Ph.D. Program in Earth and Environmental Sciences: Fellowships and Internships

AP Fellows Program Announcement and Description
The CUNY GK-12 Fellows Program is now recruiting students for the project's third year. To date 21 doctoral students have served as project fellows. We hope to recruit another 10 students for the 2005-06 academic year. The project is under the direction of Professor Theodore Brown, Principal Investigator and Executive Officer of the Computer Science Doctoral Program, and Dr. Victor Strozak, Co-Principal Investigator and Science Education Associate in the Center for Advanced Study in Education.

Designed to expand and enhance advanced placement science and mathematics courses in the Bronx High School District, the CUNY GK-12 Fellows Program seeks candidates who have an interest in teaching and in improving the quality of science education in New York City. In addition to a $30,000 stipend (for the period 7/1/04 to 6/30/05) and a cost of education allowance that covers tuition costs, the project offers fellows a chance to join and work with a team of educators and scientists on a unique, groundbreaking program that may well become a national model for the delivery of Advanced Placement science and mathematics courses.

The project will select and train 10 CUNY GK-12 Fellows who will work with and assist 20 new or novice CUNY GK-12 Teachers (two for each CUNY GK-12 Fellow) in some of the following subject areas: biology, calculus, chemistry, computer science, environmental science, geography, physics, and statistics. Both the CUNY GK-12 Fellows and Teachers will receive intensive summer and academic-year training and support from CUNY personnel, staff from the Bronx High School District, and The College Board. The training is comprised of summer professional development workshops (10 days), monthly, half-day seminars during the academic year, and semi-annual project achievement conferences.

CUNY GK-12 Fellows will work closely with their cooperating teachers to plan their day-to-day activities based on both teacher and student needs. During the academic year, fellows are required to spend 10 hours per week on in-class instructional activities at their assigned high school and an additional 5 hours per week on out-of-class preparation activities.

The NSF requires that CUNY GK-12 Fellows be full time graduate students who are U.S. citizens, nationals or permanent residents at the time of application. To be considered for a fellowship position, email a completed application, cover letter, and a resume, to Dr. Victor Strozak. Applicants may contact Dr. Strozak for more information. Review of applications will begin on February 16th and will continue until 10 fellows have been selected.

Website for AP Fellows
Application in Word (.doc) format
Application in PDF (.pdf) format

CUNY Honors College Instructional Technology Fellows
Background: The CUNY Honors College (CHC) is scheduled to admit its fifth class of 300 first-year students in fall 2005. Each of these students receives a laptop computer as part of the CHC scholarship package. To help these students realize the potential of technology in an academic setting, CUNY expects to appoint approximately eight Honors College Instructional Technology Fellows (ITFs), to be assigned to six of the seven campuses participating in the Honors College (Baruch, Brooklyn, City, Hunter, Queens, and Staten Island). Working with CUNY faculty in a series of seminars devoted to the arts, people, and institutions of New York City, ITFs will take the lead in developing the role of technology in the CHC curriculum.

Instructional Technology Fellows will be chosen from among doctoral students in all disciplines at the Graduate Center, including arts and humanities and social and physical sciences. ITFs should have broad interest in and a solid working knowledge of instructional technology and how to employ it in the classroom, should be comfortable working in a multidisciplinary environment whose focus will change each semester, and should have an interest in learning about cutting-edge pedagogy and technology.

Information Regarding Compesation and Workload Guidelines: Since Honors College Instructional Technology Fellows should be devoted entirely to the success of the Honors College, they will have a level of support that obviates their need for remunerative work outside of this special fellowship. Each ITF will therefore receive $22,755/year. (Former CUNY Graduate Assistants may receive a higher rate of pay.)

ITFs will be hired under the PSC/CUNY contract, in the title of “ Graduate Assistant A” in a non-teaching capacity and placed on the Graduate Center’s payroll. The workload regulations defined by the PSC/CUNY contract prohibit a Graduate Assistant A from accepting any additional teaching or non-teaching assignments within CUNY while employed in the title. The ITF appointment will be for one year. The regular appointment period is September 1 of any given year through August 31 of the following year. Determinations of ITF appointments will be made on annual basis. It is expected that ITFs will work 15 hours per week, for a total of 450 non-teaching hours per annual appointment (225 hours per semester). This is the maximum number of hours that may be worked in any CUNY instructional title under the terms of the PSC/CUNY agreement. ITFs will report directly to the Director of Academic Affairs at the CHC.

To be considered for an Honors College Instructional Technology Fellowship please complete the attached application and submit with the requested documentation to the address indicated on or before
Friday, March 7, 2005. For more information about the position and the CUNY Honors College, email Dr. Jane Bowers, Director of Academic Affairs, at jbowers@honorscollege.cuny.edu or call 212-817-1858.

Please note that once again the workshops for potential applicants on will be held on Thursday, November 18, from 1:00 to 3:00 pm in Room 9206-07.

Ann Batiuk
Office of Associate Provost & Dean for Academic Affairs
212 817-7240, 7280

A&WMA's 2005-2006 Scholarship Application Now Available
Full-time graduate students who are pursuing courses of study and
research leading to careers in air quality, waste management, and/or
environmental management/policy/law, can download a scholarship application for the 2005/2006 academic year from the Web site (pdf) or obtain a copy by calling A&WMA Member Services at 1-800-270-3444. Scholarship applications must be postmarked by December 3, 2004. Awards will be announced in February 2005. Visit the Web site to see past scholarship award recipients.

International Dissertation Field Research Fellowships
The International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship (IDRF) program provides support for social scientists and humanists conducting dissertation field research in all areas and regions of the world. Up to fifty fellowships will be awarded in the year 2006.

The program is administered by the Social Science Research Council in partnership with the American Council of Learned Societies. Funds are provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The IDRF awards enable doctoral candidates of proven achievement and outstanding potential to use their knowledge of distinctive cultures, societies, languages, economies, polities, and histories, in combination with their disciplinary training, to address issues that transcend their disciplines or area specializations. The program supports scholarship that treats place and setting in relation to broader phenomena as well as in particular historical and cultural contexts.

Standard fellowships will provide support for nine to twelve months in the field, plus travel expenses. Individual awards will be approximately $20,000. In some cases, the candidate may propose fewer than nine months of overseas fieldwork, but no award will be given for fewer than six months.

The fellowship must be held for a single continuous period within the eighteen months between July 2006 and December 2007.

For more Information, please visit the International Dissertation Field Research website: http://www.ssrc.org/programs/idrf/