Scholarships Diary

The Global Leaders Fellowship is now open to Graduate Students (master’s and doctoral) to apply for the 2014-15 fellowships, tenable at George Washington University, USA.

The fellowship targets students who will return to their countries of origin to apply skills learned through their formal education at the George Washington University. The fellowship is intended for GW graduate students who will be future leaders in their fields in their home countries. Preference will be for students who have not studied or worked in the U.S. or other countries aside from their home country. Read more »

Eligibility: To apply for a scholarship under this programme you must be:
-A national of, or have refugee status, in one of the following countries: Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
-Normally resident in one of the above countries
-In possession of a good first degree (minimum second class, upper division or equivalent) or about to graduate in the year of application
-Studying or applying to study at a South African university

Description: Canon Collins Trust invites applications for scholarships for postgraduate study in South Africa in 2014. We will provide funding for up to a maximum of two years for Master’s and three years for PhD. Continued funding depends upon satisfactory progress and academic reports. Canon Collins Scholarships are not full scholarships and funding depends on the type of course you  are doing. Awards in 2013 were up to the value of ZAR 50,000. Awards in 2014 are likely to be similar. Read more »

The University of Zurich is Switzerland’s largest university and member of the League of European Research Universities (LERU). Our coworkers benefit from an internationally renowned research environment and a multitude of academic training programs. The candidate will have the opportunity to collaborate with clinical scientists as well as with interdisciplinary chemists.

Aufgabenbereich: Chemotherapeutic resistance of pathogens is a growing threat for public health and our future, leading to therapeutic failure and thousands of deaths worldwide. In the course of a doctoral thesis at the Faculty of Sciences (PhD degree), the successful applicant will explore novel concepts in antimicrobial treatment with special emphasis on biopolymers, polyoxometalate clusters and their combination into bio-active composites. After tests of their biomedical potential in cell culture models, further studies will be focused on underlying cell biological mechanisms. We offer fully equipped synthetic laboratories and state-of-the-art microbiology, molecular biology and microscopy techniques. Read more »