Postgraduate Opportunities

  • Internship and Postdoctoral Opportunities

    Alfred Fleishman Diversity Fellowships in Communications

    Alfred Fleishman, one of our agency’s founders, was dedicated to promoting human rights and helping people from diverse backgrounds communicate with and understand one another. In his honor, FleishmanHillard offers the Alfred Fleishman Diversity Fellowship program. The program targets ethnically diverse candidates and applicants who have a passion for ethnic or cultural diversity. All applicants must demonstrate a commitment to promoting ethnic and cultural diversity through their work, education and life experiences. It provides six- to 12-month paid Fellowships — with benefits — professional development opportunities and a mentor program. Fellows will contribute to client projects while rotating among account teams, gaining practical experience in the field of integrated communications from some of the industry’s best counselors.

    Citizenship: See website

    Deadline: February 1, 2017

    Website: http://fleishmanhillard.com/careers/scholarships-fellowships/

     

    Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education Postdoctoral Fellowships

    The Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education directs a postdoctoral fellowship program that offers supervised research experience in tobacco control with members of the Center faculty. Each trainee meets regularly with a faculty mentor regarding research progress and career or professional issues. We offer diverse educational and research opportunities, including postdoctoral fellowships, graduate research positions, advocacy training, and individualized documents training. Our work spans policy and historical research, economics, and science.�Fellows are recruited from a variety of fields including the basic sciences, social sciences, public health practitioners, clinical fields, political science, history, economics, law, and marketing.

    Citizenship: unrestricted (one international position annually)

    Deadline: January 25, 2017

    Website: http://tobacco.ucsf.edu/fellowship

     

    Coro Fellowship in Public Affairs

    Applicants may include individuals who have recently completed their undergraduate or graduate degrees, as well as those with several years of work experience. Coro Fellows are diverse, talented individuals committed to positive change in their communities throughout their lives and careers. They are emerging innovators in business, policy and government who demonstrate exceptional leadership through their accomplishments, curiosity and civic involvement. Fellows are brought together by a common interest in creative leadership and civic engagement, and building strong connections that will support them as they drive impact in their cities and organizations.

    Deadline: January 20, 2016

    Website: http://www.corofellowship.org/

     

    New Sector Alliance Internships

    New Sector Alliance's mission is to strengthen the social sector by enriching its talent pipeline. Our vision is a social sector that engages and cultivates talent to effectively meet community needs. We pursue this mission by offering meaningful service and professional development opportunities to groups of early career professionals committed to social impact. At the core of these experiences are experiential learning projects that offer professional development while also providing support to nonprofit organizations that helps them create, improve, or expand services to the community.

    Deadline: January 18, 2017

    Website: www.newsector.org/

     

    NIH National Library of Medicine Associate Fellowship for Librarians

    The National Library of Medicine Associate Fellowship Program is a one-year postgraduate training fellowship at the NLM in Bethesda, Maryland, with an optional second year program component. The program is designed to provide a broad foundation in health sciences information services, and to prepare librarians for future leadership roles in health sciences libraries and in health services research.

    Citizenship: U.S.A. or Canadian

    Deadline: January 27, 2017

    Website: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/about/training/associate/

     

    Smithsonian Biodiversity Genomics Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

    The Smithsonian Institution (SI) Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biodiversity Genomics promotes collaborative research in these fields involving comparative genomic approaches such as phylogenomics, population genomics, metagenomics or transcriptomics, and have a component that involves significant bioinformatics analysis. The fellows selected will participate in the newly formed Smithsonian Institute for Biodiversity Genomics (SIBG), a pan-institutional program designed to stimulate and create opportunities for biodiversity genomics research at the Smithsonian.  The SIBG guides and facilitates genomics research within traditional strengths of the Smithsonian, including studies of the tree of life, ecology, evolution and adaptation, and conservation. The Smithsonian’s molecular research facilities are located at National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), National Zoological Park (NZP), Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in the Republic of Panama. Collaboration among SI facilities is encouraged.

    Citizenship: Unrestricted

    Deadline: December 1, 2016

    Website: www.smithsonianofi.com/smithsonian-biodiversity-genomics-postdoctoral-fellowship-program/

     

    Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Postdoctoral Programs

    The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution offers several types of postdoctoral awards. A term appointment to the position of Postdoctoral Scholar, Fellow, or Investigator may be offered to an individual who has completed the requirements for a Ph.D. degree. The degree may or may not have been officially awarded; a letter from the individual's university asserting that he or she has completed all of the requirements for the degree is satisfactory for establishing eligibility for the position. Each type of postdoctoral appointment has a slightly different selection and appointment procedure.

    Citizenship: see website

    Deadline: varies according to position

    Website: http://www.whoi.edu/postdoctoral/

     

     

     

     

    For more information, contact: Rowena Grainger at rowena.grainger@uconn.edu

If you have any questions, please contact Grad School at 860-486-3617.