phd position CUCAS Excellent Students Scholarship Spring Semester

The CUCAS Excellent Students Scholarship is a scholarship program set up by CUCAS independently, to encourage outstanding international students who apply for Chinese universities on CUCAS's website.

1. Scholarship Recipients
Outstanding international students who successfully apply for Chinese universities on the CUCAS website.

2. Scholarship Details

2011 CUCAS Excellent Students Scholarship Amount Quota Application Time
Spring Semester First Prize US $2,000 1 Starts: Oct.1 2010
Ends: Jan 30 2011
Second Prize US $1,000 2
Referral Awards US $200 3
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3. Eligibility
Applicants must observe Chinese laws and regulations.
Applicants must be friendly to Chinese people and respect Chinese multiplicity of cultures and customs.
Applicants must be non-Chinese nationals in good health.
Applicants must be CUCAS registered students (Register Now).
Applicants must apply for 2011 spring programs on CUCAS (Find a Program) and be accepted by the university (when the application status changed to "Accepted" on CUCAS).

4. Scholarship Application
Applicants should submit the scholarship application directly to CUCAS after receiving an electronic acceptance letter sent by the university.
Application starting date: Oct. 1 2010
Application deadline: Jan. 30 2011
Announcement of the evaluation results: Feb. 7 2011


6. Application Documents
These application documents should be submitted directly to CUCAS.

CUCAS Scholarship Application Form (Fill out the form online)
Certificate/diploma of highest education (Graduation certificate in languages other than Chinese or English should be translated into Chinese or English and be certified by notarization.)
Academic transcript of highest education (Transcript in languages other than Chinese or English should be translated into Chinese or English and be certified by notarization.)
Certificates of honors

7. Notes
Scholarship applicants can only choose ONE scholarship to apply for: CUCAS University Scholarship or CUCAS Excellent Students Scholarship.
Scholarship applicants cannot apply for CUCAS scholarships when they have applied for or received any other scholarships.
CUCAS reserves the final right of interpretation of these detailed implementation regulations.

Application Deadline : 30 January 2011

Homepage: http://scholarship.cucas.edu.cn/HomePage/content/content_7.shtml

Contact Adress:

Contact Email: service@cucas.cn

The Hitachi Scholarship Foundation offers postgraduate scholarship

VLIR-UOS Masters Degree Scholarships for Developing Countries, Belgium

VLIR-UOS awards scholarships to students from developing countries so that they can follow a master or training programme in Belgium. These scholarships cover all related expenses. Every year, VLIR-UOS awards up to 180 scholarships to first-year master students and 70 scholarships to training participants. All programmes are specifically designed for people in positions of responsibility in civil society (e.g. universities, schools, NGOs, local communities, governments).

VLIR-UOS funds and facilitates academic cooperation and exchange between higher education institutions in Flanders (Belgium) and those in developing countries, which aims at building capacity, knowledge and experience for a sustainable development. As part of the Flemish Interuniversity Council, VLIR-UOS is responsible for managing and dispersing the university development cooperation funds of Belgium’s Minister of Development Cooperation.

Academic universities in Belgium:

Universiteit Antwerpen

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Universiteit Gent

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Universiteit Hasselt (tUL inclusief)

International Training Programmes 2011

• AudioVisual Learning Materials – Management, Production and Activities (AVLM)

• Beekeeping for Poverty Alleviation


• International Training Programme in Food Safety, Quality Assurance Systems and Risk Analysis

• Lib@Web – Management of Electronic Information and Digital Libraries

• Technology for Integrated Water Management

International Master Programmes 2011-2012

• Master of Development Evaluation and Management

• Master of Globalisation and Development

• Master of Governance and Development

• Master of Human Settlements

• International Master Programmes 2011-2013


• Master of Aquaculture

• Master of Biology – Specialisation Human Ecology

• Master of Biostatistics

• Master of Environmental Sanitation

• Master of Food Technology

• Master of Marine and Lacustrine Science and Management (Oceans & Lakes)

• Master of Molecular Biology (IPMB)

• Master of Nematology


• Master of Nutrition and Rural Development,Main Subject: Human Nutrition

• Master of Physical Land Resources

• Master of Water Resources Engineering

Application and selection procedure

Applicants applying for both academic admission and a VLIR-UOS scholarship need to consider both the admission requirements and the scholarship criteria.

