This is a 4-year studentship starting from March 1st 2010. Each year the applicants will conduct research for a PhD for 75% of the time and demonstrate and mark undergraduate lab classes in biomechanics for 25% of the time. The preferred area for research is age related changes in gait with a specific focus on balance and coordination.

The successful applicants must have a good first degree (upper second or first) in field of Sport and Exercise Science or a related discipline including a strong grounding in biomechanics. Current final year undergraduates or master’s students are eligible to apply. The studentship is available to all European citizens.

Informal enquiries can be addressed to Dr Cassie Wilson, Sport, Health and Exercise Science, School for Health, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY; e-mail: c.wilson3@bath.ac.uk

Further information is available at: http://www.bath.ac.uk/health/research/PhDGTA_furtherinfo_0912.pdf

Candidates are requested to apply using the University’s standard postgraduate admission procedures using the on-line application form at: https://secure.bath.ac.uk/prospectus/cgi-bin/applications.pl

Closing Date: 8th January, 2010

Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program

The Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program seeks to encourage talented science, technology, engineering, and mathematics majors and professionals to become K-12 mathematics and science teachers. The Noyce Scholarship Track provides funds to institutions of higher education to support scholarships, stipends, and academic programs for undergraduate STEM majors and post-baccalaureate students holding STEM degrees who earn a teaching credential and commit to teaching in high- need K-12 school districts. The NSF Teaching Fellowship/Master Teaching Fellowship Track supports STEM professionals who enroll as NSF Teaching Fellows in master's degree programs leading to teacher certification by providing academic courses, professional development, and salary supplements while they are fulfilling a four-year teaching commitment in a high need school district. This track also supports the development of NSF Master Teaching Fellows by providing professional development and salary supplements for exemplary mathematics and science teachers to become Master Teachers in high need school districts.

Innovation through Institutional Integration (I3) projects enable faculty, administrators, and others in institutions to think and act strategically about the creative integration of NSF-funded awards, with particular emphasis on awards managed through programs in the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR), but not limited to those awards. For Fiscal Year 2010, proposals are being solicited in nine EHR programs that advance I3 goals: CREST, GSE, HBCU-UP, ITEST, LSAMP, MSP, Noyce, RDE, and TCUP.

ELIGIBILITY INFORMATION

Organization Limit:

Proposals may only be submitted by the following:

*Universities and two- or four-year colleges (including
community colleges) accredited in, and having a campus located in the
United States, or consortia of such institutions, or U.S. nonprofit
entities that have established consortia among such institutions of
higher education may submit Noyce proposals.

(I3) - Eligibility for Innovation through Institutional Integration (I3) is limited to institutions of higher education (including two- and four-year colleges) accredited in, or having a campus located in the United States. If the proposal is exclusively for I3 STEM educational or related research, then all categories of proposers identified in the NSF Grant Proposal Guide are eligible to submit.

PI Limit:

For Noyce Scholarship Proposals, the PI, or at least one Co-PI, must be a faculty member in a mathematics, science, or engineering department.

The Principal Investigator for an Innovation through Institutional Integration (I3) proposal must be the university provost, or equivalent chief academic officer, unless the proposal is exclusively for I3 STEM educational or related research.

Letter of Intent Due Date(s) (optional) (due by 5 p.m. proposer's local time): February 09, 2010

Noyce Scholarship and NSF Teaching Fellowship/Master Teaching Fellowship Proposals

Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. proposer's local time): March 10, 2010

Source : http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10514/nsf10514.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25

WESLEYAN FREEMAN ASIAN SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

The Wesleyan Freeman Asian Scholarship Program provides expenses for a four-year course of study toward a bachelor’s degree for up to eleven exceptionally able Asian students annually.

REGISTER NOW FOR SAT (or ACT) AND TOEFL (or IELTS)
visit our web site at www.wesleyan.edu
APPLICATION

* Applications must be postmarked by January 1, 2010
* Notification by April 1, 2010

This program is made possible by Wesleyan University and the Freeman Foundation, which aims to improve understanding and to strengthen ties between the United States and the countries and regions of the Pacific Rim

Source: www.wesleyan.edu

PhD Program in East Asian Languages and Civilizations

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University
Announces its new PhD program in East Asian Languages and Civilizations
(EALC). It is a research-intensive, inter-disciplinary, area-based degree in
the study of the traditional and modern languages and cultures of China.
Students may focus on iterature, literary criticism, comparative cultural
studies, cultural history, or linguistics.

Applications for the 2010-2011 year, to be considered for financial aid
including Teaching or Research Assistantship, close on December 15, 2009.

For all others, the deadline is April 15, 2010. Students will be notified by
the end of February admission. A number of Research and Teaching
Assistantships are available. Application procedures and forms may be found
at the Graduate College web page (http://graduate.asu.edu/) for admissions.

For more information, please visit
http://silc.asu.edu/graduate/degrees/phd-chinese, or contact Barbara Tibbets
(barbara.tibbets@asu.edu) or Stephen H. West (Stephen.H.West@asu.edu).

FACULTY IN EAST ASIAN STUDIES

Anthony Chambers (twentieth-century Japanese fiction), Stephen Bokenkamp
(early medieval Chinese literature and religion, Daoism), Chen Huaiyu
(medieval Chinese religious cultures, Nestorian Christianity and Buddhism),
Hyaewal Choi (sociocultural history of women in Korea and East Asia), Robert
Cutter (early medieval Chinese literature), John Creamer (medieval Japanese
scribal and visual culture), Young Kyun Oh (Chinese linguistics, Sino-Korean
cultural history), Pori Park (Korean Buddhism), Madeline K. Spring (Chinese
language pedagogy, medieval Chinese literature), Hoyt Cleveland Tillman
(Chinese intellectual and cultural history), Stephen H. West (urban culture,
garden studies, performance literature, and literary production of
900–1400), Timothy C. Wong (Ming-Qing Chinese fiction), Zhang Xia
(Chinese-language pedagogy), Yoon Sun Yang (comparative literature, modern
Korean literature), John Yu Zou (comparative literature, modern Chinese
literature and cinema)
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Young Kyun Oh
Assistant Professor of Chinese and Sino-Korean
Arizona State University

480-727-7447
youngoh@asu.edu

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