The Institute for Transport Studies (ITS) has recently been awarded a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education. The Prizes are a national honour recognising exceptional achievement and the Institute is receiving the award for “sustained excellence – 40 years’ impact in transport research and teaching”.

Professor Tony May was one of those responsible for this sustained excellence and to recognise his contribution to the field (particularly in developing countries), ITS are offering up to three International Students the chance of reduced fees. These scholarships will provide international students with a life-changing opportunity they would not otherwise have.

A 4 year PhD position for an evolutionary biologist is immediately vacant at the Laboratory of Animal Diversity and Systematics (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium) in the research group of Prof. Filip Volckaert to study micro-evolutionary responses in Lake Tanganyika cichlids.

Münster’s Graduate Program on Cell Dynamics and Disease (CEDAD) offers cutting edge science together with the newly founded International Max Planck Research School – Molecular Biomedicine (IMPRS-MBM). CEDAD and IMPRS-MBM – jointly run by the University of Münster and the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine – offer integrative approaches to biomedical research with a strong emphasis on imaging.

The Endeavour Awards is the Australian Government’s internationally competitive, merit-based scholarship program providing opportunities for citizens of the Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Europe and Americas to undertake study, research and professional development in Australia. Awards are also available for Australians to undertake study, research and professional development abroad.

The 2011 round is now open and will close on 31 July 2010.