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The Center for Biological Sequence Analysis at the Technical University of Denmark was formed in 1993, and conducts basic research in the fields of bioinformatics and systems biology. The center is divided into ten specialist research groups, has a highly multi-disciplinary profile (biologists, biochemists, MDs, physicists, statisticians, and computer scientists) with a ratio of 2:1 of bio-to-nonbio backgrounds. CBS represents one of the large bioinformatics groups in academia in Europe.

University of Central Lancashire, PhD Studentship, Reference No RS/09/12
Occupational Epidemiology: barriers to participation in (occupational) health research or an epidemiological study of the carcinogenicity of lead (and lead compounds)

Applications are invited for a full-time studentship in the School of Public Health & Clinical Sciences. The studentship is tenable for up to 3 years for the MPhil/PhD (subject to satisfactory progress). The studentship will cover the cost of tuition fees at UK/EU rates plus a stipend (currently £13,290 for 2009/10) per annum. International applicants may apply but will be required to pay the difference between UK/EU and international fees. The successful applicant will start on 1 April 2010.There are currently 2 suggested projects which can be applied for:

The Socio-technical Modeling and Simulation team in the Information Sciences Group (CCS-3) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has projects in modeling and simulation spanning the full range of research activities from problem analysis, algorithmic and system design, to implementation, testing and applications of our tools. Our work covers a diverse and ever-expanding spectrum of application domains with a focus on infrastructure modeling; our current portfolio includes communication networks, transportation networks, commodity networks, epidemic modeling, agent-based activity modeling, and social networks. Our simulations model large-scale socio-technological systems with high fidelity. To tackle the scalability challenge, we implement our systems on high-performance distributed computing clusters. Most of our students have been able to publish their work done here in peer-reviewed journals and conferences.

Qatar Foundation – Faculty of Islamic Studies Scholarships for international students include:

• Program tuition
• Housing
• Recreation, phone, internet
• Health plan fee
• Transportation inside & outside Qatar Foundation

QFIS offers a number of prestigious scholarships for international students including:

1. His Highness Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani Scholarships
2. Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al Missned Scholarships
3. Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi Scholarships
4. Scholarships endowed by honourable supporters of QFIS

Qatari students may be eligible for scholarships awarded by the Higher Education Authority

The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) is pleased to announce the annual Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellowship competition. The fellowship will support a recent PhD working on the topic of US-Arab Relations, Arab Studies or Islamic Studies (broadly defined) for a period of one academic year for the purpose of transforming his/her dissertation into a book manuscript for publication. The fellow will receive a stipend of between $40,000 – $45,000 as well as benefits.

The United States-South Pacific Scholarship Program, authorized by the U.S. Congress and funded by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State is a competitive, merit-based scholarship program that provides opportunities for degree study at U.S. institutions of higher education. The scholarship program will include a summer internship in Washington, D.C. as well as a four to five week community service project in the student’s home country. Candidates from the following countries, who meet specific selection criteria, are eligible for the program: Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. The U.S.-South Pacific Scholarship Program is administered by the East-West Center on behalf of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

Every day Facebook confronts among the most complex technical problems and we believe that close relationships with the academy will enable us to address many of these problems at a fundamental level and solve them. As part of our ongoing commitment to academic relations, we are pleased to announce the creation of a Facebook Fellowship program to support graduate students in the 2010-2011 school year.