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.

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.