-----Original Message----- From: eThinkTankTz@yahoogroups.com [mailto:eThinkTankTz@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Caroline Chumo Sent: 14 December 2005 13:04 Apologies for cross-posting. Harry Subject: [www.eThinkTankTz.org] Fwd: New funding for African graduate students at UC Davis Hello Afri-philes, There's a new funding program at the University of California at Davis for students from Africa who want to study Africa issues at the graduate level. There is more information below. Please forward this to anyone you know what is looking for graduate schools in the US. Thank you, Caroline Chumo --- Lori Fuller <ljfuller@ucdavis.edu> wrote:
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:42:58 -0800 To: aau@ucdavis.edu From: Lori Fuller <ljfuller@ucdavis.edu> Subject: Fwd: Announcement: New funding for African graduate students at UCD
FYI
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 6, 2005
It is with great excitment that the African Studies Committee announces that Dean Gibling and the Office of Graduate Studies have decided to support African Studies at the graduate level by creating a competitive grant program for African students who wish to do a PhD at Davis. The African Studies Committee has been lobbying strongly for expanding multi-disciplinary African studies research at UCD and this is a bold new initiative.
The funds will enable four students to study at Davis for two years each, after which they would revert to the lower
the program will be stretched over three years. This program is designed to initiate a competitive graduate student NRTF waiver program for students from Africa working in any graduate
and collaborating with the Africanists initiative. When the Designated Emphasis in African American and African Studies (AAAS) begins, the students will be affiliated with it. The money will be housed in Graduate Studies but the competition ill be open to ANY graduate student from Africa, and the primary advisor may be ANYONE working in ANY college, department or program at UCD.
Over the next weeks departments and programs will begin reviewing graduate applications. In order to participate in
African Studies Committee requires by January 20:
1. Copy of complete application of African graduate student
2. Letter of support from Dept. graduate studies admissions committee or similar committee stating that the individual is of
were it not for financial reasons, the individual would be admitted.
Please send three copies of all materials to Benjamin Lawrance in the History Dept.
The African Studies Committee will meet to consider the files. It will consider admitting one or two students for September 2006 with full support for two years using the NTRF waiver. It is also exploring possible ways to enhance the collaborative capacity of UCD with African institutions and offer a form of academic exchange. This will be negotiated on a case by case basis once
=========================================================== post-candidacy rate, and program on campus, this competition, the the highest level and preliminary decisions have been
announced.
If you have any questions, please email <mailto:bnl@ucdavis.edu>bnl@ucdavis.edu.
Please circulate this email widely and discuss it with your colleages.
Benjamin N. Lawrance African Studies Committee Co-Chair
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The African Studies Committee, housed in the
African-American and
African Studies Program, is led by Moradewun Adejunmobi (AAAS), Tim Caro (WFCB), Benjamin Lawrance (History), and Rosie Woodroffe (WFCB). The ASC represents forty faculty and fifty-five graduate students working in or on Africa-related research in all of UC Davis'
colleges. It is supported > by > generous grants from Dean Steve Sheffrin, the Davis Humanities and the > Office of Graduate Studies. >
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Lori Fuller Undergraduate Advisor Department of Human and Community Development 1303 Hart Hall Davis CA 95616 (530) 752-2244 (530) 752-5660- FAX
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