Science To Achieve Results (STAR) Fellowship Program

The Environmental Protection Agency's Science To Achieve Results (STAR) Fellowship Program (CFDA 66.514) funded graduate fellowships for environmentally related fields through the Office of Research and Development, with the most recent grant award dated August 15, 2008—over eighteen years ago.

The program provided individual fellowships supporting master's and doctoral students in environmental research and study. Fellowships offered up to $44,000 per year; master's-level students could receive a maximum of two years of support ($88,000 total), and doctoral students could receive up to three years of support ($132,000), usable over five years.

Award activity peaked sharply in 2005 with 341 fellowships funded, then contracted to just one award in both 2007 and 2008. Across the entire portfolio (2003–2008), the program awarded 635 fellowships totaling $19.9 million in federal dollars obligated. The Environmental Protection Agency was the sole funding source for all 635 awards. All awards were Project Grants. Individual fellowship awards ranged from approximately $25,872 to $37,344 in annual or multi-year obligated amounts, as shown in representative 2006 fellowships such as Project Grant FP916687010 ($37,172) and Project Grant FP916694010 ($25,872).

Multiple grant opportunities were posted in April and May 2015 across thematic areas including air and climate, chemical safety, water resources, human health risk assessment, and sustainable communities. Each opportunity, such as EPA-2015-STAR-E1 (Safe and Sustainable Water Resources—Drinking Water), offered approximately 55 new fellowships with a May 26, 2015 application deadline. No open grant opportunities post-2015 appear in the source data. The program shows no documented grant awards or posted opportunities after 2015, indicating it has not been actively funded for the past decade.