WINTER INSTITUTE ON STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING

The Center for Integrated Latent Variable Research (CILVR) at The University of Maryland is pleased to announce two highly popular back-to-back short courses for research professionals, faculty, and graduate students

"Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling"

January 7-9, 2013 (Monday - Wednesday)

"Advanced Topics in Structural Equation Modeling"

January 10-11, 2013 (Thursday - Friday)

Instructor:

Dr. Gregory R. Hancock, University of Maryland

(ghancock@umd.edu)

For more information

http://www.cilvr.umd.edu/Workshops/CILVRworkshoppageSEM.html

Assistant Professor position - GVPT

CLEMSON UNIVERSITY:  Assistant Professor

Public Law/International Law.  The Department of Political Science at Clemson University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level to begin in August 2013.  We seek a broadly trained political scientist with a specialization in public law (constitutional law, international law, and/or judicial politics).  Research emphasis may be in either the American or international/comparative context.   In addition to maintaining an active research agenda, the successful candidate will reflect the Department's commitment to quality undergraduate teaching.  The successful candidate will be expected to teach courses in constitutional law and in his/her other areas of expertise. 

Clemson University is the Land Grant University for the State of South Carolina and is located within the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains 30 miles southwest of Greenville.  The Department offers a BA and BS in Political Science. 

A Ph.D. in Political Science by the time of employment is required.  Salary is competitive.  Applications should include a letter of interest, CV, transcripts of graduate work, three letters of recommendation, a writing sample, and evidence of teaching performance.  Send all application materials via email to polisci@clemson.edu.  If you already have applied for the Department’s previously advertised positions in International Relations/Comparative Politics and believe you qualify for this new position, please send an updated CV and cover letter.  Indicate in your email that you would like to be considered for this new position.  To ensure full consideration, please submit materials by November 30, 2012.  Clemson University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any individual or group of individuals on the basis of age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status or genetic information.

Jeffrey Peake

Professor and Department Chair

Department of Political Science

Clemson University

232 Brackett Hall

Clemson, SC 29634-1354

P. 864-656-4653

M. 419-464-6307

F. 864-656-0690

Paid Internship with the Smithsonsian

Colleagues,

We are recruiting for the Goldman Sachs Interns & Fellows Office (IFO) Multicultural Junior Fellows program. This internship has a stipend of $6000 for the selected student (10 weeks full-time or 20 weeks part-time). Please send to your best students! The internship will start in January 2013 (some flexibility on the specific start date).

There is a quick turnaround! Please have them email Noriko Sanefuji, (sanefujin@si.edu) with their résumé and cc: me – eatonmo@si.edu. Deadline will be Friday November 30, 2012 @11:59pm.

Here is the project description:

Research & Collection/Asian-Pacific American - The Sweet & Sour: A Look at the History of Chinese Food in the United States showcase opened at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History on March 17, 2011. The showcase will be developed into a traveling exhibition through the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) in 2014. The showcase represents a milestone within an ongoing initiative by the National Museum of American History to focus on its Chinese American history and culture collections. The project called for collecting a variety of Chinese restaurant-related objects ranging from menus to restaurant signs to cooking implements, which would provide a glimpse into the long history of Chinese immigration, exclusion, exoticism, and perseverance. The “O Say Can You See?” blog was developed in May 2010 to accompany the showcase and features blog posts on a variety of topics, including the origin of the fortune cookie and traditional Chinese New Year cuisine. For the proposed internship project, the candidate will aide with research, blogging, and collecting oral histories of local D.C. Chinese restaurants for the Sweet & Sour traveling exhibition. The candidate will assist with building a database on Asian Pacific American artifacts at the National Museum of American History (NMAH). In addition, he/she will be involved with the collection and caring of objects.

My contact is below if you have any questions or concerns!

Omar A. Eaton-Martínez, M.Ed.
Intern & Fellows Program Manager
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History
14th St. & Constitution Ave., NW
MRC 605 P.O. Box 37012
Washington DC 20013-7012
Room 5303
http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/getinvolved/internprog.cfm
eatonmo@si.edu
202-633-3556 (office)
202-281-8601 (cell)

2013-2014 Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fund Fellowship

2013-2014 Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fund Fellowship

Funding Interests:

1. Graduate school fellowships in any recognized field of study in the humanities, social sciences or natural sciences (including law, medicine, engineering, architecture or other formal professional training).
2. Independent research or study projects.
3. Publications focusing on Armenian studies.

Geographic Focus:NationalRestrictions:

1. Fellowships are restricted to graduate students who are United States citizens attending an accredited and designated institution of higher education within the United States.
   View the list of designated institutions
   The program of study need not be limited to Armenian studies, and candidates can be of any national descent. Applications must be submitted through the dean of the university where the student is pursuing graduate studies. In the case of undergraduate liberal arts colleges, students in their senior year are eligible to apply for a fellowship to fund their future graduate work. Please contact your school's financial aid or fellowship office for more information and to obtain an application.
2. Independent research and study grants are restricted to scholars who are based in and conducting research in the United States. PLEASE NOTE: Independent research and study grants are offered only on rare occasion.
3. The Fund also makes grants to support the publication of dissertations or historical or literary works focusing on Armenian culture or history.

