Masters Degree | Scholarship for Nigerians and Africans - Part 32

INSEAD Nelson Mandela Endowed Scholarship 2011: Business & financial management

To honour the life and work of President Nelson Mandela of South Africa, the INSEAD MBA Class of ’75 created an endowment at their 30th Class Reunion to provide financial support for one or more African participants per year at INSEAD in perpetuity.
(a) outstanding academic achievement and promise
(b) aptitude for business and financial management
(c) strong likelihood of spending the better part of their working careers in Africa
(d) a firm commitment to the goals of African development, understanding amongst peoples and public interest
To be eligible for the Nelson Mandela Endowed Scholarship, candidates must be a national of a sub-Saharan African country and have spent a substantial part of their lives and received part of their prior education in Africa. Preference will be given to candidates who require proven financial assistance.
Scholarship Application Deadline: 18,August,2011

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Graduate Student Positions in the Area of Biological/ Biomedical Signal Processing and Mathematical Modeling, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), Singapore

We are recruiting PhD students for projects within the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research & Technology (SMART), to be supervised by MIT and NTU faculty. In those projects we apply mathematical engineering to problems in bioengineering and biochemistry, for example:

o Bayesian modeling of parasitic life cycle
o large-scale graphical models for functional genomics
o stochastic modeling and control engineering in the context of tissue generation.

Please send detailed curriculum vitae, GRE/TOEFL scores, statement of research interests, three references, and relevant publications (if applicable) electronically to:

Prof. Justin Dauwels
Nanyang Technological University
School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Singapore
recruitment-at-dauwels.com

Scholarship Application Deadline: July 2011

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DRD Scholarships for the MA and M Econ in Development Studies for Applicants from Sub-Saharan Africa

Scholarship applicants should have an excellent academic record in any social science, economics or in public administration and other management sciences. Only students with an average upper second or first class grade for their previous degree(s) will be considered. For Information on the courses offered can be obtained on www.uwc.ac.za (go to Institutes, then to Institute for Social Development).
Please submit
• a letter of application, motivating your application
• the DAAD application form (available for download from the scholarship section)
• a CV, also indicating relevant work experience as intern or as employee
• an academic transcript from your last university
• certified copies of all academic certificates
• two academic references, to be submitted separately by the referee, and clearly indicating
your name
• the proposed topic of your masters thesis
Please submit scholarship applications electronically to cdrcoordination-at-gmail.com, with relevant documents as scanned pdf attachments, or in hard copy to Ina Conradie, Institute for Social Development, University of the Western Cape, Private Bag X17, Belville 7535, Cape Town, South Africa. Please also notify us by e-mail if you submit a hard copy by mail, as mail can sometimes be slow and unreliable. It is much safer to submit by email. If you send a hard copy, please allow about 6 – 8 weeks for it to reach us.
Please make sure that your application is complete, as no incomplete submissions will be considered.

Scholarship Application Deadline:1st of August 2011

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