for scholarships

The Rockefeller State Wildlife Scholarship is a competitive scholarship that awards $2000 annually for an undergraduate student and $3,000 annually to a graduate student pursuing a degree in forestry, wildlife or marine science at a Louisiana Public College or University. The cumulative maximum award is $12,000 for up to three years of undergraduate study and two years of graduate study.

Standard Eligibility Requirements

- Be a U.S. citizen or national or eligible non-citizen and be registered with Selective Service if required
- Be a Louisiana resident for at least one year prior to July 1st of the scholarship award year
- Complete and submit such documentary evidence as required by LASFAC
- Be enrolled as a full-time undergraduate or graduate student in a Louisiana Public College or University majoring in forestry, wildlife or marine science with the intent of obtaining a degree in that field. Undergraduate students must have earned at least 60 hours of college credit and have at least a 2.50 cumulative college GPA.
- As a graduate student have at least a 3.00 cumulative college GPA on all credits earned in graduate school

Renewal Requirements Read the rest of this entry »

The WRKF Scholarship in Broadcast Journalism Fund was established in April of 1993 by WRKF through the Baton Rouge Area Foundation to promote the study of broadcast journalism at Louisiana State University and Southern University.

SCHOLARSHIP INFORMATION
The purpose of the Fund is to provide scholarships to full-time college students who are majoring in Mass Communications/Broadcasting at either Louisiana State University or Southern University. Students meeting the criteria will be awarded a scholarship to be used toward the following, in order of priority: tuition and fees; room and board; books and supplies; and commuting expenses. The recipients are to be selected by a Scholarship Advisory Committee. Each student selected to receive the WRKF Scholarship in Broadcast Journalism will receive a one-time scholarship for $1,000.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
All candidates must be majoring in Mass Communications/Broadcasting.

All candidates must be enrolled at the Baton Rouge campuses of Louisiana State University or Southern University.

All candidates must have earned at least 60 hours minimum, 90 hours maximum credit toward a communications/broadcast degree. Read the rest of this entry »

The overall objective of the proposed project is to establish a platform for more robust fermentation processes and production organisms by understanding and controlling heterogeneity. It is essential to optimise fermentation parameters for achieving the most efficient production process. In most research projects on this topic, the population of microorganisms was considered homogeneous. However, research has shown that a typical population of microorganisms in a fermentation is heterogeneous. Due to continued technological developments in different fields, for example in genetics and molecular biology (reporter systems), flow cytometry and microfluidics (micro-bioreactors), we have now finally reached a phase where the investigation of the effect of cultivation parameters on the heterogeneity of a microbial population has become possible, which is the focus of this project.

The central project hypothesis is that there exists an optimum level of heterogeneity leading to a robust fermentation process with sustained high productivity. To investigate this hypothesis, reporter systems for cell growth and productivity will be constructed for industrially relevant model organisms (E. coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae), which will allow to obtain a distribution of these properties for the population, e.g. by using flow cytometry. The effect of cultivation parameters on these properties will be investigated via experiments in continuous culture micro-bioreactors. Both physiological adaptations to the signals it perceives in the culture, and genetic change allowing selection of optimally adapted forms to conditions in the culture will be researched. Experimental results at microscale will be extrapolated to labscale and pilotscale.

The position is for 2 years and funded through a recently established international network project “POPCORN”. The project will be carried out at Section for Microbiology, Departmenet of Biology, University of Copenhagen. The position is to be filled as soon as possible.

Qualifications
We are looking for a skilled and competent molecular biologist with experience in bacterial activity detection at single cell level.
• Ph.D. in microbiology, molecular biology or a similar degree
• Documented experience within FACS.
• Documented experience with fluorescent reporter gene technology in bacteria.
• It is preferred that the candidate has a good knowledge on activity staining technologies
• Documented experience within several gene-cloning techniques and molecular biology techniques in general.
• You will be able to cooperate well with your colleagues and enjoy both teamwork and cross-functional cooperation.

For further information, contact: Professor Søren J. Sørensen sjs@bio.ku.dk. Read the rest of this entry »