FULBRIGHT MALAYSIAN AWARD 2012-2013 FULBRIGHT MALAYSIAN GRADUATE STUDY AND RESEARCH PROGRAM

The Malaysian-American Commission on Educational Exchange (MACEE) is pleased to announce its annual competition for grants under the Fulbright Program for graduate level study (Masters or Ph.D. degrees) and research in the United States for 2012-2013 academic year. Grants under the Malaysian Fulbright student program will be administered as either degree or non-degree grants (Dissertation Research), depending on whether the applicant is seeking to complete coursework or research toward his/her degree program at a Malaysian university or is seeking to obtain a degree from an American institution.

PERIOD OF AWARD

All grants are for periods of one academic year. Degree-track grants may be renewed for a second year. Please note that grant renewals are recommended for approval by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarships Board on a case-by-case basis and are not automatically renewable.

NATURE OF AWARD

Awards will be partial grants or otherwise require cost-sharing from the candidate's home institution, scholarships or other funding from the admitting university or from personal resources.  While awards may be full grants, the category and amount of any specific award will be based upon available funding and other criteria as determined by the Academic committee during the selection process. All decisions regarding category and amount of grant shall be final. Similarly, the amount of renewal funding shall be contingent upon financial circumstances affecting the Commission. For graduate degree grants, efforts will be made to retain funding levels from the first to the second year. However, students should not assume this will take place.

PLACEMENT OF GRANTEE

Institute of International Education (IIE) will assist applicants in securing placement at a regionally accredited U.S. university and applicants should be accepted by June 1st, 2012. FIELDS OF STUDY Preference will be given to those proposals which are consistent with MACEE’s overall thematic approach for Fulbright awards, emphasizing these 5 general areas of study: American Studies Malaysian Studies Islamic Studies Comparative Religion Economics and Technology Transfer Issues in Contemporary Society International Relations However, students applying for any other field of study than those mentioned above are encouraged to apply, as all highly qualified applicants will be considered.  Students applying for MBA should take note that preferences are given to other fields of study. ELIGIBILITY To be considered for selection under this program, students shall: Possess Malaysian citizenship. Be no more than 35 years of age at the time of application. Applicant above 35 years of age will be considered on a case to case basis. Be in good health. Have a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree with Honors (hons.) and cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or its equivalent Must have a TOEFL score of at least 100 (internet based test) on a test taken no more than two years prior to the time of application (note: certain fields and/or institutions may require a higher score). Must have a GMAT, GRE, GRE subject test with minimum score as required by the institution of your choice.  Please check with programs or universities that you are planning to apply about the required test. Be available for interview in Kuala Lumpur. Be prepared to return to Malaysia immediately upon completion of study. The Following Individuals Are Not Eligible. Individuals who are or have already been enrolled in a graduate degree program at an American university and who seek nomination in order to complete said program. Individuals who seek nomination in order to complete a second masters degree or doctoral degree. Individuals who intend to pursue internship, residency or research at a U.S. school of medicine, nursing, dentistry or veterinary medicine. Individuals who are working or currently studying in USA. To be eligible, applicants MUST have returned to Malaysia at least ONE year before the announcement date (March 1st, 2011) for this award.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

Students can download the application form here. Please mail 4 sets of your application by August 10, 2011 to: MACEE Fulbright Malaysian Graduate Study and Research Program 18th Floor, Menara Yayasan Tun Razak 200 Jalan Bukit Bintang 55100 Kuala Lumpur A complete application includes: 4 copies of application form with photograph. 4 certified true copies of university transcript(s) for all years of academic study. 4 certified true copies of degree certificates from all institutions attended. 4 certified true copies of TOEFL/GMAT/GRE score reports. 3 letters of reference.   Letter of reference is confidential and hard copy should be in a sealed envelope. 4 photographs. Most universities will require that all graduate students (regardless of field of study) included a thesis abstract or research paper (translated into English) that was completed during previous university-level studies. (Please attach 4 copies if any). Students are HIGHLY ENCOURAGED to meet an educational advisor at MACEE for admission information into American Universities. For inquiry please contact Kalis at 03-21668878 or kalis@macee.org.my

Postgraduate Scholarships in Master Program in Teaching Arabic to Speakers of Other Languages (TASOL) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Teacher Preparation Department, Arabic Language Institute, King Saud Universtiy in Riyadh offers full scholarships for international students to study master degree Program in Teaching Arabic To Speakers of Other Languages (TASOL) starting from 2012-13 academic year.

