Scholarship Programme for Developing Country Students 2009

e8 Scholarship Programme in Sustainable Energy Development

Masters level or Post-Doctoral

What is the purpose of the e8 scholarship?
The purpose of the e8 scholarship is to support outstanding students pursuing advanced studies in sustainable energy development and to encourage meaningful contributions to the collective body of knowledge about this subject.

The e8 considers an outstanding student to be one

• who graduates with excellent grades in the top 20% of her/his class
• who is determined to advance her/his knowledge and understanding
• who has a history of community involvement
• who is committed to sustainable energy
• who is committed to return and contribute to her/his home country

Who is eligible?
To be eligible to apply for this scholarship, students must

• plan to undertake studies at the Masters level or Post-Doctoral level in areas directly related to sustainable energy development
• be citizens of the developing countries and territories identified for OECD official development aid in the DAC List of ODA Recipients effective as of 2006

What are the levels of financial assistance and the duration of the scholarships?
Scholarships of US$ 23,000 per year for up to two years are offered for Masters level students. Scholarships of US$ 30,000 per year for up to two years are offered for Post-Doctoral students. Up to two Post-Doc and ten Masters scholarships will be awarded annually.

How can I apply?
Information and the application form can be obtained online by clicking on this link to the Application Forms page or from the e8 General Secretariat, 505 de Maisonneuve blvd, Lobby Montreal,Quebec,Canada H3A 3C2
, Canada, or +1 (514) 392-8876 (tel), +1 (514) 392-8900 (fax) or by e-mail.

What will I need for my application?
All applicants must provide:

1. Proof of citizenship. Refer to the country eligibility requirements.
2. Letter of acceptance from an approved academic institution to undertake studies in sustainable energy development
3. Copies of transcripts for degrees and final grades
4. Curriculum Vitae
5. Application Form fully completed
6. Two letters of reference, one academic and one personal. You are responsible for contacting the references.Academic
   Your academic reference must be from a person who can discuss your academic and/or professional competence.

   The academic letter of reference should be dated and speak to the following points:

   - The reference provider’s status and relationship to you
   - Your academic ranking and/or professional accomplishments
   - Your interest in sustainable energy development
   - Your maturity and judgement
   - Your ability to communicate, both orally and in writing, and to interact productively with individuals and groups
   - Your professional future, including possible impacts the scholarship may have
   - Your interest and experience in applying your expertise to the issues of sustainable energy development.

   Personal
   Your personal reference must be dated and come from a person who can discuss other personal qualities or interests that make you especially qualified to receive the scholarship.

7. Applicant Statement
   
   Masters Applicants
   If you are a Masters applicant, you must submit a statement about your qualifications for the scholarship and your career goals. It should not exceed 1,000 words in length and should cover the following points:

   - Why you desire the scholarship
   - Your qualifications
   - The studies you intend to pursue and how they relate to sustainable energy development
   - How your Masters studies will affect your community and your career and ultimately, the field of sustainable energy development.
   - Your commitment to return to your country

   Post-Doctoral Applicants
   If you are a Post-Doctoral applicant, you must submit a statement about your qualifications for the scholarship and your career goals. It should not exceed 500 words in length and should cover the following points:

   - Why you desire the scholarship
   - Your qualifications
   - Your research interest and how it relates to sustainable energy development
   - How your Post-Doctoral research will affect the field of knowledge on sustainable energy development, your community and your career
   - Your commitment to return to your country

8. Research Plan (Post-Doctoral Applicants only)
   Clearly and concisely, describe the research relating to sustainable energy development that you intend to pursue. Use a maximum of 2,000 words (excluding the Abstract). You may use additional pages for figures and references. Your statement should demonstrate your understanding of the research principles necessary to pursue your objectives. Present your plan with clear hypotheses or questions to be addressed in the research and include:

   - Abstract
   - Principal objectives
   - Background information (broader research or other activities of which the research would be a part)
   - Data sources
   - Methodology or approach
   - Expected results
   - Significance or application of results to sustainable energy development

   If you have not yet formulated a plan of research, your statement should include:

   - Abstract
   - Description of two or three research questions related to sustainable energy development and any link to your previous research
   - Analysis of how you think these questions may best be answered
   - Description of your methodology and data sources

Key Dates
Applications for the Post-Doctoral programme must be received by the e8 General Secretariat by December 5, 2008. Applications for the Masters programme must be received by March 20, 2009

Scholarship on Nano science and nanotechnology

Faculty of Physics & Applied Computer Science (AGH)
and Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry of Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN)
(both of Krakow, Poland) in cooperation with research institutes of 10 European countries run a common PhD programme in Nanoscience.

