Tag Archives: research

MERCATUS CENTER’S JAMES BUCHANAN FELLOWSHIP

Application Deadline:  April 15, 2024.

LOCATION: USA

The Mercatus Center’s James Buchanan Fellowship is a one-year, competitive fellowship program awarded to scholars in any discipline who have recently graduated from their doctoral programs. The aim of this fellowship is to encourage early-career scholars to critically engage ideas in the political economy of Adam Smith and the Austrian, Virginia, and Bloomington schools of political economy.

ELIGIBILITY:

Any scholar of any nationality who holds or will hold an academic position (such as teaching, research, academic leadership, etc.) at a university or academic research center, in the US or abroad, during their year of participation is eligible to apply for the James Buchanan Fellowship.

Have graduated within the last five years from a doctoral program 

Have an academic position at an accredited university and/or a research position with an organization dedicated to in-depth research in social sciences and other sciences

BENEFIT:

The total award of up to $10,000 includes: 

A stipend

All required reading materials

Travel and lodging to attend colloquia hosted by the Mercatus Center

APPLY

AIMS AI FOR SCIENCE MASTERS

Application Deadline: 11:59 PM on 29 March 2024

LOCATION: South Africa

AI for Science is a stream in AIMS South Africa‘s Master’s degree in Mathematical Science, made possible through a partnership with Google DeepMind. It is a fully residential one-year taught masters with a research component. Applications are open to students from across Africa who are passionate about mathematics, artificial intelligence and machine learning.

ELIGIBILITY:

To be eligible to apply for the AI for Science program, you have to:

be a resident in Africa at time of application,

be a citizen of any country in Africa,

have completed a four-year undergraduate degree or a three-year undergraduate degree with an honours year by August 2024 (or December 2024 for southern African applicants; see FAQ).

Your undergraduate degree could be in physics, mathematics, statistics, computer science, engineering or any other discipline with a strong computational and mathematical component.

The final round consists of short online interviews in April 2024.

BENEFIT:

Forty students will be selected for the 2024 intake, and each will be supported at AIMS with a full Google DeepMind scholarship

APPLY