Information about the department
King Saudi University ALI
Arabic Language Institute
Admision requirements

Online application form

PhD Positions the Area of Biological/Biomedical Signal Processing and Mathematical Modeling, Singapore

Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) has several openings for graduate student positions in the area of biological/biomedical signal processing and mathematical modeling.

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:

• Bayesian modeling of parasitic life cycle
• large-scale graphical models for functional genomics
• 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
Deadline: July 1, 2011

Belgium: Application Invited for Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships, Production and Characterization of Polyhydroxyalkanoates from Industrial Organic and Inorganic Wastes

Project Title:
Production and characterization of polyhydroxyalkanoates from industrial organic and inorganic wastes
Host institute:
The Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO) is looking for candidates interested in a post doc position (2 years). VITO will help those candidates in preparing a Marie Curie proposal with a deadline of 11 August 2011. The call for Marie Curie fellowships (IEF and IIF) is now open, more information on
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.PeopleDetailsCallPage&call_id=395
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.PeopleDetailsCallPage&call_id=396

VITO is a leading research centre in Flanders (Belgium) in the field of sustainable environmental and (bio)process technology development. More information on www.vito.be.
Project Description
Plastics have become an indispensable part in our daily life and are used in very diverse application areas. The current global consumption of plastics amounts to 250 million tons with annual growth of approximately 5%. However, the majority of the polymers are based on fossil fuels and contribute to environmental pollution. Therefore, intensive research and industrial efforts have focused on the production of biopolymers as “green” alternatives to synthetic polymers. Within this context, polyhydroxyalkanoates or PHA represent such kind of bioplastic.
PHA are synthesized via bacterial fermentation of renewable resources and are fully biodegradable and biocompatible. Despite that PHA constitute a class of biobased polyester with highly attractive qualities for thermo-processing applications, PHA have not yet entered bulk markets. Currently, the major drawback to full-scale commercialization of PHA is their market price which is much higher than conventional petroleum based plastics or other bioplastics due to their high raw material costs.


This research aims to develop a new and sustainable technology for the production of PHA from industrial organic and inorganic waste streams in order to reduce the cost price of PHA. Moreover, from an environmental point of view, using these renewable resources would be beneficial for waste management and allow regional closed loop management. In addition, the biopolymer will be characterized in order to have a detailed understanding of the properties of the biopolymer, to determine the influence of this new production process on the characteristics of the biopolymer and to optimize the fermentation and downstream process.
Required education/discipline: Phd in engineering, microbiology, fermentation technology
Contact persons for more information:
Linsey Garcia-Gonzalez (linsey.garcia-gonzalez[ at ]vito.be)
Winnie Dejonghe (winnie.dejonghe[ at ]vito.be)
Generic EU Marie Curie Actions Eligibility Criteria:
Applicants should not be either (i) a national of; or (ii) resident for greater than 12 months of the last 36 months in the country of the host institution unless they have spent more than 4 of the last 5 years outside the EU and Associated States.

