Pre-Docs and Post-Docs available!

Please help us by posting this on any relevant newsgroups, bulletin boards or forward to individuals that might be interested in pre-doctoral or post-doctoral fellowships at the Center for Cognitive Science. Due date for applications is Jan. 15, 1999. --- Thanks! Graduate and Post-Doctoral Fellowships In Cognitive Science at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ The Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS) announces the availability of pre- and post-doctoral fellowships, funded through an NIH National Research Service Award program recently awarded to RuCCS. The program is designed to afford unique opportunities for interdisciplinary research training in the Center's strengths of language and vision at both the graduate and post-doctoral level. GRADUATE fellowships are available to students enrolled or who are enrolling in a Ph.D. program in one of the participating departments who pursue an interdisciplinary program of studies leading to the center's Certificate in Cognitive Science. The program provides a structured way for students to carry out research in Cognitive Science with guidance from relevant faculty advisors and share those results with an interdisciplinary student community and the general university research community. One of its requirements is to complete and present an independent research project that will provide breadth of experience outside of the methodologies typically used in the student's home discipline. For more information on the Rutgers NRSA graduate program visit: http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/NRSA.html and links located there. (we also supply an address and phone below). In brief, students interested in pursuing interdisciplinary doctoral studies should both apply for admission to the Ph.D. program in one of the participating departments (primarily Psychology, Linguistics, Computer Science and Philosophy, though also applicable in selected programs in the School of Library and Information Science, Biomedical Engineering and other related degree-granting departments) and, by January 15, 1999, declare their interest in Cognitive Science to RuCCS. POST-DOCTORAL fellowships provide opportunities for recent, and occasionally somewhat more senior Ph.D.s, to obtain training in an allied field of Cognitive Science. Preference will be given to applicants whose background fits with the areas of specialization of the Center and who wish to work with any member of the current faculty affiliated with the Center who would act as their sponsor for the term of the fellowship. Moreover, in keeping with the interdisciplinary focus, fellowships will be awarded preferentially for work in a field different from the one in which the candidate obtained his or her graduate degree. For more information on the Rutgers NRSA post-doctoral program visit: http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/NRSA-postdoc.html and links located there. RuCCS is concerned with coordinating research activities in Cognitive Science throughout Rutgers University. It hosts special seminars and laboratory research; it sponsors colloquium series in language, in vision and in Cognitive Science; and it provides the facilities to enable researchers to interact fully and freely with each other as well as with other external researchers and industrial laboratories. For more information, contact: Director, NRSA Training Program, Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, Psych Bldg Addition, Busch Campus Rutgers University - New Brunswick 152 Frelinghuysen Road Piscataway, NJ 08854-8020 (732)-445-0635 FAX: (732)-445-6715 http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/