You apply to be an undergraduate teaching assistant for a particular semester. Due to the nature of the VIGRE grant, you must be a US Citizen or Permanent Resident to participate in the UTA Program. (If you are neither a US Citizen nor a Permanent Resident, there may be another scholarship, fellowship, teaching assistantship, or research assistantship opportunities available to you. Please consult the Math Center for current opportunities.) You must also be a math major at the University to be accepted into the UTA program.
Applying for Spring 2007
Procedure
Prior to the deadline (November 28), you must do all of the following:
* Locate a faculty sponsor and write a proposal ofplanned activities. If you need help locating a sponsor or coming up with suitable activities, please contact the UTA Program coordinator for assistance.
* Ask the faculty sponsor to write a letter of support. Note that this is not the same as your letter of recommendation writer.
* Ask one of your math teachers to write a letter of recommendation on your behalf.
* Download and complete the application form.
* Deliver all materials to one of the UTA coordinators. Turn in your application to J.P. Cossey or Matt Salomone via their mailboxes in Math 108.
* Sign up for the mathematics skills test, take the test, and pass the test.
Deadline
Selection is competitive. Your application form should be
submitted to the UTA Program coordinators by November 28, 2007.
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Postdoctoral Position in G Protein Signaling, University of Texas Southwestern
Location: USA
DeadlinE: 2008-Mar-10
To study mechanisms of signal amplification, integration and timing in receptor-G protein-effector systems. We work both with purified proteins and in cells. We try to focus on essential mechanisms of signaling and quantitative interpretation of experiments. We use both traditional biochemical and cellular measurements as well as data from fluorescence sensors .
Strong applicants could come from a signaling background or from other areas of biochemistry, biophysics, molecular pharmacology or computational/systems biology. You will dig into all of these areas before you leave.
Applicants should send a CV, a brief statement describing their research interests and the names and contact information for three referees.
Feel free to call or email me for questions; our lab web site is ancient and is about to be replaced.
Elliott M. Ross
Department of Pharmacology
Graduate Programs in Cell Regulation and Molecular Biophysics
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
6001 Forest Park Dr.
Dallas, TX 75390-9041
Email: rossatutsw.swmed.edu
DeadlinE: 2008-Mar-10
To study mechanisms of signal amplification, integration and timing in receptor-G protein-effector systems. We work both with purified proteins and in cells. We try to focus on essential mechanisms of signaling and quantitative interpretation of experiments. We use both traditional biochemical and cellular measurements as well as data from fluorescence sensors .
Strong applicants could come from a signaling background or from other areas of biochemistry, biophysics, molecular pharmacology or computational/systems biology. You will dig into all of these areas before you leave.
Applicants should send a CV, a brief statement describing their research interests and the names and contact information for three referees.
Feel free to call or email me for questions; our lab web site is ancient and is about to be replaced.
Elliott M. Ross
Department of Pharmacology
Graduate Programs in Cell Regulation and Molecular Biophysics
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
6001 Forest Park Dr.
Dallas, TX 75390-9041
Email: rossatutsw.swmed.edu
Jazz in as Music Scholarships
Jazz in Arizona, Inc.,a 501© (3) organization, accepts applications for scholarships throughout the year, and generally makes awards on a quarterly basis. JiA’s primary focus is to assist emerging jazz musician (vocalists and instrumentalists) in their development of granting scholarships for performance and educational purposes.
Awards will be made on the basis of demonstrated music achievement, talent potential, and financial need. The amounts awarded will vary depending on the specific purpose of the applicants request. Generally, the amount awarded is a supplement to other sources of support used to fund the applicant’s performance and educational needs.
Eligibility:
* Be between the ages of 14 and 22, and have evidence of success in a formal music program of study (typically high school, college or private instruction);
* Are pursuing a life-long activity of studying and performing jazz;
* If you have not been a member of a group that has recorded commercially-released recordings;
* If you have never signed contracts with any booking agent or manager.
