The Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture offers The Excellence scholarships for PhD students to participate in YES’ PhD Program “Global Food Security“at the University of Hohenheim in Germany

The Food Security Center (FSC) is a newly established university center of excellence in develop-ment collaboration at the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany. FSC is one of five excel-lence centers of the program “exceed – Higher Education Excellence in Development Cooperation”, which is supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with funds from the Feder-al Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany (BMZ). The Center’s mission is to create and support effective and innovative scientific contributions in research and teaching, as well as to give policy advice to eradicate hunger and achieve food security in collaboration with partner Higher Education Institutions in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and national and international development and research organizations. (more…)

Taiwan International Graduate Program (TIGP) is now accepting applications for admission to the 2010 fall semester, and applications are due before 31 March, 2010.

The Taiwan International Graduate Program is a Ph.D. program, started in 2002, by Academia Sinica, the foremost research institution of Taiwan. In cooperation with top universities in Taiwan, Academia Sinica offers advanced, inter-disciplinary Ph.D. Programs, in nine fields that span the natural and physical sciences, as well as computational linguistics. TIGP students will learn in all-English teaching and research environments, and enjoy access to world-class faculty and state-of-the-art research facilities at Academia Sinica and partner universities. All applicants who are admitted to TIGP will receive a fellowship from Academia Sinica. Stipend levels are about USD 11,000 per year, and will be awarded for the first three years.

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Every year UNU-IAS and UNU-ISP offer PhD and Postdoctoral Fellowships to provide young scholars and policy-makers, especially from the developing world, with a multi-disciplinarily context within which to pursue advanced research and training that is of professional interest to the successful applicant and of direct relevance to the research agenda of their selected UNU-IAS or UNU-ISP programme. Application Deadline: 28 February 2010

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Principal Supervisor and Project Leader: Dr. Andri Andriyana
Co-Supervisors:

• Prof. Dr. A.S.M.A. Haseeb
• Dr. Mohd Rafie Johan

A three years Ph.D. position is available at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The research fund is immediately available for the first year and extendable for the next years based on performance. We are looking for a candidate who is capable of and interested in performing high quality research on the Mechanics of Elastomers.

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