Emerging Entrepreneurs Scholarship Program

MCC's Emerging Entrepreneurs Scholarship Program is funded by Finger Lakes WIRED, one of several regions funded by the United States Department of Labor Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development (WIRED) Initiative. Launched in November 2005, WIRED stresses the critical role that talent development plays in creating effective regional economic development strategies.
Monroe Community College is recruiting applicants for its new Emerging Entrepreneurs Scholarship Program. This scholarship program-which covers tuition, fees and books-gives aspiring entrepreneurs the tools they need to start and manage their own small businesses.


Registration for the Emerging Entrepreneurs Scholarship Program is separate from MCC's standard enrollment procedure. Candidates must complete an application and an essay by the August 11 deadline. The application process also includes an interview. Thirty participants will be chosen to participate in the Fall 2008 semester, which begins on Sept. 2 and runs through Dec. 18. Additional program information, including a downloadable application, can be viewed online at www.monroecc.edu/go/newbiz.
For more information or to apply for the Emerging Entrepreneurs Scholarship Program, contact Professor Sherry Tshibangu at newbiz@monroecc.edu or visit www.monroecc.edu/go/newbiz

Scholarships for Southern African Students-Rhodes University

Knight's 2009 scholarships for Rhodes University's Media Leadership Institute

The Sol Plaatje Institute for Media Leadership (SPI) at Rhodes University's School of Journalism and Media Studies invites applications for three scholarships from Southern African students who wish to register for the SPI's Postgraduate Diploma in Media Management (PDMM) in 2009.

The scholarships are sponsored by the Knight Foundation. These are partial scholarships which cover only the student's accommodation at Rhodes University, the PDMM tuition fees and books and study materials.

This means that successful applicants must make their own arrangements for transportation to and from Rhodes University; medical insurance and a living stipend during the year. Non-South African students should additionally budget about R3500 (three thousand and five hundred rand) to cover a levy for foreign students studying at Rhodes University.

The PDMM is a one-year, full-time programme designed to provide people working in the media industry with skills and knowledge they need to perform more effectively in their organisations and to fast-track their careers to management positions.

The PDMM is equivalent to an honours degree and combines rigorous theoretical and practical grounding. The diploma is composed of eight compulsory modules covering media economics and financial management; media markets, audiences and advertising; managing media content; managing circulation and distribution; media management and leadership; media management contexts, policy and institutions; new media and convergence;
and human resources.

Application details and procedures: Students from Southern Africa are eligible to apply for these scholarships. Applicants should ideally come from media companies which are currently using or experimenting with new media, besides their traditional business platforms. Successful applicants will be required to conduct research into the use of new media platforms by a Rhodes University-owned newspaper, the Grocott's Mail.

Applicants should ideally have completed an undergraduate degree from a recognised university. Experienced media practitioners
with diplomas in journalism or mass communication studies will also be considered.

Students wishing to apply for these scholarships need to:
Complete the Rhodes University's standard Honours application form and the New Student form. Alternatively, they can request these application forms from SPI administrator Linda Snam (l.snam@ru.ac.za) or telephone her at +27-046-603-8782.
Submit a detailed curriculum vitae, including contact details
Submit a certified academic transcript; and
Submit a 1000-word letter of motivation, which explains why the student is interested in doing the PDMM; how the PDMM will assist the student's career and why the student believes she/he qualifies for the scholarship. The cv, academic transcript and letter of motivation may be submitted by email to Linda Snam, or faxed to her at +27-046-622-9591, clearly indicating which scholarship the students is applying for.

Deadline for applications: October 17, 2008. No late applications will be considered.

News:Tata Africa Scholarships 2009

A prestigious scholarship programme announced here will see Tata Africa providing funding to allow postgraduate students at the University of the Witwatersrand to research projects for the benefit of citizens across the continent.

Raman Dhawan, managing director of Tata Africa, presented the awards to students in various fields whom he referred to as 'the future leaders of this country and continent.

Further Information

Graduate Fellowship Program in Nuclear Engineering USA

Admiral Hyman Rickover Graduate Fellowship Program in Nuclear Engineering
Medical University of South Carolina

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.

ApplicationEligibility
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.

2009-2010 Rickover Fellowship Application

2009-2010 Rickover Fellowship Renewal Application
Due December 31, 2008
Fall 2008 official transcripts are required along with the renewal application.

THE MARK KAPLANOFF RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY

PEMBROKE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY

The College hopes to elect not later than 1 January 2009 to the following Fellowship with tenure from 1 October 2009: THE MARK KAPLANOFF RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP in History, the tenure of the Fellowship will be for three years. The holder will be expected to conduct research in any aspect of History and to do a limited amount of teaching for the College, but would require the permission of the Governing Body to undertake other paid work.

Applications, which are due by 19 September 2008, should only be made on forms obtainable from the Senior Tutor's Assistant, Pembroke College, Cambridge CB2 1RF (sally.clowes@pem.cam.ac.uk) and online at http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/about/academic-vacancies/.

