Kamis, 14 Oktober 2010

Scholarship : The Career Award for Science and Mathematics Teachers – Burroughs Wellcome Fund, USA

Scholarship Introduction:
The Career Award for Science and Mathematics Teachers is a five-year award available to outstanding science and/or mathematics teachers in the North Carolina public primary and secondary schools. The purpose of this award is to recognize teachers who have demonstrated solid knowledge of science and/or mathematics content and have outstanding performance records in educating children. This five-year award presents opportunities for professional development and collaboration with other master science and/or mathematics teachers who will help to ensure their success as teachers and their satisfaction with the field of teaching. Special consideration will be given to teachers working in hard-to-staff, economically deprived classrooms in North Carolina. The award also offers schools and school districts the opportunity to fully develop teachers as leaders in the field.Career Awards for Science and Mathematics Teachers provide $175,000 over a period of five years ($35,000 per year) to eligible teachers in the North Carolina public school system. The Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) will support five awards with annual installments as allocated below.Teacher Salary $10,000 stipend will be provided to the school district to supplement the teacher’s annual salary or for fringe benefits, such as retirement or insurance.$5,000 will be held annually by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund to be given to the teacher at the end of the five-year award, if the teaching professional remains in the K-12 classroom in a North Carolina public school. The State Board of Education will provide extra salary support to ensure that award recipients will receive a 12-month contract. The Department of Public Instruction will send these funds to the appropriate LEA beginning July 1 of each year. $10,000 may be used to purchase needed equipment and supplies for that teacher’s classroom or laboratory or be shared with the teacher’s school or school district.$10,000 may be used at the discretion of the teacher for professional development activities, travel and registration to meetings or conferences, hiring substitutes, networking with colleagues, and capacity building for the teacher or a team of teachers.The award is flexible in allowing teachers to reach beyond their school into the school district to build bridges, stimulate collective learning, and develop strategies to build their own capacity as a teacher, as well as the capacity of their school, district, or region.

Eligibility for scholarship:
An Eligibility Quiz has been created to assist you in determining whether or not you are eligible to apply for this award. Successful completion of the Quiz will take you to the next application step. You will be notified upon conclusion of the Quiz if you are not eligible to continue.

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Career Awards for Science and Mathematics Teachers provide $175,000 over a period of five years ($35,000 per year) to eligible teachers in the North Carolina public school system. Candidate eligibility and institutional nomination requirements are outlined below.
  • Candidates in middle school and high school must hold licensure to teach science and/or mathematics in North Carolina and have completed at least five years of teaching experience at the time of application with at least 70 percent of their time devoted to teaching science and/or mathematics courses.
  • Candidates in elementary schools, who also can be science and/or mathematics specialists, must have completed at least five years of teaching at the time of application; with at least 30 percent of the candidate’s time spent teaching science and/or mathematics. At least 20 percent of their time should be spent working with other teachers if they are specialists.
  • Candidates must have superior knowledge of science and/or mathematics, excellent teaching skills, demonstrated leadership, and a commitment to continue teaching in the North Carolina Public School system.
  • Candidates must be currently licensed North Carolina public school science and/or mathematics teachers who teach in grades K-12 in North Carolina public schools.
  • Candidates must be citizens of the United States.
All applications will require signatures and letters of support from the principal of the candidate’s school and the superintendent of the school district. More than one candidate from a school or school district is eligible to apply. In support of the application, the principal and superintendent must demonstrate that the necessary environment for successful science and/or mathematics teaching exists at the school and that there are opportunities for the teacher to be mentored and to mentor other teachers. The principal and superintendent must clearly outline in letters of support how the teaching professional will be supported and developed as a teacher leader in the districta

Application form: http://www.bwfund.org/pages/384/Program-Application/

How to apply: http://www.bwfund.org/pages/506/CASM-FAQ:-Nomination/&navID=409

Last date to apply:
The last date to apply is January 18 , 2011

Source: http://www.bwfund.org/pages/380/Background/

Kamis, 07 Oktober 2010

PhD in the Systems Biology Centre for Metabolism and Ageing, Netherlands

The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Groningen, Netherlands recruit 14 PhD students/postdocs from various disciplines relevant for Systems Biology, including biology, biochemistry, biotechnology, bioinformatics, statistics, mathematics and theoretical biology.

Each of the 14 positions will be filled by either a postdoc or a PhD student. Postdoc positions will be for 3 years, PhD positions for 4 years. The conditions of employment comply with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Medical Centres / Dutch Universities. Successful applicants will be linked to specific projects, based on their own interests and the needs of the Centre.

How to Apply
Applications will be collected centrally. Applications, integrated in one pdf file, should consist of:

  • a motivation letter, clearly stating how the prior expertise fits to the research program of the centre and also indicating a preference for one or more of the available projects;
  • an extensive CV;
  • two reference letters.

The following 14-projects are currently available:

1 position, Work Package 1.1: Network-based statistical inference,Prof. E. Wit, Prof. M. Heinemann

1 position, Work Package 1.2: Computational, global modeling of ageing ,Prof. F.J. Weissing, Prof. Arjan van der Schaft

4 positions , Work Packages 2 and 3: A concerted, multi-group effort towards solving the ageing puzzle in yeast,Prof. M. Heinemann, Dr. L. Veenhoff, Prof. I. van der Klei, Prof. M. Merrow

4 positions , Work Packages 4 and 5: A multi-scale Systems Biology approach to unravel the relation between calorie restriction, physical activity and biological ageing of mice, Dr. B.M. Bakker, Prof. A.K. Groen, Dr. B. Jayawardhana, Prof. G. van Dijk

1 position ( filled) , Work Package 6.1: Proteomics Analysis,Prof. R.P.H. Bischoff, Dr. H. Permentier

1 position , Work Package 6.2: Metabolomics Analysis,R.P.H. Bischoff,Dr. H. Permentier, Dirk-Jan Reijngoud

2 positions , Work Package 7: Metabolism and Healthy Ageing,Prof. M. Hofker, Prof. C. Wijmenga