[Jpjobs] Fwd: Postdoc fellowship opportunity - Harvard University Center for the Environment

[Julia Westwater]

http://environment.harvard.edu/environmental-fellows-program


      Environmental Fellows.***Applications are due on Wednesday,
      January 13, 2016.*

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_*Purpose:*_

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.

_*The award:*_
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.

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.

_*Selection criteria:*_

  * /Applicant's prior academic and professional success/ and his or her
    potential contribution to scholarship or practice
  * /Project significance/: the potential impact of the research project
    on scholarship at Harvard and on environmental problems
  * /Diversity/: 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.
  * /Interdisciplinary research projects/ are encouraged, although this
    is not a requirement for the fellowship. Candidates with interests
    in a single discipline are encouraged to apply.
  * /Host's commitment/: 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.

_*Finding a Host:*_
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.

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.

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.

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 Harvard website <http://www.harvard.edu/>. 
Applicants are encouraged to use the Center's faculty list 
<http://environment.harvard.edu/about/directory/faculty/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.

Faculty members /not /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.

*Please direct any questions to James Clem, the HUCE managing director:
clem (at) fas.harvard.edu <http://fas.harvard.edu>*


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