EXTRAORDINARY OPPORTUNITY FOR GRADUATE EDUCATION IN HAMPTON, VA, USA

National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) anticipates at least 15 new graduate research assistantships for 2008-2009.

Stipends $22-26 K per year, all tuition, fees, health insurance, and a professional travel allowance.

Perform research with experts at NASA Langley Research Center, eminent faculty at NIA (including 6 chaired professors) and faculty on campus http://www.nianet.org/graduateeducation/gradstudentops.php

MS and PhD degrees in Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical, Computer, Materials Science, Systems, Engineering Mechanics, Engineering Physics and other engineering fields from one of our consortium universities: Georgia Tech, Maryland, NC State, NC A&T, Virginia, Virginia Tech.

Residency fulfilled at NIA in Hampton. Earn degree from one of our universities while taking up to half of your courses from consortium partner universities. Coursework from on-site faculty as well as distance learning. Innovative new courses, including team-taught classes from our multi-university consortium.
For a brochure to post or share please click on the following link:
http://www.nianet.org/pubs/NIA_GradEd06.pdf


Additional information on the NIA graduate program may be found on http://www.nianet.org/graduateeducation


For additional information please contact Ms. Lisa Burke, lburke@nianet.org or (757) 325-6731.

Methodist College Kuala Lumpur awards

Methodist College is offering a limited number of SCHOLARSHIPS for its A-Levels March intake. Do take a look at http://www.methodistcollegekl.edu.my/ and apply for them immediately.

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Scholarships

Methodist College Kuala Lumpur awards Merit and Special Scholarships to post SPM/GCE O-Level students who commence their studies at MCKL:


MERIT SCHOLARSHIPS

Students with excellent SPM/GCE O-Level results will be considered for various scholarships for the following courses of study:
Course Academic Requirements Award
A-Level (Science) 10 1A's and above Full tuition scholarship
8 to 9 1A's Partial (50%) scholarship
5 to 7 1A's Partial (25%) scholarship

A-Level (Arts)
Australian Matriculation (AUSMAT) 8 1A's and above Full tuition scholarship
6 to 7 1A's Partial (50%) scholarship
5 A's (1A's or 2A's) Partial (25%) scholarship

Diploma in Early Childhood Education (Dip.ECE) 5 1A's and above Full tuition scholarship
4 1A's Partial (50%) scholarship
3 A's (1A's or 2A's) Partial (25%) scholarship


SPECIAL SCHOLARSHIPS

Special Scholarships will be awarded to students in the following categories
Category Award
Children of Pastors of Methodist Churches Full tuition scholarship
Children of Pastors of Christian Churches Partial (50%) scholarship
Students of Methodist Churches in Malaysia Partial (50%) scholarship
Students from Private Methodist Secondary Schools Partial (30%) scholarship



Terms and conditions apply. A limited number of scholarships will be offered.

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Funded Research Positions for Postdoctoral and Doctoral Students in

The Institute of Computer Science at the University of Innsbruck, Austria,
invites applications for Phd students and Postdocs in the Distributed and
Parallel Systems Group (DPS).

Your areas of interest should comprise:
- Application development and runtime environments for multi-core parallel
architectures
- Program analysis and optimizations for parallel systems
- Programming languages and methods for multiprocessor architectures
- Performance analysis and debugging for parallel programs

Prerequisites: applicants must hold a master or equivalent degree in
computer science as well as a working permit for the European Union

Profile of our group: DPS participates among others in the following EU
projects: EU CoreGRID, EU EC-GIN, EU edutain@grid, EU Adaptive Services
Grid, EU KWF Grid, EU EGEE 1 . 3, SFB Aurora and Austrian Grid.

Language skills: English; Note that the working and study language is
English. The entire course and research programme is held in English only.
There is no need to learn German for this position.

The City of Innsbruck, which hosted the Olympic winter games twice, is
located in the beautiful surroundings of the Tyrolean Alps. The
combination of the Alpine environment and the urban life in this
historically grown town provides a high quality of living. The university
has a long tradition dating back to the 16th century, and, with seven
schools (Theology, Law, Economics and Social Sciences, Medicine,
Humanities, Natural Sciences, Civil Engineering and Architecture), it
offers a wide spectrum of research and teaching activities and interesting
opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration. Besides, the Country of
Tyrol strongly supports various initiatives in the IT domain.

Applications can be submitted anytime. There is no deadline. Please direct
questions and your application to:

Prof. Dr. Thomas Fahringer
Institute of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck
Technikerstr. 21a, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Email: Thomas.Fahringer@uibk.ac.at
URL: dps.uibk.ac.at

Happy new year!

A late new year greeting (had been busy taking leave back home and attending wedding in NZ =p).

Hope these info help!

Scholarship Opportunities in the UK

For further information please refer to: http://www.PostgraduateStudentships.co.uk

PhD Scholarship under an APAI Linkage Grant

Linkage Project – Structure and properties of aircraft alloys subjected to equal channel angular processing

Industrial partner – Boeing Corp, Phantom Works, St. Louis, USA.

Supervisor – Dr Peter Thomson, Department of Materials Engineering, Monash University

Stipend – currently $25,118 per annum – for three years with an expectation of renewal for a further six months as necessary.

For further information please contact: peter.thomson@eng.monash.edu.au

Australian Federation of University Women Vic-Scholarship Program 2008

The scholarships listed below are offered only to female students who are enrolled at Victorian universities, or at the Victorian campuses of the Australian Catholic University. Applicants are asked to demonstrate that they are or have been experiencing disadvantage in the pursuit of their studies.

William and Elizabeth Fisher Scholarship $4000, two Bursaries $1500 each and International Scholarship $2000 for female students enrolled in 2008 in a postgraduate research degree.

Yvonne Aitken Scholarship $2000 for a female student enrolled in 2008 in a postgraduate Diploma of Education (DipEd).

AFUW-Vic Scholarship $2500 and two Bursaries $1000 each for a female student enrolled in 2008 in a postgraduate coursework degree. Mature age will be a preferential factor.

F.D. Daniels Scholarship $3000 and two Bursaries $1500 each for female students enrolled in 2008 in an honours year of an undergraduate degree.

Madeleine Capicchiano Scholarship $3000 for a female student enrolled in an honours year of an undergraduate degree who is conducting research human rights and/or social justice issues at the local, national or international level.

Indigenous Scholarship $2000 for a female indigenous student resident in Victoria enrolled in 2008 in an undergraduate degree course at a Victorian university.

For further information please refer to: www.vicnet.net.au/~afuwvic

Chevening Scholarships

Closing Date: Friday 28 March, 2008

For further information please refer to: www.britishcouncil.org.au/educationuk