Criteria:
* Application may be submitted at any time.
* A completed JiA application form
* Enrollment schedule that includes music instruction
* Letters of recommendation from applicant’s instructor(s)
* If receiving financial aid, a copy of the award letter.
For application and further information contact Mrs. Ginny Walters in the Career Center or Mr. David Duarte, DVHS band director, in room 1001.
Jazz in Arizona, Inc.
P.O. Box 9651
Scottsdale, AZ 85252-9651
Phone: (480) 994-0807
info@JazzinAZ.org
Awards will be made on the basis of demonstrated music achievement, talent potential, and financial need. The amounts awarded will vary depending on the specific purpose of the applicants request. Generally, the amount awarded is a supplement to other sources of support used to fund the applicant’s performance and educational needs.
Eligibility:
* Be between the ages of 14 and 22, and have evidence of success in a formal music program of study (typically high school, college or private instruction);
* Are pursuing a life-long activity of studying and performing jazz;
* If you have not been a member of a group that has recorded commercially-released recordings;
* If you have never signed contracts with any booking agent or manager.
Criteria:
* Application may be submitted at any time.
* A completed JiA application form
* Enrollment schedule that includes music instruction
* Letters of recommendation from applicant’s instructor(s)
* If receiving financial aid, a copy of the award letter.
For application and further information contact Mrs. Ginny Walters in the Career Center or Mr. David Duarte, DVHS band director, in room 1001.
Jazz in Arizona, Inc.
P.O. Box 9651
Scottsdale, AZ 85252-9651
Phone: (480) 994-0807
info@JazzinAZ.org
PhD Studentships in the Biophysical Sciences Institute, Durham University
Location: UK
These posts are funded by an EPSRC grant to create a world leading research team whose overriding goal is to exploit creative research based on the most recent discoveries of biological sensory systems. This will involve the design and development of new bio-inspired sensing and signal transmission technologies which have the potential to be integrated within the body to create the next generation of diagnostic and self healing solutions. The research will require the integration of technologies including ion channel and electronic transport mechanisms, chemical interactions and membrane assembly techniques, biocompatibility of materials, signal transmission etc.
This is a multidisciplinary project requiring the successful candidates to work in the disciplines of neurophysiology, and electronic and material engineering with Dr Sherri Johnstone (Engineering) and Dr Susan Pyner (Biological and Biomedical Sciences). Thus, excellent communication skills and a willingness to learn and apply new scientific concepts are essential.
Applications for the PhD studentships are invited from candidates who have an upper second class or first class undergraduate masters degree in a mathematically based science or engineering subject. Tuition fees are provided at Home and EU rate. Successful overseas candidates will need to source funding for the extra overseas rate. Please refer to http://www.dur.ac.uk/postgraduate/financ e/tuition/ and http://www.dur.ac.uk/international/fees/postgraduate/to compare the Home and Overseas rates.
Enquiries should be made to Dr Sherri Johnstone sherri.johnstoneatdurham.ac.uk or tel: 0191 334 2445 and applications should be made online via the webpage https://jobs.dur.ac.uk/
These posts are funded by an EPSRC grant to create a world leading research team whose overriding goal is to exploit creative research based on the most recent discoveries of biological sensory systems. This will involve the design and development of new bio-inspired sensing and signal transmission technologies which have the potential to be integrated within the body to create the next generation of diagnostic and self healing solutions. The research will require the integration of technologies including ion channel and electronic transport mechanisms, chemical interactions and membrane assembly techniques, biocompatibility of materials, signal transmission etc.
This is a multidisciplinary project requiring the successful candidates to work in the disciplines of neurophysiology, and electronic and material engineering with Dr Sherri Johnstone (Engineering) and Dr Susan Pyner (Biological and Biomedical Sciences). Thus, excellent communication skills and a willingness to learn and apply new scientific concepts are essential.
