Environmental Fellowship Program at Harvard University in USA, 2016(for Rwandan Students)

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“Harvard is
committed to fostering the development of talented scholars with an interest in
environmental research. The Environmental Fellows at Harvard will work with
some of the University’s leading faculty, creating linkages across research
disciplines and professional schools, and b
enefitting from all that Harvard has
to offer.”
-Daniel P. Schrag, Director,
Harvard University Center for the Environment

The Harvard University Center for the Environment extends a warm welcome to the
2015 classof Environmental Fellows: Sebastian
D. Eastham, Evan Herrnstadt, Melissa E. Kemp, Brian Lander, Daniel Madigan,
Laura Martin and Gillian
Osborne. These fellows will join a group of remarkable scholars
who will be beginning the second year of their fellowships. Together, the
Environmental Fellows at Harvard will form a community of researchers with
diverse backgrounds united by intellectual curiosity, top-quality scholarship,
and a drive to understand some of the most important environmental challenges
facing society.

Please complete an online
application to join the 2016 cohort of Environmental
Fellows.
Applications are due on Wednesday, January
13, 2016.

Purpose:
The Harvard University Center for the Environment created the Environmental
Fellows program to enable recent doctorate recipients to use and expand
Harvard’s extraordinary resources to tackle complex environmental problems. The
Environmental Fellows will work for two years with Harvard faculty members in
any school or department to create new knowledge while also strengthening
connections across the University’s academic disciplines.

The
award:
The fellowship include a salary of $62,000 per year, employee health
insurance eligibility, up to $2,500 reimbursement for travel expenses, and a
$2,500 allowance for travel and other professional expenses.

The Harvard
University Center for the Environment expects to award approximately six
fellowships for the 2016 cohort. The Center will organize a co-curricular
program to ensure that the fellows get to know each other and each other’s
work. All fellows will attend biweekly dinners with their colleagues, faculty
members, and guests.

Selection
criteria:

Applicant’s
prior academic and professional success and his or her
potential contribution to scholarship or practice
Project
significance:
the potential impact of the research project on scholarship at Harvard and
on environmental problems
Diversity: The
selection committee will select a group of fellows in 2016 who will
complement those selected the previous year, creating a group of
approximately 13 men and women with diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds
and a diverse set of academic interests and skills. The ideal group would
include fellows working with host faculty members at every one of
Harvard’s professional schools and many of the departments overseen by the
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Recipients—and hosts—may include
people with degrees in the sciences, economics, law, government, public
policy, public health, medicine, design, and the full array of humanities.
Their research topics will be equally varied.
Interdisciplinary
research projects are encouraged, although this is not
a requirement for the fellowship. Candidates with interests in a single
discipline are encouraged to apply.
Host’s
commitment:
the host faculty member’s enthusiasm for the proposed project and fellow,
the host’s ability to mentor the fellow, and his or her ability to provide
office space and a productive work environment.

Finding a
Host:
Potential candidates should start early to identify and establish a
relationship with a Harvard faculty member to host his or her research. The
host will be a mentor to the fellow and will provide office space and basic
administrative support. In agreeing to be a host, the faculty member is making
a significant commitment.

Successful
candidates will be enthusiastically recommended by their proposed host. Each
applicant’s host must submit a letter of support (maximum of two pages) to the
selection committee describing in detail the level of commitment to the
research and the candidate.

In the previous
round of applications, many Harvard faculty members were approached by many
would-be applicants. Some of those faculty members conducted their own
selection process to find the one or two applicants they would recommend to the
selection committee; other faculty members agreed to be identified as a host on
several applications and subsequently provided the selection committee with
recommendations comparing the candidates. Some people who started applications
were unable to find a host and thus could not complete their applications.

Applicants unfamiliar
with Harvard faculty members will find many of them listed on the Center’s web
pages organized both by academic areas (economics, engineering) and by research
topics (climate, human health). Most faculty members have their own web pages
which will provide much more detailed information about publications and
interests and which may be accessed through the main Harvardwebsite. Applicants are encouraged to use the Center’s faculty list as a starting point
only. Hundreds of faculty members who would be excellent hosts are not
currently members of the Center. Any faculty member from any discipline may
serve as a host, regardless of whether the host has had prior experience with
environmental research or the Center.

Faculty
members not eligible
to host a 2016 fellow are those hosting 2015 fellows: James Engell, Rowan Flad,
Peter Galison, Daniel Jacob, Jonathan Losos, James McCarthy, Ariel Pakes, and
Elsie Sunderland.

Please
direct any questions to James Clem, the HUCE managing director:
clem (at)
fas.harvard.edu