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15.0501: Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning Technology
26.0908: Exercise Physiology
26.1303: Evolutionary Biology</p>
<p>Like a gap in the fossil record, evolutionary biology is missing from a list of majors that the U.S. Department of Education has deemed eligible for a new federal grant program designed to reward students majoring in engineering, mathematics, science, or certain foreign languages.
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<p>looks "fishy" to me</p>
<p>Good link, EK.</p>
<p>They also aren't giving awards to behavioural sciences or exercise science. Now, those are definitely more "soft" sciences, the former being more psychology and the latter seeming to be "rocks (or jogging) for jocks." So it's understandable that the government, if trying to get students into the sciences or foreign languages for which there is a need (i.e. Arabic), would not feel the need to give money to students studying those things.</p>
<p>Engineering psychology/human factors engineering appears to have been left off the list (unless it falls under "other"). </p>
<p>Do notice that 26.1399 allows for "Ecology, Evolutionary biology," etc. They just don't allow only evolutionary biology to get grants.</p>
<p>That's amazing...excellent link.</p>