.lindahall.org/">Linda Hall Library</a> is now accepting applications for its 2022-23 fellowship program. These fellowships provide graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and independent scholars in the history of science and related
fields with financial support to explore the Library’s outstanding science and engineering collections. Fellows also participate in a dynamic intellectual community alongside in-house experts and scholars from other Kansas City cultural and educational institutions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3C4144">The Linda Hall Library holds nearly half a million monographs and more than 43,000 journal titles documenting the history of science and technology from
the 15th century to the present. Its collections are exceptionally strong in the engineering disciplines, chemistry, and physics. The Library also boasts extensive resources related to natural history, astronomy, earth science, environmental studies, aeronautics,
life science, infrastructure studies, mathematics, and the history of the book.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3C4144">The Linda Hall Library is offering
<strong><u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">three</span></u></strong> types of fellowships during the 2022-23 academic year:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3C4144">– Residential fellowships</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3C4144"> (1-4 months) support scholars
who travel to Kansas City to conduct research in the Library's collections.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3C4144">–
</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3C4144">The<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> History of Science and Medicine fellowship
</span></strong>(1 month) supports a doctoral student who travels to Kansas City to conduct research at the Linda Hall Library and the
<a href="https://www.kumc.edu/school-of-medicine/academics/departments/history-and-philosophy-of-medicine/library.html">
Clendening History of Medicine Library</a> at the University of Kansas Medical Center.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3C4144">– Virtual fellowships
</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3C4144">(1-4 months) support scholars working remotely using resources from the Library’s digital collections. Virtual fellows receive personalized research assistance from
reference staff and may request complimentary scans of Library resources in accordance with our in-house digitization policies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3C4144">In each case, fellowship funding is offered at a rate of $3,000 per month for doctoral students and $4,200 per month for postdoctoral researchers. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3C4144">The Linda Hall Library is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive research environment and encourages members of any groups that have traditionally
been underrepresented in academia to apply for fellowship support. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3C4144">Please share this announcement with graduate students, colleagues, or anyone else who might be interested in the Library’s fellowship program. All application
materials are due no later than <strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">January 21, 2022</span></strong>. For further information, visit
<a href="https://www.lindahall.org/fellowships/">https://www.lindahall.org/fellowships/</a> or e-mail
<a href="mailto:fellowships@lindahall.org" target="_blank" title="fellowships@lindahall.org">
<span style="color:#0074D9;text-decoration:none">fellowships@lindahall.org</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3C4144">Thank you!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3C4144">Ben Gross<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Benjamin Gross, PhD<br>
Vice President for Research and Scholarship<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering and Technology</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">5109 Cherry Street<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Kansas City, Missouri 64110<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">816.926.8718<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:grossb@lindahall.org"><span style="color:blue">grossb@lindahall.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.lindahall.org/"><span style="color:blue">www.lindahall.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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