[Jobs] [CIES Fulbright] Expansion of Postdoctoral Research Opportunities (fwd)

[Monique Verrier]

Monique Verrier
Graduate Student Affairs Officer
University of California, Berkeley
tel: 510.642.9800  fax: 510.643.8558

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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:01:31 -0500
From: "Dr. M. Gary Sayed, Executive Director" <SCHOLARS at iie.org>
To: "monique at demog.berkeley.edu" <monique at demog.berkeley.edu>
Subject: [CIES Fulbright] Expansion of Postdoctoral Research Opportunities

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Dear Ph.D. Program Director,

I am pleased to share with you a development in the Fulbright Scholar
Program that substantially expands opportunities for your U.S. Ph.D.
students and recently-minted scholars. Postdoctoral and early career grants
in over 80 countries offer career-building scholarly research, teaching and
mentorship avenues. Grants are available for U.S. scholars who will have
recently completed a doctoral degree, usually within the last five years. In
addition to allowances for international travel and living costs, grantees
without institutional affiliation in the U.S. may be eligible for funds to
attend a professional conference.

Postdoctoral and early career awards are open in all disciplines and
specializations, from STEM fields to the arts, humanities and social
sciences. For example, specific awards in Brazil, Canada, Egypt, Hong Kong,
India, Israel and Taiwan target postdoctoral applicants in all fields. In
public health, Fulbright-Fogarty postdoctoral awards provide outstanding
opportunities to affiliate with a National Institutes of Health, Fogarty
International Center research site in Bangladesh, Botswana, Ghana, Kenya,
Malawi, Peru, South Africa or Zimbabwe.  Belgium offers a postdoctoral award
in cancer and/or translational research.

Scores of additional countries welcome applications from all levels of
scholar experience for teaching, research or combined teaching and research.
Early career scholars can apply to the research option within such broadly
open awards as a postdoc opportunity. Grant lengths for postdoctoral and
early career awards vary, from 3 to 20 months, depending on the country.

In addition to primary research or teaching activities, postdoctoral and
early career scholars will give public talks, mentor students, and otherwise
engage with the host country academic community. You have a key role in
bringing these options to connect with cutting-edge scholarship around the
world to the attention of recent doctoral degree holders and faculty who
teach and advise doctoral students. In the words of a Fulbright U.S. Scholar
to Israel:

“My Fulbright experience has certainly changed my life and has helped
immensely in furthering my career. The impact was evident in the responses I
received for applications to new positions after my Fulbright research was
complete. I ended up taking a very prestigious position for my next postdoc
which I would not have been able to get had it not been for the Fulbright
award. This is the kind of impact which will propagate throughout my career
and I am very fortunate to have had this opportunity.”

To learn more, please encourage those in your networks to visit Fulbright
U.S. Scholar Program resources online, including the website, Catalog of
Awards and webinars, or contact scholars at iie.org. Thank you for encouraging
new scholars to apply for a Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant.

Sincerely,

Dr. M. Gary Sayed
Vice President, Institute of International Education
Executive Director, Council for International Exchange of Scholars


Fulbright Scholar Program
1400 K Street NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20005
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