NATIONAL RADIO

ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY

LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION

Summer Student Program Director

520 Edgemont Road

Charlottesville, VA 22903-2475	Please return this letter directly to the National

Telephone: 804-296-0225	Radio Astronomy Observatory before January 20.

Fax: 804-296-0385

NAME OF APPLICANT:

LAST	FIRST	MIDDLE

1.	The person named above has applied for a research assistantship in the Summer Student Program at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. We would appreciate a confidential statement from you concerning this applicant. Please write intimately about your personal impression of the applicant's qualifications to assist Observatory scientists in their research papers. (Continue letter on reverse side if necessary.)

2.	If possible, compare this student to others known to you who have attended or are now applying to the NRAO Summer Student Program.

3.	Please indicate where the applicant would rank among	BOTTOM TOP

students currently or recently in your department.

SIGNATURE	NAME	DATE

POSITION	at

(College or University)

ADDRESS	EMAIL ADDRESS

(Revised: 08/99)