PhD Position in Soil Science at College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, North Carolina State University

Position:
Graduate Research Assistant (GRA), Ph.D.
Biogeochemistry of Organic Metal Binding Agents
NCSU Soil and Environmental Biogeochemistry Laboratory (PI: Owen Duckworth)

Job Description:
We seek an exceptional Ph.D. student to conduct NSF-funded independent research on the interactions of microbial exudates (siderophores) with mineral surfaces and metals. Activities include conducting traditional geochemical, molecular modeling, and cutting-edge spectroscopic experiments to better understand the fundamental mechanisms of biogeochemical processes. Opportunities exist to interact closely with collaborators in and travel to Northern California and New York City.

PhD Student Position in General Linguistics, the University of Texas at Arlington, USA

The Department of Linguistics & TESOL at The University of Texas at Arlington would like to announce the availability of five assistantships for new students admitted for study in our PhD program starting in Fall 2010. These graduate teaching assistantships will have a 9 month stipend of $15,300 and cover tuition for 9 hours of coursework a semester (9 hours is a full-time load).

Our Department has an established doctoral program, with strengths in language documentation, formal linguistics (syntax, semantics, pragmatics, phonology, phonetics), corpus linguistics, and second language acquisition (especially experimental approaches to SLA). Faculty strengths also include Asian, Austronesian, and Native American languages. We are hiring two new faculty this year, one in language documentation and syntax and another in second language acquisition. Facilities include a new Speech Sounds Lab with a soundproof booth and a portable ultrasound. The graduate students in our Department also organize an annual student conference that includes the Yumi Nakamura Prize in Linguistics, which awards a cash prize to the top presentations at the conference.

[USA] Margaret McNamara Memorial Fund (MMMF) Scholarship 2010 For Women From Developing Countries

The Margaret McNamara Memorial Fund (MMMF) is offering scholarship funds to women from developing countries currently studying in the United States or Canada. The MMMF awards grants of approximetly US$12,000 each; grants are not renewable. Every year, the MMMF also invites the recipients to Washington DC to participate in a three day Awards Program organized in their honour. Deadline for applications: February 18, 2010.

[USA] Graduate Students and Postdoc Positions in Information Sciences at Los Alamos National Laboratory

The Socio-technical Modeling and Simulation team in the Information Sciences Group (CCS-3) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has projects in modeling and simulation spanning the full range of research activities from problem analysis, algorithmic and system design, to implementation, testing and applications of our tools. Our work covers a diverse and ever-expanding spectrum of application domains with a focus on infrastructure modeling; our current portfolio includes communication networks, transportation networks, commodity networks, epidemic modeling, agent-based activity modeling, and social networks. Our simulations model large-scale socio-technological systems with high fidelity. To tackle the scalability challenge, we implement our systems on high-performance distributed computing clusters. Most of our students have been able to publish their work done here in peer-reviewed journals and conferences.

Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2010-2011 Georgetown University

The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) is pleased to announce the annual Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellowship competition. The fellowship will support a recent PhD working on the topic of US-Arab Relations, Arab Studies or Islamic Studies (broadly defined) for a period of one academic year for the purpose of transforming his/her dissertation into a book manuscript for publication. The fellow will receive a stipend of between $40,000 – $45,000 as well as benefits.

Facebook Fellowship Program 2010

Every day Facebook confronts among the most complex technical problems and we believe that close relationships with the academy will enable us to address many of these problems at a fundamental level and solve them. As part of our ongoing commitment to academic relations, we are pleased to announce the creation of a Facebook Fellowship program to support graduate students in the 2010-2011 school year.

[USA] PhD Fellowships 2010 in Linguistics at Tulane University

The Program in Linguistics at Tulane University is pleased to announce the establishment of a new Ph.D. in Linguistics and invites applications for three four-year fellowships for the academic year beginning in August 2010.

The Program has particular strengths in Mesoamerican indigenous languages, African languages such as Yoruba and Swahili, East and Southeast Asian languages, Louisiana French, Spanish, pidgins and creoles, sociolinguistic variation, language death and revitalization, language acquisition, bilingual education, philosophy of language, neurolinguistics, embodied cognition, and robotics.

[USA] The Harvard University's Center for International Development PhD and Postdoc Fellowships in Sustainability Science

The Sustainability Science Program at Harvard University’s Center for International Development invites applications for resident fellowships in sustainability science for the University’s academic year beginning in September 2010. The fellowship competition is open to advanced doctoral and post-doctoral students, and to mid-career professionals engaged in research or practice to facilitate the design,
implementation, and evaluation of effective interventions that promote sustainable development.

Due date for applications: *December 1, 2009*

[USA] Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship 2010 in Humanities at Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, John Hopkins University

The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences is currently accepting applications for the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities for three fellows, who will be appointed to a one-year term beginning July 1, 2010, renewable for a second.

The Mellon Postdoctoral Program encourages innovative teaching, enriches educational and research opportunities in the humanities, and fosters the career development of a select group of promising young scholars. Fully one-third of the Krieger School’s faculty is engaged in humanities departments, where scholarly and pedagogical excellence has been the standard since the university’s founding in 1876.

[USA] MA/MSc Teaching Assistantship in Hispanic Languages and Literature, Stony Brook University

We are happy to invite applications to our new M.A. Program in Hispanic Linguistics from all B.A. graduates interested in Spanish linguistics. The Department offers a Teaching Assistant line to the most outstanding application (the TAship covers tuition and a stipend for the awarded student during two consecutive years). There are also other possibilities for financial support for applicants fitting the relevant criteria. Our MA program lasts four semesters (2 years) and seeks to attract students interested in the study of the different grammatical aspects of Spanish.