Thursday, February 7, 2013

USA : PhD research assistantships available

The PhD program in Environmental Management at Montclair State University is seeking highly motivated individuals for doctoral assistantships starting Fall 2013. The Environmental Management program is a multidisciplinary platform that seeks to prepare environmental scholars who will recognize and analyze relationships among scientific, technological, societal and economic issues. The program has multiple areas of doctoral research available, including but not limited to:
environmental engineering, green information technology, global change, geographical information systems (GIS), remote sensing, environmental spatial analysis, ecofriendly products, robotics and the environment, nanotechnology, environmental economics, materials and the environment, environmental policy, geochemistry, environmental biology, quality and remediation, etc. Deadline for Fall 2013 application is March 15. Students interested in areas such as green IT, GIS, spatial analysis, robotics, ecofriendly products, nanotechnology and materials, please contact Dr. Aparna Varde whose multidisciplinary research in data mining, database management and artificial intelligence pertains to or significantly overlaps with these areas (vardea@mail.montclair.edu). She can serve as a dissertation advisor / committee member for doctoral work on these topics. For more information in general, please contact the program director, Dr. Dibs Sarkar (sarkard@mail.montclair.edu) or the program assistant, Jasey Araque (araquej@mail.montclair.edu). The program currently has 40 doctoral students and 16 core doctoral faculty members. Details on the program and the application process can be obtained from the program website at http://csam.montclair.edu/environ.

Potential students are strongly encouraged to contact faculty members who can serve as their PhD advisors prior to filing a formal application.

Montclair State University is the second largest university in New Jersey, which was named the Top Public University in New Jersey in 2009 by Forbes.



Application Deadline : 15 March 2013