Additional conditions apply for all three programs.

Eligibility: Fellowship candidates must have an outstanding undergraduate record, demonstrate financial need and be attending a designated college or university.Grant Information:Fellowships cover the cost of tuition and provide an annual $18,000 stipend for living expenses. Publication grants vary depending on magnitude of the publication.Grant Cycle:

1. Fellowship applications are distributed to designated universities in October, applications are due in January and decisions are made in April/May.
2. Publications deadlines are April 15th and November 15th.

Type of Support:Tuition and living expenses; research and publishing costs.

JPMorgan Chase Relationship:Sole Trustee

Application Instructions:

The University of Maryland may nominate up to three candidates for consideration by the Fund’s selection committee. Graduate Students wishing to be considered for nomination must submit their complete application packages in hardcopy to the Graduate School by Friday, January 4^th, 2013.  The 2013 – 2014 application is attached.

Please address the complete application to:

Ms. Robyn Kotzker

The Graduate School

2125 Lee Building

University of Maryland

College Park, MD 20742

Students will be notified by January 25^th as to whether their applications will be forwarded to the Liebmann Fund’s selection committee.  

Please contact Robyn Kotzker (rkotzker@umd.edu / x 5-0281) if you have any questions.  

THE PROF. R. RAHAMIMOFF TRAVEL GRANTS PROGRAM FOR YOUNG SCIENTISTS

A CALL FOR APPLICATIONS IN THE PROF. 

R. RAHAMIMOFF TRAVEL GRANTS

PROGRAM FOR YOUNG SCIENTISTS

BSF is announcing the availability of funds for short scientific trips by young
American or Israeli scientists to the other country.
 
In 2012 the program will have two calls and  each will support 10 trips.  Grants
will be $4,000 each. This is the 2nd CALL for 2012.
The program is open to PhD students  and post-doc fellows doing research
that requires facilities or expertise  that are not available in their home
countries.
Applications will be evaluated on the basis of their merit in light of the overall
aim of the program, and the qualifications of the applicants. The grant will be
awarded through the institute that submits the application. As guiding principles,
support will be awarded to applications that meet the following criteria:

• The applicant is a young American or Israeli researcher, and the visit is to
the other country.
• The research is in an accredited higher education or scientific institution
(including hospitals).
• The applicant's research is in any of the scientific fields supported by the
BSF (full list is on the BSF website), regardless of the split program.
• The purpose of the trip is limited to the use of facilities, or acquiring
expertise not available in the applicant's home country.

Additional information about the Prof. R. Rahamimoff program can be found at:
http://www.bsf.org.il/bsfpublic/DefaultPage1.aspx?PageId=25&innerTextID=25, and
must be submitted using the form and the instructions that can be downloaded from
the BSF website www.bsf.org.il in the “Guidelines & Forms” section.
Deadline for application submission is December 6, 2012 at 5 pm Israel time.
Applications that do not follow the instructions on the BSF website will not be
processed.

2013-2014 IAF Grassroots Development Ph.D. Fellowship Program

The deadline for applications for the 2013-2014 Fellowship Cycle of the IAF Grassroots Development Ph.D. Fellowship Program is JANUARY 22, 2013.

Fellowships are available to currently registered students who have advanced to candidacy (by the time research begins) for the Ph.D. in the social sciences, physical sciences, technical fields and the professions as related to grassroots development issues. Applications for clinical research in the health field will NOT be considered.

Awards are based on both development and scholarly criteria. Proposals should offer a practical orientation to field-based information. In exceptional cases the IAF will support research reflecting a primary interest in macro questions of politics and economics but only as they relate to the environment of the poor. The Fellowship Program complements IAF’s support for grassroots development in Latin America and the Caribbean, and preference for those applicants whose careers or research projects are related to topics of greatest interest to the IAF. These include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Organizations promoting grassroots development among poor and disadvantaged peoples;
• The financial sustainability and independence of development organizations;
• Trends affecting historically excluded groups, such as African descendants, indigenous peoples, women, people with disabilities and young people;
• Transnational development;
• The role of corporate social responsibility in grassroots development;
• The impact of globalization on grassroots development;
• The impact on the quality of life of the poor of grassroots development activities in such areas as sustainable agriculture and natural resource management, housing, health care, education, urban development, technology transfer, jobs creation, and marketing and small-enterprise development.

Funding is for between four and 12 months. Research during the 2013-2014 cycle must be initiated between June 1, 2013 and May 31, 2014.

IAF’s Fellowships provide support for Ph.D. candidates to conduct dissertation research in Latin America and the Caribbean on topics related to grassroots development. The Inter-American Foundation expects to award up to 15 Doctoral Field Research Fellowships in 2013.

Complete proposals include:

• A complete research prospectus - an application statement, a field research prospectus, a Curriculum Vitae (custom), and a Personal Statement;
• A letter of University Certification;
• A letter of affiliation from at least one host organization;
• Statement of IRB Status or proof of submission or approval;
• Graduate transcripts;
• Three academic letters of reference, one which must be from the chair of the applicant's dissertation committee;
• A Language Proficiency Report.

Selected candidates must present proof of candidacy and IRB exemption or approval prior to receiving funding or entering the field.  Complete application information and instructions are available at www.iie.org/iaf.