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From:
Susan Kinsella for CCB Chair <kinsella@chemistry.harvard.edu>
Date: Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 4:34 PM
Subject: Fwd: New Graduate Consortium on Energy and Environment
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From:
Dan Schrag <daniel_schrag@harvard.edu>
Date:
September 26, 2008 2:49:31 PM EDT
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Subject: New Graduate Consortium on Energy and
Environment
TO: FAS Department Chairs
FROM:
Dan Schrag, Director
Harvard University Center for the Environment
DATE: September 26, 2008
SUBJECT:
New Graduate Consortium on Energy and Environment
I am delighted to announce the launch of the Graduate Consortium on
Energy and Environment, a new interdisciplinary training
opportunity for doctoral students interested in energy issues.
The Consortium will foster a new community of students who will be
well versed in the broad, interconnected issues of energy and
environment while maintaining their focus in their primary
discipline.
Starting in the Spring 2009 semester, the Consortium will admit its
first cohort of students, who will enroll in a suite of new courses
that constitute the program requirements. Mike Aziz of SEAS will
offer a course on energy technology and energy systems; Bill Hogan and
Erich Muehlegger of the Kennedy School will co-teach a course on
energy policy; and in Fall 2009 I will offer a course on energy
consequences. Students will also be required to participate in a
weekly reading seminar that will provide an overview of the energy
field from a wide range of perspectives, and will be led by faculty
members from around the university. We hope your department will
consider whether one or more of these new courses might satisfy
elective requirements for students in your program. Students
enrolled in the Consortium will be expected to fulfill all the
requirements for the Ph.D. in their home department or program and
must have the approval of their advisers to apply.
Students accepted into the Consortium will be eligible to apply for
graduate fellowships provided by the Center for the Environment, which
will coordinate with the GSAS on fellowship decisions.
Consortium students will also be eligible to receive up to $1,000 to
attend conferences or other professional activities during their time
in the program.
The attached brochure offers more information on the Consortium and
details on how to apply. The deadline for applications is
October 31st with a second application cycle in May 2009.
We will be sending information to graduate students early next week.
Please let me know if you have any questions in the meantime.
--
Susan M. Kinsella
Assistant to the Chair
Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Mallinckrodt Hall, Suite 132-135
Harvard University
12 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-496-4088