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Each year, the Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS) sponsors two scholarships to students whose research and accomplishments support the mission of CaGIS. The scholarships recognize academic achievement and encourage the continuing success of outstanding cartography, geographic information systems (GIS), and geographic information science (GIScience) students. The scholarships also recognize achievement or potential for achievement in original research advancing the specific disciplines of cartography or GIScience. Winners are selected based on academic achievement, particularly in the calendar year prior to the award. Applications are reviewed by the CaGIS Scholarship Committee, and awards are announced in February or March.

Awards

CaGIS Masters Scholarship Award ($500): This award is to be granted to a student enrolled in, or accepted into, a Masters’ degree program during 2009 or 2010. The winner will have demonstrated excellence in cartography or GIScience coursework and the potential to contribute to cartography or GIScience research. Outstanding undergraduates seeking to support Masters’ level research in GIScience are also eligible to apply (see below).

CaGIS Doctoral Scholarship Award ($1000): This award is to be granted to a student enrolled in, or accepted into, a PhD degree program during 2009 or 2010. The winner will have demonstrated excellence in cartography or GIScience coursework and the potential to contribute to cartography or GIScience research.

Winners are invited to present their research at an upcoming CaGIS-sponsored conference (such as AAG, GIScience, or AutoCarto) and may be eligible for limited travel or registration support if they choose to present.

Eligibility

Candidates must be enrolled full-time in a four-year undergraduate or graduate degree program during 2009 or 2010, studying cartography, geographic information science, or a closely related field. A letter of recommendation from a faculty member attesting to these eligibility requirements and to scholarly achievement and potential is required. Membership in CaGIS is not required, though professional and service activities such as participation in CaGIS is one of the selection criteria (see below). Prior scholarship winners are eligible to apply in subsequent years if all appropriate criteria are satisfied. Undergraduate applicants who have not yet been accepted into graduate school should request that their faculty advisor assess their potential for graduate study in their reference letter.

Selection Criteria

Valid applications for CaGIS awards (see below for application procedures) are reviewed by the CaGIS Scholarship Committee, which will use the following criteria to judge applications:

• 50% academic record;

• 20% applicant’s statement;

• 20% letter of recommendation;

• 10% professional activities (CaGIS membership, conference participation, publications, community service, etc.).

Level of financial need will be considered, if necessary, to break ties, after the primary criteria have been considered. The committee can choose to award no scholarships.

Application Procedure
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Computer-Aided Drug Design PhD Scholarship 2009 – University of New South Wales for citizen of Australia

Scholarship Introduction:

The Computer-Aided Molecular Design group at UNSW has an Australian Postgraduate Award Industry (APAI) scholarship available for one student to pursue a full time PhD degree and participate in a project supported by the Australian Research Council (ARC) and Avexa Ltd. The research area is the development of novel techniques to take protein flexibility into account when using computer-aided modeling in drug design. Of particular interest is the design of new inhibitors of the reverse transcriptase enzyme of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and their development into drugs. We specifically look for applicants with a strong background in molecular pharmacology and/or medicinal chemistry. Good skills in computer-aided molecular modeling would be a bonus; interest in how small molecules interact with their protein targets and in computer-aided molecular modeling is essential.
Eligibility for Scholarship:
This scholarship is for study in Australia. Only citizens of Australia or permanent residents can apply.

How to apply:
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Microsoft PhD Scholarships for Students of Africa, Europe, and the Middle East

PhD Scholarship from Microsoft

The PhD Scholarship Programme recognises and supports exceptional students who show the potential to make an outstanding contribution to science and computing. This programme supports PhD students in computing and those working at the intersection of computing and the sciences.

Application deadline: 16 September 2009
Applications must be complete and received by the announced deadline to be considered. Proposals received after this deadline will not be considered.
Notification of results: December 2009

Eligibility Criteria

• Only PhD supervisors should apply. If their project is selected, the supervisor has up to a year to find the best possible student for the project. Joint applications by two supervisors from different disciplines are especially encouraged.

• We usually consider only one application per university department or per laboratory of a national research institution.

