Dear Colleagues,
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> I am writing
to ask for your help in publicizing an excellent summer opportunity for graduate
students interested in relating their work to
global change issues.
The International Institute for
Applied Systems
Analysis (IIASA), located just outside Vienna, Austria, each year
sponsors a fellowship program for graduate students. About 50-60 students
from around the world spend the summer working closely with IIASA senior
researchers on projects relevant to the student's
thesis topic.
They end the summer with an international network of colleagues interested in
various aspects of global change issues, and often have produced a paper that
can be published. IIASA’s work spans a wide variety of disciplines, and YSSP
fellows have come from an array of disciplines: natural or social sciences;
mathematics or engineering; law or management; energy studies or demography;
risk or climate; policy or
international
relations.
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> I’d be very
grateful for your help in publicizing the YSSP Program for 2010. The
application deadline is January 18, and we want to spread the word about this
great opportunity as widely as possible. Please help by forwarding the
announcement to as many appropriate graduate students, graduate department
secretaries, university careers offices, and listservs as possible, and post the
flyer anywhere you think a potential applicant might see it. (The
information appended below is identical to the information on the flyer.)
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> The question most
frequently raised concerns funding. For students selected to participate,
funding is available for travel and living support, principally from IIASA’s
sixteen National Member Organizations (NMOs). The U.S. NMO funds both American
citizens and non-citizens who are studying in the U.S.
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> Please contact me
if you have questions about U.S. participation, or Tanja Huber, IIASA’s YSSP
Coordinator, with general questions about the program. She can be reached
at <mailto:>.
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>
> Very truly yours,
>
>
> Maggie Goud
Collins
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> Margaret R. Goud
Collins, Ph.D.
> Program Director,
US NMO Committee for IIASA
> Program Officer,
US National Committee, DIVERSITAS
> The National
Academies
> phone:
(508)548-2502
> email: <mailto:>
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> IIASA Young
Scientists Summer Program 2010
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Summer Fellowship
in
Austria for
Graduate Students in
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> Natural and Social
Sciences, Math, Policy and
Engineering
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> Each summer, the
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), located in
Schloss Laxenburg
near Vienna,
Austria, hosts a selected group of graduate students, primarily doctoral, from
around the world in its Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP). These students
work closely with IIASA’s senior scientists on projects within the Institute’s 3
theme areas.
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> Funding is
available to cover travel to IIASA and a modest living allowance.
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> APPLICATIONS
DEADLINE: 18 JAN 2010
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> 2010 YSSP DATES: 1
JUNE - 27 AUGUST
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> WHAT IS IIASA AND
WHAT ARE ITS PROGRAM AREAS?
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> IIASA is an
international institution, supported by the U.S. and 15 other governments,
engaged in scientific research aimed at providing policy insight on issues of
regional and global importance in the following areas:
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> Energy and
Technology
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Energy
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New Technologies
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Dynamic Systems
> ·
Integrated Modeling Environment
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Natural Resources
and Environment
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> ·
Land Use and Agriculture
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Forestry
> ·
Evolution and Ecology
> ·
Atmospheric
Pollution & Econ. Devt.
> ·
Greenhouse Gas
Initiative
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> Population and
Society
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> ·
World Population
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Risk and Vulnerability
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International Negotiation
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Population and
Climate Change
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Health and
Global Change
Initiative
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> Detailed
information about each program is on the IIASA Website: <>
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> WHO SHOULD APPLY?
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You are an advanced graduate student;
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> ·
Your field is compatible with ongoing research at IIASA;
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> ·
Your research and career would benefit from working alongside 50 or so
contemporary young scientists from a score or more of other nations, and senior
scientists from around the world;
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You would like to explore the policy implications of your work.
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> HOW DO YOU APPLY?
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> An on-line
application form, along with more information, is at <>
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> General Questions:
Tanja Huber, YSSP Coordinator <mailto:>
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> U.S. contact:
Margaret Goud Collins, Program Director for the U.S. Committee for IIASA
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>
National Academy of Sciences <mailto:>