The Christensen Fund Graduate Fellowship Program in Plant Conservation

Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center
Department of Biology
University of Missouri-St. Louis and Missouri Botanical Garden

PROGRAM: The Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center at the University of Missouri-St. Louis (http://www.umsl.edu) is offering fully funded fellowships to students from tropical America, Africa,Madagascar, Asia, Malesia and the Pacific Islands with strong leadership and research potential in applied plant conservation.
This fellowship is available to individuals with applied plant conservation experience and strong academic credentials for studies leading to a M.S. or Ph.D. degree. This special graduate program in plant conservation, developed in collaboration with The Christensen Fund and the Missouri Botanical Garden, is designed to educate plant conservation scientists from the world's tropical regions. The fellowship will provide recruitment and repatriation airfares, stipend, tuition fee waiver and the opportunity to apply for competitive internal research funds.

PARTNERS: The Biology Department (http://www.umsl.edu/~biology), through its Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center (http:// hwec.umsl.edu), has very close links with the Missouri Botanical Garden (http://www.mobot.org) and the Saint Louis Zoo (http:// www.stlzoo.org). The Harris Center provides additional support to Ecology, Evolution and Systematics graduate students through its competitive research grant program and also has funds to provide conference travel support. UM-St. Louis is a member of the Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS, http://www.ots.duke.edu/) and students can enroll in an OTS course for credit and may receive financial support from the Harris Center.
To learn more about The Christensen Fund Graduate Fellowship Program in Plant Conservation visit: http://hwec.umsl.edu/scholarships/plantconservation.html or write to: Executive Director, Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 1 University Boulevard, St. Louis, MO 63121-4499, USA (email:
osbornepl@umsl.edu).
TO APPLY: Application review, for admission in August 2009, will begin in January 2009 and complete applications received before January 15, 2009 will be considered. Application forms can be obtained from the Harris Center web page at http://hwec.umsl.edu/about/application.html or from the Office of International Student Services: http://www.umsl.edu/services/intelstu/prospective/admissions.html, by email from iss@umsl.edu, or by writing to: Executive Director, Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center,
University of Missouri-St. Louis, 1 University Boulevard, St. Louis, MO 63121-4499, USA. Completed applications should be returned to Office of International Student Services, 261 Millennium Student
Center, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 1 University Boulevard, St. Louis MO 63121 with a copy of all materials sent to the Executive Director, Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center (email:
osbornepl@umsl.edu).