The project is financed by European Union Innovative Economy Programme with
Foundation for Polish Science.

8 PhD positions are opened in 2008 and 4 in 2009. The project duration is nearly 5 years, of which 6 to 24 months the students will spend abroad, mostly in Western European institutes that enter the consortium. A stipend for a month spent in Krakow is 3000 PLN and 4500 PLN abroad (tax free). This currently corresponds to 930 and 1400 EUR, respectively.

For the details see
http://www.mpd.agh.edu.pl

Recruitment
Positions are currently opened in the following topics:
1) Structure and properties of networks of nanoscopic magnetic wires
2) Electronic structure of artificial atoms and molecules: spin-orbit coupling effects
3) Computer simulations of quantum transport in semiconductor nanodevices
4) Surfactants, polyelectrolytes and nanoparticles as building blocks for surface nanostructures
5) Design and computer simulations of the nanodevices to applications in quantum computing
6) Nanostructures and stability of thin liquid layers
7) Current induced magnetization switching (CIMS) and noise characterization of MgO based magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs)
8) Dynamics of nanostructural organization and activity of photosynthetic systems in natural and model membranes.

Recruitment procedure.
Applications should contain the documents requested in the recruitment procedure.
Do not forget to indicate the topic you apply for.
The application deadline is 22.09.2008.
Applications & questions should be sent to mpd@agh.edu.pl .
For more info about the specific topic - please contact the supervisor.

Further Information: www.mpd.agh.edu.pl

Graduate Fellowship Program in Nuclear Engineering USA

This program is designed to meet the needs of the Naval Reactors Division of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for appropriately trained personnel for the maintenance and development of science and engineering technology as it pertains to naval nuclear propulsion. The program will assist in preparing students for roles in the naval nuclear propulsion and will support the broader objective of advancing fission energy development through the research efforts of the fellows. The technical areas with greatest interest include reactor physics, nuclear materials science and engineering, shielding technology, and two-phase flow.

Application Eligibility
Students with undergraduate degrees in the physical sciences or engineering are eligible to apply for the Rickover Graduate Fellowship. The program is open to all individuals who will be entering graduate students or who are currently enrolled in a qualified course of study (see technical areas) but have not yet selected a thesis topic. The award is limited to 24 months maximum for master’s candidates and 48 months maximum for doctoral candidates. Students who complete the master’s degree within the 24-month award limit and elect to continue graduate work toward a doctoral degree may apply for a change in program status. Awards may be limited to less time than the maximum in some situations.

Applicants must be U.S. citizens. Applicants may not be dual citizens. Employees of the DOE Naval Reactor Programs and their contractors are not eligible for the Rickover Graduate Fellowship. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, prohibits discrimination in hiring, promotion, discharge pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral, and other aspects of employment, on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

Application Deadline
Application forms will be available from approximately September to December of each year. Applications from previous years or from other fellowship programs may not be used. Completed applications will be accepted until December 31 st of each year for fellowships beginning the following September. An application is made up of the following sections:

Background Information including References (3 Required)
Statement of the Applicant’s Academic and Career Goals
List of Current and Planned Courses
Transcripts (Undergraduate and Graduate Transcripts Required)
GRE scores (ETS reporting code is 5949)
Authorization for Release of Information Form

Please Note: All parts of the application must be received at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) by December 31 st. GRE scores are required for a complete application. Late and/or incomplete applications will not be reviewed for awards.

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship - Terrestrial Ecology

Ph.D in terrestrial vertebrate ecology or related field.Expressed interest or experience in exploring the behavioural and population ecology of ground-dwelling squirrels or related rodents, experience and expertise in biostatistical analysis, experience in conducting field
research, publication record. Eligibility to work in Canada.