Source: scholarshipnet.info

Application Invited for Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships, Integrated Process for Fermentation and Separation of Organic Acids with Electrodialysis, Belgium

Project Title:
Integrated process for fermentation and separation of organic acids with electrodialysis
Host institute:
The Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO) is looking for candidates interested in a post doc position (2 years). VITO will help those candidates in preparing a Marie Curie proposal with a deadline of 11 August 2011. The call for Marie Curie fellowships (IEF and IIF) is now open, more information on
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.PeopleDetailsCallPage&call_id=395
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.PeopleDetailsCallPage&call_id=396



VITO is a leading research centre in Flanders (Belgium) in the field of sustainable environmental and (bio)process technology development. More information on www.vito.be.
Project Description
Organic acids (e.g. acetic, lactic, citric, malic, fumaric, gluconic, succinic, itaconic and galacturonic acid) from fermentation broths are widely used products (in e.g. foods, pharmaceuticals, beverages, plastics and detergents) and are thus of a tremendous importance. Besides using an optimized production strain and fermentation, developing cost and energy-saving downstream processes is indispensable to improve the economics of these products.
Traditional techniques for separation and purification of organic acids from the fermentation broth are hampered by undesirable features such as high energy costs for direct distillation, low yield of crystallization, CaSO4-sludge formation by precipitation and acidification, use of hazardous solvents with solvent extraction, high acid, base and water consumption for regeneration of ion-exchange resins and low capacity and short lifetime of adsorbents for adsorption.
Therefore, opportunities arise to lower the environmental impact and operating costs of traditional techniques by using alternative techniques. Electrodialysis (ED) may be a competitive technology for the production and separation of organic acids. The diversity and sophisticated functions of ED allow it to be implemented in a very creative way for ISPR, to concentrate organic acids, convert their salts into acids or a combination of both. A promising set-up contains monopolar and bipolar membranes and allows the direct conversion of an organic salt into the acid and the corresponding base without the addition of strong acids. Integrating ED with fermentation requires pretreatment to reduce the risk of membrane fouling and of precipitation of salts of low solubility.
This technology will be evaluated in small and large (pilot) membrane stacks in various configurations for the separation and concentration of small organic acids. This approach will allow to complement the test work with an evaluation on technical-economical feasibility at full-scale.
Required education/discipline: Phd in bioprocess technology, fermentation technology, membrane technology
Contact persons for more information: Heleen De Wever (heleen.dewever[ at ]vito.be) or Wouter Van Hecke (wouter.vanhecke[ at ]vito.be)
Generic EU Marie Curie Actions Eligibility Criteria:
Applicants should not be either (i) a national of; or (ii) resident for greater than 12 months of the last 36 months in the country of the host institution unless they have spent more than 4 of the last 5 years outside the EU and Associated States.

Source Adapted from scholarshipnet.info

Researchers and Vacanies at School of Information science, Computer and Electrical engineering (IDE) , Halmstad University, Sweden

Career opportunities at School of Information science, Computer and Electrical engineering (IDE)

The School of Information Science, Computer and Electrical Engineering (School of IDE) and its research environment, Halmstad Embedded and Intelligent Research (EIS) is experiencing a strong expansion and is therefore looking for thirteen new employees:

Employment		Referens number	Application deadline
The employments will be appointed provided that the necessary decisions are made. For more information aboout the positions, please, click on the reference number.
Doctoral student in physics with specialization in naoscience/optoelectronics		IDE 2/11	June 15, 2011
2 doctoral students in computer science and engineering with specialization in architecture and programming of embedded parallel computers		IDE 5/11	June 15, 2011
Doctoral student in computer science and engineering with specialization computer languages		IDE 6/11	June 15, 2011
Doctoral student in computer science and engineering or signals and systems engineering with specialization real-time communications in ad-hoc networks		IDE 7/11	June 15, 2011
Doctoral student in signals and systems engineering with specialization in machine learning/mechatronics especially automatic visual perception of the environment		IDE 8/11	June 15, 2011
Doctoral student in signals and systems engineering with specialization classification and assessment of human activities on the basis of portable (and other) sensors.		IDE 9/11	June 15, 2011
Post-doctoral researcher in computer science with an orientation towards computer languages for modelling of cyber physical systems		IDE 10/11	2011-08-31
Assistant professor in informatics		IDE 11/11	2011-08-31
Professor in applied electronics with specialization in high-frequency electronics		IDE 12/11	2011-09-26
Professor in computer systems engineering		IDE 13/11	2011-09-26
Professor in applied mathematics with specialization in computational science and engineering		IDE 14/11	2011-09-26
Professor i informatics/Information Systems		IDE 15/11	2011-09-26

