PhD Fellowship: Coasts and Communities IGERT Program | UMass Boston

We, at the University of Massachusetts Boston, are excited to be offering
eight fully funded Ph.D. fellowships in our new Coasts and Communities IGERT
program. These fellowships are competitively awarded to Ph.D. students
interested in conducting transdisciplinary research and developing
innovative and sustainable solutions to the most pressing environmental
challenges facing coasts and communities. Please feel free to widely
disseminate the announcement below:

The Coasts and Communities IGERT (Integrative Graduate Education and
Research Traineeship) program at the University of Massachusetts Boston is
seeking applications from Ph.D. students who have applied or intend to apply
to one of our environmental Ph.D. programs
(https://www.umb.edu/igert/apply/fellows). Coasts and Communities
fellowships are awarded to Ph.D. students whose academic and intellectual
interests center on the development and implementation of sustainable
solutions to environmental problems. These solutions evolve through academic
and research experiences at the intersection of disciplines. Therefore,
applicants should be deeply committed to the principles of
transdisciplinarity. Moreover, because environmental problems do not
recognize geographic boundaries, the fellows work across geographies through
active engagement with our partners in the Horn of Africa. Consequently,
successful applicants are expected to bring a global perspective to their
work.

For more information on the Coasts and Communities IGERT fellowships,
please visit https://www.umb.edu/IGERT or contact the IGERT program manager,
Dr. Maria Petrova, at maria.petrova@umb.edu. Eligible applicants are
encouraged to communicate directly with the participating Ph.D. programs,
which have earlier deadlines (in December 2015 and January 2016), prior to
submitting an IGERT application, the deadline for which is February 15,
2016.