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2018 Fully Funded to Travel and Study in Europe: United Nations University (UNU-WIDER) Visiting PhD Fellowship for Doctoral Students

United Nations University (UNU-WIDER) Visiting PhD Fellowship

Application Deadline: 30 September 2018 23:59 UTC+3.

The UNU-WIDER Visiting PhD Fellowship Programme gives registered doctoral students the opportunity to utilize the resources and facilities at UNU-WIDER for their PhD dissertation or thesis research, and to work with our researchers in areas of mutual interest.

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“The National Academies last charged the committee with examining graduate STEM education in 1995. This time, the committee worked for 18 months to examine data and hold focus groups and discussions with everyone from students to policy makers. The resultant report is exceptionally action oriented and student focused -- it urges programs to place a greater emphasis on mental health support for graduate students, for example. Perhaps most crucially, the report proposes core competencies that should be at the center of any graduate degree program in STEM.”

“The report recommends more attention to master’s degree training, not just doctoral training, and discusses core competencies at both levels. But Yamamoto described common competencies as relatively simple. The idea, he said, is that scientific fields are merging. So students need to develop “deep, specialized expertise, coupled with transdisciplinary literacy” -- at least enough to know other disciplinary approaches and where to find help if they need it.”

“Students need to be able to identify “important problems" and shape “rigorous research strategies,’breaking down the problems down into experiments, Yamamoto said -- and know how to “select which results to pursue and which to leave by the wayside.’”

“Beyond data transparency and developing core competencies, the report says that in an ideal graduate STEM education system, students would have multiple opportunities to understand and learn about ethical issues associated with their work and its implications for society.”

Inside HIgher Ed, May 30, 2018: “Push for Big Change in Graduate STEM Ed,” by Colleen Flaherty

Commencement 2017: Q&A with Jafra Thomas, MPH, Health Promotion and Health Behavior

Jafra will graduate on June 17 with his master’s degree in Health Promotion and Health Behavior Jafra Thomas will receive his master’s degree in Public Health on June 17 and is currently a doctoral degree candidate pursuing his PhD in Kinesiology. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Sports Sciences and his first master’s degree in Health and Exercise Science from the University of the Pacific in…

The Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) is a National Science Foundation initiative created by Congress to increase the number of underrepresented (UREP) minority students (African American, Hispanic, American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander) earning PhDs in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). AGEP is particularly interested in increasing the number of minorities who will enter the professoriate in these disciplines.

Each AGEP alliance engages in substantive partnerships to develop and implement innovative models for recruiting, mentoring, and retaining minority students in STEM doctoral programs and helping those interested in academic careers to transition successfully.

The four State University of New York (SUNY) Centers that make-up the SUNY AGEP alliance are: • The University at Albany • Binghamton University • The University at Buffalo • Stony Brook University (which is the lead institution).

We work with partners in various programs, such as the SUNY Louis Stokes Alliance Minority Participation (LSAMP), the New York State funded Graduate Diversity Fellowship, and Brookhaven Science Associates, the organization that runs Brookhaven National Laboratory.

The initial SUNY AGEP grant was awarded in November 1999 for $2.5 million. In 2005, the project was renewed at an impressive $5.6 million to cover Phase II, marking our tenth anniversary this year.

SUNY AGEP seeks to enrich students’ academic experiences by creating an effective network of faculty, students, and administrators who embrace academic excellence and diversity. We provide a wide range of services to underrepresented minority doctoral students STEM fields as well as to the STEM departments and graduate programs.