Source : http://www.hh.se/10362.html

PhD position at Water Insight bv., Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Tartu Observatory, Estonia

PhD position at Water Insight bv., Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Tartu Observatory, Estonia

This PhD position will focus on the research of Eutrophic lakes using optical remote sensing techniques. Satellite images of lakes reveal patterns that are related to the water composition. These images can be translated into spatial quantitative estimates of
1) Optical properties (IOPs) such as absorption and scattering, and attenuation
2) Concentrations of Chlorophyll-a (as proxy for phytoplankton biomass), total suspended matter, colored dissolved organic matter, and Phycocyanin (as proxy for the amount of cyanobacteria).

Maps of these parameters show distinct spatial variability. Our hypothesis is that the information on spatial variability in IOPs and pigment concentration images provides insight in the composition of the phytoplankton population (other dominant species; growth and decay, etc.). We will characterize the spatial variability using techniques such as spatial statistics, gradient analysis etc. An important aspect of the study will be to verify and interpret the spatial information in the images by making optical and biological field measurements along transects. Attention will be given to the elimination of unwanted spatial patterns in the images induced by clouds, cloud shadows and atmospheric variability.





The PhD researcher will be based in Wageningen (the Netherland) at Water Insight during the first year. The work will be performed in close contact with researchers from the Institute of Environmental Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Dr. M. Eleveld, Prof. P. Verburg and Prof. J. Vermaat).
During the first year the lake IJssel will be studied. In the next 2 years, a large portion of time will be spent in Tartu Observatory (Estonia) to analyze Lake Peipsi data in cooperation with Dr. A. Reinard. The final year will be spent in the Netherlands at Water Insight and IVM. The researcher will participate
in a growing international network with researchers from amongst others Estonia, Sweden, Finland and Germany.
For this position we are looking for a highly motivated young researcher who is self supporting and a team player. The candidate should have a background in (aquatic) ecological sciences, physics or chemistry. Experience in water optics would be an advantage. Some experience in programming languages such as Matlab or R would also be advantageous. The candidate must have the flexibility to work and live alternatively in the Netherlands and in Estonia, and should have a fair working knowledge of the English Language.
Closing date of the vacancy is 10 june 2011. The PhD position will start as soon as possible. Further information can be requested from Dr. Steef Peters via: info[ at ]waterinsight.nl.

Water Insight (WI) is a private commercial company (SME) born as a spin-off (2005) from the Institute of Environmental Studies IVM at the Free University of Amsterdam. WI produces innovative high quality spatial information products of surface water (and surface hydrology) based on observations with cameras deployed from boats, airplanes and satellites (remote sensing). The mission of WI is to develop operational and commercially viable water remote sensing instruments and products and services using integrated close range and satellite borne sensors (networks). (www.waterinsight.nl)
The Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), the oldest environmental research institute in the Netherlands, aims to contribute to the sustainability of societies and environmental rehabilitation and preservation through academic and applied research. It takes a multidisciplinary approach, and has key research expertise in water and climate related issues. A research community of 100 scientists addresses challenging environmental problems and offers pragmatic and innovative solutions. IVM is coordinator of the FP7 GMES downstream project CoBiOS. (www.vu.nl/ivm)
Tartu Observatory is the Estonian leading institute for space research and technology. It has three departments: stellar physics, cosmology and Atmospheric physics. The latest one is mainly dedicated to Earth Observation now. Currently running international projects like WaterS (FP7 IAPP), ESAIL (FP7 Space), EstSpacE (FP7 Capacities and ESA PECS ORAQUA, NordAquaRemS (NordForsk). (www.aai.ee)

Source adapted from scholarshipnet.info