Master Scholarships 2010 in Photonics at Abbe School of Photonics, Germany

The Abbe School of Photonics provides education programs with multidisciplinary coverage of the field of Optics & Photonics, from upstream scientific aspects to engineering and applications in major sectors of economy. Students enrolled in the school are trained for technical or scientific positions in industry and academia.

The master and Ph.D. programs are based on the profound experience in optics education at the University Jena, which has identified optics as one of its primary fields in education and research. Education at the Abbe School of Photonics is embedded in a modern research environment of the university, the Fraunhofer Institute of Applied Optics, the Institute of Photonics Technologies as well as a number of prominent industrial partners.

Ph.D. Position on Mechanical Behavior of Elastomers Under Cyclic Loading and Aggressive Environments, University of Malaya

Principal Supervisor and Project Leader: Dr. Andri Andriyana
Co-Supervisors:

• Prof. Dr. A.S.M.A. Haseeb
• Dr. Mohd Rafie Johan

A three years Ph.D. position is available at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The research fund is immediately available for the first year and extendable for the next years based on performance. We are looking for a candidate who is capable of and interested in performing high quality research on the Mechanics of Elastomers.

The Government of the Czech Republic Scholarships for Developing Countries

Scholarship Awards within the Foreign Development Assistance Programme
The Government of the Czech Republic offers a number of scholarships within the framework of its Foreign Development Assistance Programme in support of the study of foreign nationals from developing countries at public institutions of higher education in the Czech Republic.

UNESCO/People’s Republic of China – The Great Wall Co-Sponsored Fellowships Programme 2010

With a view to promoting international exchanges in the field of education, culture, communication, science and technology, and to enhancing friendship among peoples of the world, the Government of the People’s Republic of China has placed at the disposal of UNESCO, under the sponsorship of the Organization, twenty five fellowships for advanced studies and two more fellowships on agriculture-related subjects specially at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. These fellowships are for the benefit of developing Member States in Africa, Asia and the Pacific and certain countries in the Arab States.

University of Canterbury Master and Doctoral scholarships 2010

The University of Canterbury (UC) offers a number of scholarships for study towards a PhD degree or for the thesis year of a Masters degree. There is strong competition for these scholarships and applicationmust have gained at least a first class honours degree, or the equivalent, for it to be worth applying.

To be considered for a University of Canterbury Master or Doctoral scholarship, in addition to submitting a scholarship application form, a complete application for admission shouldbe made before or at the same time as the scholarship application is made. If admission has not been approved by prescribed dates, the scholarship application will not be considered.