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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 1869. Scholarships and graduate fellowships
The Foundation is authorized to award scholarships and graduate
fellowships for study and research in the sciences or in
engineering at appropriate nonprofit American or nonprofit foreign
institutions selected by the recipient of such aid, for stated
periods of time. Persons shall be selected for such scholarships
and fellowships from among citizens, nationals or lawfully admitted
permanent resident aliens of the United States, and such selections
shall be made solely on the basis of ability; but in any case in
which two or more applicants for scholarships or fellowships, as
the case may be, are deemed by the Foundation to be possessed of
substantially equal ability, and there are not sufficient
scholarships or fellowships, as the case may be, available to grant
one to each of such applicants, the available scholarship or
scholarships or fellowship or fellowships shall be awarded to the
applicants in such manner as will tend to result in a wide
distribution of scholarships and fellowships throughout the United
States. Nothing contained in this chapter shall prohibit the
Foundation from refusing or revoking a scholarship or fellowship
award, in whole or in part, in the case of any applicant or
recipient, if the Board is of the opinion that such award is not in
the best interests of the United States.
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