Summer Fellowship Opportunity for Graduate Students; January 18, 2010

I am writing to ask for your help in publicizing an excellent summer opportunity for graduate students interested in relating their work to global change issues. The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), located just outside Vienna, Austria, each year sponsors a fellowship program for graduate students. About 50-60 students from around the world spend the summer working closely with IIASA senior researchers on projects relevant to the student's thesis topic. They end the summer with an international network of colleagues interested in various aspects of global change issues, and often have produced a paper that can be published. IIASA’s work spans a wide variety of disciplines, and YSSP fellows have come from an array of disciplines: natural or social sciences; mathematics or engineering; law or management; energy studies or demography; risk or climate; policy or international relations.

I’d be very grateful for your help in publicizing the YSSP Program for 2010. The application deadline is January 18, and we want to spread the word about this great opportunity as widely as possible. Please help by forwarding the announcement to as many appropriate graduate students, graduate department secretaries, university careers offices, and listservs as possible, and post the flyer anywhere you think a potential applicant might see it. (The information appended below is identical to the information on the flyer.)

The question most frequently raised concerns funding. For students selected to participate, funding is available for travel and living support, principally from IIASA’s sixteen National Member Organizations (NMOs). The U.S. NMO funds both American citizens and non-citizens who are studying in the U.S.

Please contact me if you have questions about U.S. participation, or Tanja Huber, IIASA’s YSSP Coordinator, with general questions about the program. She can be reached at ysspsupport@iiasa.ac.at.

Summer Fellowship in Austria for Graduate Students in

Natural and Social Sciences, Math, Policy and Engineering

Each summer, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), located in Schloss Laxenburg near Vienna, Austria, hosts a selected group of graduate students, primarily doctoral, from around the world in its Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP). These students work closely with IIASA’s senior scientists on projects within the Institute’s 3 theme areas.

Funding is available to cover travel to IIASA and a modest living allowance.

APPLICATIONS DEADLINE: 18 JAN 2010

2010 YSSP DATES: 1 JUNE - 27 AUGUST

WHAT IS IIASA AND WHAT ARE ITS PROGRAM AREAS?

IIASA is an international institution, supported by the U.S. and 15 other governments, engaged in scientific research aimed at providing policy insight on issues of regional and global importance in the following areas:

Energy and Technology

· Energy

· New Technologies

· Dynamic Systems

· Integrated Modeling Environment

Natural Resources and Environment

· Land Use and Agriculture

· Forestry

· Evolution and Ecology

· Atmospheric Pollution & Econ. Devt.

· Greenhouse Gas Initiative

Population and Society

· World Population

· Risk and Vulnerability

· International Negotiation

· Population and Climate Change

· Health and Global Change Initiative

Detailed information about each program is on the IIASA Website: http://www.iiasa.ac.at/

WHO SHOULD APPLY?

· You are an advanced graduate student;

· Your field is compatible with ongoing research at IIASA;

· Your research and career would benefit from working alongside 50 or so contemporary young scientists from a score or more of other nations, and senior scientists from around the world;

· You would like to explore the policy implications of your work.

HOW DO YOU APPLY?

An on-line application form, along with more information, is at http://www.iiasa.ac.at/yssp/register/

General Questions: Tanja Huber, YSSP Coordinator ysspsupport@iiasa.ac.at

U.S. contact: Margaret Goud Collins, Program Director for the U.S. Committee for IIASA

National Academy of Sciences mcollins@nas.edu