Great Lakes Commission – Sea Grant Fellowship
Deadline: Feb 1, 2010
Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers annually awards graduate scholarships to encourage study in naval architecture, marine engineering, ocean engineering, or marine industry related fields.
Deadline: Feb 01, 2010
Eligibility: U.S. and Canadian graduate students
The Foundation and the Technical Committees of AIAA present several funding opportunities.
Martin Summerfield Graduate Award in Propellents and Combustion
Eligible applicants will be actively participating in research endeavors in propellants and combustion as part of their graduate studies.
Guidance, Navigation, and Control
Eligible applicants will be participating in research endeavors that will impact one or more of the areas of guidance, navigation, and control as part of their graduate studies.
Gordon C. Oates Air Breathing Propulsion Graduate Award
Eligible applicants will be participating in research endeavors in air breathing propulsion as part of their graduate studies.
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Eligible applicants will be participating in research endeavors in engineering sciences.
John Leland Atwood
Eligible applicants will be participating in research endeavors in one of the 65 specialty areas represented by AIAA Technical Committees
Open Topic Graduate Award
Eligible applicants will be participating in research endeavors in one of the 65 specialty areas represented by AIAA Technical Committees
Open to any nationality.
Eligible applicants must have completed at least one academic year of full-time graduate work. Applicant must have a grade point average of not less than 3.3 on a 4.0 scale.
Deadline: Jan 31
Description: Offers talented students the opportunity to engage in the study and research of fusion energy sciences and technology, while fostering practical work experiences at recognized research facilities. Provides incentive and support to students as they continue their education in graduate school and prepare for careers in fusion energy.
Discipline(s): physical sciences; engineering; mathematics; related scientific disciplines
Eligibility: U.S. Citizens and Legal Permanent Residents. Undergraduate seniors; bachelor’s recipients; and first and second year graduate students at the time of application
Location(s): Various locations across U. S. Participating universities with practicums at various U.S. Department of Energy research facilities
Duration: Maximum 36 months with annual renewal
Deadline(s): January 31
Benefits: $24,000 annual stipend and full payment of tuition and fees; $750 per month practicum allowance; opportunity to attend professional meetings and to participate in long-term graduate research ad DOE fusion research facilities.
Funding source(s): U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Fusion Energy Sciences
How to apply: Application materials available at http://www.orau.gov/fusion.
by Dennis Walikainen, senior editor
The recent earthquake in Haiti has been felt here at Michigan Tech.
At least two students and one faculty member have ties to Haiti, and they have received mixed news: some good, much bad, some the worst.
Roxane Gay, a PhD candidate in the humanities department who has lived in Port au Prince, learned that her parents left Haiti last Sunday, missing the earthquake by just a couple of days. Most of her family survived, but she has lost at least one great uncle.
“His wife is missing,” Gay said. “And the building in which my parents live is flattened. So is the National Palace. In fact most of Port au Prince is destroyed.”
Gay’s father, Michael, is in the construction business and has just completed the Digicell Center, which is one of the few structures still standing. He is rushing back to Haiti this Friday to help move debris with his construction equipment.
The problems in Haiti are myriad, according to Gay: there are no building codes and no real infrastructure: no sewage system, plumbing, or trash removal, “and the roads are not good.”
Thus, rebuilding efforts will be even more complicated. “This is what poverty does,” she says.
“Where do you put the people?” Gay asks. “And the debris? The country is the size of Maryland. They need water, food and hospital care. The good news is, although the control tower is down, the airport can still receive planes.”
Gay gets her news from Haiti via texting and satellite phones. She also gets information via the Facebook page of fellow Michigan Tech Haitian Fredline Ilorme, a graduate student in the civil and environmental engineering department.
Ilorme reports that most of her family is also well, but she is still waiting to hear from some additional family members and friends. Kette Thomas, assistant professor of diverse literature in humanities, also has Haitian ties.
Gay is not hopeful for the future. “There’s not enough money in the world to fix what’s broken,” she says.
However, if people do want to help, she suggests the well-established organizations such as the International Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, and Yéle Haiti, which was established by musician Wyclef Jean and seeks to achieve long-term progress in the country.
“Haitians are resilient people,” Gay says. “My dad is a proud Haitian.”
That’s why Michael Gay is rushing back to help his fellow islanders and others are coming to their aid. There’s much work to be done.
