January, 2011 | Scholarship for Nigerians and Africans - Part 84

PhD Fellowship in Plant Epigenetics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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The work of the PhD fellow will consist mainly of duties in connection with the research project Epigenetic regulation of plant traits. The project aims at discover new layers of regulation of plant appearance. In biology, and specifically genetics, epigenetics is the study of inherited changes in phenotype (appearance) or gene expression caused by mechanisms other than changes in the underlying DNA sequence. These changes may remain through cell divisions for the remainder of the cell´s life and may also last for multiple generations. However, there is no change in the underlying DNA sequence of the organism; instead, non-genetic factors cause the organism´s genes to express themselves differently. The project is part of the program in the Centre for Membrane Pumps in Cells and Disease – PUMPKIN.
The position is available for a 4-year period for applicants who are already enrolled or are accepted to be enrolled at one of the Faculty´s master´s programmes.
At the time of commencement, applicants for the 4-year period must have approximately one year of study remaining before graduating from their MSc programme.

The successful applicant of the PhD scholarship must pass an enrolment in the LIFE Graduate School before the Faculty can finish the letter of employment.
Graduate School of Faculty of Life Sciences, LIFE strives to give our students the best international career prospects within our main research areas.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 1 March 2011

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MathMods – Erasmus Mundus MSc Scholarship

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2-year Master’s Course called MathMods – Mathematical Modelling in Engineering: Theory, Numerics, Applications.
Courses are given in English and students will be spending their 2 years in at least two of the five European universities that made up the MathMods Consortium:
– University of L’Aquila, Italy
– Autonomous University of Barcelona, Catalonia
– University of Hamburg, Germany
– Gdansk University of Technology, Poland
– University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis, France. Applicants must have obtained a recognized Bachelor’s Degree (BS, BSc, SB, etc.) – or a degree at the same level of an academic Bachelor’s Degree, for instance its equivalent from a college, university, or technical school of high standing, or 180 ECTS credits in the European system – in one of the following (or equivalent) fields:
* Applied Mathematics
* Mathematics with a good background in Physics
* Physics with a good background in Mathematics
* Engineering with a large background in Mathematics and Physics.

Students in their final year of undergraduate study may be admitted on condition that their Bachelor’s degree is awarded before the enrolment on MathMods MSc. The accomplishment of the Bachelor’s studies must be documented no later than 15 August 2011.
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All applicants whose native language is not English are required to prove a satisfactory level of spoken and written English, certified by:

* TOEFL: minimum 550 for PBT / 213 for CBT / 80 for IBT. You may send the TOEFL certificate simply as a photocopy or you may send it directly through ETS. Use these data when adding us as a new score recipient: Code number: 3676, Institution: University of L’Aquila.
* IELTS: 6.0 points
* CPE: Grades A, B, C
* CAE: Grades A, B
* or equivalent to the above.

The test must have been taken within the four years immediately preceding the requested semester of admission and be valid at the time of enrolment.

If applicants don’t have an English certificate by the deadline, we may also accept a temporary certificate by the Director/Coordinator of the Bachelor’s Degree study programme (or an academic in that group) stating that the applicant is so fluent in English that s/he can understand and discuss high level scientific topics. If possible, the letter should be signed either by a native English speaker academic full Professor or by an academic full Professor in English language (with full contacts included). Then, if you are selected, you will have to send an official certificate (see the list above) no later than 15 August 2011.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 31 January 2011

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DESY International Summer Student Program 2011, Germany: Photon Science and particle physics

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DESY is one of the world‘s leading accelerator centers forinvestigatingthe structure of matter. DESY develops and builds large particle acceleratorsand conducts research inthe fields of photon science and particle physics. The research facilities of DESY are used by a large international community of scientists.
Each summer DESY offers students in physics or related natural science disciplines the opportunity to participate in its research activities at Hamburg and Zeuthen (close to Berlin). Students can apply to join either the elementary particle physics
and accelerators or the photon science part of this summer student program.
In both programs students take part in the work of research groups and attend lectures related to the research at DESY.
Qualified applicants should have completed three years of full time studies on a university level by summer 2011. All participating students will obtain financial support.

Scholarship Application Deadline: January 31, 2011

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