Waseda Institute for Advanced Study

Hey, graduates! Want to work in Japan?

Waseda University is aiming to further strengthen its research and education by taking steps to realize a research system and graduate school system that will allow young researchers to think flexibly and to exercise their capabilities and talents to the full. A new system of fixed-term appointments for younger faculty is being established as part of this effort, based upon the visiting faculty system, and the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (“the Institute”) was established in September, 2006 to provide a framework in which younger researchers can devote themselves to research in a highly developed research environment. We are now issuing a call for younger researchers who wish to take up fixed-term appointments at the Institute to engage in research activity.

For more information, please see:

http://www.waseda.jp/wias/english/recruit.html

This appears to be a postdoc situation, but with the title "visiting professor" attached to it. Note that this is also for you humanities and social sciences people, too. The requirements don't preclude ABDs, either: "Having doctoral degree (including PhD acquired at an overseas institution, excluding professional degrees) in hand, or having expectation of degree by October 1, 2007, or having completed three years of research guidance in a doctoral program." Looks to be a very interesting opportunity.

The German Mobility Centre

I've seen a lot of interest lately in travel to Germany, and so I happened upon the website of the German Mobility Centre, which provides links to all of the small German foundations which offer scholarships. When you're searching, I believe that graduate students are, for the purposes of German nomenclature, "post graduates."

American Institute of Indian Studies Junior Fellowships

The University of Chicago's Junior Research Fellowships in Indian Studies are "available to doctoral candidates at U.S. universities in all fields of study. Junior Research Fellowships are specifically designed to enable doctoral candidates to pursue their dissertation research in India. Junior Research Fellows establish formal affiliation with Indian universities and Indian research supervisors. Awards are available for up to eleven months." For those of you who have moved on, Senior Research Fellowships can cover your research after you've received the Ph.D. Artists with experience should look at the Senior Performing and Creative Arts Fellowships, as well.

And the best news of all: non-U.S. citizens are eligible.

Find out more information here: www.indiastudies.org

IIE/Fulbright Seminar

IIE Fulbright's Director of Fulbright Student Program Outreach will be in
town this Friday, April 20, talking about the Fulbright and other abroad
programs sponsored by IIE. Come listen to a short presentation and a Q and A
at 1:30pm in the Michel de Certeau seminar room, Literature Building 155.

Grant Writing Workshops sponsored by CTD

OGS is now more or less ensconced in its new digs, the fourth floor of the Student Services Center. Come for the signatures, stay for that glorious new drywall smell.

The Center for Teaching Development is an out-and-out fantastic resource for many reasons, but I recently learned that they also sponsor grant writing workshops. The spring quarter one is coming up soon. Here's the information:

Each quarter GRANT WRITING IN THE SCIENCES is offered by Peter Wagner, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Bioengineering, at the School of Medicine, UCSD. Dr. Wagner has been leading these workshops for CTD since 2001. Dr. Wagner has written an article on this topic for The Physiologist-- "On writing a grant application: a personal view."

Success in academe, particularly in a research institution, can often be correlated with success in grant writing. CTD provides this opportunity for graduate students, TAs, faculty, and postdoctoral fellows to explore the issues involved in effective grant writing--what are the components that, if known and well-executed, can equate with success?

* Although Dr. Wagner's presentation is geared to grant writing in the sciences, it is open to participants from any discipline. Approximately 50 to 75 people attend these sessions. CTD also offers supplemental workshops for grant writing in the humanities and social sciences; however, much of the information supplied by Dr. Wagner is applicable to other disciplines.

The Spring Quarter workshop will be held on Wednesday, April 25 from noon to 1:30 pm in Garren Auditorium on the School of Medicine campus.

Save the Date: Fulbright Program Presentation

Fulbright's Director of Student Outreach will be visiting UCSD on the afternoon April 20, 2007. The event will most likely be held in the International Center, from 2-3pm. Plan on attending if you're interested, and keep checking here for updates.