Sustainability Science Fellowship Program at Harvard University

The Sustainability Science Program at Harvard University’s Center for International Development offers doctoral, post-doctoral, and mid-career fellowships in Sustainability Science. The fellowships are tenable at the Center for International Development during Harvard’s academic year beginning in September 2010. Fellowships are available for 10 months (September 2010-May 2011), 12 months (September 2010-August 2011), the fall semester (September-December 2010), the spring semester (February-May 2011), or for two academic years (post-doctoral fellows only) (September 2010-August 2012).

What are the goals of the Sustainability Science Program?
Who can apply for a Sustainability Science Fellowship?
With whom do fellows work?
What are the responsibilities of Sustainability Science Fellows?
What support is provided by the Sustainability Science Fellowship?
What is the full application procedure due by December 1, 2009?
What criteria are fellowship applications evaluated on?
How do I receive updates about the fellowship opportunities with the Sustainability Science Program?
What related fellowships are available at Harvard?

Further Scholarship Information and Application

Read more: http://scholarship-positions.com/sustainability-science-fellowship-program-at-harvard-university/2009/09/07/#ixzz0QStUsPhI

Graduate Research Position, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alabama

Graduate Research Position

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alabama

A graduate research assistantship (M.S. or Ph.D.) is available for a student to conduct research on coastal marsh responses to climate change and rising sea levels. The project will involve fieldwork and greenhouse experimentation examining interactive effects of elevated CO2, sedimentation and flooding on vegetation responses and elevation change.

This project is being conducted as part of a larger research program investigating the persistence of coastal marshes to global climate change and is funded by the USGS Climate Change Program. The student will work with researchers at the University of Alabama and the USGS National Wetlands Research Center. The successful applicant will be able to propose additional research to meet his or her specific interests, provided it fits within the broader goals of the program.

Applicants should have a demonstrated interest in wetlands, ecosystem ecology, or climate change. Preference will be given to those with experience conducting field or greenhouse research. In addition to stipend and health benefits, this position includes funds for fieldwork, sample processing, and some travel.

Further Scholarship Information and Application

Research Associate, Stanford University

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
Experimental High Energy Physics

The Department of Physics at Stanford University is inviting applications for a postdoctoral research associate position to participate in two long baseline neutrino experiments: MINOS and NOvA, utilizing one neutrino beam from Fermilab and two separate detectors in northern Minnesota.

The MINOS experiment is designed to study neutrino oscillations in the “atmospheric” delmsq region, through numu disappearance, numu to nue transition and depletion of NC events. The Far Detector is a multi-kiloton magnetic iron/scintillator spectrometer in the Soudan mine in Minnesota, some 735 km away. The first results on numu disappearance and search for sterile neutrinos, based on the initial data sets, have been published already and the first results on nue appearance have been presented at the recent conferences. The current emphasis in the analysis
efforts is to refine all of these measurements with a much larger data sample based on 7E20 protons on target. In addition, starting this fall, we shall commence a dedicated run with muon antineutrinos.

Application Deadline: October 15, 2009

Further Scholarship Information and Application (PDF)

A fully-funded PhD position in the School of Biological Sciences

A fully-funded PhD position in the School of Biological Sciences, Bangor University, is available under the supervision of Dr Anita Malhotra to start in autumn 2009. Part funded by the European Social Fund and Tropical Forest Products (one of Britain’s biggest bee farmers and importers of Fairtrade honey, based in Ceredigion, Wales).

Application Deadline: 21st September 2009

The studentship will waive fees and include an annual stipend beginning at £13,290, and support for consumables, equipment and travel worth £4000/yr, will contribute to the project.

Applicants must be resident in the Convergence Area (West Wales and the Valleys) http://www.gra-ukgrants.com/GRA_images/Wales%20RSA%2020713.png on application, and be able to work in the Convergence Area upon completion of the scholarship, have a first or upper second-class honours degree in a biological subject, and be available to start by January 2010 (preferably sooner).

The PhD student will assist with a breeding program to select for a locally adapted bee stock that has innate disease resistance, yet retains commercially valuable characteristics.

The work will include genetic characterisation of colonies and virgin queens/drones for breeding, gathering and analysing data on colony characteristics to guide selection, testing robust techniques for
assessing colony performance, longitudinal studies of colonies to dissect contributory factors to overwintering mortality and spontaneous queenlessness.

The PhD student will therefore become familiar with beekeeping practice as well as genetic techniques; some previous experience in one or both areas would be an advantage but is not essential. This PhD studentship will be at the heart of a planned collaborative team based at Bangor and Aberystwyth Universities investigating other aspects of honeybee genetics and health using multidisciplinary, leading-edge and innovative techniques.

Informal enquiries should be made to Dr Anita Malhotra, email a.malhotra@bangor.ac.uk

Application forms can be downloaded from www.bangor.ac.uk/kess.

Please quote KESS Ref: BU maxi 010.

Application Deadline: 21st September 2009.

The Toshiba Fellowship Programme

The Toshiba Fellowship Programme offers outstanding scientists an opportunity to join Toshiba’s research and development laboratories in Japan for up to two years, on a Research Fellowship Contract.

The Toshiba Fellowship Programme has opened applications for the 2010 post-graduate scheme. The programme offers one or two PhD-level researchers studying or working in a UK academic or Governmental institution the opportunity to kick-start their career by gaining up to two year’s experience in a Toshiba R&D laboratory in Japan.

The Toshiba Fellowship Programme was set up with the objective of nurturing cultural understanding between the UK, Europe and Japan in the fields of technology and engineering. It gives Fellows the opportunity to work in a highly innovative organisation, in a country renowned for its world-class technology.

Since it was established 26 years ago, the Toshiba Fellowship Programme has attracted high-calibre applicants from the UK’s top universities in the area of science and technology. To date, it has given 29 Fellows a unique start to their careers, and Toshiba’s R&D departments have gained from their fresh thinking in return. Many of the Toshiba Fellowship alumni have gone on to successful careers, investing their skills back into the UK and European knowledge base and economy.

The programme also gives you a great opportunity to discover a new world in Industry before deciding where they would like to permanently settle their career. Toshiba also provides a network of contacts and have an Alumni society, which reunites every year in London to share knowledge, enhance networking and maintain good relations between Toshiba and its past Fellows.

The successful Fellows would undertake a research project in a Toshiba’s R&D lab in Japan, and at the same time will discover a new culture; totally immersed into the Japanese way of life. During their stay, they may take Japanese language lessons. Toshiba Fellows benefit from an excellent salary and relocation allowance. Toshiba Fellows can also enjoy some free time exploring Japan with their 20 days’ annual leave (in addition to Japanese Public Holidays) Toshiba Fellows are well looked after during their time at one of the Toshiba’s research laboratories in Tokyo.

Research topics for this year fall into the following areas:

Wireless and Network

Media Technologies

Software

Materials & Devices

Security

Applicants may also submit their own research project proposals, provided they are relevant to the above TFP 2010 research areas.

Please visit the Toshiba Fellowship Programme Website for more information including applicant eligibility, research topics and application procedure, at www.toshiba.eu/fellowship

Closing date 11^th December 2009