Brain Foundation College Scholarships Minority Research Grants

The College Scholarships Minority Grant is announced to support individual researchers and research teams to conduct the highest quality research in brain illnesses and neurological disorders as well as brain and spinal injuries,and to provide opportunities for early career researchers to gain initiating funding for projects with potential.

Grants Details:

The College Scholarships Minority grants are open to competition nationally and all researchers in Australia are eligible to apply, however consideration, subject to merit, is given to-Early career investigators, either clinicians or neuroscientists, to help them establish an ongoing research program, Innovative projects.

The Brain Foundation’s Annual College Scholarships Minority Research Grants are funded through the generosity of individual and corporate donors and bequests. The Scientific Committee has a national perspective and supports research projects from every State and Territory in Australia based on merit. Brain Foundation College Scholarships Minority grants are eligible for additional Commonwealth Government funding under the Australian Competitive Grants Register.

Application Deadline:
Application Deadline is 30 June 2011

Further Details:
For further information about this scholarship visit below link.

http://brainfoundation.org.au/images/stories/research_grants/BF_2011_Research_Grant_Guideline.pdf

Junior Clinical Training College Scholarships Minority

College Scholarships Minority Applications are invited from recently qualified veterinarians for these 12-months of training in all aspects of horses and livestock studies. JCTS the work under the supervision of recognized experts (ECVS, ECEIM, ECVDI, ECVA, ECVP, ECVN, ECBHM, etc.).

We are looking for:

We are for doctoral students in computer science, the research examined in areas of high interest for the Department of Homeland Security, science and technology to pursue. The College Scholarships Minority topics include, but are not limited to: the cyber-security, data fusion, data mining, computer on-demand/cloud, situation analysis and visualization.

Deadline Details:

The College Scholarships Minority applicant must be a member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, or hold a veterinary degree qualifying them for membership. For the application form (JCTS1) and the block information, contact Melissa Grand 01,223,337,055, quoting reference Junior Clinical Training Scholarship.

Deadline:
Registration deadline is 18 May 2011

Other details:
For more information visit this scholarship link below.

http://visa.cs.fiu.edu/tiki/article24-PhD-Scholarship-for-US-Citizen

PhD College Scholarships Minority Research Studentship in Marine Ecology

This College Scholarships Minority studentship forms part of a 3 year project funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and is part of a wider applied research program to promote conservation of marine reefs formed by living organisms (biogenic reefs). The successful candidate will be responsible for designing and implementing field and laboratory trials that aim to develop novel tools and techniques for promoting reef conservation through direct intervention. The College Scholarships Minority project will investigate the recruitment, growth and development of these marine habitats and identify techniques to enable the regeneration of damaged marine biogenic reef habitats. Field and laboratory experiments will identify cost effective methods for optimising larval settlement of reef building species and identify the environmental conditions most conducive to subsequent reef development. The project will focus on three reef building species of significant biodiversity conservation importance in the UK: fan-worms (Serpula vermicularis), flame shells (Limaria hians) and horse-mussels (Modiolus modiolus).

The College Scholarships Minority project will be conducted within the Centre for Marine Biodiversity and Biotechnology in the School of Life Sciences at Heriot Watt University (www.sls.hw.ac.uk) and the successful candidate will have the opportunity to network with other research groups within the UK.

College Scholarships Minority Applicants must have a strong academic record (minimum 2:1 degree in Marine Biology, Zoology or similar discipline). A high level of competence in SCUBA diving is essential, preferably with experience of scientific diving. The project will require a significant amount of fieldwork and the applicant should have well developed practical skills, the ability to work well as part of a team and the ability to take the initiative in developing the project

For further details please contact Dr Dan Harries (D.B.Harries@hw.ac.uk) or Dr Bill Sanderson (W.G.Sanderson@hw.ac.uk).

Applications

Applications should be made via email to Dr Dan Harries. In the application please outline your interest in this research and your career aspirations. Please include a full CV, relevant transcripts and the names and addresses of two academic referees.

Closing date: 15 June 2011. After submitting your application you will receive an email confirming receipt.

College Scholarship PhD in Aeroacoustics

Project 1: Towards a Silent Fan
The Dyson Air Multiplier’s striking design offers many advantages in operation: the airflow it generates is free of the turbulence associated with conventional fans; it is efficient, easy to clean and as quiet as other fans. The aim of this project is to take the design even further and create the ultimate low-noise fan while staying within a strict design envelope. The cooling airflow involves no moving blades and is at a low enough speed that the noise from this flow is not significant. This means that the focus of the project will be on novel, quiet internal flow components. Components of interest will be: the impeller blades that produce tonal noise, which is enhanced by interactions with the inlet and outlet geometry; and sections of the flow path with abrupt curvature that can cause local separations, wakes and noise. In this project we will develop simplified models to predict noise generated from the individual components (impeller, guide vanes, air jet, etc) and their interaction and integrate these ideas to develop design rules for reducing noise. The project aims to determine the lowest noise level that can be achieved for a fan with given air flow-rate, air speed and efficiency, and to develop design concepts that can achieve it.

Project 2: Aeroacoustics of Cyclone Separators
Cyclones are complex three-dimensional flows that swirl about a central column of fluid inline with the axis of rotation. The column consists of a solid-body rotation that at low flow speeds do not show large instabilities. However as the flow speed increases, the vortex core deforms into a rotating spiral and begins to precess around the central axis. The instability leads to a temporally periodic motion that results in a tonal noise. It is suspected that the frequency of the processing vortex core has a relationship with the frequency of the observed sound.

The main objectives of the project are to develop a model for the precessing vortex core and to discover ways of controlling noise either by suppressing the periodic flow instability passively, actively or by applying anti-sound control¬.

The challenge is to stabilise the flow or reduce the noise without introducing a loss in performance either in the form of pressure drop or particle separation.
The solution could have a wide range of applicability from vacuum cleaners to helicopter intakes and Ranque-Hilsch vortex tubes used for refrigeration.

Eligibility
The application is open to nationals of any country, but full tuition fees are not covered for overseas (non-EU) students. Stipends for 2010-2011 are 13,290 GBP, and available for 3 years. Candidates should hold an undergraduate degree in aerospace, mechanical or acoustical engineering, physics or related fields.
The projects would involve a mix of experiments in anechoic chambers, wind and water tunnels, theoretical modelling and numerical simulations. The student will be supervised by Dr. Anurag Agarwal and Professor Dame Ann Dowling and would work closely with researchers and designers at Dyson’s head quarters. The studentship is available from October 2011, though an earlier start date might be possible. Applications should include a CV, contact details for two professional referees, and should be sent to Dr. Anurag Agarwal, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ (email: aa406@cam.ac.uk). Informal enquiries can be made to Dr. Anurag Agarwal.

Application review will begin March 1, 2011 and will continue until the positions are filled.
Limit of tenure applies 3 years
Closing date: 6 May 2011.