Recently in September 2011 Category
Length: 2 years, may lead to permanent position
Comments: Graduate students from all academic disciplines who expect to complete an advanced degree (master's, law, or doctoral-level degree) from a qualifying college or university during the 2011-2012 academic year (September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2012) are eligible to be nominated by their schools for the upcoming 2011 application period. The purpose of the Program is to attract to the Federal service outstanding men and women from a variety of academic disciplines and career paths who have a clear interest in, and commitment to, excellence in the leadership and management of public policies and programs. The application process requires that the applicant provide a nomination from the institution. In order to be nominated, you must submit the nominating form, a résumé, and a brief statement to Brett Baker in Foster 107 by September 26, 2011. Please direct questions to ssd-fellowships@uchicago.edu.
URL: http://www.pmf.gov/
NOTE: There will be two information sessions about this program:
Wednesday, September 14
3:30 p.m., South Lounge, Reynolds Club
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Tuesday, September 20
11 a.m., Harris School Room 289A
Deadline: September 30, 2011
Length: 2 years for PhD students
Comments: This program provides fellowships to students of superior academic ability--selected on the basis of demonstrated achievement, financial need, and exceptional promise--to undertake study at the doctoral level in selected fields of arts, humanities, and social sciences. Subject to the availability of funds, a fellow receives the Javits fellowship annually for up to the lesser of 48 months or the completion of their degree. The fellowship consists of an institutional payment (accepted by the institution of higher education in lieu of all tuition and fees for the fellow) and a stipend (based on the fellow's financial need as determined by the measurements of the Federal Student Assistance Processing System.
Length: 3-12 months
Comments: The Abe Fellowship is designed to encourage international multidisciplinary research on topics of pressing global concern. The program seeks to foster the development of a new generation of researchers who are interested in policy-relevant topics of long-range importance and who are willing to become key members of a bilateral and global research network built around such topics. It strives especially to promote a new level of intellectual cooperation between the Japanese and American academic and professional communities committed to and trained for advancing global understanding and problem solving. This competition is open to citizens of the United States and Japan as well as to nationals of other countries who can demonstrate strong and serious long-term affiliations with research communities in Japan or the United States. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. or the terminal degree in their field, or have attained an equivalent level of professional experience at the time of application.
URL: http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/abe-fellowship/
Length: N/A
Comments:
The competition is open to anyone who has completed a dissertation that focuses on Hispanic(s) in higher education or to any Hispanic individual who has completed a dissertation in the social sciences, broadly defined, between December 2009 and August 1, 2011.
Dissertations are eligible if they are in domains that are related to the ETS corporate mission, including education, linguistics, psychology, statistics, testing, and so forth. Studies using any research approach (historical, experimental, survey, qualitative, etc.) are eligible.
URL: http://www.aahhe.org/OutstandingDissertationsCompetition2008.aspx
