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Graduate Initiative Fellowships for Training (GIFT)
GIFT has been established to provide support for SOLS graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in obtaining intensive training experiences that can only be met outside of programs offered at ASU. Workshops / courses must involve accredited institutions or organizations. A listing of relevant opportunities is given below; this list is not exclusive. The applicant should provide relevant information about the particular proposed course/workshop for which he/she is applying in the application materials. Dependent on funding, ten awards of up to $1000 will be made per application period. (20 per year)
Restrictions and requirements:
Student applicants must be Ph.D. students, in good standing, at least in the third semester of study in SOLS (exception: applicants for OTS can be students in their first year at SOLS). A SOLS student or postdoctoral fellow may obtain only one GIFT fellowship during his/her tenure in SOLS.
Upon completion of the workshop/training, individuals will be expected to provide a short report to RTI about their experiences and deliver an informal presentation about the course/workshop to their fellow graduate students or the postdoctoral fellow group with which they are affiliated.
To apply:
Applicants should submit: (1) Statement of Purpose, one page in length. (2) Letter of support from their advisor/mentor. (3) Detailed budget (4) Course details. The statement of purpose should describe why the proposed course/workshop is especially important for their development as a researcher. Applications will be accepted twice a year, April 1 and November 1.
Applications will be judged by the RTI Committee based on the individual´s qualifications (standing, transcripts, and letter of recommendation), the added value and relevance of the training course/workshop relative to the individual´s proposed/ongoing research, and the extent to which the proposed workshop content is not available at ASU.
For more information, contact Peggy Coulombe.
Graduate Student Workshops and Training Opportunities
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY
Course specs: Courses are offered throughout the year. Range of lengths and subjects.
Costs (2007): Tuition, board, lodging – $1,200 and up.
Duke University Marine Lab
Course specs: 5 weeks, Summer Term 1 (mid–May – June); Summer Term 2 (early July – August). Marine animal physiology, biochemistry; invertebrate zoology, conservation Biology and Policy; ecology. Most
courses are 4 or 6 units.
Costs (2007): Tuition is $750 per unit; Room and board (per term) room
approximately– $715, board approximately– $1,010, total approximately– $1,725; Other
fees – $340
Tuition Scholarships (Summer Terms I & II) Deadline: 1 April
For additional information, contact
(252) 504-7502
Evolutionary Biology Workshop in Guarda, Switzerland
Course specs: One week in June. 3 credits. April application deadline.
Costs: 350CHF (tuition, room, board), exclusive of airfare.
Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, USM, Ocean Springs, MS
Course specs: Two sets of courses in marine sciences, one in May 29- June 20 and the other in
June 21 – July 13. May 1 application deadlines.
Costs (2007): Tuition per semester hour: Graduate: $255.00, plus: Room and board – $960.00 per term
(includes in–room Ethernet Internet access)
Lab Fees: $60.00 per course; Books, supplies, etc.:
$75.00 – $200.00 (approximate, depending on course)
Field Fees: $300.00 per course
Technology Fees: $40.00 per course
Support: Limited
Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University
Biosciences Pacific Grove, CA
Course specs: Four-week intensive summer course in microbiology
BIOHOPK 274. Hopkins Microbiology Course. 9–12 units, (Spormann, A; Francis, C)
Applications and further information may be obtained by writing to:
Hopkins Marine Station,
Pacific Grove , CA 93950
(831) 655-6200
Application deadline: April 15
Housing application
Institute for Qualitative Methods Research
Course length: Two weeks in January. October application deadline.
Costs: CQRM will cover the costs of tuition, lodging, and meals for successful applicants.
Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA
Course specs: Courses offered throughout the year. Range of lengths and subjects.
Summer courses and special topics courses are one to six weeks in length.
Costs (2007): $4,225 for six week courses. Some scholarships available, awarded according to need
Okinawa Computational Neuroscience Course, Japan
Application due: April 20th
Course length: June 30 – July 11
Meals and housing provided. Airfare may be provided for students in need.
Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS)
Course specs: two to eight weeks throughout the year. Two students per institution accepted.
Costs (2007): vary according to course. Some scholarships available to
students from OTS member institutions.
Courses
Social Insect Research Group (SIRG):
About the Station
General ant course information
Course specs: Workshops in August.
Ant Course 2007 , Southwestern Research Station, Portal Arizona
Ant Course 2008 , Rancho Grande, Parque Nacional Henri Pittier, Aragua , Venezuela
Costs (2007): Tuition: $475 &ndash $675 (tuition), plus $460 (room, board), exclusive of airfare. Application
deadline: April 1.
Bee Course 2007, Southwestern Research Station, Portal Arizona
About the Station
Costs (2007): Tuition: $200–500, some waivers; plus $450 (room, board)
Application deadline: March 1.
Stable Isotope Ecology
Lecture and Laboratory Short Courses (Biology 7473 and 7475)
University of Utah
Course length: 2 weeks in June. 3 units course credit. February application deadline.
Costs: Tuition: (lab and lecture): $1,850; (lecture only): $900; Cost of shared room: $375
Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics
The Summer Institute is held on the campus of the University of Washington in Seattle .
The Summer Institute will also offer a number of modules at the University of
Liège in Liège , Belgium , September 3–12, 2007.
Course specs: ~3 weeks in June. May application deadline.
Cost and Deadlines: $550 per module. Scholarship program deadline in April. Housing: April
deadline for University housing. $57 per night (solo); $37 per night (dbl).
UC Davis Workshop in Applied Phylogenetics
Bodega Marine Laboratory, Bodega Bay , CA
Course length: One week in early March
Cost and Deadlines: January application, $400 (room and board)
UCSD NIGMS Summer Course - Systems Pharmacology and Translational
Biology:
Course specs: 3 weeks in July. May 1 application deadline.
Costs (2007): (tuition, room and board): Students are responsible for their own travel arrangements.
The fee schedule is: Current grad student or post-doc in an academic institution, $2,000;
New faculty member in an academic institution, $2,500; Post-docs and young scientists in the
pharmaceutical/biotech industries, $3,500. For participants who do not need room and board:
Graduate students on NIGMS Pharmacology Training Grants, no charge; others, deduct $1,200.