Future Leaders Fund is an educational international organization. The goal of this scholarship is to find a student who possesses true leadership qualities and has a financial need. We are looking for an individual who wants to make a difference, is not afraid of challenges and is passionate about his/her ideas. The Scholarship amount is $200.
There are two pre-requisites:
You have to be a Non-US citizen
You have been enrolled in a Bachelor or any kind of Graduate study at a US university for at least one academic year.
The application process consists of two stages:
Stage I
Submission of the application package
- At this stage the scholarship committee will select 10 applicants to proceed to the second part of the process.
Stage II
Telephone interview
The application package consists of three parts:
Completed Application form
Unofficial transcript of your current studies
Essay
Please submit your application to:
Victoria Pavlova
Future Leaders Fund Scholarship
PO Box 2445
Williamsburg, VA 23185
The deadline for application submission is April 15, 2008. Late application packages will not be admitted. Telephone interviews will take place the week of April 22-25, 2008.
Application form can be downloaded from:
http://www.futureleadersfund.org/application.html
Thursday, May 29, 2008
The Future Leaders Student Scholarship
USA Postdoctoral Position in Neuronal Cell Signaling, Department of Pharmacology, The University of Iowa
A postdoctoral position is available in the Department of Pharmacology, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City starting from March, 2008. The laboratory is interested in studying Neuronal Cell Signaling. In particular, projects are aimed at studying the dynamic regulation of expression, trafficking, localization and functions of voltage-gated potassium channels by diverse GPCR signaling pathways in mammalian neurons.
Check Mohapatra & Trimmer, J Neurosci 2006; and Park & Mohapatra et al., Science 2006 to get a broad idea on the future projects. These projects will employ tissue (neuronal) culture, biochemical, proteomic, cell biological, molecular biological, and electrophysiological techniques to answer critical quiestions.
Ph.D. with good knowledge of basic neuroscience is a required qualification. Although experience in atleast 2 or more above-mentioned expertise is expected, candidates with thorough expertise in cell biology, confocal microscopy and imaging will be given preference. You will be allowed and encouraged to learn all the techniques and rational approach used in the laboratory. Excellent support and motivation will be provided for future career advancement. The laboratory will be a well-equipped one with own tissue culture, biochemical, molecular biological and some imaging and good electrophysiological facilities.
The University of Iowa, College of Medicine has excellent central core research facilities (Genomic, Proteomic, Imaging, and Gene-targeting cores) at the disposal for rapid advancement of research projects.
Iowa City is a very nice and collegial town with high living standards, but inexpensive cost of living in comparison to big cities. To apply send your CV, statement of research interests, and name & contact details of three referees to: Dr. D.P. Mohapatra at: dpmohapatra[ at ]ucdavis.edu.
The U Iowa is an equal oppertunity employer.
PhD Scholarship : Research Opportunity at the University of Limeric
PhD Scholarship
Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering
Research Opportunity at the University of Limerick in the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering
A PhD scholarship is available to study the effect of a residual stress field on the fracture behaviour of engineering steels operating under high temperature conditions. The scholarship is funded by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI).
The objective of this research is to obtain an understanding of residual stress effects on structural integrity from a fracture mechanics and life assessment perspective. Although recent progress has been made in the area of low temperature assessment of components containing residual stress (when elastic-plastic behaviour dominates) methods are lacking to assess behaviour at high temperature when creep behaviour dominates. The work will examine a fracture mechanics-based approach, including analytical estimates of residual stress effects on crack initiation and growth. In addition, numerical (finite-element) analysis of cracked components and specially designed experimental tests will be carried out.
The successful candidate will be registered at the university of Limerick (UL) and the research will be carried out in collaboration with the mechanics of materials group at Imperial College London and the neutron scattering centre at HMI, Berlin (where measurements of residual stress are carried out using neutron diffraction techniques).
The project requires a candidate who is experienced in computational mechanics and has an interest in experimental techniques in engineering. The candidate should have, or be expecting, at least an upper second class honours degree (or equivalent) in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline. The student should be open-minded, creative and goal orientated.
The research scholarships are worth approximately €16,500 per annum (tax free), and also cover university fees for EU residents only, due to funding restrictions. The project will initially commence as Masters by Research or MPhil with a transfer to PhD after an appropriate period of time. Interested applicants should send a full CV in PDF or WORD format to noel.odowd@ul.ie including the words ‘PhD Studentship Fracture’ in the subject line.
Closing date is June 30, 2008.