• Only applications from countries in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East will be considered. Some additional criteria apply in some of these countries. See Country-Specific Application Guidelines at the website given below

• Only applications in research areas relatively close to the ones researchers at Microsoft Research in Cambridge focus on will be considered. These areas are:

o Computational Science
o Computer-Mediated Living
o Constraint Reasoning
o Machine Learning and Perception
o Online Services and Advertising
o Programming, Principles, and Tools
o Systems and Networking

Application

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Applications are invited for a number of funded three-year PhD studentships within the Centre for Informatics Research. The studentships will cover tuition fees to home/EU level, with the possibility of a standard living allowance (stipend), currently £13,290 per annum for 2009/10 becoming available. Overseas students are eligible to apply, but will be liable to pay the difference between home/EU and overseas fees. Note that fees are subject to change annually throughout the programme of study. The studentship is expected to start on 01 October 2009.

The Centre for Informatics Research contains a number of research centres and undertakes research across a broad range of areas in computing and informatics. These include: bioinformatics; computer security and digital forensics; data mining; e-Democracy and e-Government; e-Health; emergent computing (optimisation, computer games & information retrieval); human-computer interaction; information society; information visualization; interaction design; knowledge management; mobile and distributed computing; pervasive adaptation; social informatics; and software reuse.
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PhD Scholarship in GIS and Health, National Centre for Geocomputation, NUI Maynooth, Ireland

Please kindly mention Scholarship when applying for this position
The Irish Social Sciences Platform (ISSP) is a collaborative initiative funded by the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions (PRTLI) which supports research on the social, cultural and economic transformation shaping Ireland in the 21st century. A funded PhD scholarship is available through this scheme in the research area of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and health, with its research focus on health in Ireland. The research will be supervised by Jan Rigby and Martin Charlton, and based in the new Centre for Health Geoinformatics, in the National Centre for Geocomputation (NCG) at the National University of Ireland Maynooth (www.nuim.ie/ncg).

Scholarship awards are valued at €16,000 per year plus fees (at EU rates) for three years. It is anticipated that the successful candidate will take up the scholarship in September 2009. Applicants should have a good undergraduate degree and, preferably, a master’s qualification in GIS or comparable postgraduate work experience.

Closing date for applications: June 30th, 2009.
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We are pleased to have available a Scholarship for a high calibre student who is interested in working with Rolls-Royce plc in the area of knowledge management. In particular the research will explore new knowledge based system methods for the capture, maintenance and re-use of manufacturing knowledge, especially during product design.

The effective use of computer based tools to support decision making in manufacturing industry is critical to business success. One of the most critical areas of decision making in manufacturing industry is during product design and especially in design for manufacture. This research will contribute to the understanding of how manufacturing knowledge can be effectively linked to product design function requirements in the context of commoditised design approaches The work will use modern product lifecycle management tools in combination with a knowledge based environment in order to explore the effectiveness of the methods under investigation.

Eligibility

The studentship is available from this summer and would suit candidates of high academic ability with a background related to manufacturing and/or computer science. Ideally candidates will be available to take up the studentship by October 2009 at the latest. The studentship will cover three years of fees and provide a bursary currently valued at £12,940 per year.
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PhD Fellowships in Transport of dissolved organic matter from soils to surface water in agricultural areas:  identifying and modeling the pathways and processes

Summary:

A PhD fellowship (2 years, renewable for another 2 years) is available on a research project that seeks to improve our understanding of the transport of dissolved organic matter from agricultural land to surface water at the scale of small catchments.

All natural waters contain organic matter in the form of Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM) The dissolved organic matter (DOM) affects a suite of processes in surface water and soils because it provides energy and nutrients for the biota and it affects the bioavailability of trace metals and organic pollutants. In addition, DOM plays a role as electron donor in denitrification in riparian zones, and leads to the formation of unwanted disinfection byproducts
in drinking water production.

DOM can be transported to surface water by surface flow, subsurface flow, and baseflow, The fate of DOM differs along these flow paths, and the hydrology of a catchment thus affects the concentration and composition of the DOM that reaches the surface waters. To assess the relative importance of flow paths for transport for DOM from soil to surface water, DOM transport processes will be monitored in two areas with very distinct soilscapes: one set of measurements will be conducted in a 117-ha agricultural catchment in the erosion-prone siltloam belt in central Belgium. Another set of observations will be made in a small (10-50 ha) headwater catchment (Rollesbroich catchment, mainly grassland) in the Eifel region near Aachen, Germany. Research at the second field site will be carried out in close collaboration with the Agrosphere Institute at the Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany.
To model DOM fluxes and pathways from the soil to surface water, the candidate will build on modelling approaches that describe surface run-off and 3-D water flow in the saturated and unsaturated zone of small catchments.

