6 August 2004
Jorge Velez-Juarbe
University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus
Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
Dear National Science Foundation,
I would like to use this opportunity to let you know how thankful I am for
the funding provided to me, to be able to participate in this excellent internship
program. It has given me the unique opportunity to do research at one of the
best institution in the nation, the National Museum of Natural History. This
opportunity has been very important, because it provided me with much new
knowledge and has greatly helped me decide what I want to work with when I
go to graduate school in the near future.
It provided me with the chance of working with fossils that would have been otherwise out of my reach, if it had not been for the opportunity and the funding I was given to participate in this program. A trip to Wyoming to collect fossils and a visit to the Peabody Museum of Natural History, to examine some specimens for my research, was also possible and was of great help and an amazing experience. This made possible for me to work and meet some of the top scientist in my field of interest and to experience not only the work environment in museums, but also out in the field.
This unique opportunity has had the most influence in my decisions for the near future, giving me more reasons to finish my undergraduate degree and go to graduate school. I am very grateful of the funding I was given and I hope that in the future you continue doing this amazing job of providing funding for other undergraduate students, who, like me, will be deeply grateful for this unique opportunity.
Sincerely,
Jorge Velez-Juarbe
Research Training Program
Class of 04