Grant Opportunities
The Fulbright Specialist Program receives project requests from Fulbright Commissions and US Embassies Worldwide. We match these requests with approved candidates from our Roster.
The following is among the current Fulbright Specialists Grant opportunities for which applications are being accepted. If you are interested, please email kmills@iie.org.
Pakistan
U.S. scholars who have reached their lifetime limit on Fulbright scholar grants are eligible to apply for Specialist grants in Pakistan. The usual required waiting period of two years between Fulbright Specialist grants has also been waived. These exemptions are valid for three years from August 1, 2010 through August 1, 2013. The Fulbright representatives at the United States Educational Foundation in Pakistan will be pleased to assist U.S. scholars who do not have prior experience in Pakistan finding appropriate placements at host institutions.
Argentina
Discipline: Math Education
Specialization: Math Education Research Training and/or Evaluation - Qualitative Research Methods
Project Description
Combinatorics is a vacant area in Argentina, particularly in San Luis. The work of the specialist will help to strengthen this area in the UNSL, participating actively in activities oriented to the realization of this objective.
- First Puntana School of Combinatorics
A CIMPA-style school: The research school is intended first and foremost for young mathematicians of Argentina and Latin America. The level is undergraduate and graduate. Women are especially encouraged to take part. The specialist would dictate at least one course from the school and a lecture about the state of the art in some of the modern research topics in Combinatorics and/or Graph Theory.
- First Puntano Program of Research Experiences for Undergraduates
The undergraduate research program, which will take place after the research school, will be like the American Research Experiences for Undergraduates funded by NSF.
We need the specialist to have participated actively in some REU. This will allow them to co-direct this program during the first few weeks and provide training to the local instructors in these kinds of activities. We also expect the Specialist to contribute in the articulation of our REU with an American counterpart.
- Curricular Development
The specialist should also help a local research group in combinatorics to develop a curricular plan of optional courses and research seminars on the frame of the Mathematics Master's Degree program of the UNSL, helping in the human resources training in this field.
Project Purpose
The main objective of the project is to strengthen and spread the development of combinatorics in Argentina and Latin America. For this purpose we expect to promote the establishment of networks between specialists and the training of human resources in this field.
Another objective of this project is to emulate the successful Research Experiences for Undergraduates programs funded by the National Science Foundation at colleges and universities around the U.S. This kind of educational experience has never been done in Argentina. We believe that its implementation will have a positive impact, improving the undergraduate training and contributing to the academic excellence.
Program Date: 06/04/2012 (negotiable)
Grant Length: 42
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