UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School is delighted to offer prospective students the opportunity to apply for a range of scholarships for the academic year 2009/2010. To apply for the scholarship, applicants must submit an essay (300 words) on why you believe you should receive the scholarship. The closing date for submissions is May 15th 2009. Candidates must apply for their preferred programme before submitting an application for a scholarship and must meet all of the admissions criteria prior to commencement. Candidates must also be prepared to interview. Scholarships are valid for the following programmes: MBS/MSc streams CEMS Master in International Management Master in Management MSc in Quantitative Finance Master of Accounting (valid for non company sponsored students only) The following scholarships are on offer: 5 regional merit based partial scholarships Region 1: Asia and Australasia Region 2: Central and Eastern Europe Region 3: North and Central America Region

Rave Scholarships for Curators, Restorers, Museum Technicians and Cultural Managers The Rave Scholarships contribute to further practical training in arranging and realizing exhibitions. Twice a year the Rave Foundation awards these scholarships to curators, restorers, museum technicians and culture managers from countries in transition and developing countries. The deadlines for applications are 31 March and 30 September each year. Selections will be made within 2 months of the respective deadlines. Further Scholarship Information and Application (PDF)

USDA Borlaug Women in Science Fellowship Program The United States Department of Agriculture is pleased to announce The Norman E. Borlaug International Science and Technology Fellows Program (Borlaug Fellows Program) - Women in Science 2009 for female citizens of Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Niger, Uganda and Zambia. The Borlaug Fellows Program offers training and collaborative research opportunities in international agricultural science, leadership and policy. Training venues usually include U.S. universities, government agencies, and international agricultural research centers. Each Fellow works one-on-one with a mentor who coordinates the Fellow’s training and visits the Fellow’s home institution after completion of the training. The 2009 Norman E. Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellows Program for Women in Science is funded by the United States Agency for International Development and administered by the United States Department of

The United States-India Educational Foundation (USIEF) invites applications from interested Indian applicants for the International Fulbright Science and Technology Award for outstanding foreign students. This award is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and is designed to be the most prestigious international scholarship in science and technology. The International Fulbright Science and Technology Award reaffirms America’s pre-eminence and competitiveness in the fields of science, technology, and engineering, as the U.S. remains the most attractive destination for serious scientific and technological research and study. The International Fulbright Science and Technology Award is for PhD study at top U.S. institutions in science, technology, or engineering beginning August/September 2010. The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State will fund grants for up to three years under this program. After three years, U.S. universities will cover the

The School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Jacobs University Bremen invites applications for 2 PhD stipends in Psychology in the context of CYBER EMOTIONS project Prof. Arvid Kappas is looking for 2 PhD students in the area of emotion psychology. The total duration of each stipend will be 3 years. Successful candidates will be engaged in the context of a large scale integrating project funded by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Program (ICT Call 3; Science of complex systems for socially intelligent ICT). CYBER-EMOTIONS: Collective Emotions in Cyberspace The CYBER-EMOTIONS project focuses on the role of collective emotions in creating, forming and breaking-up ecommunities. The project has begun in February 2009, and involves an international collaboration with eight other partner institutions. The tasks of the work package at Jacobs University involve primarily preparing, conducting, and analyzing experiments as well as presenting the results to an international au

University of Lancaster, UK Masters in Human Computer Interaction Computing, Design and Psychology Lancaster University is seeking applicants to its Masters in Human Computer Interaction Program which offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the design of advanced interactive technologies. The programme focuses on training in a broad range of knowledge and skills that are applicable to the specification, design, prototyping and evaluation of advanced interactive systems. For this, the programme has been innovatively designed at the interface of three fundamental disciplines of HCI and involving three outstanding departments at Lancaster University. Computing Department is an international centre of excellence in Computer Science research ranked amongst the top ten Computer Science Departments in the UK (RAE 2008). The programme benefits from direct involvement of the world leading expert in the field, Professor Alan Dix who co-authored the Handbook of Human Computer Interaction, a wi

Postdoctoral applicant Station Biologique, Roscoff, France Ecological significance of photoheterotrophic bacteria in the Western Arctic Ocean We are looking for a foreign applicant for a postdoctoral fellowship at the Station Biologique (Roscoff, France). We currently witness in the Arctic: 1) a decrease in summer ice cover that exposes sea surface to solar radiation and physical forcings, 2) permafrost thawing and increased river runoff, both leading to an increase in the export to the ocean of organic carbon previously sequestered in the Tundra, and 3) an increase in ultraviolet radiation. These three phenomena favour a growing mineralization of organic carbon through photo-oxidation and bacterial activity, amplifying the increase in atmospheric CO2. At the same time, the exposure of a larger fraction of ocean surface to sun light and the increase in nutrients brought by rivers lead to larger autotrophic production and sequestration of organic carbon. To predict the balance of thes

Bangkok School of Management is currently offering a Partial Scholarship Award to both Thai and International students wishing to earn an accredited international degree. BSM’s outstanding 2 + 1 Business degree provides students with the opportunity to qualify for an international business degree by spending the first two years of their degree in Bangkok. For the final year(s), Student can choose to study with the University of their Choice, from a list of leading universities across USA, UK, Europe and Asia or even choose to complete their final year with an accredited western university via distance learning or on campus. Partial Scholarship Award 25% waiver on tuition fees for a period of two years (four consecutive academic terms). This would approximately amount to THB 115,000 for the whole program. Student Eligibility Criteria: Students with an outstanding academic performance with a minimum high school equivalent GPA of 3.0 and over are invited to apply. Students should provide

The Software Engineering & Architecture (SEARCH) group at the University of Groningen is committed to advancing the state of the art in the field of software architecture. The group aims to achieve that by carrying out joint research projects with universities, research institutes, and industrial partners, thus combining academic know-how with industrial practice. The research topics of the SEARCH group include software architecture design and evaluation, architectural knowledge, software product lines, architectural patterns and pattern languages, architecture-centric evolution, and service-oriented architectures. For more information please check our website (http://search.cs.rug.nl/ and http://www.cs.rug.nl/~paris/) or email us (paris[ AT ]cs.rug.nl). The SEARCH group is looking for excellent candidates that wish to apply for scholarships from the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. Prospective PhD students have substantial freedom in deciding upon their research. They