Financing: available

Type of position: PhD scholarship

Source of Funding: FWO project

Duration: 4 years

Eligibility

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  Candidates should have master degree (or equivalent) that is relevant for the research topic.
• Candidates should be interested in process research, field experimentation and numerical modeling. Strong motivation, good analytical skills, and the ability to function well in a team are essential.
• Candidates should be fluent in English, both written and spoken.
  Review of applications will begin July 15, 2009 and continue until the position is filled.

This is a PhD position at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences in a collaborative research project between the Division Soil and Water Management (Prof. Jan Diels, Prof. Jan Vanderborght) and the Division Physical and Regional Geography (Prof.
Gerard Govers).

Start Date: 1 September, 2009
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COMPUTER SCIENCE/ENGINEERING PhD PROJECTS - JEREMIAH HORROCKS INSTITUTE

Applications are invited for a full-time studentship available in the School of Computing, Engineering and Physical Sciences in the Faculty of Science and Technology. The studentship is tenable for up to 3 years for the MPhil/PhD (subject to satisfactory progress). The studentship will cover the cost of tuition fees at UK/EU rates plus a stipend (currently ?12,940 for 2008/09) per annum. International applicants may apply but will be required to pay the difference between UK/EU and international fees. The successful applicant will start on 1st October 2009.

Eligibility

Prospective candidates will have a good honours (or equivalent) degree in Computer Science, Engineering Disciplines or other relevant numerate subjects. The successful applicant should have a good background in C/C++ programming.

Informal queries about the project may be directed to Dr Firat Tekiner.

Application

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The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) one of the 15 future harvest centers, which conducts food and environmental research to help reduce poverty, hunger and environmental degradation by enhancing animal agriculture in developing countries. ILRI’s headquarter is in Nairobi, Kenya with a second principal campus in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. For more information on ILRI, please visit the web-site on www.ilri.org.

The Capacity Strengthening unit (CaSt) of ILRI is designed to build and strengthen the scientific knowledge and technical capacity of scientists, educators, technicians, policy makers and other relevant stakeholders in the livestock innovation systems in developing countries. ILRI’s Capacity Strengthening activities are research based. The institute offers individual and group training courses. Support to Post Graduate training is one of the key components of the programme.

ILRI with the generous funding support from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is offering five Ph.D scholarships for Livestock Researchers from the sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. ILRI invites applicants from young African scientists based at the research and learning institution. The priority research themes are:

• Climate change, impacts and adaptation
• Livestock, environment and sustainability
• Emerging diseases, impacts and human health
• Market access, value chain analysis and SPS
• Risk, vulnerability and sustainability of pastoral systems
• Animal genetics resources and breeding
• Smallholder livestock intensification and implications
• Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact Assessment of Livestock Research and Development

The fellowship is only awarded for a maximum period of three years. Female candidates are encouraged to apply.
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There is one PhD scholarship (1/2 TVL E13, research position) funded by the newly-built Courant Research Center “Poverty, Inequality and Growth in Developing Countries” at the University of Goettingen, Germany. This center is mainly focusing on the broad issues in developing and transition economies. This PhD position is expected to closely work with the Junior Research Group ‘Agricultural Economics/Rural Development’, and other members in the center as well, while fulfilling the requirements for the PhD degree (Economics, Agricultural Economics or Statistics). The funding will cover at least three years or until this person complete his PhD degree.

The basic requirements include:

• A master (or Diploma in Germany) degree in agricultural economics, economics, statistics, business management, mathematics or other closely-related fields;

• Good ability and motivation to acquire quantitative and statistical methods;

• Good oral and written command of both English and German language; (Our working language is English).

• Strong research passion on broad issues, such as, poverty and inequality in developing countries, in particular, in African, Asian, and Eastern European countries;

• Pursuing a career of academic professions after completing the Ph.D. degree. The selection would depend on the candidate’s research potential and the research proposal.

The research topics include, but do not limit in:
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