2008 Graham Graduate Fellow RFP Announced

ANN ARBOR, Mich., November 15, 2007--

The Graham Institute is pleased to announce the 2008 RFP for the Graham Graduate Fellows Program.

The Graham Institute supports six new graduate fellowships each year. These fellowships provide Ph.D. candidates with funding of $25K/year for two years (with matching departmental support, see FAQ below for more info) to support multidisciplinary research focusing on at least one of the Institute's six research focus areas:

• Energy Sustainability – Including new forms, renewable sources, and technologies that increase energy efficiency.
• Freshwater and Marine System Sustainability – Including the protection, remediation, and management of watersheds, rivers, lakes, aquifers, estuaries, bays, fisheries, etc. Linkages among aquatic systems; impacts of invasive species, nutrient over enrichment, and contaminants; and treatment and remediation are emphasized.
• Human Health and the linkage to a changing environment – Including the understanding, measurement, and prediction of environmental factors that impact human health, as well as the impacts of potential technologies, processes and policies to reduce or remediate contaminated environments.
• Global Change and Biodiversity – The impacts of human activities (e.g., emissions of greenhouse gases and pollution, agriculture, land use/cover change, etc.) on global systems sustainability.
• Sustainable Infrastructure, Built Environment, and Manufacturing Systems – Includes investigation into sustainable infrastructures and related manufacturing, e.g., innovation in design, materials, and processing to avoid pollution, as well as the impacts of organizations and policy on environmental performance.
• Environmental Policymaking and Human Behavior – Including the study of the capacity of local, regional, state, national, and global institutions to act in the environmental realm, and the reforms, including education, needed to enhance their ability to incorporate scientific knowledge regarding the environment into their policymaking.

More information about student eligibility and the application process can be found by following the links below.

The deadline for 2008 submissions is January 9, 2008.


Related Links

2008 RFP
Online Submission
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