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SMA3 Graduate Fellowship, Singaporel: Strategic research programmes at the SMART Centre

The Singapore Ministry of Education has established a four-year fellowship scheme for new doctoral students at NTU or NUS who will conduct their research at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Centre (SMART Centre).
The establishment of this Fellowship Programme is intended to attract to NTU and NUS the best and most talented doctoral students from Singapore, the region, and beyond and educate them to be future leaders in science and technology for Singapore and beyond. The Fellowship will provide them with the opportunity to be involved in the strategic research programmes at the SMART Centre and provide them with the opportunity to be co-advised by an MIT faculty member. The student may spend up to six months doing research at MIT.

Scholarship Application Deadline: January 2012 Intake: May 17, 2011 through July 17, 2011

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PhD Scholarship in NMR Spectroscopy, DTU, Denmark

A PhD scholarship within NMR spectroscopy is available at DTU Chemistry. It will be part of a larger project entitled “Enzymatic production of human milk oligosaccharides” supported by the Danish Council for Strategic Research. The main objective of the PhD project is structure elucidation of both enzymatic as well as synthetically produced oligosaccharides and other natural products by NMR spectroscopy. The project will also include development of new methodology for absolute structure determination by NMR and application of residual dipolar couplings in structure calculations.

Qualifications
* Candidates should have a master’s degree in chemistry or chemical engineering preferentially with a theoretical and experimental background in NMR spectroscopy and organic chemistry
* A strong commitment to research
Applicants should have a thorough interest in NMR spectroscopy. The position offers an opportunity to work within an international, dynamic multi-disciplinary project having participants from both universities and industry.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 18 February 2011

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Internship at the International Global Environmental Strategies,Japan: Strategic Research

GES is recruiting research interns for the Summer 2011 period (as stipulated in our Charter of Establishment) with the aim of promoting understanding of its strategic research. IGES internships offer an opportunity to gain on-site work experience, and are aimed at those who wish to play a part in interdisciplinary policy research toward sustainable development in the Asia Pacific region.
Requirements:
Interns must:
– Be postgraduates (location of graduate school does not matter).
– Be willing to learn from the on-the-job training at IGES (the internship is not a training programme for students to write an individual thesis, but rather an opportunity to experience real strategic policy research and operational activities).
– Satisfy the individual criteria outlined in the “Internship Overview” for the group with which you would like to spend your internship.
– The research intern should be proficient enough in English for the purposes of oral communication and writing of documents.
Content of training:
The research interns will collect information for, or draft documents related to, their own research group. Work is supervised by the director of or training supervisor for the group to which the intern belongs. Those who are selected for internships will be contacted by the relevant group director to discuss and agree on the specific contents of training.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 31 January 2011

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