2009 Oak Fellowship:Institute of International Human Rights, Colby College

The 2009 Oak Fellowship:Migration and Human Rights of Migrants Outside of the United States

Oak Institute for the Study of International Human Rights at Colby College

Oak Human Rights Fellowship Application

IMPORTANT DATES
Nominations Due November 1, 2008
Applications Due December 15, 2008
Decision Announced April 15, 2009
Fellowship Begins August 2009

About the Oak Fellowship
The Oak Fellowship annually offers an opportunity for one prominent practitioner in international human rights to take a sabbatical leave from front-line work to spend the fall semester (September - December) in residence at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. This provides the fellow time for respite, reflection, research, and writing. In addition to conducting his or her own research, the fellow will teach one seminar on his or her work area or expertise. Following the period of the award the fellow is expected to return home to continue human rights work.

The Oak Institute seeks one frontline human rights practitioner working on the human rights of migrants and laborers outside of the United States for residence at Colby in the fall of 2009 and is pleased to issue a call for nominations for the 2009 Oak Human Rights Fellowship.

Possible areas of human rights activity may include, but are not limited to: rights of displaced peoples and refugees; discrimination and unequal treatment of migrants; migrant workers' rights in both formal and informal markets; migrant land and resource struggles; resettlement; human trafficking and smuggling; economically motivated migration; asylum seekers; gender and sexual exploitation of migrants and refugees; or movement of seasonal workers.

We especially encourage applications from those who are currently or were recently involved in on-the-ground work at some level of personal risk and are in need of respite.

General Application Instructions

Please type or print clearly all requested information.

A complete application includes:

? A completed application form (all questions answered, sections I through III).
? A copy of your resume, biography or curriculum vitae (please give dates for all activities).
? Two recommendations from someone familiar with your work.
? Answers to all personal statement questions in section IV.
? Recommended: Printed information on your human rights organization (e.g., brochures, reports, newspaper stories, articles on your work and the work of your organization).

Please send application materials as early as possible. Applications received after December 15, 2009 or applications that are incomplete (i.e., do not include all of the required components) will not be considered.

Applicants should send all materials together at one time, except for recommendations which should come directly from the recommender.

You can simply type into this document. Then save the document and change the title to your last name, first name, OAK 2008 application. (An example of a document title would be: Sanchez, Nancy OAK 2008 application.)

Once your application is complete, please send it electronically to:
Professor Patrice Franko, Director
oakhr@colby.edu
In the subject line, please include: Oak Application, (your last name, your first name)

Please send any/all attachments at one time, either within 1 email message, or in multiple messages that are sent one immediately after the other. Please title each with your last name, first and a descriptor. For example: Sanchez, Nancy vita; Sanchez, Nancy press articles; Sanchez, Nancy, letter of recommendation. We always want to be able to find the documents associated with your name!

For those applicants who prefer to send a printed application,
please mail your complete application to:

Professor Patrice Franko
Oak Institute for the Study of International Human Rights
Colby College
4840 Mayflower Hill
Waterville ME 04901 USA.

Recommendations may arrive either electronically or in printed form.

Please note that the parameters of the Oak Fellowship are strict. You may find many answers to your questions about whether or not your situation meets the fellowship's criteria on the Frequently Asked Questions section of our website: http://www.colby.edu/oak

Please contact us by e-mail at oakhr@colby.edu or at (207) 859-5319 if you have any questions.

Application form(doc)

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship - Terrestrial Ecology

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship - Terrestrial Ecology
University of LethbridgeQualifications:

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 Applications-Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research 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

PhD grant at the Department of Neuroscience (J.no DMF 80/08)
Position as Research Fellow in Health Informatics, Norwegian Centre of Electronic Patient Records, Faculty of Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), DMF J.no. DMF 80-08.

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.

About NSEP: www.nsep.no.
About the Faculty of Medicine: www.ntnu.no/dmf/english

Interested candidates are encouraged to contact one of the principal investigators: Assoc. Prof. Pieter Toussant (project manager), (e-mail: Pieter@idi.ntnu.no; phone + 47 4064 6586), Assoc. Prof. Arild Faxvaag, (e-mail: arild.faxvaag@ntnu.no; phone + 47 9821 6825 or Research fellow Andreas Seim (e-mail: andreas.seim@sintef.no; phone + 47 9017 5222).

Doctoral Research Fellowship University of Oslo

Doctoral Research Fellowship
POSITION AS DOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP (SKO/post code 1017)
available at the Forum for contemporary history (FCH), Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History (IAKH), UiO.The position is available for a period of three years.

The research fellow position is funded by the Faculty of Humanities and is associated with the project The external dimensions of European integration. The EC/EU and its Nordic neighbours in international politics.

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.

REF.NO: 2008/8722

Government wage scale: 45-50 (from NOK 353 200 to NOK 384 900)

Closing date for applications: October 15, 2008

Submission
Applicants should submit four copies of:

- Letter of application describing qualifications

- Project description (5-10 pages)

- Curriculum vitae, and educational certificates

- A list of publications, if any, and information on unpublished works

- One copy of the master thesis is also required.
Applications may be written in Norwegian or English. Please mark applications with ref.no. 2008/8722 and send to The Faculty of Humanities, P.O. box 1079 Blindern, 03l6Oslo, Norway.

Application and Further Information