Responsibilities:

A motivated post-doctoral fellow with strong biostatistical skills and an ability to work independently is sought to undertake publishable analyses of an existing 22-year data set on phenology, emographics, kinship, social and spatial relationships, and morphology of Richardsons ground squirrels.The successful candidate will have an opportunity to collect additional data to extend or supplement the existing data set.Information on research that has been conducted on Richardsons ground squirrels can be found at: http://research.uleth.ca/rgs

Application:

Letter of application (including the date on which the applicant could start the position), a research proposal (maximum of 3 pages)describing an aspect of the data set the applicant intends to analyze, curriculum vitae, three example publications, and names and email addresses of three academic referees.Application material should be submitted as PDFs attached to a single email with the subject line Terrestrial Ecology PostDoc Fellow sent to:

biological.sciences@uleth.ca

Committee review of applications will begin 1 September 2008 and continue until the position is filled.

Call for application: .... Building Human Capital 2008-2009

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research Building Human Capital 2008-2009 Call for ApplicationsDescription: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research program helps to develop a new generation of creative health policy thinkers and researchers within the disciplines of economics, political science and sociology. Each year the program selects up to 12 highly qualified individuals for two-year fellowships at one of three nationally prominent universities with the expectation that they will make important research contributions to future United States health policy.

We invite recent graduates of doctoral programs in economics, political science and sociology, including junior faculty, to apply. We will give preference to applicants who have not previously worked extensively in health or health policy research. Applicants must have received a doctoral degree after January 1, 2004, but no later than July 2009.

For those expecting to receive degrees in 2009, all degree requirements must be completed by July 15, 2009.

All applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States or its territories at the time of application. We embrace racial, ethnic and gender diversity in this program and encourage applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds.

The following criteria will be considered in the application review process:

• The applicant’s potential to contribute creatively as a social scientist to future U.S. health policy thinking-
either by identifying emerging health policy issues and problems or by bringing new insight to the examination and analysis of existing issues and problems.

• The applicant’s commitment to a career consistent with the program’s purpose and goals.

• The quality of the applicant’s past research, including dissertation research.

• The capability of the applicant to undertake this challenging program.

• Recommendations by faculty and other individuals with whom the applicant has studied or worked.

All applications are screened by the national program office and forwarded to members of the national advisory
committee, the program site directors, and RWJF staff for extensive review. We will select approximately 25 finalists for interviews with faculty at one or more of the participating universities. From these interviewed finalists, we will select up to 12 scholars to enter the program. Up to 12 fellowships will be awarded in this grant cycle.

Scholars will receive stipends from their university of $86,000 for year one and $89,000 for year two.

October 22, 2008 Deadline for receipt of applications
January 6-30, 2009 Finalist interviews
Late February 2009 Notification of acceptance
August 2009 Fellowships begin
Link to Full Announcement:
http://www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=20322

PhD Grant in Health Informatics, Norway

A position as Research Fellow (PhD) on in health informatics is vacant at the Norwegian centre of electronic patient records (NSEP). This grant is one of three PhD positions in COSTT (Coordination support through transparency), a researcher project funded by the VERDIKT program (http://www.verdikt.no) of the Norwegian Research Council (NFR). Two Postdoc positions have also been funded and will be announced. The project is a joint, 4-year effort between Norwegian University of Science and Technology, SONITOR; Aker University Hospital, University of Oslo; Trondheim University Hospital (Operation room of the future); SINTEF and Helse Midt-Norge IT (HEMIT).

The topic of the project is the automatic sampling of sensor and log data from patients and health personnel delivering complex, multidisciplinary, coordination-intensive healthcare, and on the use of these data to improve the coordination of the actors by inferring and visualizing the trajectory of the patient on his way through the ward.

As part of his project, the candidate shall make observations and collect data that represent clinical reality and use these to infer and iteratively validate a model of the clinical process at the ward. Several models of clinical processes have been proposed, but they are mostly prescriptive instead of being descriptive. They are unsuited for capturing what has actually happened in clinical reality. The purpose of the modeling is to build upon it to visualize of what has happened with the patient at the ward. This model must distinguish between the relevant objects that make up this clinical reality, the main features characterizing these objects and the relations between them. Another requirement for the model on which the visualization within COSTT will be based, is that it can be related to the plan that underlies the clinical process.

The PhD-candidate should develop a language by means of which clinical reality can be described. The concept of «patient-trajectory» will play an important role in this language. He or she should have an interest in health workflow coordination, information and process modeling and / or health services research.

