Alumni Initiative Grant

Applications for the 2008 Alumni Initiative Grant have 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 Award period. Further details are available at Alumni Initiative Grant (.doc,104k). Applications for the 2008 Grant Year are now closed. Application forms from the previous year can be downloaded at Alumni Initiative Grant Application Form (.doc, 126k).

Grantees will be expected to complete a short final report (.doc, 96k) on completion of their project.

 

Grant Recipient	Home Institution	Collaborative Institution	Project linkages
2008 Alumni Initiative Grant recipients
Professor Grant Garven (U.S. Senior Scholar, 1998)	Tufts University	University of Tasmania	Through his project he also aims to create a foundation for sustained NSF- and ARC-sponsored research on a fundamental Tufts-UTas economic geology research initiative; develop postgraduate and postdoctoral research opportunities between the two institutions; and foster software development and advancement on this topic
Professor Sharon McKinley (Aus. Senior Scholar 1998)	Critical Care Nursing in the Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health at the University of Technology, Sydney	University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)	Through the project Professor McKinley intends to enhance the linkages between UTS and UCSF through joint research and publications, while also increasing opportunities for nursing PhD scholars to gain research training
Dr Lincoln Turner (Aus. Postdoc. 2005)	Monash University	The National Institute for Standards & Technology (NIST) and University of Maryland (UMD	Lincoln’s project will involve joint experiments at the host institutions; visits by NIST and UMD researchers to Monash; and the development of two-way student exchange between Monash, NIST and UMD
2007 Alumni Initiative Grant recipients
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.