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| The members of the PUF Grant Review Committee, met on Monday March 31st, 2008, at the Embassy of France, Washington D.C, from 8.30am to 6p.m, examined 67 grant applications. The Committee, under the co-presidency of Dr. Allan E. Goodman, President and CEO of the Institute of International Education (IIE) and Dr. Christophe Laux, Professor of Engineering, Ecole Centrale Paris (ECP), selected 16 laureates, subsequently approved by the steering committee of PUF and the board of FACE. The laureates are listed hereinafter (without merit order):
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Partners: This partnership will be in the specific issue of developmental and molecular neurobiology, neuronal regeneration and drug addiction at the postdoc and research level. The objectives of the collaboration are the development of complementary methodologies, the creation of scientific interaction between basic and biomedical research and interdisciplinary interaction among mathematics, biology and biomedicine. The major outcomes of this partnership will be joint publications on three prominent issues defined by the partners. On the basis of these research collaborations, joint symposia INSERM/Salk Institute will be held every two years. Contacts: The Salk Institute: Greg Lemke, Full Professor
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Partners: The primary focus of this partnership will be the exchange of faculty
and students in order to develop a shared graduate program as well
as research collaboration on Agriculture and Food systems leading
to the award of masters and PhD degrees by Penn State and AgroParisTech.
This project will be built on a previous relation started in 2003
to move towards integration of international curricula, language
training, research and internship experience. The program will exchange
an increasing number of students: from 2 to 5 students from each
side through the 3 years with a complete credit transfer. In addition
to students, 5 exchanged faculty will build joint research collaboration
and provide academic advising. For those who will not be part of
the mobility, monthly seminars will be provided via distance education
technologies. Contacts: The Pennsylvania State University: Deanna Behring, Director
of International Programs
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Partners: This partnership at the research level aims at organizing and funding visits of PhD students, post-doc and faculty in the partner research centers. The core of this relation is exchange visits beyond one week for faculty and up to 4-5 months for Master’s students. Following the implementation of these steps, joint degrees may be envisioned. PhD students are to spend at least one month per year in one of the partner labs. Co-supervised PhD theses are planned for the second and third year of this partnership. The scientific objective is to gather a complementary team of 7 CNRS researchers and professors in physics on the French side and 4 faculties on the American side to study grapheme as a new platform for electronics. The principal outcomes of this project will be the publication of joint articles, training of students. An international workshop is planned to be organized in the fall of 2008 opened to any interested scientific contributor. Contacts: Georgia Institute of Technology: Walt A. De Heer, Professor
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Partners: Based on the deepening of a former FACE partnership, both partners have launched a new concept in artistic creation: the Transatlab. This work will include multiple domains such as live networked sound streams, 3D virtual reality immersive environments, and robotics. Students and teaching staff will be involved in two annual joint workshops on both sides of the Atlantic which could also be broadcast online in real time. A group of 4 to 6 top level graduate students will be invited to participate in trans-disciplinary trans-atlantic research projects initiated by the departments with the two schools. This will allow graduate students the time and resources to develop this work into a platform for artistic creation. It also intends to create a pedagogical platform taking place both on site as well as on line using network tools to coordinate the two sites and encourage further exchange of expertise. Regular online publications will be issued, research and teaching being regularly updated via the Transatlab website. Conferences, real and virtual, will be organized to better communicate Transatlab’s research activities to a wider public. Contacts: School of Art, Institute of Chicago: Peter Gena, Professor
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Partners: The goal of the educational component of the proposal is to develop new pedagogical tools for visualizing unique properties of the correlated electron systems and for conceptualizing and teaching the theory behind their functionality. To reach these goals, two postdoctoral scientists, one from each side, will be responsible for the development of the research projects. They will spend half of their time in France and half in the US. One month visits of the senior scientists involved in the proposal will be organized in order to insure appropriate coordination of the project. Regarding, PhD students’ exchange, jointly supervised PhDs will be considered. As for French Master-level students, students from Ecole Polytechnique will spend a three-month research internship at their Master 1 level. Tutorial sessions and workshops will be organized: in the summer of 2008, an international workshop is already scheduled at the highly selective Aspen Center for Physics. Web-based facilities will make the jointly developed research available to a broader world-wide audience. Contacts: Rutgers University, Serin Physics Laboratory:
Gabriel Kotliar, Board of Governors, Professor of Physics
