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Alumni Initiative Grant

Applications for the 2008 Alumni Initiative Grant are closed

The Fulbright Alumni Initiative Grant has been designed to assist alumni of the Australian-American Fulbright Commission to continue to cultivate collaboration and relationships with institutions which the alumnus was involved with during their Fulbright Scholarship period. Further details are available at Alumni Initiative Grant.  Applications for the 2008 Grant Year are now closed.

Grantees will be expected to complete a short final report on completion of their project.

2007 Alumni Initiative Grant recipients

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Elizabeth Madin

(U.S. Postgraduate Scholar, 1999)

Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology (MSI)-

University of California, Santa Barbara (UCBS)

Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)

This project will directly benefit AIMS and UCBS's MSI in two primary ways. Scientifically, this work will draw together parallel lines of research currently being pursued by individuals at these institutions in different biogeographic regions. Secondly, this project will provide a formal insitutional linkage between these two world-class marine science institutes.

Scott Carroll

(U.S. Senior Scholar, 2003)

Centre for Population Biology/Department of Entomology -

University of California, Davis

The University of Queensland This project will build on published discoveries of contemporary evolution in Australian and American ecosystems, and will foster a new applied sub-discipline, 'Evolutionary Conservation Biology'. The collaboration through this project also aims to create an international Centre for Applied Evolution.