Candidates must be female postdoctoral level researchers who have already been awarded their research doctorate in the fields of life or physical science.
Later, while working on a doctorate in political science at the University of Minnesota, Mr. Kampelman became an adviser to then-Minneapolis Mayor Hubert Humphrey.
According to the National Science Foundation, during the last half-century, foreign-born students earned three-quarters of U.S. doctorate degrees in mathematics, engineering and computer science.