Great teaching could make a world of difference for children in high-need schools. For your friends and colleagues who are eager to share their math or science knowledge with young people who need them most, the Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship is an unparalleled opportunity. Please pass on this email to anyone you think would be a good candidate. For top applicants, this prestigious Fellowship offers a generous stipend toward completion of a master’s degree program in education at a Woodrow Wilson partner institution in Georgia or Pennsylvania.The program includes a yearlong clinical experience in a local high-need school, rigorous subject matter courses, professional development opportunities, and one-on-one …
Provost’s Office Summer Science Research Awards 2019
Provost’s Pre-Dissertation Science Research Fellowship This pre-dissertation grant program is made possible through a generous grant from Graduate Center Foundation Board member Robert Raucci. Deadline for Applications: Friday, February, 8th, 2019, 3:00 pm The Provost’s Office is pleased to announce the following pre-dissertation fellowship competition for doctoral students in the following doctoral programs: Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth and Environmental Science, Mathematics, Nursing Science, Psychology, Speech-Language Hearing Sciences, and Physics. These summer awards provide $5,000. This fellowship program has three objectives: To allow students to conduct early stage research and training following completion of the first doctoral exam. To …
#EESpublishes: SHRIMP U–Pb zircon evidence for age, provenance, and tectonic history of early Paleozoic Ganderian rocks, east-central Maine, USA
New first authored paper by Prof Allan Ludman in the journal of Atlantic Geology
New book edited by Prof Setha Low: The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City
Professor Setha Low has edited a new book entitled The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City. The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City provides a comprehensive study of current and future urban issues on a global and local scale. Premised on an ‘engaged’ approach to urban anthropology, the volume adopts a thematic approach that covers a wide range of modern urban issues, with a particular focus on those of high public interest. Topics covered include security, displacement, social justice, privatization, sustainability, and preservation. Offering valuable insight into how anthropologists investigate, make sense of, and then address a variety of urban …
Tenure track position at Northern Illinois University–women’s and gender studies
DESCRIPTION The interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Northern Illinois University is looking for a dynamic scholar to fill the position of Assistant Professor to begin in the fall of 2019, with expertise in Critical Race Theory. The successful candidate will be a joint appointment tenure-track faculty member in the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, with a tenure home in an appropriate academic department (open). The candidate will be expected to teach courses to both undergraduate and graduate students in both units, as well as engage in an active research agenda …
Postdoc in Species Distribution/Pollen Vegetation Modeling at The Morton Arboretum in Chicago
The Morton Arboretum invites applications for a two year postdoctoral researcher to work on an NSF-supported project, “Quantifying biogeographic history: a novel model-based approach to integrating data from genes, fossils, specimens, and environments”. The successful applicant will join an international team of researchers in mathematics/ statistics, ecology, biogeography, distribution modeling, and population genetics. The postdoctoral researcher will collaborate with the project team to design, develop and implement novel methods for integrating datasets which have different characteristics and resolution (environmental, paleoecological, and genetic data) to make inference about historical shifts in species ranges and changes in population sizes. Applicants should have a …
Vegetation Science Assistant Professor Search at UCSB
Assistant Professor – Vegetation Science – Department of Geography The Department of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the level of Assistant Professor with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2019. The Department is looking for exceptional individuals with particular emphasis in the area of Vegetation Data Science. We seek a highly creative and interdisciplinary scholar whose research exploits large spatio-temporal data sets such as those coming from continental and global scale environmental data networks and observatories (e.g., FluxNet, PhenoCam network, NEON, US National Phenology Network) and/or state of …
DOLORES ZOHRAB LIEBMANN FUND
DOLORES ZOHRAB LIEBMANN FUND CONDITIONS FOR 2019-2020 CANDIDATE QUALIFICATIONS Fellowships are available to students who are currently enrolled in and pursuing a graduate degree at a designated institution of higher learning located in the United States of America. Undergraduate students are no longer qualified candidates. The program of study being pursued by the candidate may include any recognized field of study in the humanities, social sciences, or natural sciences (including law, medicine, engineering, architecture or other formal professional training). The selection committee has a strong preference for supporting scholarly endeavors. The candidate must have received a baccalaureate degree at the time of application and have an outstanding undergraduate record. …
Two Assistant Professor Positions, Environmental Science, Rowan University
The School of Earth & Environment at Rowan University seeks to fill two Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) positions starting September 1st, 2019 in the recently established Department of Environmental Science. We seek outstanding candidates who hold a Ph.D. in Environmental Science or a closely related discipline, such as biology, chemistry, marine science and geoscience. Successful candidates are expected to develop and maintain an active, highly visible, extramurally funded research program with outstanding scholarship and to demonstrate excellence in teaching and mentoring both graduate and undergraduate students. We seek candidates who have a big picture, global focus — established international collaborations are a plus. The areas of expertise are open, however, …
North Carolina Postdoctoral Program for Faculty Diversity
The UNC Department of Geography recruits applicants to the Carolina Postdoctoral Program for Faculty Diversity (CPPFD), a prestigious 2-year postdoc that has the goal of preparing recent PhDs for tenure track appointments at UNC. Our department has previously used this mechanism multiple times to make tenure-track hires, and we hope to recruit another such scholar this year. The target applicants are US-born scholars from groups that are underrepresented in the academy. This is a full-time research appointment with no service obligations and the option of teaching a maximum of one course per year. Applicants who plan to rank Geography as their first choice placement at UNC should contact Geography Diversity …