The research fellow will be associated to the Norwegian Centre for Electronic health records (NSEP), the multidisciplinary health informatics research community of NTNU. The centre - the largest of its kind in northern Europe - is located in close proximity to the Department of Computer science at NTNU, the University hospital, the Medical technology research centre and SINTEF. The research fellow will conduct her/his research in strong collaboration with the two other PhD candidates (which will have a background in computer science and organizational research) and the rest of the COSTT project team, our partners and other health informatics researchers / projects at the centre.

The period of employment for the Research Fellow is four years, including 25 % devoted to required duties. The position of Research Fellow has the objective of taking organized academic training and the completion of the doctoral degree. The position must commence no later than 3 months after the entry of the position as research fellow. Admission to a doctoral degree programme is a requirement for employment as a Research Fellow. During the period of employment, three years are to be devoted to research training, including a total of 30 credits from NTNU’s PhD courses. PhD courses that will support the candidate in developing the necessary insight and skills will be offered by both the Faculty of medicine and Institute of Computer science. For regulations concerning the PhD-degree at NTNU, please see: www.ntnu.no/research/phd/adm_requirments

We are looking for a PhD candidate with a healthcare background (MD or another health science) with strong interest in workflow coordination and process support in healthcare. Applicants for the PhD grant must hold a master’s degree or equivalent education, and should have a strong academic record. The Department wants to attract outstanding candidates.

NTNU is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from both EU/EEA and non-EU countries. The university is strongly committed to diversity within its community and welcomes applications from members of ethnic minorities.

Chosen applicants can be invited to undergo an interview. Applicants must be able to communicate fluently in English (oral and writing).

Depending on qualifications and academic background, Research Fellows at the Faculty of Medicine will be remunerated at wage levels 45 to 55 on the Norwegian State salary scale, with gross salary from NOK 353 000 to NOK 420 600 a year, of which 2% is deducted for the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund. A yearly amount for operating costs will be added.

The appointment will be made in accordance with current regulations and supplementary rules with guidelines for employment as Research Fellow appointments at universities and university colleges.

The application with all attachments must be submitted in five copies.

Applications should be submitted to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Medicine, MTFS, NO-7489 Trondheim, Norway. Applications should be marked j.no. «DMF 80-08». Deadline for applications: September 15th 2008.

Doctoral Research Fellowship University of Oslo

The project The external dimensions of European integration examines the European Community’s ascent as an international actor in international politics in the 1970s and 1980s and analyses the Nordic countries’ reaction to this development. See the FCH website for a project outline: http://www.hf.uio.no/forskningsprosjekter/fosam/om/europaprosjektet1.html.

Applicants are expected to submit a project description for a PhD dissertation on the following subject:

Norway, the EC and International Shipping
The dissertation project shall assess Norway’s reaction to the emergence of the EC as an actor in international shipping. The European Community did not establish a common policy on shipping until 1986. Through joint rules based on the articles on transport policy in the Rome treaties, and through coordination of national policies, however, the Community became an important player in the field. Following the “No” to EC-membership in 1972 shipping was one of the sectors where Norway strove for a special regime of consultation with the Community. The project shall analyse the motives behind Norway’s so-called active European policy in this sector and evaluate the country’s possibilities to influence Community policies. It will be crucial, moreover, to explore to what extent the EC had an interest in coordinating its policies with a non-member. Possible fields of specialization will be the role of international shipping in connection with discussions on a New International Economic Order. The study shall rely on documentation from Norwegian and European archives.

Requirements:
Applicants should have good knowledge of international history after 1945. A background in economic history would be an advantage. Proficiency in English and Norwegian or another Scandinavian language is required.

The successful applicant must participate in the department’s PhD programme (cf. regulations and supplementary provisions for the faculty’s PhD education). Research fellows will have their workplace and academic contact person at the department.

Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed.

Guidelines for appointments to research fellowships at the Faculty of Humanities are available at http://www.hf.uio.no/english/research/doctor/index.html.

In accordance with the University of Oslo’s equal opportunities policy, we invite applications from all interested individuals regardless of gender or ethnicity.

The University of Oslo has an agreement for all employees, aiming to secure rights to research results a.o.

For further information, contact: professor Helge Pharo, phone 22 85 68 74, e-mail: helge.pharo@iakh.uio.no or professor Even Lange, phone 22 85 61 76, e-mail: even.lange@iakh.uio.no.