Carol F Stoel

Former Program Director, Division of Graduate Education, Education and Human Resources Directorate, National Science Foundation

Ms. Stoel served until May 2013, as a program director for the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeships program (IGERT), the Science Masters program, and the NSF Ethics program. IGERT represents the National Science Foundation's flagship interdisciplinary training program. IGERT projects are still operational, but a new program, the NSF Research Traineeship is NSF’s current training program. The Division of Graduate Education also hosts the National Graduate Research Fellowship program, which annually awards 2,000 new fellowships. Ms. Stoel will speak about the NSF in general, and the Directorate and Division’s programs. She will also answer questions about particular programs. Ms. Stoel has been at NSF since 2004 and prior to that held positions in the non-profit world and served as the Deputy Director of the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education.