Category | Description |
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Animal Sciences | Development, ecology, animal husbandry, pathology, physiology, populations genetics, and/or systematics |
Behavioral and Social Sciences | Clinical and developmental psychology, cognitive psychology, physiological psychology, and/or sociology |
Biochemistry | General biochemistry, metabolism, and/or structural biochemistry |
Cellular and Molecular Biology | Cellular biology, cellular and molecular genetics, immunology, and/or molecular biology |
Chemistry | Analytical chemistry, physical chemistry, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, and/or general chemistry |
Computer Science | Algorithms, data bases, artificial intelligence, networking and communications, computational science, computer graphics, software engineering, programming languages, computer system, and/or operating system |
Earth and Planetary Science | Climatology, weather, geochemistry, mineralogy, paleontology, geophysics, planetary science, and/or tectonics |
Energy and Transportation | Aerospace and aeronautical engineering, aerodynamics, alternative fuels, fossil fuel energy, vehicle development, and/or renewable energies |
Engineering | Materials and bioengineering: bioengineering, civil, construction, chemical, and/or industrial engineering, as well as processing and/or material science Electrical and mechanical: electrical, computer, and/or mechanical engineering, controls, robotics, thermodynamics, and/or solar |
Environmental Science | Environmental sciences: air pollution and air quality, soil contamination and soil quality, and/or water pollution and water quality Environmental management: bioremediation, ecosystems management, environmental engineering, land resource management, forestry, recycling, and/or waste management |
Mathematics | Algebra, analysis, applied math, geometry, and/or probability and statistics |
Medicine and Health Sciences | Disease diagnosis and treatment, epidemiology, genetics, molecular biology of diseases, physiology, and/or pathophysiology |
Microbiology | Antibiotics, antimicrobials, bacteriology, microbial genetics, and/or virology |
Physics and Astronomy | Astronomy, atoms, molecules, solids, biological physics, instrumentation and electronics, magnets and electromagnets, nuclear and particle physics, optics, lasers, masers, theoretical physics, and/or theoretical or computational astronomy |
Plant Sciences | Agriculture, agronomy, development, ecology, genetics, photosynthesis, plant physiology (molecular, cellular, organismal), plant systematics, and/or evolution |