Developing internationally engaged scientists and engineers: The effectiveness of an international postdoctoral fellowship program

This article describes findings from an evaluation of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) International Research Fellowship Program (IRFP), which supports postdoctoral research fellowships of 9–24 months in locations outside the USA. The evaluation assessed the role of IRFP in seeding productive international research collaborations for researchers early in their careers. Data used in the evaluation included the NSF program data and survey...