Fulbright-mtvU Fellowships
Fulbright-mtvU Fellowships, administered by the Institute of International Education, are for U.S. students to conduct research abroad for one academic year on study projects of their own design around an aspect of international musical culture. Up to 4 Fellowships will be awarded to outstanding U.S. students nationwide. In addition to proposing unique projects on "the power of music" as a global force for mutual understanding, applicants must submit an outreach plan describing how they intend to share their activities with their peers during their Fulbright year.
Application deadline has been extended to March 1, 2008. For more information visit the Fulbright-mtvU website .
The DV Gokhale International Grants/Loans in Statistics Program
Summary:
In response to the interest and inquiry of Dr. DV Gokhale, the Institute of International Education (IIE) has established The DV Gokhale International Grants/Loans in Statistics Program through donations and a bequest from Dr. Gokhale. This unique and much-needed program will provide grants and/or loans*: (a) to Indian undergraduate and graduate students to study statistics in the United States; (b) to American undergraduate and graduate students to study statistics and related subjects in India; and (c) to support faculty exchanges in this field between the United States and India.
Background:
Dr. DV Gokhale, Professor Emeritus of Statistics at the University of California at Riverside, received a Fulbright travel grant to study in the United States in the 1960s through IIE. This experience was one of the most important in his life, as it gave him the opportunity to study and make contacts in the United States. It eventually led to the move of Dr. Gokhale and his family to the United States, where they have been settled for the past 40 years. In appreciation of his experience and with the desire to give other students and faculty this same opportunity, Dr. Gokhale would like to establish a grants program focused on helping Indian students to study statistics in the United States, American students to study statistics and related subjects in India and to enable faculty members in this field to participate in exchanges between the two countries.
Program Details:
The DV Gokhale Program would reflect the following interests of the donor:
1. Field of Interest: Statistics.
2. Institutions of Interest: Institutions of Interest**; University of Pune; University of California at Berkeley; University of California at Riverside; colleges and universities in California.
3. Countries of Interest: India; United States.
4. Recipients of Interest: undergraduate students; graduate students; faculty.
For more information & to APPLY:
Please contact Becky Yi at byi@iie.org.
*Each candidate will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis to determine whether to award as a full grant, full loan, or a combination of the two. Re-payment of loans will be a legal obligation of the borrower pursuant to a contract between the recipient and IIE.
** If suitable candidates are not available within the Institutions of Interest, other candidates may also be considered.
Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) Scholarship
The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) offers Scholarships to Germany from Fall 2008 to Summer 2009.
Application Deadline: January 31st 2008
The program supports each year approximately 50-60 US and Canadian undergraduate students. We hope to help these students reach their academic goals while building important and lasting bonds of friendship between our countries and introducing them to the benefits of the German higher education system.
Highly qualified undergraduate students are invited to apply for scholarships funding study, senior thesis research and/or internships in Germany from four to ten months. Scholarships are available either as part of an organized study abroad program or as part of an individual, student-designed study abroad semester or year. For detailed program information click visit the DAAD website.
NSF-Funded Central Europe Summer Research Institute Program
America's global competitiveness in science and engineering depends on sustaining and expanding its globally competent pool of science and engineering professionals, a growing challenge in today's competitive marketplace. With support from the National Science Foundation, the Central Europe Summer Research Institute (CESRI) will provide fourteen U.S. graduate students in the sciences and engineering with a high-quality international research experience in Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland or Slovakia.
The CESRI program will be 8 weeks in length, with the first week spent as a group in Budapest, Hungary in a specially designed cultural and academic orientation to the region. Participants will spend the remaining 7 weeks working in individually-arranged placements in university labs or other appropriate sites where they can participate in creative research activities under the supervision of European mentors.
Applications are due February 4, 2008. For detailed program information click visit the IIE website.
Eligibility:
All Applicants Must:
- Have U.S. citizenship, or permanent residence in the U.S.
- Be a current Master's or Ph.D. student at an American university in one of the following fields: Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering, Environmental Science, or Mathematics.
The program is intended for scientific research projects; thus field-work, policy, ethics and related disciplines will not be considered. Also, projects involving clinical research on human subjects will not be accepted.
Preference will be given to proposals in fields that are underrepresented in international scientific exchanges.
Berlin Scholarships of the Remembrance and Future Fund
Program
The Programm "Berlin Scholarships" allows international students to study for one year at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin or at one of its partner institutions: Freie Universität Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, Universität der Künste Berlin, and Fachhochschule für Wirtschaft Berlin.
Along with their studies in Berlin, the scholarship holders will work together in small groups on a project with the topic "Comparing histories”. The project will be supervised academically in a seminar held once or twice a month.
Scholarship holders will be able to carry out their study proposals within two semesters by attending courses at one of the universities in Berlin. The study proposals should be developed according to the home university’s academic requirements.
The program will start on September 1, 2008 and last until July 31, 2009.
Topic of the year 2008/09
The topic of the year 2008/09 will be "Comparing histories". As each generation as well as each nation have their own view of the past, historical events are always subject to interpretation and re-evaluation. However, the various views are also shaped by the present. The goal of the project work will be to study and critically analyze old and new, one's own and other views of history within the frames of historical research, political discourses, and the arts (fine arts, literature, etc.).
For more information vist the Humboldt University website.
Critical Language Enhancement Award
Program
The Critical Language Enhancement Award , sponsored by the U.S. Department of State through the Fulbright Program, is open to students who have been awarded a Fulbright U.S. student grant and intend to use one of the eligible languages in their Fulbright project. Application for a Critical Language Enhancement Award is made in conjunction with the Fulbright Program application.
The purpose of the Critical Language Enhancement Award is to cultivate higher levels of language proficiency prior to and during the Fulbright grant period and beyond. Ultimately, Critical Language Enhancement awardees will achieve a high level of proficiency in a targeted language and will go on to careers or further study which will incorporate the use of the language studied and/or related languages.
Languages
The languages available are: All dialects of Arabic, Azeri, Bengali, Chinese (Mandarin only), Farsi, Gujarati, Hindi, Korean, Marathi, Pashto, Punjabi, Russian, Tajik, Turkish, Urdu, and Uzbek .
Please refer to the individual country summaries in the brochure or on the website, www.us.fulbrightonline.org/thinking_country.html, for country-specific restrictions/requirements, relative to the Critical Language Enhancement Award.
For more information visit the Fulbright website.