Environmental Fellows Program - Harvard University
The Environmental Fellows Program at Harvard University
The Harvard University Center for the Environment
will name six new Environmental Fellows in April 2009. Their two-year
post-doctoral program will start in September 2009. The 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.
The Harvard University Center for
the Environment awarded six fellowships in 2008, and expects to award six
fellowships in 2009 and six per year thereafter. 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.
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 will
provide an annual stipend of $54,000 plus health insurance, a $5,000 allowance
for travel and professional expenses, and other employee benefits.
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
* 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.
* Diversity: The
selection committee will select a group of fellows in 2008 who will complement
those selected last year, creating a group of approximately a dozen 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.
The Harvard University Center for
the Environment:
The Center encourages research and education about
the environment and its many interactions with human society. The Center draws
its strength from faculty members, researchers, and students from across the
University who make up a remarkable intellectual community of scholars,
teachers, and practitioners of diverse fields. The Center's mission is to
strengthen and expand that community by supporting research, encouraging faculty
and students to apply their particular expertise to environmental topics, and
providing a convivial space for collaboration. The Center is located in the
University's Geological Museum at 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge.
More information is available online at www.environment.harvard.edu