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Postdoctoral fellowships are available for candidates interested in research at the Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research (BIDR) for a period of one to two years.

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The sponsor provides a postdoctoral fellowship for candidates interested in conducting research at the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research for a period of one to two years.

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The sponsor provides support for long term visits (12 to 24 months) and particularly, for advanced training through research. The fellowships are in the area of molecular biology.

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Research awards are given to support projects dealing with wild birds in Florida.

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The sponsor supports a post-doctoral scientist for a two-year appointment to: establish an active research program; assist the Director and Resident Associate Director in facilitating the efforts of visiting scientists and students; and teach one course during each year of the postdoc appointment. Applications are welcomed from scientists with qualifications in any area of marine research that is readily supportable by the laboratories.

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The Center invites applications for its Resident Fellowship Program for Academic Year 2010-11. The fellowship brings together academics, senior military officers, government executives, and others to strengthen the nation’s understanding of the ethics of national defense, war, and the military profession. Ideal candidates from academia will be published scholars with teaching experience in ethics, political theory, international relations, and/or public policy. The sponsor is especially interested in candidates familiar with current just war theory debates.

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The purpose of the Young Investigator Grant for Probiotics Research is to contribute to the advancement of probiotics and gastrointestinal microbiota research in the United States and to attract promising, young researchers to this field of study.

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Applications are invited for fellowships tenable at the University of Windsor in the 2010-2011 academic year.

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The sponsor will support robust and innovative stem cell research programs of the most promising researchers newly recruited to California.

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The sponsor provides research support for a recognized scholar in the history of economic geology and to facilitate the Fellow’s use of archival collections in the American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming. The Fellow shall be appointed for a period of one calendar year.

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The deadline for Panels PE1 to PE10 (Physical Sciences & Engineering) is: 24 February 2010. The deadline for Panels LS1 to LS9 (Life Sciences) is: 17 March 2010. The deadline for Panels SH1 to SH6 (Social Sciences & Humanities) is: 7 April 2010.

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The sponsor provides funding to allow exceptional established research leaders in any field of science, engineering and scholarship to pursue frontier research of their choice. The aim is to encourage risk-taking and interdisciplinarity, and support pioneering frontier research projects.

Deadline Note

The deadline for Panels PE1 to PE10 (Physical Sciences & Engineering) is: 24 February 2010. The deadline for Panels LS1 to LS9 (Life Sciences) is: 17 March 2010. The deadline for Panels SH1 to SH6 (Social Sciences & Humanities) is: 7 April 2010.

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The sponsor provides support for pioneering frontier research in any field of science, engineering and scholarship, with the goal of providing opportunities for young investigators to develop independent careers and make the transition from working under a supervisor to being independent researchers in their own right.

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The selection process for the Kathryn Sullivan Science and Engineering Fellowship will be determined by a review panel selected from the Sea Grant and Space Grant Campus Directors.

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South Carolina joins the Nation in an ever-increasing teacher shortage. Well-trained science and math teachers, in particular, are in extreme scarcity.

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The sponsor invites proposals for use of the Hubble Space Telescope for research purposes. Applicants may apply to reserve a certain number of the telescope's orbits to observe a specific body or location in space.

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The sponsor offers a number of postdoctoral scholarships for research on topics related to various aspects of environmental, economic, technological and social issues in the context of global change. The typical period for IIASA-funded postdoctoral support is 12–24 months.

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The Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme offers two fellowship positions each year for a period of ten months. The Fellowship Programme has four core aims: to provide young scholars at the postdoctoral level, particularly from developing countries, with an opportunity to experience the unique international academic environment of UNU/IAS; to provide these young scholars with an opportunity to participate in and contribute to the research activities of UNU/IAS in regard to issues of pressing global importance; to provide an opportunity for young scholars from developing countries to interact with the Japanese academic community and, in doing so, provide a conduit between the host country and developing country academia and also the host country and the UN system; and to provide UNU/IAS and its academic community with an opportunity to benefit from the diverse knowledge, background, and experience offered by high caliber young scholars from around the world.

