• Objective
• Scholarship
• Eligibility
• Application Materials
• Evaluation Criteria
• Application Deadline
• Announcement and Award Presentation

To recognize outstanding graduate students who have excelled in the field of science and engineering as well as in extracurricular activities, including community services, and who have demonstrated a potential for becoming leaders in the scientific community for closer cooperation between the US and Korea. (Please see the last page for more information on KSEA and KUSCO.)

• Number of recipients: 17 persons
• Scholarship fund: $1,500 each
•  Travel expenses (up to $700) to the 2008 US-Korea Conference (UKC) on Science, Technology and Entrepreneurship in San Diego, August 14-16, 2008. All scholarship recipients are required to make poster or oral presentations on their research areas at UKC2008.

•  Graduate students in the US with Korean heritage OR non-ethnic Korean graduate students in the US related to Korea-US science and technology cooperation
• Major in science, engineering, or related fields
• KSEA membership only for the students with Korean heritage (Student may apply for KSEA membership at the time of scholarship application.)
• Previous recipients of a KUSCO-KSEA scholarship are not eligible.

• KSEA Scholarship both online application at http://scholarship.ksea.org/, and Application form (Download MS Word format: Application Form) to be filled out;
  • Once you log in to the site with the KSEA member username, the application form will be available.
  • Application will start on 12/15/2007 and end on 2/15/2008.
• An abstract for a poster or oral presentation at UKC2008 (300-500 words in the online application. Please refer to the UKC webpage, http://UKC.ksea.org/ukc2008/)
• Official transcripts from colleges attended
• Two recommendation letters from the college attending (one letter must be from a current academic advisor)

• Academic performance - 30%
• Recommendation letters -30%
• Work experience and extracurricular activities - 20%
• UKC Abstract - 20%

• Deadline: 2/15/2008 (Friday)
• Apply online during 12/15/2007 and 2/15/2008, and
• Send all application documents including official transcripts and recommendation letters to (postmarked by 2/15/2008):
  KSEA
  1952 Gallows Rd., Suite 300
  Phone: 703-748-1221, Fax: 703-748-1331
  E-mail: sejong@ksea.org

• Notice of the scholarships will be announced on the KSEA webpage (http://www.ksea.org/) by May 15, 2008.
• The certificate and scholarship fund will be presented at UKC2008 in San Diego, on August 15, 2008.
• All recipients are required to make poster or oral presentations on their research areas at UKC2008 (August 14-16, 2008).