Applicants applying for academic admission but not for a scholarship simply need to fulfill only the admission requirements of the host university running the programme.

The host university is in charge of the academic admission of applications. Study results will be taken into consideration during the selection, but the most important academic selection criteria are relevant professional experience and prospects for applying the acquired insights after return to the developing country. The academic admission requirements are specific to every programme.

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A joint selection committee of VLIR-UOS and the host university is responsible for selecting scholarships. The host university – not the applicant – forwards the scholarship applications to the VLIR-UOS secretariat if the academic admission requirements are met. The VLIR-UOS scholarship criteria relate to the qualifications required of all scholarship applicants and selection criteria evaluated by the selection committee.

Target Country

Only residents and nationals of the following countries are eligible for a VLIR-UOS scholarship:

Africa

Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Asia

Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Palestinian Administered Areas, Philippines, Vietnam

Latin America

Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Nicaragua, Peru, Surinam

This is how you apply for the academic year 2011-2012

You can apply for a VLIR-UOS scholarship from the 1st of October 2010.

You must fill in the pre-screening form at the bottom of the page of the programme you want to follow. You may only choose one programme. If you apply to more than one programme your details will be entered more than once in our central database and all your applications will be inadmissible.

So you must follow the correct and complete procedure below.

1. Apply on the VLIR-UOS website via the pre-screening form: fill in name, birth date, country, etc…;

2. Receive a VLIR-UOS application/file number by return e-mail from VLIR-UOS;

3. Apply on the website from the host university through the link mentioned in the return e-mail from VLIR-UOS;

4. Write the received VLIR-UOS application/file number on the application file from the host university;

5. Send a printout of your application file along with all required documents (diploma transcripts, motivation, etc…) to the International Office of the host university, not to VLIR-UOS.

Applications that are incomplete, illegible or that reach the host university’s International Office after the deadline will be automatically rejected.

Application Deadline

The deadline to apply for a scholarship from VLIR-UOS for a master programme is the 1st of February 2011.

Leaflet Scholarships VLIR-UOS – intake 2011.pdf

http://www.scholarships.vliruos.be/downloads/Leaflet%20Scholarships%20VLIR-UOS%20-%20intake%202011.pdf

Poster Scholarships VLIR-UOS – intake 2011.pdf

http://www.scholarships.vliruos.be/downloads/Poster%20Scholarships%20VLIR-UOS%20-%20intake%202011.pdf

Source: http://www.scholarships.vliruos.be/

home scholarship PhD student position in energy and environment

The Department of Energy and Environment conducts superior research and education in energy and sustainable development, at the global scale down to the industrial, building, and product level. Our focus is on experimental and theoretical energy technology research, as well as development, use, and evaluation of methods and tools for analysis of technology systems. In total, 150 individuals work in the department’s six divisions. Read the rest of this entry »

PhD Studentship:Motif and domain determinants of protein localization in mammalian cells : UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4

Science jobs from University College Dublin: job description

NB: this position is restricted to European Union candidates (EU status is based largely on recent residency – www.ucd.ie/registry/adminservices/fees/eu_fees.htm#2)

Are you interested in interdisciplinary research in mathematics, computing and biology?

New high-throughput technologies in biology have opened up exciting opportunities for numerate scientists to work in advanced areas of biological research. Our programme takes students from a variety of backgrounds (statistics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, biology, chemistry, physics) and gives them a structured training during their PhD, tailored to their needs. Each project is jointly run by two supervisors, one with a background in modelling or computational analysis and one with an experimental research programme. The student is integrated into the research teams of both research groups.
Applications are invited from EU students for 4-year PhD positions under the graduate education programme (GREP) of the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (IRCSET). Most studentships commence Oct 2009

