"Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Development in Southwest China"

Exceptional students interested in interdisciplinary and international environmental study are invited to apply for an NSF IGERT PhD Traineeship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. These traineeships have a generous stipend, tuition waver, and health benefits.

Meeting the major challenges of biodiversity conservation and sustainable development requires understanding the interactions of biological, physical, social, and economic forces. IGERT trainees will address these issues by pursuing a PhD in one of over a dozen departments and participating in IGERT seminars, workshops, languagetraining, and field research in the Himalayas of Yunnan, China - a "biodiversity hotspot." For more information and application instructions, please visit http://www.swchina.wisc.edu. The application deadline for this program is February 1, 2008.

NOTE: UW-Madison is also home to a second IGERT program, Certificate on Humans and the Global Environment (CHANGE), focused on issues of vulnerability and sustainability of the global environment. The application deadline for this program is January 2, 2008. For more information, please visit http://www.sage.wisc.edu/igert.