Dear Colleagues:
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The Earth Institute at Columbia University seeks outstanding post-
doctoral scholars to apply to the Earth Institute Fellows Program.
We ask your help in identifying the best and brightest
individuals who wish to join a dynamic research environment where
multi-disciplinary associations and collaborations are encouraged
and supported.

The Earth Institute Fellows Program provides young scholars with
an opportunity to enhance their foundation in one of the Earth
Institute's core disciplines - the earth sciences, biological
sciences, engineering sciences, social sciences, and health
sciences - while at the same time acquiring the cross-disciplinary
expertise and breadth needed to understand and address the causes
and consequences of poverty, hunger, disease, and environmental
degradation.

Earth Institute Fellows enjoy unusual freedom to design their own
research agendas.  Current projects include defining areas of
genetic endemism in sub-Saharan Africa as a possible approach to
setting conservation priorities; examining ways that public health
practitioners in developing countries could use mobile and
wireless technologies to increase their effectiveness; generating
a nutrient budget for the ecosystem surrounding Kampala, Uganda;
and examining ways to mitigate losses to civil infrastructure from
natural disasters, particularly in developing countries.

Fellows work within the Earth Institute unit best suited to their
research.  To facilitate critical thinking and advancement, each
Fellow is guided by one or more senior scholars.  In addition,
Fellows also attend a unique series of seminars, dinners and
special events that explore key interdisciplinary issues, bring
Fellows together as a community, and allow Fellows to meet a
diverse array of Columbia faculty and researchers.

The Earth Institute at Columbia University is one of the world's
pioneer academic center for mobilizing the sciences and public
policy to build a sustainable future, especially for the world's
poor.  More than 800-earth, life and social scientists and
engineers work together on issues relating to poverty, hunger,
disease and environmental
degradation.   For current information on research and education
programs at the Earth Institute, see its website at
http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/.

Additional information on the Earth Institute Fellows Program and
an online application are available on the Earth Institute Fellows
web site (www.earth.columbia.edu/postdoc/index.html).
Applications submitted by December 1, 2003 will be considered for
fellowships starting in the summer or fall of 2004.

We would greatly appreciate it if you could distribute this
information, and the attached advertisement, to graduate students
and professors in your department.  Please also feel free to
contact me if you have any questions about the program.

Best regards,

David Downie
Director, Earth Institute Fellows Program
The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Columbia University

212-854-5725 / dd113@columbia.edu