Motif and domain determinants of protein localization in mammalian cells
Co-supervisors: Prof Jez Simpson UCD (Experimental protein subcellular imaging); Denis Shields, UCD
Co-localisation of proteins within cellular sub-compartments is critical for many protein-protein interactions, mediating cell signaling processes. But why do proteins go where they go in the cell? Our imaging methods allow the visualization of proteins, based on fluorescent tags attached to both the N and C termini. However, N- and C-terminally tagged proteins do not always go to the same location. This suggests that elements at the N and C termini may be important for localization of these proteins. In this project, the cellular distribution of proteins will be investigated in relation to the presence and absence of proteins domains, and of computationally identified terminal motifs (http://bioware.ucd.ie/slimfinder). A key question that will be addressed is whether particular combinations of motifs and domains play a role in specificity of localization and co-complex membership within the protein interaction network. Predictions arising from this computational modeling of protein localization will then be tested by experimentally visualizing the location of protein constructs with mutations in terminal motifs and domains.
Application procedure procedure and further details

http://bioinformatics.ucd.ie/PhD/apply_09.html

This studentship is funded by IRCSET (www.ircset.ie). Funds are available for a student stipend (€16,000), fees, some lab consumables ( up to €5,000 per year), and a travel budget to allow the student to get work experience abroad and industrial work experience in a company in Ireland or abroad.

Contact Details: bioinfo@ucd.ie
Closing date: 30th March 2009

University College Dublin
Website:
http://bioinformatics.ucd.ie/…
Location:
UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4
Expires:
May 15, 2009

PhD Studentship: Spatiotemporal code of signal specificity and systems-level modeling of pathway crosstalk : Conway Institute, UCD, Dublin

Science jobs from University College Dublin: job description
NB: this position is restricted to European Union candidates (EU status is based largely on recent residency – www.ucd.ie/registry/adminservices/fees/eu_fees.htm#2)

Are you interested in interdisciplinary research in mathematics, computing and biology?

New high-throughput technologies in biology have opened up exciting opportunities for numerate scientists to work in advanced areas of biological research. Our programme takes students from a variety of backgrounds (statistics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, biology, chemistry, physics) and gives them a structured training during their PhD, tailored to their needs. Each project is jointly run by two supervisors, one with a background in modelling or computational analysis and one with an experimental research programme. The student is integrated into the research teams of both research groups. Applications are invited from EU students for 4-year PhD positions under the graduate education programme (GREP) of the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (IRCSET). Most studentships commence Oct 2009 .

Spatiotemporal code of signal specificity and systems-level modeling of pathway crosstalk
Supervisors: Boris Kholodenko UCD, Zoltan Neufeld UCD, Walter Kolch; (Systems Biology)
Cells respond to a myriad of external cues using a limited number of signaling pathways that convert multiple inputs into diverse cellular decisions. A challenge in cell signaling research is to understand how different cues and receptors give rise to unique gene expression responses despite the promiscuous routing of signals through overlapping pathways. The current modeling and experimental project will connect cell response specificity with distinct temporal and spatial activation profiles of key effector kinases, such as the mitogen-activated protein kinases, protein kinase B/AKT, and critical transcriptional regulators (immediate early genes). A closely related topic, which will be explored in this project, is how pathway crosstalk influences the spatiotemporal activation profiles of these key regulators. In fact, during the past 25 years of signaling research, individual receptors and pathways have been extensively studied, yet how signaling networks integrate multiple cues is not understood.

This project will focus on understanding signal specificity and crosstalk in receptor tyrosine kinase networks stimulated by a variety of growth factors, including epidermal growth factor, insulin, insulin-like growth factor 1, fibroblast growth factor and some other stimuli. Central to the research will be the construction and analysis of mechanistic, compartmental ordinary differential equation models for signal propagation in time and space. The PhD candidate may choose to work only on the modeling aspects of the project, or alternatively can also be involved with both modeling and experimental aspects. Modeling work will benefit from large amounts of quantitative data that will be generated specifically for modeling purposes by experimentalists working on the project.

Application procedure procedure and further detailshttp://bioinformatics.ucd.ie/PhD/apply_09.html

This studentship is funded by IRCSET (www.ircset.ie). Funds are available for a student stipend (€16,000), fees, some lab consumables ( up to €5,000 per year), and a travel budget to allow the student to get work experience abroad and industrial work experience in a company in Ireland or abroad.

Contact Details: bioinfo@ucd.ie
Closing date: 30th March 2009
University College Dublin
Website:
http://bioinformatics.ucd.ie/…
Location:
Conway Institute, UCD, Dublin
Posted:
March 16, 2009
Expires:
May 15, 2009