FIU McNair Graduate Fellowship USA

The FIU McNair Graduate Fellowship was created to encourage promising undergraduate McNair Scholars to pursue their graduate education at Florida International University. Beginning this Fall 2011 semester, FIU’s University Graduate School will award a limited number of FIU McNair Graduate Fellowships to McNair Scholars based on a nomination from their graduate program. To be considered for the fellowship a student must be fully admitted to a master’s or doctoral degree program at FIU for the Fall 2011 semester. Preference will be given to students who are entering a doctoral program.

Doctoral Student Award Details:

FIU McNair Graduate Fellowships for doctoral students provide four years of support with a $23,000 annual stipend plus a tuition waiver and individual health insurance. The University Graduate School will provide the support for the first two years in the form of a fellowship. The academic department will continue to provide the same level of support during the 3rd and 4th years through a (0.5 FTE) teaching or research assistantship. Students may not receive other FIU fellowships or fellowships from outside agencies during the first two years of the award.

Eligibility – Nominees must:

- be a US Citizen or Permanent Resident
- be newly admitted to/entering a master’s or doctoral degree program at FIU for the Fall 2011 semester (currently enrolled graduate students are not eligible)
- have participated in and complete the McNair Scholars Program at their undergraduate institution
- have a GPA of 3.5 or higher in upper division undergraduate coursework

Application Deadline:
Application Deadline is March 1st, 2011

Further Details:
For further information about this scholarship visit below link.

http://gradschool.fiu.edu/downloads/FIU_McNair_Graduate_Fellowship_Nomination_form.pdf

Dauphin, The Pas, Thompson, Virden, Pembroke, Innisfil, Thunder Bay, Ottawa, Ancaster,
Toronto, Hamilton, Cornwall, Kitchener, Kingston, Windsor, Sarnia, London,

Training Scholarship UFAW Universities Federation for Animal Welfare

As part of its endeavours to encourage high quality science likely to lead to substantial advances in animal welfare, UFAW will be running a scheme to award a UFAW Animal Welfare Research Training Scholarship to enable a promising veterinary or science graduate to undertake a three-year programme of research leading to a degree at the doctorate level. This award will be open to research institutions within the British Isles and overseas institutions at which there is a UFAW University Link(please see the UFAW Website).

UFAW would particularly like to encourage applications in the following fields:

•development of methodologies aimed at elucidation of the neurological basis of sentience in animals
•developments in approaches to alleviating welfare problems in farmed, companion and/or laboratory animals through breeding
•developments in detection and alleviation of pain
•development of methods of welfare / quality of life assessment

UFAW does not wish to exclude potentially valuable projects in other aspects of animal welfare science and applications for work in other areas will also be welcomed.
Funding information

Funder:

UFAW
Value:

Likely to be up to a maximum of £100,000
Number of awards per year:

1
Funding applies to:
Open to applicants from a range of countries
Funding notes:

This award will be open to research institutions within the British Isles and UFAW may consider allowing applications from 'UFAW Link' institutions (please see the UFAW Website).
Funding duration:

3 years

Contacts and how to apply

Administrative contact and how to apply:

If you are interested in receiving an email notification when this award is open for application then please contact the UFAW Scientific Officer: scioff@ufaw.org.uk.

Post-doctoral researcher at Department of Biochemistry, Ghent University agriculture scholarships

The recently established group of Prof. Dr. Lennart Martens, located in Ghent, Belgium, focuses on the analysis and integration of omics data. The group is working on the development of computational proteomics approaches, the analysis of large-scale lipidomics data, and the creation of tools to integrate across-omics data.

We are currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work on the computational proteomics project. The goal of this project is to increase the efficiency of targeted proteomics methods such as Selected Reaction Monitoring (SRM) through ab initio computational determination of optimal target peptides and transitions.

Profile

The successful candidates will have obtained or submitted their PhD and will have a proven track record of high-quality research and experience in bioinformatics and/or data mining. Experience in proteomics informatics is considered an advantage.


Apply

Please submit a cover letter, a full c.v., and a list of at least 2 contact persons (with name, e-mail, address, phone number) for letters of reference to: Lennart Martens, A. Baertsoenkaai 3, B-9000 Gent, BELGIUM, or via email: Lennart.Martens@UGent.be.

Top-ranked candidates will be invited to Ghent, Belgium for interviews