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Dear Colleagues, Could you please pass this along to your students and colleagues? Regards, Jon Foley -- CHANGE (Certificate on Humans and the Global Environment) Graduate =20 Training Program at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of =20 Wisconsin, Madison A NEW GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM SUPPORTED BY THE NATIONAL SCIENCE =20 FOUNDATION University of Wisconsin faculty working on issues of vulnerability =20 and sustainability of the global environment were recently awarded an =20= IGERT (Integrative Graduate Education, Research, and Training) grant =20 from the National Science Foundation. The grant will provide two =20 years of support to a small number of exceptional Ph.D. students and =20 will establish a new graduate Certificate on Humans and the Global =20 Environment (CHANGE). The CHANGE program involves faculty members in =20 departments ranging across atmospheric and oceanic sciences, ecology, =20= environmental studies, veterinary medicine to sociology. Features of the CHANGE-IGERT =95 Provides a two year stipend, tuition, and health insurance for 3-4 =20= CHANGE Fellows each year. CHANGE Fellows are students who have been =20 admitted to a UW-Madison Ph.D. program and have separately applied to =20= receive IGERT support. View our CHANGE Fellows page for more =20 information on these opportunities. Note: Only U.S. Citizens or =20 Permanent Residents can be funded as CHANGE Fellows. =95 Incorporates a graduate certificate Certificate on Humans and the =20= Global Environment (CHANGE) that can be added to any graduate degree =20 in an environmentally related discipline. For more information, view =20 the Certificate on Humans and the Global Environment web page. =95 Trains participating students to work more effectively across =20 disciplinary boundaries by providing classes, training, research, and =20= teaching opportunities that encourage collaboration and joint problem =20= solving. =95 Promotes research that focuses on understanding the links between =20= human and non-human elements in natural systems so that =20 vulnerabilities can be identified and sustainable solutions can be =20 developed and promoted. Current themes include: - Systems Analysis of Global Environmental Processes and Dynamics - Globalization and Global Environmental Change: Knowledge, =20 Institutions and Governance - Textures of Place: Geography, History, Ecology, and Politics - Transdisciplinary Approaches to Pedagogy, Management, and =20 Organization in Global Environment Studies =95 Builds a community of scholars across the UW-Madison campus and =20 beyond whose research focuses on issues of environmental =20 sustainability on a wide variety of spatial and temporal scales. =20 Explore our core faculty web page for more information on the =20 specific research interests of IGERT affiliated faculty. -- Prof. Jon Foley, Director Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE) Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies University of Wisconsin, Madison 1710 University Avenue Madison, WI 53726 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (email) -- www.sage.wisc.edu (web) 608.265.9119 (phone)
