The Unofficial SMART Scholarship Forum

Hmm... I can't recall seeing anything in the statute that would preclude it, but I wouldn't use the fact that it was done in the past as a marker of acceptability (anything can change). I do know that NPS now has a number of "Scholarship for Service" programs advertised on their website: http://cisr...

Those are all valid places to work.

My advise is to find a researcher who works there (pubmed or Web of Science) and talk to them.

The SMART Scholarship gives young people an opportunity to accurately assess the Federal Government. It has brilliant people doing meaningful work that you will enjoy working for and be inspired everyday. And, right down the hall in the same organization will be the biggest moron you've ever met tha...

Take the RA, get done what you need to do. Reach out to the labs and see if you can get on a first name basis with the likely sponsoring researchers. Should you elect to pursue a SMART Scholarship later, having a relationship and some grad school under your belt will be very helpful in getting picke...

I sponsor work at SMDC and they are a highly competent and innovative Command. That said, what matters is who you are working for (by name) and what he/she will have you working on. Huntsville is a remarkably nice place, but if you are moving there and have a choice, you should fly/drive/crawl there...

I would never advise someone to deliberately put themselves at risk of owning the Federal Government $$. At some point, somewhere, somehow, Uncle Sam will come after you. Just because it's a big, faceless bureaucracy that takes a long time to do anything, doesn't mean it won't eventually catch up wi...