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training, we would be willing to consider a request to transfer
your fellowship to another institution."
In the ensuing academic year, petitioner returned to Lincoln
University and assumed full-time faculty status while working on
the ONR project. Unfortunately, petitioner was unable to
continue his preparation for and did not retake the Ph.D.
qualifying exam. On April 28, 1988, petitioner was notified that
the Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science at Drexel
University did not support petitioner's readmission to the
institution. Petitioner furnished a copy of this notification to
NIH on June 22, 1988.
On July 14, 1988, petitioner submitted an NRSA application
requesting a transfer of the remaining 1 year and 10 months4 of
support under his MARC fellowship grant to the City College of
the City University of New York (CUNY). According to the
application, petitioner intended to continue his Ph.D. thesis
research under the sponsorship of Dr. Joseph A. Johnson III, a
professor of physics at CUNY. Under the direction of Dr.
Johnson, petitioner was to study blood circulatory flow at low
4 In his original application for a MARC faculty fellowship,
petitioner requested an award period of 2 years and 9 months.
Petitioner's request to postpone his MARC award was granted after
he had received 11 months of support in the initial award year,
resulting in the deferral of 1 year and 10 months of unused
support.
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