Applications for the PhD studentships are invited from candidates who have an upper second class or first class undergraduate masters degree in a mathematically based science or engineering subject. Tuition fees are provided at Home and EU rate. Successful overseas candidates will need to source funding for the extra overseas rate. Please refer to http://www.dur.ac.uk/postgraduate/financ e/tuition/ and http://www.dur.ac.uk/international/fees/postgraduate/to compare the Home and Overseas rates.
Enquiries should be made to Dr Sherri Johnstone sherri.johnstoneatdurham.ac.uk or tel: 0191 334 2445 and applications should be made online via the webpage https://jobs.dur.ac.uk/
2008 International Dissertation Research Fellowships
Deadline: November 6, 2007 at 9pm EST
The International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) program supports distinguished graduate students in the humanities and social sciences conducting dissertation research outside the United States. Seventy-five fellowships will be awarded in 2008 with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The IDRF program is committed to scholarship that advances knowledge about non-U.S. cultures and societies grounded in empirical and site-specific research (involving fieldwork, research in archival or manuscript collections, or quantitative data collection). The program promotes research that is situated in a specific discipline and geographical region and is engaged with interdisciplinary and cross-regional perspectives.
Fellowships will provide support for nine to twelve months of dissertation research. Individual awards will be approximately $20,000. No awards will be made for proposals requiring less than nine months of on-site research. The 2008 IDRF fellowship must be held for a single continuous period within the eighteen months between July 2008 and December 2009.
The program is administered by the Social Science Research Council in partnership with the American Council of Learned Societies.
Eligibility
The program is open to full-time graduate students in the humanities and social sciences — regardless of citizenship — enrolled in doctoral programs in the United States. Applicants must complete all Ph.D. requirements except on-site research by the time the fellowship begins or by December 2008, whichever comes first.
The program invites proposals for empirical and site-specific dissertation research outside the United States. It will consider applications for dissertation research grounded in a single site, informed by broader cross-regional and interdisciplinary perspectives, as well as applications for multi-sited, comparative, and transregional research. Proposals that identify the US as a case for comparative inquiry are welcome; however, proposals which focus predominantly or exclusively on the United States are not eligible. Proposals may cover all periods in history, but must address topics that have relevance to contemporary issues and debates.
Students enrolled in Ph.D. programs in public policy, public health, and education, may be eligible to apply if their research projects engage directly with broader theoretical and analytical issues in the humanities and social sciences. The program does not accept applications from Ph.D. programs in law, business, medicine, nursing or journalism. Students who have already received nine months or more of support for dissertation research in one country are not eligible to apply to the IDRF to extend the research time in the same country.
Selection Criteria
The IDRF program is committed to scholarship that advances knowledge about non-U.S. cultures and societies and that is empirical and site specific (involving many kinds of fieldwork and surveys, research in archival or manuscript collections, or quantitative data collection). The program promotes research that is situated in a specific discipline and geographical region and is engaged with interdisciplinary and cross-regional perspectives. Proposals may cover all periods in history, but must address topics that have relevance to contemporary issues and debates.
The IDRF competition thus promotes a range of approaches and research designs beyond single site or single country research, including comparative work at the national and regional levels (that may in some cases rely on secondary literature) and explicit comparison of cases across time frames. The program is open to proposals informed by a range of methodologies in the humanities and social sciences, both quantitative and qualitative, that seek to answer research questions through sustained empirical, site-specific and source-driven investigations. The IDRF program will not support study at foreign universities, conference participation, short research trips abroad or projects relying primarily on labwork.
Applicants are expected to write in clear, intelligible prose for a selection committee that is multi-disciplinary and cross-regional. Proposals should display a thorough knowledge of the major concepts,theories, and methods in the applicant’s discipline and in other related fields as well as a bibliography relevant to the research. Applicants should specify why an extended period of on-site research is critical for successful completion of the proposed doctoral dissertation. The research design of proposals should be realistic in scope, clearly formulated, and responsive to theoretical and methodological concerns. Applicants should provide evidence of having attained an appropriate level of training to undertake the proposed research, including evidence of a degree of language fluency sufficient to complete the project.