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Partners: The project concerns the development of means to control intracellular processes at the single cell level in a live organism. The multidisciplinary, multi-departmental and cross-institutional collaboration involves on the French and US side a number of researchers from different laboratories such as physicists, chemists and biologists. This collaboration will define the systems to be studied and the means to investigate them. The two teams are ideally positioned to maximally benefit from the opportunities in terms of research and education. They possess together the required technical expertise (microscopy, chemical synthesis, learning protocols…) that will allow for a maximal impact of the proposed development. As major educational institutions in their respective countries, the ENS and UCLA will transfer the knowledge acquired in this collaboration to a new generation of researchers through exchanges of students and post-docs, via joint publications and participation in conferences and via teaching by the senior researchers. Contacts: UCLA: Shimon Weiss, Professor
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Partners: Building on the successful experience of students’ exchanges
at the Master’s level, both schools have endeavored to create
a dual degree for master’s students. Spending one year in
their home institution and then one year at the partner institution,
students will earn diploma from both sides. The program includes
an internship in each country. This planned dual degree already
received the support of well-known companies such as IBM or American
Express. Contacts: Cornell University: Robin Remick Director, International
Programs
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Partners: University of Texas, Austin and Université Joseph Fourier aim at developing relationships in research on nanosciences and nanotechnology through exchange of Masters students and a doctorate and post-doctorate shared program. The cooperative education program implies reciprocal validation of courses, internship and research projected in order to earn a dual degree at the end of the three years. Regarding the research cooperation, joint works will be held on two fields identified during a two-day workshop held in Austin in October 2007: molecular functional nanomaterials and nanoelectronics. A doctoral students’ exchange at the early stages of their doctoral studies and more advanced ones are planed, either for short (a few weeks) or longer stays (several months to one year). Two faculties from each side will visit the partner institution for one month each year. The objective is co-authored scientific publications and co-supervision of PhD thesis aiming towards dual PhD degree. Finally, several workshops bringing together experts from both universities are to take place every 18 months alternatively in each institution. Contacts: University of Texas, Austin: Pr Paul Barbara, Center for
Nano and Molecular Science and technology
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Partners: This partnership was born on the basis of the scientific collaboration between the two project leaders, started in the summer of 2004. The issue dealing with fluid interface instabilities is essential for the understanding of fusion mechanisms, the only large scale renewable energy source of the future. Starting with the work of the two project leaders with the help of one part-time postdoc and one graduate student, the relations will extend to systematic exchange involving senior researchers, postdocs, and joint PhD and Masters students. Funding will be used to provide a fellowship to a PhD student who will work three years on the project while spending half of his time in each institution and also to finance housing and travel to ensure a regular and frequent exchange between members of the team from both institutions. In the long run, the constant flow of permanent researchers and students from one institution to the other will pave the way for a more ambitious educational aim where a joint PhD program could be established between the two institutions. Contacts: Case Western Reserve University : Charles Rosenblatt, Professor,
Department of Physics
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Partners: The objective of the present proposal is to foster the development of a long-term cooperation on basic research topics of interest to the Aerospace and Aeronautical Sciences community between two leading academic institutions: Caltech and Ecole Polytechnique. In addition to joint supervision of PhD students, Masters’ students will follow the syllabus of the other partner during two out of four semesters and, meeting the requirements of both partners, will be awarded a Master of Science degree by the partner institutions. In order to set up a good implementation of the partnership, a two-month visit by a Caltech faculty member to Ecole Polytechnique and symmetrically by a professor from Ecole Polytechnique to Caltech has been planned in order to settle the Dual Master’s Program. This program will officially start in academic year 2008-2009: for the first year, 1 student each side will participate in the program, up to two students each side for year 2 and 3. In addition to this student exchange, two graduate students from each institution will complete each year a 3-month research internship in the partner laboratory under joint supervision. Contacts: California Institute of Technology, Graduate Aeronautical
Laboratories (GALCIT):
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Partners: This new relationship benefits from the experience of the previous FACE partnership which allowed student exchange between both institutions. This new program aims at strengthening the relations between both research platforms: CRIOBE for EPHE and South Pacific Research Station. Thus the number of faculty involved will increase and the institution will focus on doctoral students (6 from each side). For the first fall term, visiting French students will be paired at UF with a graduate student and a faculty to receive training through required and elective courses. Then, visiting American students will spend the spring term at EPHE-Perpignan. Finally, students from both sides will be immersed in research in CRIOBE, Moorea. Annual meetings will be held on spot (France, Florida and French Polynesia) in order to conduct to joint publications. Six doctoral degrees are to be awarded from this proposal, all co-supervised by faculty from both French and US institutions. Contacts: University of Florida, Gainesville: Craig Osenberg, Professor,
