Research Opportunities at Mayo Graduate School

Dear Colleague: We'd like your help in getting the word out about research opportunities at Mayo Clinic for your students who are going on to PhD or MD/PhD training. You are undoubtedly familiar with the excellent reputation of Mayo Clinic in clinical medicine. Mayo Graduate School offers equally excellent biomedical research and education programs. We especially want to highlight three upcoming admission deadlines: Mayo Graduate School offers PhD and MD/PhD training to future leaders in biomedical research and education. Training is especially distinctive for the world-class research laboratories at Mayo Clinic campuses in Minnesota, Florida, and Arizona, and Mayo Clinic's unique funding model where all PhD students are awarded 5-year internal fellowships to select the mentor of their choice with no teaching responsibilities. Mayo Graduate School particularly welcomes applications from international and underrepresented students. The Mayo Graduate School application deadline is Dec. 1, 2014.   Mayo Graduate School Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program offers a world-class opportunity for undergraduates to conduct a summer research project for 10 weeks while developing technical skills, networking, and enjoying special weekly seminars about current research. The SURF application deadline is Feb. 1, 2015.   Mayo Graduate School created and sustains the oldest competitive NIH-funded Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) in the U.S. This program enriches PhD- and MD/PhD-bound post-baccalaureate students from backgrounds underrepresented in biomedical research, with the goal of a future biomedical research workforce whose diversity matches that of our country. Participants benefit from mentored research, graduate courses, and focused training in communication skills. The PREP application deadline is May 1, 2015. Look for more information about these remarkable training programs on the Mayo Graduate School website. Best Regards, Bruce Horazdovsky, Ph.D. Associate Dean Mayo Graduate School

Graduate Internship Opportunities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Graduate Internship opportunities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

The Computational Data Analytics Research Group (CDAG) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has multiple openings for Graduate Interns in the field of Data Analytics Research. https://www3.orau.gov/ORNL_TOppS/Posting/Details/516

The Computing and Computational Science Directorate (CCSD) at ORNL oversees ORNL’s store of computing power and its talented staff of computational scientists and mathematicians. CCSD has multiple Graduate Internship openings in the fields of: High-Performance File Systems and Storage; Communications Middleware; HPC Languages and Tools (programming languages, compilers, runtimes, and tools for high-performance computers); Large-Scale and Data-Intensive, Collaborative, Scientific Applications.  https://www3.orau.gov/ORNL_TOppS/Posting/Details/515

2014-2015 ISI Graduate Fellowships

Dear Mariah, Do you know a student who needs financial support for graduate studies? The Intercollegiate Studies Institute is now accepting applications for its 2014-2015 Graduate Fellowships Programs. Current graduate students and those who plan to pursue graduate studies in the upcoming year with the intention to teach at the university level are eligible to apply. ISI offers the Weaver Fellowship, the Western Civilization Fellowship, the Renshaw Fellowship, and the Salvatori Fellowship. The Weaver Fellowship supports academics dedicated to liberal education broadly considered.  The Weaver Fellowship pays tuition, a stipend of $5,000, and a $1,000 book award. The Western Civilization Fellowship provides each recipient $20,000 for dissertation work related to the intellectual, economic, political, social, or religious heritage of Western Civilization. The Salvatori Fellowship is designed for graduate students who are exploring both the principles of the Founding Fathers and the culture that formed their convictions and ideals. The Fellowship provides $10,000 to each recipient for graduate work related to the American Founding. The Renshaw Fellowship awards each recipient $12,000 toward doctoral study in education that will influence the discipline with the ideas, values, and institutions that are fundamental to America's Western tradition. I encourage you to consider applying; if you are not currently a graduate student, please let qualified graduate students know about these opportunities. For more information about this year's fellowships you can email fellowships@isi.org or visit isifellowships.org. The postmark deadline for the graduate fellowship application materials is January 16, 2014. Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions about our fellowships or any of ISI's other programs. My phone number is (302) 524-6131. Sincerely, Joel Boersma Academic Program Officer

Scholarships for doctoral studies in Science and Religion to work under the direction of Prof Alister McGrath

All, 

I am delighted to pass along news of an important and exciting new opportunity for your most able students interested in pursuing graduate studies in science and religion and able to apply for a DPhil.  As you may have heard, Professor Alister McGrath has just been appointed to be the Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at Oxford University.  Some of you may know that Alister has been a close friend and colleague of SCIO and the CCCU joining together to offer multiple summer programmes in science and religion, welcoming SCIO to Wycliffe Hall when he was its principal, and working closely with me in establishing the Scholars' Semester in Oxford. We look forward to Alister returning full time to Oxford to take this post in April (most recently he has held a professorship at Kings College, London).

The Theology Faculty at Oxford has just released the following statement and information on the five new scholarships.

Following the appointment of Professor Alister McGrath as the new Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at Oxford University, the Oxford Faculty of Theology and Religion is delighted to announce that there will be up to five fully-funded three-year studentships available for candidates studying for doctorates in the field of Science and Religion. Three of the studentships in Science and Religion will cover university and college fees at the "overseas" rate. Full details of the studentships and the application process can be found here:

http://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/student-funding/graduate2/graduate-studentships.html

[NB: UK to US translation——Studentship = Graduate Fellowship/Scholarship]

Yours, Stan