[Scholarship_alert] Hughes (Howard) Medical Institute - Janelia Farm Graduate Program

[Science & Engineering Scholarships Alert]

Program Number:   04849
Title:            Janelia Farm Graduate 
Program 


Sponsor:          Hughes (Howard) Medical Institute

SYNOPSIS:  The sponsor offers two programs leading to the Ph.D.
based at its Janelia Farm Research Campus, in partnership with the
universities of Cambridge and Chicago. These accelerated programs are
designed for a small number of well-prepared, highly committed, and
gifted students. The sponsor offers opportunities for
interdisciplinary research in an intense environment.</p?

Deadline(s):      12/01/2010
                   02/01/2011
Established Date: 09/16/2009
Follow-Up Date:   09/01/2011
Review Date:      09/28/2010

Contact:          Kevin Moses, 
Ph.D. 


Address:          Associate Director for Science and Training
                   4000 Jones Bridge Road
                   Chevy Chase, MD 20815-6789
                   U.S.A.
E-mail:           mosesk at hhmi.org
Web Site: http://www.hhmi.org/janelia/grad.html
Program URL: http://www.hhmi.org/janelia/apply.html
Tel:              571-209-4000
Fax:
Deadline Ind:     Receipt
Deadline Open:    No
                   *See Restrictions for further information.

DEADLINE NOTE
The deadlines for submitting applications to the sponsor's partner
institutions are: University of Chicago: December 1, 2010, 2 p.m. ET;
University of Cambridge: February 1, 2011, 2 p.m. ET.The sponsor's
application process is unconventional. It asks for the usual academic
and biographical information and reference letters; however, in
addition it asks applicants eto nominate one (or more) Janelia Farm
lab heads to be their  mentor (and also one or more at the partner
university). Applicants are then asked to write a short research
proposal targeted to that person's lab. This proposal will be a very
significant factor in admission decisions. During the interview
applicants will be asked to explain this proposal.

Award Type(s):    Student Scholarship
                   Facilities-Access To


Citizenship/Country of Applying Institution:
                   Any/No Restrictions

Locations Tenable:    U.S.A. Institution (including U.S. Territories)
                   United Kingdom Institution


Appl Type(s):     Graduate Student


Target Group(s):  NONE
Funding Limit:    $0   SEEBELOW
Duration:         4 YEAR(s)
Indirect Costs:   Unspecified
Cost Sharing:     No
Sponsor Type:     Non-Profit Organizations


Geo. Restricted:  NO RESTRICTIONS

CFDA#:

OBJECTIVES:  Most students spend one year at their chosen partner
institution followed by three years of research work at Janelia Farm,
a world-class biomedical research center where outstanding scientists
from diverse disciplines use emerging and innovative technologies to
pursue biology's most challenging problems. The Janelia Farm Research
Campus is located on 689-parklike acres on the banks of the Potomac
River in Loudoun County, Virginia, just 30 miles from Washington,
D.C., and about eight miles north of Dulles Airport.  Given the
size of the Janelia Farm community and the necessity to have a
critical mass of individuals studying any particular research problem,
the sponsor sought to identify two or three areas of concentration.
After it held a series of workshops and consulted with the Advisory
Committee, the sponsor identified two synergistic areas that are
particularly well matched to the Janelia Farm environment: The
identification of general principles that govern how information is
processed by neuronal circuits and The development of imaging
technologies and computational methods for image analysis.

ELIGIBILITY
  The sponsor supports a small number of well-prepared, highly
committed, and gifted students. Its application process is
unconventional. The sponsor does ask for the usual academic and
biographical information and reference letters; however, in addition,
it will ask applicants  to nominate one (or more) Janelia Farm lab
heads to be their  mentor (and also one or more at the partner
university, if desired). The sponsor then asks applicant tp write a
short research proposal targeted to that person's lab. This proposal
will be a very significant factor in our admission decisions. During
the interview applicant will be asked to explain this proposal.

FUNDING
  Students will be fully supported financially for the duration of
their participation in the program, so long as students remain in good
standing academically, and are deemed to be making satisfactory
progress by theirr committee. This includes a stipend set for £16,853
for the first year (paid in UK pounds while in England), or $30,000
annually (while in the USA), health insurance (in the USA) and some
other benefits. (In the UK, health care will be provided by the
National Health Service.) (flb)

KEYWORDS:         United States
                   England
                   ENGINEERING
                   HEALTH AND SAFETY/MEDICAL SCIENCES/BIOMEDICAL
                   Biomedical Engineering
                   Medical/Diagnostic Imaging
                   Cellular Biology
                   Neuroscience
                   Neurobiology
                   Technology
                   Imaging Sciences




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