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26 May 2001 - 4 August 2001 A total of 18 students were selected to participate in the 2001 session of the Research Training Program including 3 international students representing Brazil, Canada, and Yugoslavia. Schedule
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Summary A total of 219 applications were received by the 2001 deadline of 1 February 2001. Pre-screening was conducted on-line using the RTP evaluation system. The Pre-screening Committee then met Friday, 2 February 2001 to finalize results. All application folders were reviewed, including incomplete folders. The committee nominated 165 semi-finalists (75%) for forwarding to Scientific Evaluators serving on the Scoring Committee. The Scoring Committee was composed of 16 members and 1 alternate from the NMNH scientific staff. There were eight review teams with two reviewers per team. Semi-finalists folders were divided randomly into seven review set of 20 or 21 folders per set. All reviews were conducted on-line beginning Monday, 5 February 2001. Each semi-finalist was scored by two different reviewers. Evaluators completed a 100 point scoring matrix for all application folders in their set.
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