Weekly Update (2/19/2024)
ESPP News & Announcements
As part of our DEI effort and the effort to ensure students success at ESPP, ESPP established its mentoring program last year with the aim to providing additional guidance to ESPP students by pairing them up with affiliated faculty members or senior students in the program. We are planning another group meeting for the mentors and mentees in early March. If you are interested in getting a mentor or serving as a mentor, please use this form to sign up for this program. You can also use the when2meet poll to indicate your availability for the week of March 4 so that we can accommodate as many as we can at the group meeting.
Scholarships, Fellowships, and Funding Opportunities
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Claffey Meyer International Travel Grant | Deadline: Mar 1, 2024
This award ($2000+) provides financial assistance to domestic students who intend to travel to developing (lower or middle income) countries for the purpose of providing technical assistance, participating in research, or engaging in service. Grants are intended to support travel, related living expenses, and projects costs, not to be used as a tuition scholarship.
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Gliozzo Dissertation Research Scholarship | Deadline: Mar 1, 2024
This scholarship ($1000+) is available to MSU doctoral students with dissertation research objectives who have defended, or are in the process of defending, a dissertation proposal. The scholarship supports field research abroad in support of the student’s dissertation.
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Jianguo (Jack) Liu Graduate Award in Sustainability | Application Deadline: Mar 7, 2024
This endowment has been established to benefit students enrolled in any graduate program at MSU to help address global sustainability challenges and opportunities, particularly telecoupling, metacoupling, and coupled human and natural systems. Applicants must be doctoral students in good standing who have completed their coursework, dissertation proposals, and comprehensive examinations.
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Leadership Fellows Program 2024-2025 | Deadline: Mar 15, 2024
The Leadership Fellows Program aims to provide graduate and professional students leadership development opportunities through engaging with a diverse community of scholars. Each Fellow will develop and exercise leadership skills by creating a change-oriented project aimed at enhancing graduate student well-being.
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This will benefit students enrolled in any graduate program at MSU studying or doing research on water quality, especially as it relates to the Great Lakes and Lake Michigan in particular. Up to five awards will be issued each year provided suitable applicants can be identified. Recipients will be expected to attend an annual event for Fellows in the Fall semester.
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Future Academic Scholars in Teaching (FAST) Fellowship Program | Deadline, March 18, 2024
The primary goals of the FAST Fellowship Program are to provide opportunities for a diverse group of doctoral students to have mentored teaching experiences and gain familiarity with materials on teaching and assessment techniques.
The program is for doctoral students with interests in teaching, learning, and assessment in higher education who are enrolled in programs associated with the Colleges of Natural Science, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Engineering, Social Science, Nursing, Osteopathic Medicine, and Veterinary Medicine or whose college or department has an approved Certification in College Teaching Program.
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DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research Awards | Deadline: May 1, 2024
The Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program provides supplemental awards to outstanding U.S. graduate students to conduct part of their graduate thesis research at a DOE national laboratory or facility in collaboration with a DOE laboratory scientist. The goal of the program is to prepare graduate students for scientific and technical careers critically important to the mission of DOE’s Office of Science.
Seminars, Workshops, and Other Events
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Rachel Carson Distinguished Lecture: Baruch Fischhoff | 9 AM, Feb 22, 2024 | Virtual
Baruch Fischhoff of Carnegie Mellon University will deliver a Rachel Carson Distinguished Lecture via Zoom at 9:00 am (ET) on Thursday, February 22, 2024. His lecture is entitled “Environmental Science and Behavioral Science Need One Another”.
Dr. Fischhoff is Howard Heinz University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He is a leading interdisciplinary scholar and has been recognized by numerous prestigious honors and awards. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences & National Academy of Medicine, past president of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making & Society for Risk Analysis, and recipient of the Award for Distinguished Contribution to Psychology from the American Psychological Association. A simple registration is needed to receive the zoom link.
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Spring Break Staycotion Lunch | Feb 26, 2024
Sticking around East Lansing for Spring Break? We are too! Come grab lunch on Monday, February 26, 2024 at noon to hang out with other graduate students and staff from the Graduate School. Sponsored by the MSU Graduate School and the Office for International Students and Scholars.
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Climate Change and Human Migration | Mar 18-19, 2024
Climate change and its impacts—from sustained droughts to severe flooding to more intense storms—have significant effects on people. These impacts are showing more and more potential to temporarily and permanently displace people within affected regions. Join the National Academies for a workshop exploring how an Earth systems science approach could be used to address climate change impacts and their influence on human migration, building on the 2021 report Next Generation Earth Systems Science at the National Science Foundation.
Job and Training Opportunities
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The Gund Institute for Environment at University of Vermont is recruiting an exceptional postdoctoral researcher for the project titled “Starting with behavior’ to understand links between pro-environmental behavior, values, and identity.” We seek a creative, motivated postdoctoral fellow for a project that investigates interactions between pro-environmental behavior, identity, and values – with an approach that flips the standard research paradigm by ‘starting with behavior’. The study will explore, via a set of three experiments, whether taking action leads to changes in values and identity and begins a positive feedback loop. Specifically, we will measure whether participants who engage in easily identifiable pro-environmental behaviors exhibit subsequent changes in environmental identity, values, and engagement in other pro-environmental behaviors (i.e., behavioral “spillover”). Apply online at https://www.uvm.edu/gund/postdoctoral-fellowships