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The 2010-2013 collective bargaining agreement between the University and the Lecturers’ Employee Organization (LEO) calls for the creation of a Professional Development Fund (the “Fund”) for LEO Lecturers on the Ann Arbor campus. Awards of up to $550 are available to eligible Lecturers each academic year. The purpose of the Fund is to encourage creativity through the support of Lecturer professional development by providing grants in support of activities that enhance Lecturers’ teaching at the University of Michigan; the Fund is not intended to provide a salary supplement to the Lecturer.

For more information, see http://hr.umich.edu/acadhr/contracts/toolbox/ahrnews.html

The University of Cape Town’s Department of Civil Engineering offers an undergraduate BScEng degree programme in civil engineering, and hosts a number of research groups which form the locus of research activity and postgraduate teaching in the Department. More information on the Department’s teaching and research activities can be found at www.civil.uct.ac.za. One of the Department’s research groups is the Centre for Transport Studies. The Centre undertakes research and postgraduate teaching activities in the broad field of urban passenger transport systems. Particular current research interests range across public transport systems and paratransit regulation, non-motorised transportation, travel behaviour change, intelligent transport systems, land use-transport system relationships, travel surveys and transport modelling, and project evaluation. An important current source of research funding is through the Centre’s the involvement in ACET (African Centre of Excellence for Studies in Public and Non-motorised Transport), a CoE funded by the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations. More information on the Centre and its involvement in international research networks can be found at www.cfts.uct.ac.za and www.acet.uct.ac.za.

For more information, contact Roger Behrens at Roger.Behrens@uct.ac.za.

The Daniel Urban Kiley Teaching Fellowship will be awarded annually to an emerging designer whose work articulates the potential for landscape as a medium of design in the public realm. The Kiley Fellow will be appointed Lecturer in Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design for the 2012-13 academic year. While the Kiley Fellowship will be awarded competitively on an annual basis, successful Fellows are eligible to have their academic appointments renewed for a second year at the rank of Lecturer, dependent upon review of their teaching, research and creative practice.

This initiative is intended to recognize and foster emerging design educators whose work embodies the potential for landscape as a medium of design in the public realm. The Daniel Urban Kiley Fellowship builds upon the history of pedagogic innovation at the GSD as well as the century of leadership in landscape education within the Department of Landscape Architecture.

The Michigan Memorial Phoenix Energy Institute announces the third round of funding for its Partnerships for Innovation in Sustainable Energy Technologies (PISET) program.

Proposals are due Feb. 15, 2012.
The PISET program supports multidisciplinary research programs in sustainable energy science, technology, and policy with funding for a Phoenix Energy Institute Research Fellow.  Successful proposals combine innovative team (two or more PIs) research plans that include concrete timelines for establishing independent funding.

Five winning proposals from the first two PISET funding rounds have focused on multimodal transportation, biofuels, lithium-ion batteries, and cyber-discovery related to CO₂ capture materials.

Read more about the PISET program and its application requirements.

The Helmholtz International Research School “Energy Scenarios – Construction, Assessment, Impact” invites applications from highly qualified and motivated individuals for

6 Doctoral Scholarships

Scholarship: 1200 €/month; Scholarship excluding additional auxiliary income to commence in April, 2012.

The International Research School in Energy Scenarios is a common institution of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) together with partners from the University of Stuttgart, ISI Fraunhofer Institute and German Aerospace Centre (DLR). The research school provides an internationally unique opportunity to become an outstanding researcher in energy scenario analysis. It provides high quality training for doctoral researchers in a structured, three year’s program. Our researchers will gain comprehensive knowledge of the construction techniques of scenarios, the system boundaries in the energy sector, as well as be able to make in‐depth valuations of energy scenario assessments, and their impacts on decision‐makers, politicians, population etc.

Successful candidates are expected to work in one of the following research projects:

Methods of social context inclusion in energy scenario construction
Responsible Partner:  Interdisciplinary Research Unit on Risk Governance and Sustainable Technology
Development (ZIRN) – University of Stuttgart
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ortwin Renn
Condition of Employment: Diploma or Master in sociology or political science
Further information: http://www.zirn‐info.de/index‐grk.htm

Perspectives of electricity storages with respect to the integration of high shares of renewable energies into the German supply system
Responsible Partner:  German Aerospace Centre (DLR), Stuttgart
Supervisor: Thomas Pregger and Yvonne Scholz
Condition of Employment: Diploma or Master in engineering, economics or related disciplines

Dimensionality of energy systems models – influence on the results of energy scenarios
Responsible Partner:  IER – Institute of Energy Economics and the Rationale Use of Energy, University of Stuttgart
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Alfred Voß
Condition of Employment: Diploma or Master in engineering, economics or related disciplines

The perception and reception of energy scenarios by its users: an empirical analysis
Responsible Partner:  Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) – Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Armin Grunwald
Condition of Employment: Diploma or Master in philosophy

The role of global passenger road transport within energy scenarios
Responsible Partner:  Institute for Industrial Production – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wolf Fichtner
Condition of Employment: Diploma or Master in economics, engineering or related disciplines

Long‐term Final Energy Demand Analysis
Responsible Partner: Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI), Karlsruhe
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Martin Wietschel
Condition of Employment: Diploma or Master in economics, engineering or related disciplines

Application

The deadline for application for up to 2 research projects (please indicate 1st and 2nd choice) is December 16, 2011. We encourage especially women to apply for scientific positions. Handicapped with equal qualifications will be preferred. Short listed candidates will be invited for an oral presentation and interviews in February 2011.

Please submit electronic applications with the customary documentation (letter of motivation including personal research interests (one page), curriculum vitae, graduation documents, grade sheets, other certificates and a letter of recommendation to Dr. Julia Johnsen: julia.johnsen@kit.edu.

Faculty Fellowship

Faculty fellows are released from their usual teaching and service duties to pursue their research while continuing to receive their normal salary and benefits. Faculty fellows take up residence at the institute for the full academic year, participate in the weekly Fellows Seminar, and fulfill a service-to-undergraduates requirement.

Applications due December 2, 2011. For more information, see http://www.lsa.umich.edu/humanities/whatwefund/umfacultyfellowships.