Fellowships, Grants, & Awards

for the Environment has 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 fellowships will be awarded on a competitive basis. Candidates will propose a research program and secure a commitment from one or more Harvard faculty members to host the candidate's work. Candidates should have received their terminal degree between May 2001 and September 2006. (Fellows must have completed all requirements of their degree before starting work in September 2006.) Candidates with a doctorate or equivalent in any field are eligible, and they may propose research projects in any discipline. Candidates who received terminal degrees from Harvard and postdocs currently working at Harvard are eligible for the fellowship, provided their research and host arrangements take them in new directions and forge new connections within the University. The fellowship will provide an annual stipend of $50,000 plus health insurance, other benefits, and a $5,000 allowance for travel and professional expenses. The Harvard University Center for the Environment expects to award up to eight fellowships in 2006 and an average of six per year thereafter. 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 are required to attend biweekly dinners with other fellows, faculty members, and guests. The center encourages research and education about the environment and its many interactions with human society. The center draws its strength from faculty members and students across the university who make up a remarkable intellectual community of scholars, researchers, teachers, and practitioners of diverse fields. The center's mission is to strengthen and expand that community by supporting research, encouraging faculty and students to apply their particular expertise to environmental topics, and providing a convivial space for collaboration. The center is located in the University's Geological Museum at 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge. Selection criteria: 1) Applicant's prior success and potential contribution to scholarship or practice. 2) Project significance: the potential impact of the research project on scholarship at Harvard and on environmental problems. 3) Diversity: The committee will select a group of fellows from a range of academic disciplines whose work will focus on a variety of …