<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<div class="moz-forward-container"><br>
<div class=""><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://environment.harvard.edu/environmental-fellows-program"
class="">http://environment.harvard.edu/environmental-fellows-program</a></div>
<div class=""><br class="">
</div>
<div class="">
<h3 style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size:
1.167em; line-height: 1.25; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; widows: 1;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Environmental
Fellows.<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding:
0px;" class=""></strong><strong style="border: 0px; margin:
0px; padding: 0px;" class="">Applications are due on <span
style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color:
rgb(255, 0, 0);" class="">Wednesday, January 13, 2016.</span></strong></h3>
<div class=""><u style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:
Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height:
19.5px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);
border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><strong
style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><br
class="">
</strong></u></div>
<div class=""><u style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:
Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height:
19.5px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);
border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><strong
style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">Purpose:</strong></u></div>
</div>
<div class="">
<p style="border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; widows: 1;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">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.</p>
<p style="border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; widows: 1;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><u
style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><strong
style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">The
award:</strong></u><br class="">
The fellowship include a salary of $62,000 per year, employee
health insurance eligibility, up to $2,500 reimbursement for
travel expenses, and a $2,500 allowance for travel and other
professional expenses.</p>
<p style="border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; widows: 1;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The Harvard
University Center for the Environment expects to award
approximately six fellowships for the 2016 cohort. 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.</p>
<p style="border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; widows: 1;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><u
style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><strong
style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">Selection
criteria:</strong></u></p>
<ul style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 2em; padding: 0px;
color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; widows: 1;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><em
style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">Applicant's
prior academic and professional success</em> and his or
her potential contribution to scholarship or practice</li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><em
style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">Project
significance</em>: the potential impact of the research
project on scholarship at Harvard and on environmental
problems </li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><em
style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">Diversity</em>:
The selection committee will select a group of fellows in
2016 who will complement those selected the previous year,
creating a group of approximately 13 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. </li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><em
style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">Interdisciplinary
research projects</em> are encouraged, although this is
not a requirement for the fellowship. Candidates with
interests in a single discipline are encouraged to apply. </li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><em
style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">Host's
commitment</em>: 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.<br class="">
</li>
</ul>
<p style="border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; widows: 1;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><u
style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><strong
style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">Finding
a Host:</strong></u><br class="">
Potential candidates should start early to identify and
establish a relationship with a Harvard faculty member to host
his or her research. The host will be a mentor to the fellow
and will provide office space and basic administrative
support. In agreeing to be a host, the faculty member is
making a significant commitment.</p>
<p style="border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; widows: 1;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Successful
candidates will be enthusiastically recommended by their
proposed host. Each applicant's host must submit a letter of
support (maximum of two pages) to the selection committee
describing in detail the level of commitment to the research
and the candidate.</p>
<p style="border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; widows: 1;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">In the
previous round of applications, many Harvard faculty members
were approached by many would-be applicants. Some of those
faculty members conducted their own selection process to find
the one or two applicants they would recommend to the
selection committee; other faculty members agreed to be
identified as a host on several applications and subsequently
provided the selection committee with recommendations
comparing the candidates. Some people who started applications
were unable to find a host and thus could not complete their
applications.</p>
<p style="border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; widows: 1;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Applicants
unfamiliar with Harvard faculty members will find many of them
listed on the Center's web pages organized both by academic
areas (economics, engineering) and by research topics
(climate, human health). Most faculty members have their own
web pages which will provide much more detailed information
about publications and interests and which may be accessed
through the main <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.harvard.edu/" target="_blank"
style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color:
rgb(26, 109, 172);" class="">Harvard website</a>. Applicants
are encouraged to use the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://environment.harvard.edu/about/directory/faculty/A"
target="_self" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding:
0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); text-decoration: none;" class="">Center's
faculty list</a> as a starting point only. Hundreds of
faculty members who would be excellent hosts are not currently
members of the Center. Any faculty member from any discipline
may serve as a host, regardless of whether the host has had
prior experience with environmental research or the Center.</p>
<p style="border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; widows: 1;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Faculty
members <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"
class="">not </em>eligible to host a 2016 fellow are those
hosting 2015 fellows: James Engell, Rowan Flad, Peter Galison,
Daniel Jacob, Jonathan Losos, James McCarthy, Ariel Pakes, and
Elsie Sunderland.</p>
<p style="border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; widows: 1;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><strong
style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">Please
direct any questions to James Clem, the HUCE managing
director:<br class="">
clem (at) <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://fas.harvard.edu" class="">fas.harvard.edu</a></strong></p>
</div>
<br>
</div>
</body>
</html>