Dear Colleagues, We are offering eight fully funded PhD fellowships in our Coasts and Communities IGERT program at the University of Massachusetts Boston. These fellowships are competitively awarded to PhD students interested in conducting transdisciplinary research and developing innovative and sustainable solutions to pressing environmental challenges. Please share the announcement below with your students and colleagues. Id be glad to engage with any students interested in our program in global governance and human security and in the IGERT fellowship. Thank you!! Maria Ivanova
The University of Massachusetts Boston offers eight PhD fellowships in its Coasts and Communities IGERT (Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship) program funded by the National Science Foundation. Applicants should be admitted to one of our participating PhD programs - in global governance and human security<https://www.umb.edu/academics/mgs/crhsgg/grad/globalgov_phd>, environmental science<https://www.umb.edu/academics/environment/grad/environmental_science/es_phd>, environmental biology<https://www.umb.edu/academics/csm/biology/grad/environmental_biology_phd>, marine science and technology<https://www.umb.edu/academics/environment/grad/marine_science/mst_phd>, or organizations and social change<https://www.umb.edu/academics/cm/business_administration_phd/osc>. Our Coasts and Communities program seeks to train a new kind of environmental problem solver, one able to think and act across disciplinary and geographic boundaries and to develop and implement sustainable solutions to pressing environmental problems. Our core collaboration is in the Horn of Africa and successful applicants are expected to bring a global perspective to their work. Because the program is funded by the National Science Foundation, only US citizens and permanent residents are eligible for the fellowship. For more information, please visit https://www.umb.edu/igert or contact the program manager, Dr. Maria Petrova, at [email protected]. Eligible applicants are encouraged to communicate directly with the participating PhD programs, which have earlier deadlines (in December 2015 and January 2016), prior to submitting an IGERT application, the deadline for which is February 15, 2016. Maria Ivanova, PhD Associate Professor of Global Governance Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance http://www.crhsgg.umb.edu Co-Director, Center for Governance and Sustainability http://www.umb.edu/cgs http://www.environmentalgovernance.org John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy & Global Studies University of Massachusetts Boston 100 Morrissey Bvd. Boston, MA 02125 Tel. +1.617.287.7263 [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
