July, 2010 | Scholarship for Nigerians and Africans - Part 21

Center for Biological Sequence

Job Description: A PhD position is available for immediate start at Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology in collaboration with the Sino-Danish Breast Cancer research group.

The Center for Biological Sequence Analysis conducts basic research in the field of bioinformatics and systems biology and employs a staff of +100 with a highly multi-disciplinary profile (molecular biologists, biochemists, medical doctors, physicists, computer scientists, and technical staff). The center represents one of the largest bioinformatics and systems biology groups in academia in Europe.

The successful candidate will be based at the Technical University of Denmark and will collaborate closely with Danish breast cancer clinical groups. The project will be interdisciplinary involving data integration from sequencing, microarrays, SNPs, literature mining, protein-protein interactions and text mining on clinical patient records.

Qualifications
Candidates applying for a PhD scholarship should have a master’s degree in bioinformatics, biology, biochemistry, engineering, computer science, or a similar degree.

The applicant should have a good biological background and computing skills with unix command line, perl/python and R are preferred. Prior experience with oncology or drug disposition is highly desirable. The applicant must be a good communicator and fluent in written as well as spoken English.

Application Deadline 30july2010

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Focus For Humanity

Focus For Humanity (FFH) is a US based non profit foundation that supports amateur and professional photographers throughout the world to focus their work on telling cultural and humanitarian stories. One of our two main awards is a FFH Fellowships, which is designed to help aspiring full time photographers make the transition from semi-pro/hobbyist to full time. The recipient has the choice of either undertaking their own assignment or working with one of the Advisory Council on a new assignment with an NGO.

Eligibility:
* Non full-time photographer keen to focus on photography as a career and probably within the humanitarian or cultural field.
* Individual photographers who are not yet presently engaged in the business of creating and selling or licensing imagery.
* Photographers can be from any country or region, although the submission must be made in English.

Grant :
This US$15,000 grant will enable the photographer to travel the world, enhance the portfolio, get the first NGO client, update the equipment and receive mentoring on the craft and advice on setting up the career as a freelancer.

Included in the grant is a year’s membership of the IGVP, mentoring with one of the Guild members, business and digital marketing coaching and advice and a grant of up to US$5,000 towards new equipment.

Submission procedure :
All interested applicants must follow these steps:
1. registered on the FFH website and create an account
2. fill the online application form
3. upload 8-10 JPEG images as a supporting portfolio (Image files sized to longest dimension at 3000 pixels, 300 dpi, saved as JPEGs with standard compression no lower than 8 on the JPEG scale)

The fellowship is awarded by means of a competitive portfolio review and an assessment of an online application form.

The submission deadline is 30th August 2010.

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MA Music Bursary, University of Bristol, UK

Job Description: The Department of Music is pleased to be able to offer two bursaries, each worth £2,500, to read for a taught MA in Music at Bristol University during the academic year 2010-11. One bursary is open to all taught MA in Music applicants, the other is specifically for a Bristol Arts graduate.

The bursaries are managed through the University’s Centenary Campaign and have been made available thanks to the generosity of anonymous donors from the University’s alumni community.

In the case of the bursary only open to Bristol Arts graduates, all students (home and overseas) graduating from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Bristol in June 2009 or June 2010 are eligible to apply.
Both bursaries may be used to offset tuition fees on any MA Music pathway, including the MA in Composition for Film and Television.

The bursaries are available either for full-time or part-time study. In the case of full-time study, half of the bursary will be awarded at the beginning of each Semester. Where it is awarded for part-time study, half of the bursary will be awarded at the beginning of the first part-time year and the other half at the beginning of the second.

To apply for the bursaries, you must already have applied for, and been accepted onto, a Bristol University MA Music programme for 2010-11. Please mark your application “Bristol Masters Music Bursary.” You can see all the details on how to apply for these courses on the Graduate School of Arts and Humanities website.

You should then complete the Bursary Application Form (Word document, 43Kb) and return it no later than 30 July 2010 to University of Bristol, Graduate School of Arts & Humanities, 7 Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1TB, or to artf-gradschool@bristol.ac.uk

If you have already applied for an MA place, and wish to be considered for the bursary, please complete the Bursary Application Form as above.

The successful candidate will be notified within four weeks of the closing date.

Eligibility
1. Candidates for the bursary must be current applicants for an MA in Music at the University of Bristol.

2. Candidates must be in receipt of an offer and have accepted their offer prior to the closing date (30 July 2010)

3. Candidates for one of the two bursaries must have graduated from the Faculty of Arts, University of Bristol in either June 2010 or June 2009

4. Candidates are permitted to accept only one scholarship or bursary. Candidates in receipt of any other scholarships and awards will not be eligible.

General funding information:
General funding information can be found on the Student Funding website.
Questions:

Further information about theFaculty of Arts

Further information about the Graduate School of Arts and Humanities

Tel: +44 (0) 117 928 8897
E-Mail: artf-gradschool@bristol.ac.uk

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