[Geoinfo] Fwd: IIASA YSSP 2011: Summer Fellowship Opportunity for Graduate

[Patricia Alvarado]

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Dear Colleagues,

I am writing to ask for your help in publicizing IIASA's YSSP Program
for 2011. The application deadline is January 17, 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 any;
kcrowley;where you think a potential applicant might see it. (The
information appended below is identical to the information on the
attached flyer.)

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.

We would very much appreciate anything you can do to help get the word
out. Some of you received a brochure earlier; this one has been
revised to reflect the research Program reorganization adopted by the
IIASA Council in November. My apologies for cross-postings.

Please contact me if you have questions about U.S. participation, or
Sheila Poor, IIASA’s YSSP Coordinator, with general questions about
the program. She can be reached at poor en iiasa.ac.at.

Very truly yours,

Maggie Goud Collins

Margaret R. Goud Collins, Ph.D.

Program Director, US NMO Committee for IIASA
Program Officer, US National Committee, DIVERSITAS
National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council

phone: (508)548-2502
email: mcollins en nas.edu

IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program 2011


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 an IIASA senior scientist mentor on a
project proposed by the student, related to his or her graduate
research.
Fellows selected by IIASA will receive funding to cover travel to
IIASA and a modest living allowance.




WHAT IS IIASA AND WHAT ARE ITS PROGRAM AREAS?
IIASA is an international institution, supported by the U.S. and 15
other member nations, engaged in scientific research aimed at
providing policy insight on issues of regional and global importance
in the following fields:

PROGRAM AREAS
·         Energy
·         Transitions to New Technologies
·         Advanced Systems Analysis
·         Ecosystem Services and Management
·         Mitigation of Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gases
·         Evolution and Ecology
·         World Population
·         Risk Policy and Vulnerability

GLOBAL PROBLEM AREAS
·         Energy and Climate Change
·         Food and Water
·         Poverty and Equity
Detailed information about each program is on the IIASA Website:
http://www.iiasa.ac.at/
WHWHO SHOULD APPLY?
-    You are an advanced graduate student;
-    Your field is compatible with ongoing research at IIASA;
-       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;
-    You would like to explore the policy implications of your work.
HOHOW DO YOU APPLY?
An on-line application form, along with more information, is at
http://www.iiasa.ac.at/yssp/register/

General Questions:                            Sheila Poor, YSSP
Coordinator  poor en iiasa.ac.at
U.S. contact:                                         Margaret Goud
Collins, Program Director for the U.S. Committee for IIASA
National Academy of Sciences  IIASAyssp en nas.edu

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