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Category: Scholarship The Memorial University of Newfoundland invites applications for a Postdoctoral or Research Associate position in ocean data assimilation. The successful candidate will join a network “Prediction and Predictability of the Global Atmosphere-Ocean System from Days to Decades”, recently funded by the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences. The overall goal of the network is to improve forecasts of the ocean and atmosphere on time-scales of days to decades. The project involves development of methods for ocean data assimilation of a wide range of data types, including satellite observations and temperature and salinity profiles from Argo floats. Specific areas of research will ... Read Full Story

Category: Scholarship USA: PhD Studentship in Speech Communication America The Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) invites applications for admission to the Ph.D. Program in Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology (SHBT) for the fall semester 2007. Synthesizing engineering, medicine and science, the program offers a rigorous curriculum that trains students to apply research methods, design techniques, and clinical knowledge to the study of the physical, cognitive, and biological systems underlying language and communication. With access to the resources of MIT, Harvard and its eleven teaching hospitals, this program provides students with a vast range of research and educational opportunities. The program ... Read Full Story

Category: Scholarship UK: MA Scholarships at The Faculty of Arts and Humanities Durham University The Faculty of Arts and Humanities is making available ten M.A. Scholarships to support students planning to start 'taught' or 'research' M.A. programmes in October 2007. The Scholarships fully fund fees at the full-time UK/EU rate (currently £3,168), but the Faculty welcomes applications from overseas students as well as from UK and other EU students. The M.A. Scholarships Scheme covers 'taught' and 'research' programmes in all of the following departments: Department of Classics and Ancient History Department of English Studies Department of History Department of Music Department of Philosophy Department ... Read Full Story

The relationship between theory and practice, research and action, is fundamental to all fields of applied social science. Should research findings and knowledge be useful for science, practice, and policy? If so, how should such research be designed, carried out and disseminated to achieve the twin goals of rigor and relevance? These challenges are particularly relevant in the applied areas of management and organization studies where there is a distinct responsibility for researchers to engage with the "real world". In this carefully crafted and thoughtful book, leading management researcher Andrew Van de Ven both presents the broad intellectual challenge of "engaged scholarship", and also ... Read Full Story

Last year, round about this time, I entered into a competition for young broadcasters and journalists by the Associated Press Florida. I put together a series of interviews and features I had produced in the past. I sent the application to the Miami Associated Press, not really expecting to win. However, a few days later I received a phone call from the AP office informing me that I had won their young broadcasters award. Obviously I was thrilled! I was even more thrilled when I found out I had won a grant of $2000! When I was interning at WPBF, ABC News in West ... Read Full Story