Description
Harvard University is known in the education circle to be one of the best universities in the United States and the world.
It has a full funding program created by the Harvard University Center for the Environment to enable recent doctorate degree holders to use and expand Harvard’s resources to tackle complex environmental challenges.
The Fellow swill work for two years with faculty members from Harvard in any school or department to create new knowledge as well as strengthening connections across the University’s academic disciplines.
Eligibility
The Harvard University Environmental Fellows Program is open to anyone with a doctorate or comparable terminal degree awarded between May 2016 and August 2020.
Number of Scholarship
The Harvard University Center for the Environment expects to award approximately 5-6 fellowships for the 2020 cohort.
Value of Scholarship
The Harvard University fellowship includes a salary of $70,000 per year, employee health insurance eligibility, and a $2,500 allowance for travel and other professional expenses.
Eligible Nationality
All
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicant’s prior academic and professional success and his or her potential contribution to scholarship or practice.
- Project proposals are carefully evaluated by a committee of HUCE faculty. The proposed project should represent an independent line of inquiry, clearly extending beyond the candidate’s Ph.D. work as well as the host’s ongoing research. The relevance of the proposed work for addressing environmental issues, along with demonstration of excellent potential for intellectual achievement, are critical factors in the selection process.
- Diversity: the selection committee will select a group of fellows in 2020 who will complement those selected the previous year, creating a group of approximately a dozen people with diverse backgrounds and sets of academic interests. The intellectual focus of fellows—and their hosts—may include the sciences, economics, law, government, public policy, public health, medicine, design, and the full array of humanities.
- Harvard candidates: those receiving terminal degrees from Harvard and post-docs currently working at Harvard are eligible for the fellowship provided their research and host arrangements take them in new directions that are significantly distinct from their Ph.D. research and forge new connections within the University. Harvard candidates should not propose to continue to work with the same professors or groups with whom they are currently associated, nor should their proposal be an extenuation of their current work.
- Interdisciplinary research projects are encouraged, although this is not a requirement for the fellowship, and candidates with interests in a single discipline are also encouraged to apply.
- Host’s commitment: Further important considerations are the host faculty member’s enthusiasm for the proposed project and fellow, the host’s ability to mentor the fellow, and his or her ability to provide office space and a productive work environment.
- Interview: A select group of applicants will be asked to further discuss their proposal over video with the selection committee.
Scholarship Duration
2 years
Application Procedure
For more information about the Harvard University Environmental Fellows Program