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You can now check out a video camera or still camera from the circulation desk in the library with a valid Michigan Tech ID. Each is available for a period of three days. Models are:
- Still camera–Canon PowerShot G10, 14.7 megapixels, 5x optical zoom
- Video camera–Canon Vixia HG20, High Definiton, 60 megabytes hard disk
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by John Gagnon, promotional writer
Michigan Tech’s industrial archaeology program, which enjoys worldwide stature, now has even more distinction.
Patrick Martin, chair of Social Sciences, has been named the president of The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (TICCIH), which has a hand in helping identify sites around the world to be added to the United Nations’ World Heritage List–a compilation of natural and cultural places around the world that have “outstanding, universal human value.”
Specifically, TICCIH calls attention to industrial heritage sites, for its charge is to conserve, investigate, document, research, and interpret industry and its material remains.
Martin has been involved with TICCIH for about six years and was the only board member from the US. Members number about 400; they range from Barcelona to Sydney, Cape Town to Taipei, Helsinki to Houghton.
Martin says that Tech will benefit from this association. “This raises our profile,” he says. “More people”–he means students and scholars–“will know about us as we engage on a world stage.” His appointment is for three years. TICCIH holds a world congress every three years. The last one, when Martin was made president, was in September in Freiberg, Germany.
The World Heritage List, which is maintained by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), includes 890 properties in 148 nations. At present, there are no industrial sites in the US on the list, only natural entities like Yellowstone and Grand Canyon National Parks and cultural sites like Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello.
Industrial heritage is the stuff of railroads, textile mills, and mining. Martin calls the industrial revolution of the eighteenth century “one of the most profound social revolutions in human history.”
“Industry has created the modern world,” Martin says. “The shape of our country, including places like the Copper Country, and many of the relationships between global powers have been heavily influenced by industrialization. It makes us who we are. Why are you and I here? Why is Michigan Tech here? It’s not like we fell out of the sky. All this action going on around us today is because of copper mining in the nineteenth century.”
Industrial heritage sites, then, can be an inspiration and a lesson, he says. “If we don’t understand how we got the way we are, it’s very difficult to map a good path into the future.”
TICCIH was formed about 30 years ago. Most of its activity has been in Europe, which, Martin says, leads the US in industrial preservation efforts. Martin hopes to expand TICCIH’s influence and membership to the US, Africa, and Asia. “We need to be global,” he says. “This will require financial efficiency.”
Accordingly, he has already instituted cost-cutting moves by publishing the quarterly newsletter online and conducting some meetings online.
For years, Michigan Tech, with Martin’s lead, has been the headquarters for the Society for Industrial Archeology. He says of his new duties: “It’ll be interesting and challenging, and it’s a great opportunity.”
As well, he says, the work dovetails with the University’s strategic goal of achieving international engagement.
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Representatives from the student insurance office will be on campus during the following times on a weekly basis:
- Mondays 3pm – 5pm
- Thursdays 10am – noon
They will be located in the administration building, Room 206A.
Administered by the Social Science Research Council, the Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship program is organized to help early-stage graduate students in the humanities and social sciences formulate effective doctoral dissertation proposals.
Deadline: January 29, 2010
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is seeking nominations for its highly competitive Stanton Nuclear Security Fellowship Program. The program, made possible by a generous grant from the Stanton Foundation, offers younger scholars studying nuclear security issues the opportunity to spend a period of twelve months at CFR’s offices in New York or Washington, DC, conducting policy-relevant research. I am hoping you can help us identify outstanding candidates for the fellowships.
CFR will award up to three fellowships in 2010. Candidates may be junior (non-tenured) faculty, post-doctoral fellows, or pre-doctoral candidates from any discipline who are working on a nuclear security related issue. The fellowships will be awarded on the basis of academic and professional accomplishments and promise, and on the merits of the specific research projects proposed. The fellows could work on a wide range of issues, including nuclear terrorism, nuclear proliferation, nuclear weapons, nuclear force posture, and, as it relates to nuclear security, nuclear energy.
Deadline: February 15, 2010.
A complete description of the Stanton Nuclear Security Fellowship Program and the application process can be found at: www.cfr.org/about/fellowships/StantonFellowship.html.
If interested, please contact Jodi Lehman (jglehman@mtu.edu).