[Bnc-faculty-all-list] PhD Fellowship program with Colombia -- Nano Opportunities to Participate

[David B. Janes]

Nano colleagues,

As you are likely aware, Purdue has recently signed an agreement with 
Colombia which provides funding for PhD fellowships at Purdue. The 
initial targeted areas are "nanotechnology" and "biotechnology".   
Student from Colombia will be able to apply for the fellowships in the 
next few months, then apply for Fall 2012 admission to  Purdue PhD 
programs .  The fellowship program will be competitive within Colombia, 
and students will need to go through the usual application process at 
Purdue (and meet our usual standards for admission).

The attached memo describes the fellowship program, as well as a "junior 
investigator" program.  Note that it also describes some of the ways 
that we would like for you to be involved, should you choose to 
participate.  The areas of involvement reflect the mutual desire to 
develop a sustainable program that benefits both Purdue and Colombia in 
the long term.  In the short term, we would like to establish research 
partnerships with faculty in Colombia.  In the longer term, the desire 
is to have opportunities for Colombian students to return to Colombia 
after their PhD, either in academia or corporate R&D labs. 

At this point, we are asking interested faculty to provide a profile for 
the web page (contact info and brief description of research 
interests).  The profiles will be a means for Colombian students to 
identify appropriate faculty, and to contact the faculty in order to 
define a research proposal (to include in fellowship application). This 
will be a first step in defining the important advisor/student 
relationship.

We were part of the Purdue team that visited top universities in 
Colombia in March, and have agreed to serve as points of contact for the 
nano effort. We met many faculty who are performing high quality 
research, in many cases without ready access to state-of-the-art 
equipment.  We can provide context and feedback regarding the quality of 
various universities. Please contact us if you have any questions.


Thank you,

David Janes and Monica Allain


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