Information Technology | Scholarship for Nigerians and Africans - Part 236

Commonwealth Shared Scholarship Scheme for Commonwealth Developing Countries, 2011 in UK: Economic, Social, Technology related subjects

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Awards are for taught postgraduate courses only. All courses undertaken must be demonstrably relevant to the economic, social or technological development of the candidate’s home country.Awards are only available at participating institutions in the UK. The booklet giving details of the UK institutions offering Scholarships joint-funded with the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in 2011 is available below for download or can be obtained in print copy from the Scheme Administrators.Please note that participating universities are required to support the student stipend for the award holder (at the rate set by the UK Government). The Commission funds the cost of tuition fees (at overseas rate), return airfares and other allowances.Applicants should:
a. be nationals of (or permanently domiciled in) a Commonwealth developing country, and not currently be living or studying in a developed country (please see the booklet for a list of eligible countries)
b. hold a first degree at either first or upper second class level;
c . be sufficiently fluent in English to pursue the course
d. have not previously studied for one year or more in a developed country
e. not be employed by a government department (for this purpose the Commission counts this as being employed by a Government Ministry).
f. be able to confirm in writing that neither they or their families would otherwise be able to pay for the proposed course of study
g. be willing to confirm that they will return to their home country as soon as their period of study is complete.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 31 May 2011

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Filed Under: Engineering, Finance & Accounting, Information Technology, Masters Degree, Social Science Tags: , , , ,

Clinical Informatics Postdoctoral Fellowships in LHNCBC, USA

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The Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communication (LHNCBC) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) seeks postdoctoral fellows as well as graduate and medical students, who are interested in collaborative research within a variety of clinical informatics areas, including Capture, processing and analysis of clinical data for patient care and research applications. LHNCBC has a tradition of advancing health information systems and its world class research staff is involved in activities that define and support the research infrastructure for next generation medical information systems. This program will extend the LHNCBC training opportunities out to the NIH Clinical Center and other research sites on the NIH campus to work in patient care and clinical research settings.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 15 March 2011

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Filed Under: Grants and Fellowships, Information Technology, Medical Science, Physical Science, Post Doctoral Tags: , , , , , , ,

PhD Fellow in Veterinary Imaging, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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The project will be concerned with the use of ultrasound to generate images for clinical and research use and with the extraction of quantitative data from these images. The fellowship is partly funded by the strategic initiative at KU-LIFE, CHANCE and will utilize chemometric analyses as part of its research methodology. Ultrasound images from an ongoing research project involving eels are available and further experiments will require further imaging by the Fellow in this species. In addition the PhD Fellow will be expected to identify suitable clinical patients and collect data form them at the Department´s Small Animal Hospital and perform subsequent analysis. The aim being to describe relevant clinical or physiological parameters. The research work will be based primarily at the Small Animal Hospital, however some of the research image collection may be done by the Fellow at an external research farm. In addition to the duties described below, the PhD fellow will be expected to contribute to the clinical and teaching activities of the Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences. The project will provide opportunities to develop existing skills in general veterinary diagnostic imaging using digital radiography, CT, MRI, scintigraphy and in particular ultrasound. Training in image analysis and statistical analysis techniques will be an integral party of the fellowship. Principal supervision on the project will be provided by the Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences with additional supervision provided by the CHANCE initiative.

Eligibility Criteria:
– A master´s degree related to the subject area of the project
– The grade point average achieved
-Professional qualifications relevant to the PhD programme
-Previous publications
-Relevant work experience
-Other professional activities
-Language skills
– Communication and collaborative skills
-Marks obtained during the first year of study on the master programme (only relevant for applicants applying for a 4-year scholarship)

Scholarship Application Deadline: 21 March 2011

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Filed Under: Doctorate Degree, Engineering, Information Technology, Physical Science Tags: , , ,
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