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Through a grant awarded to UCSC by the National Science Foundation, in the Spring of 2010 UCSC will launch a Ethics and Justice in Science and Engineering Training program. This program grows out of the success of the UCSC Science and Justice Working Group, and will create a research and education program that trains science and engineering graduate students alongside social science and humanities graduate students to create ethical inquiries from within their own practice. (more)
Currents Article: Science and Justice Working Group promotes interdisciplinary discussion
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As you may know, the Board of Regents at its September meeting discussed a proposal to enact a mid-year fee increase in 2009-10 and a second fee increase for the 2010-11 academic year, as part of a series of measures to close UC's budget gap. (more)
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The Investment in Community Fellowship is awarded each year to a deserving graduate student who was born, raised or has lived on the Monterey Peninsula and who intends to return to the area and be of service to the local community after completing his/her graduate degree. The award can be used to cover the ordinary costs of graduate school including tuition, books, room and board.
Completed applications must be received by: January 31, 2010. Fellowship to be awarded Spring 2010.
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The Division of Graduate Education and the Office of International Science and Engineering announce an international research opportunity, available as a Supplemental Award, for NSF Graduate Research Fellows (GRFs) to enable Fellows to gain international research experience and establish collaborations with counterparts at Norwegian, Finnish or Danish research institutions.
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The University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program was established in 1984 to encourage outstanding women and minority Ph.D. recipients to pursue academic careers at the University of California. The current program offers postdoctoral research fellowships, faculty mentoring, and eligibility for a hiring incentive to qualified scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, and service will contribute to diversity and equal opportunity at the University of California.
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Nicole Hidalgo, a doctoral student in education, has received two prestigious dissertation awards to support her work with disadvantaged youth in urban high schools.
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Can technology restore vision to the blind? Are clouds the key to climate change? How do infants process the world around them? These are among the issues covered in the 2009 edition of Science Notes, produced by students in the Science Communication Program.
http://scicom.ucsc.edu/SciNotes/0901/
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THE COLUMBIA SOCIETY OF FELLOWS IN THE HUMANITIES, with grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the William R. Kenan Trust, will appoint a number of post-doctoral fellows in the humanities for the academic year 2010-2011. We invite applications from qualified candidates who have received the Ph.D. between 1 January 2006 and 1 July 2010.
Fellows are appointed as Lecturers in appropriate departments at Columbia University and as postdoctoral research fellows. The fellowship is renewable for a second and third year. In the first year, Fellows teach one course per semester: at least one of these courses will be in the undergraduate general education program of the University. In years two and three, Fellows teach one course per year. In addition to teaching and research, the duties of Fellows include attendance at the Society's lectures and events as well as active participation in the intellectual life of the Society and of the department with which the Fellow is affiliated. The annual stipend will be $55,000. Each Fellow will also receive a research allowance of $5,000 per annum.
OurONLINE APPLICATION FORMcan be accessed atwww.columbia.edu/cu/societyoffellows.
DEADLINEfor receipt of completed applications is 5 October 2009.
Columbia University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. |
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Graduate students from all disciplines and institutions across the country can learn more about scaling applications for emerging petascale computing systems and using many-core graphics processors to accelerate applications during two FREE summer school courses offered by the Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering.
Applications will be accepted
online until May 18. |
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The Institute for Advanced Feminist Research at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the
UC Multicampus Research Group on Transnationalizing Justice are pleased to announce
awards for the second annual residential dissertation workshop. DEADLINE April 8, 2009 |
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E-billing with SallieMae.
Simply login to your student portal to
enroll, with options to invite another payer. Make an e-Check payment, print your bill and review your account history - all online! |
One of the most important leadership opportunities offered to UC students is an appointment to serve on the UC Board of Regents. Within the Santa Cruz campus community, there are many students with outstanding leadership abilities.
Interested students may obtain an application at the Career Center, colleges, and various departments across campus, or download an application at http://www2.ucsc.edu/careers/jobs/regent.html.
Applications are due no later than February 19, 2009. Students are encouraged to get an early start in completing the application by researching the essay questions and preparing a resume during the Winter break. Let's make our campus proud and create history by ensuring that the next student Regent is a UCSC student.
Vice Chancellor Felicia E. McGinty, Student Affairs |
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Registered graduate students in all disciplines with an interest in second-language pedagogy are invited to apply for Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) positions in the Language Program. Applications may be submitted no later than March 2, 2009. |
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Sponsored by the Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST)
June 16th through 19th, 2009: Berkeley, California [Flyer] |
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Education Ph.D. student Mele Wheaton won a highly prestigious 2008-09 Switzer Fellowship -- one of only 24 across the nation. To read about Mele and other Switzer Fellowship winners, vist the site: http://www.switzernetwork.org/fellowships.taf |
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The National Science Foundation invites you to apply for the 2009 Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF-GRFP) competition. This program offers up to 3 years of graduate school support worth over $120,000 to each awardee - last year 913 awards were granted. We encourage interested applicants to visit www.nsf.gov/grfp/ or www.nsfgrfp.org for additional information.
NSF funding opportunities can be found at http://www.nsf.gov/funding/. The NSF-GRFP Operations Center is administered by the American Society for Engineering Education (http://www.asee.org/fellowships). |
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Funding for projects related to genomic sciences
or their ethical, legal, social implications.
Who? Outstanding UCSC graduate students
enrolled in any department. US citizens or
permanent residents. We especially encourage
applications from students who belong to these
underrepresented groups: African American, Pacific
Islander, Hawaiian Native, Native American,
Hispanic, Latina/o, or Chicana/o.
What? Complete a cutting-edge graduate research
project with a faculty member and receive support
that includes a stipend, health insurance, registration
fees, tuition, and a research and travel allowance.
Become part of the diverse community of RMI
scholars. Academic and professional development
workshops and personalized support and advising.
How? Contact Zia Isola, isola@soe.ucsc.edu,
831-459-1702, for information and guidelines.
Full info: http://www.cbse.ucsc.edu/diversity/rmi_grad
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Three graduate students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have been selected to receive training grants intended to hasten innovations in a variety of biotechnology-related fields. The two-year grants provide $50,000 per year for each student.
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