Elegance of Science Contest @ UF - enter by January 5, 2019

2019 AAW Madelyn Lockhart Dissertation Fellowship Applications Now Open

The Association for Academic Women (AAW) at the University of Florida established the Madelyn Lockhart Fellowship to honor a PhD candidate who is both an outstanding researcher and who has contributed to creating a more inclusive and diverse community. One Fellowship in the amount of up to $2,000 will be awarded annually to assist in the dissertation phase of the doctoral degree.

A nomination can come from a faculty member or from the candidate and the candidate can be from any PhD program.

The application and instructions for the applicants, academic units, and colleges are located at the following website (click link): Lockhart Fellowship.

We ask that applicants submit their completed applications to their respective departments/colleges by December 21, 2018 so that the deadline is consistent for all applicants across campus.

The final applications will be reviewed by the AAW panel and the winner will be notified by mid-February. The award will be presented at the Annual Women’s History Month Celebration, typically held in March.

For further information contact:
Madelyn Lockhart Dissertation Fellowship Committee
c/o Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women's Studies Research
200 Ustler Hall
PO Box 117352
Gainesville, FL 32611 Email: tuckey@ufl.edu

Spring '19 graduate course in Data Collection and Management (LAS 6292)

Data Collection and Management (LAS 6292)” is for students from any discipline – social sciences, humanities, biophysical sciences – and at all stages of their graduate program. It is an introduction to methods for collecting, organizing, managing, and visualizing both qualitative and quantitative data. Students will gain hands-on experience with best practices and tools for minimizing errors in data collection and transcription, entering and organizing data in ways that will streamline analyses, working with publicly available data, and data storage and archiving. Students will also become familiar with current issues surrounding privacy, human subjects, and legal and ethical issues related to data collection and use. All students will work with real datasets (ideally their own) and prepare a data collection and management plan for their own research projects. More information is at http://brunalab.org/las6292/; students should feel free to contact me directly if they have any questions about the course (embruna@ufl.edu).

LAS 6292, Data Collection & Management (Spring 2019)
Instructor E. Bruna, 3 Credits
Schedule: Mondays periods 4-6 in GRI 0376

AGG 4502/AGG 6503 - Nanotechnology in Food, Agriculture, and Environment - Spring 2019

AGG 4502/AGG 6503 - Nanotechnology in Food, Agriculture, and Environment - Spring 2019

DELIVERY METHOD: Online-Canvas E-Learning System and audio/video lectures (with PowerPoint presentations and reading materials)
CLASS ATTENDANCE: Attendance of chat sessions is mandatory. There is 5% grade for chat room participation.
CHAT ROOM SESSION: Chat room session is scheduled 5-7 PM every Thursday except for public holidays.

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RAND Summer Associate internship for PhD Students, 12/4/2018 Application Deadline

The RAND Corporation is currently recruiting for our 2019 Summer Associate internship for PhD students. Please share the information below with PhD students interested in a paid summer internship that provides experience with policy research at a nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution.

SUMMER OPPORTUNITIES FOR PHD STUDENTS:

RAND provides a unique opportunity for graduate students to apply their research skills to important, policy-relevant research projects. Students work at RAND for a 12-week period during the summer, receive a bi-weekly paycheck, and are mentored by an experienced researcher. For additional detail, please visit: http://www.rand.org/about/edu_op/fellowships/gsap.html

APPLICATION INFORMATION: Application Deadline – December 4, 2018

RAND is seeking outstanding graduate students in the following areas (each linked to online application). Please select the ONE AREA most closely aligned with your expertise when completing an application; do not submit multiple applications. 

· Engineering, Computer Science, Math, and Physical Sciences

· Statistics

· Operations Research

· Industrial Engineering/Systems Engineering, Management Science, Supply Chain, Risk Analysis

Locations: Positions are available at RAND’s major US offices – Santa Monica, CA, Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh, PA, and Boston, MA

Contact Summer_Director@rand.org if you have additional questions about the Summer Associate Program.

Postdoctoral position at SWFREC

The Southwest Florida Research and Education Center (SWFREC- http://www.imok.ufl.edu) is looking for a motivated individual to join the precision ag. engineering team (https://twitter.com/PrecAgSWFREC) as post-doctoral under the supervision of Dr. Yiannis Ampatzidis at University of Florida (Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering). The postdoc will support engineering activities such as design, test, verification, modification, fabrication and assembly of prototype mechatronic systems. The selected candidate will work in the area of Artificial Intelligence-AI, mechatronics, machine vision (e.g. disease detection, yield estimation), robotics and precision farming technologies. Primary responsibilities include developing automated and robotic systems for agricultural applications, designing and implementing research studies, collecting and analyzing data, and assisting the engineering team in preparing research results for publication. Applicants should have excellent verbal and written communication skills and be available for an interview (for questions contact Dr. Ampatzidis at i.ampatzidis@ufl.edu.)