Physical Science | Scholarship for Nigerians and Africans - Part 50

International Postgraduate Tuition Fee Scholarships, Griffith University, Australia: Innovation, Industry, Science and Research

The GUIPRS is designed to attract and support highly ranked international applicants during the University’s two annual postgraduate research scholarship rounds. This scheme extends the provision of tuition fee scholarships beyond the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research allocated International Postgraduate Research Scholarships1 (IPRS).

The GUIPRS covers tuition fees for the student and Overseas Student Health Cover (OSHC) for the student and their dependant/s. No other expenses are paid by this scheme, however award recipients may seek additional funding from alternative sources. In addition, the scheme also supports international applicants successful in gaining stipend scholarships.The GUIPRS is available to international students only. Applicants must have completed, or expect to complete, four years of higher education studies at a very high level and be intending to enrol full-time in an approved doctoral or research masters program. Part-time awards may be offered to students who, for social or medical reasons, are unable to study full-time.

Scholarship Application Deadline:Mid-Year Round close 29 May, 2011 and 16 October, 2011 for the End-of-Year Round

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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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