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Graduate Student Opportunities

Institute for Global Change Biology Graduate Fellow Program

The mission of the IGCB is to facilitate outstanding, interdisciplinary research by faculty, postdocs, and graduate students in Global Change Biology and in so-doing build a community with shared interests in that topic. Towards that goal, we are announcing support for graduate students working in diverse aspects of global change biology. 

Funding Opportunities

** the IGCB Graduate Student Applications are now CLOSED. Announcements for the next round of applications will be advertised here **

Each PhD student can request up to $7,500 each funding cycle from the IGCB. These funds can be used for research, travel,or summer research fellowships. 

Small Research Grants PhD students can apply for funds associated with their research. Examples of allowable costs include fieldwork expenses (travel, per diem, lodging), or analytical costs (e.g., UM sequencing core, (bio)geochemical analyses, etc.). Upon completion of the project, students will submit a short report (2 pages) and present their results during a brown bag IGCB seminar.

Travel Grants  Funds can be spent for a research visit to a collaborator’s lab, or to a professional development opportunity; or in rare cases to to attend a scientific conference if the student is presenting their research. 

Summer Research Fellowships PhD students can apply for a summer fellowship to support their research equivalent of up to 0.5 GSRA in their unit. 

 

Application Process

** the IGCB Graduate Student Applications are now CLOSED. Announcements for the next round of applications will be advertised here **

Proposals should be submitted via this form. Each proposal should include a <500 word summary of the proposed activities, and a budget (which does not count toward the word limit) that includes the total amount requested from the IGCB and explains (using a coarse breakdown) of how IGCB funds will be used and includes any co-funding available. We also request a short recommendation from the primary UM faculty advisor (<150 words).

Deadline

There is no deadline. Proposals will be considered on a rolling basis and until all funds for the year have been allocated. Awardees will be named IGCB Graduate Fellows, listed as such on IGCB materials and website, and will be expected to use this co-affiliation on any products (e.g., lectures, reports, proposals, conference presentations, publications, and other activities) associated with their IGCB Fellowship experiences. Graduate Fellows will give a brown bag IGCB seminar where they discuss their project, its methods, goals and results (if any). Upon completion of the Fellowship, students will submit a short report (1-2 pages and with illustrations of some kind) that will be posted on the IGCB web site. Graduate students can also become IGCB Graduate Fellows through participating in other IGCB activities (such as training opportunities). 

Training Opportunities

These training opportunities are open to IGCB postdoc and graduate students, as well as other global change researchers who would like to make use of them. Email tgoncalv@umich.edu to learn more about getting involved with these training opportunities. 

Seminars, Brown Bag Talks, and Training Workshops 

To provide opportunities for knowledge exchange and cohort building, there will be brown bag lunch seminars for graduate students and postdocs with informal research presentations as well as panel discussions (e.g., professional development or careers), as well as training workshops (e.g. such as on conducting interdisciplinary science, or on statistics, or other).

Departmental Seminars 

Departmental seminars with an IGCB focus will be posted to the IGCB graduate student list-serve.

Core Seminar Courses 

Graduate students are encouraged to participate in the existing Global Change Biology Seminar offered by EEB; additional 1 credit seminar courses in other units may be available in the future.

Lunch-and-learn

The IGCB hosts regular lunch-and-learn sessions where we invite a speaker to discuss various topics with us over lunch. 

Stats and coding help

The IGCB's Thiago Gonçalves-Souza organises a range of stats and programming related courses/sessions that all are welcome to join. 

Thiago is also available by appointment for one-on-one assistance with particular tasks. Use this calendar to book a time-slot with Thiago. 

Current IGCB Graduate Fellows

Yi Liu
Yi Liu
IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student School for Environment and Sustainability
yia@umich.edu
IGCB Project: Airborne Pollen
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Shike Zhang
IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student School for Environment and Sustainability
More info
IGCB Project: Wildfire and Carbon Cycling
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Etienne Herrick
IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Candidate School for Environment and Sustainability
herricke@umich.edu
More info
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Mislael A. Valentín Cortés
IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Candidate Department of Epidemiology
mislaelv@umich.edu
More info
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Olivia Vought
IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
ovought@umich.edu
More info
IGCB Project:Snow Melt
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Julia Eckberg
IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
eckbergj@umich.edu
More info
IGCB Project: Seasonal Rainfall
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William Brinkerhoff
IGCB Graduate Fellow; PhD Student, Resource Ecology Management
wbrink@umich.edu
More info
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Jennifer Flores
IGCB Graduate Fellow; PhD Student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
floresjt@umich.edu
More info
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Cecilia Howard
PhD Pre-candidate Earth and Environmental Sciences
howardcm@umich.edu
More info
IGCB Project: Lake Chemistry
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