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The fellowship program is designed to provide opportunities for promising, highly qualified, young researchers to conduct cooperative research under the leadership of their host researchers of Japanese universities and research institutions especially in the fields relevant to the main thematic focus of UNU-IAS, located in Yokohama, and UNU Centre, located in Tokyo.

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The sponsor invites applications for an intensive week-long study tour that brings together some of the most successful classroom teachers and natural resources professionals in the US and abroad to the World Forestry Center to exchange information about utilizing best practices in forestry education.

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Postdoctoral research applications are open twice yearly. The first round applications are open between 1st August and 1st September. The second round between 15th January and 1st March.

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Each year, the sponsor offers a favourable research opportunity for both domestic and international postdoctoral researchers. Candidates can easily find their fields of interests in versatile areas of mathematics and physical sciences, life sciences, humanities and social sciences at AS.

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Grants are awarded to research projects that yield practical benefits for growing or enjoying rhododendrons or yield new insights into the biology, geographical distribution or history of species or hybrid rhododendrons.

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Individuals receiving research stipends will be responsible for producing a 30- to 40-page research report.

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The sponsor will provide up to $1000 to a for a schoolyard habitat project.

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One award of $6,000 is available for a summer or sabbatical residency of six continuous weeks to utilize the resources available from the college and the Cornell University Library.

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The sponsor will offer an intensive summer research training opportunity to 25 undergraduate students interested in research careers in life sciences. This program will run from July 5th to August 27th 2010.

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Two proposal review rounds are held each year, with deadlines for submission of applications on 1st March and 1st September for the scheduling periods August to February, and March to July respectively.

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The sponsor provides access for scientist to its synchrotron facility.

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The sponsor provides funding for research, special birding programs, conservation projects, etc. that do not fall within the criteria of the sponsor's other grants.

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The fellowship program is intended for scholars with a Ph.D. in any field related to architecture, including architectural and urban history, design, technology, computation, urban planning, anthropology, and archaeology, who are engaged in research on an Islamic topic. One to three fellowships will be granted for the year.

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The program was launched to promote interdisciplinary research that bridges the gap between the humanities and/or the social sciences on the one hand and the natural sciences on the other. Lorentz Fellowships are awarded by the sponsor to scholars whose research projects cross the boundaries of the humanities, the social sciences and the natural sciences.

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The sponsor offers the program to applicants interested in continuing their advanced research in the medical or biological sciences at the sponsor's headquarters. The fellowships are awarded for advanced research only during a full academic year, running from 1 September till 30 June, or for one semester of five months.

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Application to the fellowship program should be initiated by a brief project description accompanied by a list of manuscripts or other archival materials the applicant wishes to consult in the course of his or her research in order that the presence of these materials in the collections and their suitability for the proposed research may be determined. Confirmation of the presence or absence of these materials and their appropriateness for the proposed topic will be sent shortly thereafter. A formal application should then be submitted.

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The sponsor provides fellowships to assist scholars wishing to conduct research in the manuscript collections in the Vatican Film Library. Travel expenses and a living allowance are provided for a period of two to eight weeks. Applicants may be post-doctoral scholars or graduate students formally admitted to Ph.D. granting program working on their dissertations.

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The sponsor awards a fellowship so that journalists can spend two weeks in Vermont during the summer learning environmental law.

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Please be advised that this grant program is scheduled to sunset on July 1, 2010. The grant funding for this RFA is contingent upon the repeal of this sunset provision; if the sunset is not repealed, the program will end on June 30, 2010, and the new grants selected through this RFA process will not be funded. In addition, ongoing monitoring of capital expenditures may occur after the one-year funding period if deemed appropriate by the state.

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The sponsor provides funds for projects that promote economic development through the productive management of recyclable materials that would otherwise be treated as discards. Projects that meet this goal may be designed to implement source reduction, recycling, beneficial use/re-use, anaerobic digestion, or composting, for a wide variety of materials.

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The sponsor provides awards which celebrate and support outstanding individuals 60 or older who are already producing significant social innovation and accomplishing work of great importance. The Purpose Prize is focused on funding efforts of researchers in the second half of their lives that are aiming to find solutions to challenges in our communities, country and world.

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The primary aim of this scheme is to provide universities with additional support to enable them to attract to this country, or keep here, respected scientists of outstanding achievement and potential.