Beasiswa Scholarship College

The Center for the Study of Law and Culture at Columbia University invites applications for residential fellowships for the 2007-2008 academic year to undertake research, writing and discussion in ways that span traditional academic disciplines. The CSLC welcomes scholars from any field who are interested in spending the academic year in residence at Columbia Law School working on scholarly projects relating to the CSLC’s 2007-2008 theme: Executive Power. We aim to appoint fellows whose scholarship addresses the critical and legal implications of expanding executive power not merely from the perspective of the state—such as the Bush administration’s celebrated attempt to expand executive privilege vis-à-vis the other branches of US government—but from the perspective of power more generally. Since the post-structural assault on theories of power that posited it as emanating from a concentrated source, critical theory has conceptualized power as dispersed, capillary, and simultaneously productive and repressive. What might be the ramifications on legal and critical thought and practice at the intersection of new attempts to concentrate institutionally various forms and careers of power? We invite in particular scholarship whose focus is outside the US and lies at the critical conjuncture of law and culture. Fellows will be required to present an original paper from their research and to participate in a year long colloquium on the same topic.

A postdoctoral position is available to work on Intelligent Signal Processing for Environment-Sensitive Hearing Aid Devices, as part of a three-year project funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and Siemens Audiologische Tecknik GmbH to develop advanced signal processing strategies for next generation hearing aids that can adapt to the acoustical environment around the user.

The postdoctoral researcher will join the Signal Processing Oriented Technology (SPOT) group working with researchers from the University of Ottawa and Carleton University (http://www.site.uOttawa.ca/research/spot).

Faculty of Mathematics and Physical Sciences School of Chemistry

As part of the recent EPSRC/GlaxoSmithKline-sponsored initiative in Array Chemistry, this position is available under the supervision of Dr Steve Marsden and Professor Adam Nelson.

A postdoctoral research fellowship is available to develop novel synthetic methodologies appropriate for array synthesis and to use these methodologies in array synthesis of drug-like molecules.
The research effort will be based in alternating years at Leeds and at GlaxoSmithKline’s Stevenage research centre. A commitment to complete periods of work at both sites will be highly important. You will have, or be about to obtain, a PhD in synthetic organic chemistry and will have a strong interest in synthetic organic chemistry and the mechanisation/automation of synthesis and purification. You will also have good IT skills in order to handle large amounts of data.

Deadline: 29 December 2006 The Shariah Research Grant is part of the Fund for Shariah Scholars in Islamic Finance, which was established to enhance knowledge, research, talents, and intellectual discourse in the field of Islamic Finance. The Fund represents Bank Negara Malaysia`s commitment to strengthen the development of the Islamic financial industry.

The Grant is intended to accelerate the pace of research, to provide new insights and perspectives, as well as to provide the Islamic finance industry a broader range of opportunities to tap the richness of Shariah to expand their business.