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FUNDING SERIES #2--Student Employment (GSI, GSRA, Workstudy, Hourly); 9/27/13 @12:00-1:30 in room 1040 Dana

Posted: 
08/21/2013
Contact Name: 
Diana Woodworth

DATE: 9/27/13

TIME: 12:00-1:30

LOCATION: 1040 Dana

Information session for any students interested in applying for graduate student instructor (GSI), graduate student research assistant (GSRA), workstudy, or hourly positions within SNRE and across campus.
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FUNDING SERIES #4--Student Perspective on Applying for Funding Opportunities; 10/11/13 @ 11:00-12:00 in room 1028 Dana

Posted: 
08/21/2013
Contact Name: 
Diana Woodworth

DATE: 10/11/13

TIME: 11:00-12:00

LOCATION: 1028 Dana

Panel of students who have been successful in applying for and obtaining a variety of funding types share their experiences and insights.

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Financial aid

FY14 Outstanding GSI Award; SNRE internal nomination deadline 11/1/2013

Posted: 
08/19/2013
Contact Name: 
Diana Woodworth

SNRE internal deadline = 11/1/13

Rackham deadline = 1/22/14

SNRE may nominate up to 2 students for these awards. Up to twenty $1,000 awards will be made. Faculty should notify Diana W by 1 November 2013 if they would like to nominate someone. Faculty nomination statements (maximum 1 page) must be submitted to dianaw@umich.edu. Also needed--a copy of all of the student's teaching evaluation summaries.
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FY14 Rackham Non-Traditional Fellowship; SNRE application deadline 9/13/13

Posted: 
08/14/2013
Contact Name: 
Diana Woodworth

SNRE internal deadline = 9/13/13

Rackham deadline = 10/10/13

The FY14 Rackham Non-Traditional Fellowship program is available to aid master's students who return to graduate school after an extended absence (see below). The award will be equivalent to one term of tuition and associated fees. Students must be nominated by their program.

Each school may nominate up to three students. Funding will be available for the Winter 2014 term.
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Financial aid

Rackham International Student Fellowship and the Chia-Lun Lo Fellowship: SNRE Deadline 09/12/2013

Posted: 
09/04/2013
Contact Name: 
Erin Lane

SNRE Internal deadline = 09/12/2013

Rackham deadline = 10/10/2013

The Rackham International Students Fellowship Program is available to assist outstanding international students, especially those who are not eligible for other kinds of support because of citizenship. The Chia-Lun Lo Fellowship assists outstanding students who have earned a previous degree from a university in Taiwan. The $10,000 may be used as a stipend or toward tuition.

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Byron Fellowship Educational Foundation

During this weeklong sustainability fellowship, Becky worked with and met 21 graduate and undergraduates students from around the world as well as alumni and program leaders pursuing all different aspects of sustainability. Topics included industrial agriculture, organic agriculture, visioning, and building community. Becky also learned about applying principles that relate to sustainability, such as vocation and trust to her own life.

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Byron Fellowship Educational Foundation

Perfecto named to Central American biodiversity science council

At its meeting this month in Honduras, the Council of Ministers of the Central American Commission for Environment and Development (CCAD) named SNRE Professor Ivette Perfecto as a founding member of its new biodiversity science council. The Scientific Council on Biodiversity for the Central American Integration System will ensure the technical quality of work plans of the Regional Institute of Biodiversity, the technical body of the CCAD.

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SNRE's Center for Geospatial Medicine receives federal innovation award to study environment, diabetes

The Center for Geospatial Medicine at the University of Michigan is working to reduce death and disability from Type 2 diabetes under a grant announced today as part the nation's 2010 health care law. The center is part of a multi-state research team examining Type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease, in at-risk populations in four, underserved counties in North Carolina, Mississippi, and West Virginia. The Center for Geospatial Medicine, which uses systematic, spatially-based methods for analyzing environmental threats to people and communities, is housed within the Children's Environmental Health Initiative at the U-M School of Natural Resources and Environment.

SNRE student projects among those funded by Planet Blue Student Innovation Fund

Four substantial, student-led sustainability projects are gaining momentum on campus, thanks to financial support from the new Planet Blue Student Innovation Fund. Three of the four, focused on reusable takeout food containers, a sustainable food kiosk and a U-M campus farm, were developed by students at SNRE. Announced by President Mary Sue Coleman last fall as part of her larger campus sustainability address, the Planet Blue Student Innovation Fund offers grants of up to $50,000 annually for projects that reduce the university's environmental footprint and/or promote a culture of sustainability on campus.

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