Application Timeline
Application Deadline: November 6, 2007 at 9pm EST
Award Notification: April 2008
Research: July 2008 through December 2009
Useful Links:
* FAQ
* Online application
Via: official announcement
The International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) program supports distinguished graduate students in the humanities and social sciences conducting dissertation research outside the United States. Seventy-five fellowships will be awarded in 2008 with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The IDRF program is committed to scholarship that advances knowledge about non-U.S. cultures and societies grounded in empirical and site-specific research (involving fieldwork, research in archival or manuscript collections, or quantitative data collection). The program promotes research that is situated in a specific discipline and geographical region and is engaged with interdisciplinary and cross-regional perspectives.
Fellowships will provide support for nine to twelve months of dissertation research. Individual awards will be approximately $20,000. No awards will be made for proposals requiring less than nine months of on-site research. The 2008 IDRF fellowship must be held for a single continuous period within the eighteen months between July 2008 and December 2009.
The program is administered by the Social Science Research Council in partnership with the American Council of Learned Societies.
Eligibility
The program is open to full-time graduate students in the humanities and social sciences — regardless of citizenship — enrolled in doctoral programs in the United States. Applicants must complete all Ph.D. requirements except on-site research by the time the fellowship begins or by December 2008, whichever comes first.
The program invites proposals for empirical and site-specific dissertation research outside the United States. It will consider applications for dissertation research grounded in a single site, informed by broader cross-regional and interdisciplinary perspectives, as well as applications for multi-sited, comparative, and transregional research. Proposals that identify the US as a case for comparative inquiry are welcome; however, proposals which focus predominantly or exclusively on the United States are not eligible. Proposals may cover all periods in history, but must address topics that have relevance to contemporary issues and debates.
Students enrolled in Ph.D. programs in public policy, public health, and education, may be eligible to apply if their research projects engage directly with broader theoretical and analytical issues in the humanities and social sciences. The program does not accept applications from Ph.D. programs in law, business, medicine, nursing or journalism. Students who have already received nine months or more of support for dissertation research in one country are not eligible to apply to the IDRF to extend the research time in the same country.
Selection Criteria
The IDRF program is committed to scholarship that advances knowledge about non-U.S. cultures and societies and that is empirical and site specific (involving many kinds of fieldwork and surveys, research in archival or manuscript collections, or quantitative data collection). The program promotes research that is situated in a specific discipline and geographical region and is engaged with interdisciplinary and cross-regional perspectives. Proposals may cover all periods in history, but must address topics that have relevance to contemporary issues and debates.
The IDRF competition thus promotes a range of approaches and research designs beyond single site or single country research, including comparative work at the national and regional levels (that may in some cases rely on secondary literature) and explicit comparison of cases across time frames. The program is open to proposals informed by a range of methodologies in the humanities and social sciences, both quantitative and qualitative, that seek to answer research questions through sustained empirical, site-specific and source-driven investigations. The IDRF program will not support study at foreign universities, conference participation, short research trips abroad or projects relying primarily on labwork.
Applicants are expected to write in clear, intelligible prose for a selection committee that is multi-disciplinary and cross-regional. Proposals should display a thorough knowledge of the major concepts,theories, and methods in the applicant’s discipline and in other related fields as well as a bibliography relevant to the research. Applicants should specify why an extended period of on-site research is critical for successful completion of the proposed doctoral dissertation. The research design of proposals should be realistic in scope, clearly formulated, and responsive to theoretical and methodological concerns. Applicants should provide evidence of having attained an appropriate level of training to undertake the proposed research, including evidence of a degree of language fluency sufficient to complete the project.
Application Timeline
Application Deadline: November 6, 2007 at 9pm EST
Award Notification: April 2008
Research: July 2008 through December 2009
Useful Links:
* FAQ
* Online application
Via: official announcement
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