Overview and Purpose

The GAANN (Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need) Program was established by the United States Department of Education to provide fellowships, through academic departments and programs of institutes of higher education, to assist graduate students with excellent records who demonstrate financial need and plan to pursue the highest degree available in their course study at the institution in a field designated as an area of national need. Grants are awarded to programs and institutions to sustain and enhance the capacity for teaching and research in areas of national need. Indeed, mathematics has been designated by the Secretary of Education as an area of national need.

In August 2009, the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics in the Whiting School of Engineering at The Johns Hopkins University was awarded a grant to fund four GAANN Fellows.