Department of zoology
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Partners: These two institutions intend to establish a program in computational surgery with dual training in order to set up a dual Master of Science degree. The partnership will involve the exchange of research assistants, post doctoral fellows as well as master degree students. The program will begin with three areas of work: an initial workshop in computational surgery and dual training resulting in a publication of the proceedings of that workshop (the first one being held in June 2008 in Strasbourg, the second in Houston in February 2010), the development of a dual Master of Science degree in computational surgery (videoconferencing will be used to facilitate course teaching), and research into two projects – pancreatic surgery and stress monitoring during skills training which will result in per-reviewed publications. Each project team will consist of an equal number of faculty and students from the US and France with at least one MD surgical resident, one computer scientist student at the master level and two faculty advisors. Contacts: University of Houston: Marc Garbey, Professor and Chair,
Department of computer science
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Partners: The purpose of this partnership is to establish a collaborative interdisciplinary program in African Studies of research and doctoral training, articulated around doctoral training and the establishment of a joint supervised PhD degree. In order to achieve these objectives, the partners will create an interdisciplinary doctoral seminar in each university taught by faculty of the partner institution, will fund two years of graduate study (two students from each institution) and create an administrative mechanism that enables participating students to become eligible for the PhD degree of the partner institution, will fund participation of NU students in EHESS’s summer research program in Africa and will explore ways to integrate African universities into the program. The working program implies each year at least two one-month exchanged faculties from each side. One-month faculty visitors will offer graduate seminars, typically co-taught, in the partner institution. In the first two years, there will also be an exchange of research librarians to examine possibilities for closer library cooperation and improved access by students and researchers to the resources of the partner institution. Contacts: Northwestern University : Michael Loriaux, Co-Director,
French Interdisciplinary Group
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Partners: This pluralism, politics and religion centered project will bring
a cohort of six Masters, doctoral and postdoctoral students to Washington
University for a fall seminar and to EPHE for a spring seminar.
The students will attend the project leaders’ session and
they will take additional courses as a function of their levels
and topics. The students will benefit from the complementary strengths
of the two institutions. In Paris, students will profit from France’s
major concentration of researchers from politics, sociology, history
and law. At Washington University, they will benefit from a collaborative
teaching from anthropology, political science, philosophy and history. Contacts: Washington University, Saint-Louis: John Bowen Dunbar-Van
Cleve, Professor
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Partners: This project aims at redefining the theory about Muslims religious identity, secularism, democracy and citizenship. The partners will intend to establish a network of junior scholars: this is a noticeable generational gap between senior researchers working within the institutionalized boundaries of disciplines and a new generation of researchers who are more aware of the transversal dimension of the recasting of religious identities. They will try to verify the hypothesis of the concept of Islam as a “Western religion” and not as an “Eastern culture”. In order to set up this network, two French faculties and four French students will spend one month at Berkley on year 1. On year 2, two US faculties and 4 US students will spend one month at EHESS. A website is to be created as a portal that provides access to current research and networking on Muslims in the West. Contacts: UC Berkeley: Tyler Stovall, Professor
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Partners: In the field of thermo-fluid mechanics, the goal of this partnership is to educate masters and doctoral students and post-doctoral fellows via six one-week workshops over three years. Regarding joint research, 8 doctoral research or post doctoral fellows will participate in projects in the partner country for at least 5 months. Both institutions aim at creating a research network using the resources of electronic communications via web link and the France-America cultural centers. To achieve these goals, a series of workshops involving postdoctoral, doctoral and master students as well as industry scientists will be held alternatively in France and Florida; tutorials from these workshops will be created to train students. Regarding research programs, they will imply joint direction of doctoral theses and internships of these doctoral students in the laboratories of the collaborators overseas. The research exchange will also involve joint publications and teleconferencing. Contacts: University of Florida, Gainesville: Ranga Narayanan, Professor
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