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Students at the University of Manitoba will receive more than $2 million in new research funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

The Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology), announced yesterday $150 million in grants, scholarships and fellowships for top researchers across Canada – including $2.3 million for 136 students at the University of Manitoba.

“Our government recognizes that research and development creates a stronger, more innovative economy and a more prosperous Canada,” Minister Goodyear said. “The support announced today will accelerate the progress and nurture the talent of our most promising researchers at every stage of their careers, from undergraduate to graduate to professional.”

The funding includes three Postdoctoral Fellowships ($320,000), 10 Postgraduate Scholarships ($593,000), 37 Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarships ($1.3 million), and 86 Undergraduate Student Research Awards ($387,000). Recipients were selected through independent peer-reviewed evaluations.
Read more at: University of manitoba

Nigerian politics sometimes can be a funny game. Sometimes, the shrewd politicians will create a scenario that will present them as being persuaded by the public to contest. There are numerous instances where this has happened and the latest example is Muhammad Abacha. Muhammad Abacha used the end of Ramadan Fast in Nigeria to start distributing posters of himself creating awareness of his personality to the citizens of Kano sate.
We can only but watch events unfold. Given the records of his father, Nigerians will very well frown at his candidacy in any party.

Write on your PhD dissertation in Uppsala
Scholarships for PhD candidates

The Nordic Africa Institute, which encourages research and studies on Africa in the Nordic countries, invites applications for a couple of scholarships for a three months stay at the Institute to study at the Institute’s library. The scholarship covers travel expenses to and from Uppsala and accommodation. Included in the scholarship is a small cash contribution intended to cover the extra cost of living while in Uppsala.

Who can apply?
PhD candidates at universities and research centres in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) awarding doctoral degrees in social sciences and humanities, are eligible to apply, regardless of citizenship. The scholarship is also open to Nordic citizens pursuing PhD studies in other countries.

The PhD research should relate to current research at the Institute. The research at the Institute is organized into broad thematic clusters. The current clusters are Conflict, Displacement and Transformation; Urban Dynamics; Agrarian Change, Property and Resources; Globalization, Trade and Regional Integration; Gender, Sexuality and HIV/AIDS and Cultural Images and Expressions. The application should indicate which of the different research clusters the PhD candidate intends to link up with during the time as scholarship holder and in which ways the PhD research relates to the research cluster.

The aim of the scholarship
The aim of the scholarship is to offer PhD candidates links to the existing research at the Nordic Africa Institute and to provide access to resources at the institute, such as the NAI library with its large collection of literature on contemporary Africa (books, periodicals, newspapers, government publications).

The scholarship
The scholarship facilitates a three-month visit to the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala. In consultation with the staff at the Nordic Africa Institute, this period can be divided into two or three time periods within the duration of one year. The preferred time period/s of the scholarship should be indicated in the application. The scholarship covers travelling expenses for a return fare from study/work place to Uppsala and accommodation in a shared apartment. Moreover, the scholarship holder receives a small cash contribution to cover extra expenses while in Uppsala. At the Nordic Africa Institute, the scholarship holder will hold an office space in a shared office with access to printer and copying machine.

Application dates
The scholarship is awarded annually and the applications must be in by 1 October. No applications will be taken in 2009.
For more information please contact Inga-Britt Isaksson-Faris (inga-britt.faris@nai.uu.se), phone +46-18 56 22 00.
source : Nordic Africa Institute

PhD Scholarships in Information Technology, The IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

IT University of Copenhagen (ITU) invites applications for a number of PhD scholarships starting in February 2010 in any of the faculty groups represented at ITU.

FIRST Research School: theoretical computer science and fundamental software technologies, sensornets, databases, algorithms for large amounts of data, automated reasoning, business processes, category theory, complexity, concurrency, domain theory, distributed and mobile computing, model checking, planning, software engineering, scheduling, verification, test, and configuration; efficient computation, electronic health records and electronic voting, logical frameworks, software architectures, objectoriented methodology and notations, functional and object-oriented programming languages, proof assistants, semantics, ubiquitous computing, user interfaces , workflow languages. http://www.first.dk

Center for Computer Games Research: Game aesthetics, game ontology, games and narratives, game culture, game play, player communities, games and human computer interfaces/game testing, game artificial intelligence, player (cognitive and affective) modeling, computational intelligence and games. http://game.itu.dk/

Design of Organizational IT Group: Computer supported cooperative work, science and technology studies, health care IT, organizations and IT, globalization and technology, mutual shaping
of culture, organizations, people, and technologies, through practices of design and use. http://www.itu.dk/research/doit/

Innovative Communication Group: Advanced and innovative communication trends, historical and rhetorical methods of innovation, theories and applications of new media, design and development of interactive technologies in the contexts of prior and emerging cultures of information. http://www.itu.dk/research/inc/

Scholarships:
Applicants accepted will be employed and enrolled at the IT University for a period of 3 or 4 years.
Appointment and salary will be in accordance with the agreement between the Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC). For example, the basic salary of a 3 year PhD student amounts to DKK 24,594.08 per month.

Application deadline: October 7, 2009 at 12.00 noon (local time). The deadline is firm.

Applications and enclosures received at ITU after the application deadline will not be taken into
consideration.

Questions regarding this call may be directed to individual faculty members, or the ITU PhD
Administration, phdadm[ at ]itu.dk, phone: +45 7218 5065

The IT University invites all qualified candidates irrespective of age, gender, sexual orientation, religious affiliation or ethnic background to apply for the scholarships.

Gani Fawehinmi is the “mouth piece of the common man” He fought for peace, promoted democracy and eschew dictatorship. It is ironical that Gani did not smoke and yet died of lung cancer. There are arguments that IBB was responsible for Gani’s cancer, but how? Please leave your comments !