Application deadline: 16 March 2012, 8:00 pm (PT)
Notification of award recipients: 28 March, 2012
Submit Application to: <awards@sbse.org>

for detailed information on the retreat, see: http://www.sbse.org/retreat2012/

Description

In honor of the late Jeffrey Cook, the Society of Building Science Educators (SBSE) is pleased to announce it will provide up to two scholarships to qualified applicants to help defray the cost of attending the 2012 SBSE Retreat. Qualified applicants will be faculty members engaged in teaching environmental control systems (or closely related building science topics) in architecture or related disciplines. In addition, applicants MUST be from a developing country* (see below).  

Each scholarship will cover the majority of on-site retreat costs (including lodging at the McCall Field Campus, several meals, and retreat materials) and provide some support for travel expenses.

It is the intention of this scholarship to provide $1000 in total support per recipient. At this time, the retreat registration fee has not been set, so the amount of travel funding that will be available (after retreat fees have been paid) is unknown.

Scholarship recipients must become SBSE members (currently no cost for those from developing countries) and register for the retreat through the retreat web site. Recipients will pay no retreat registration fee, but are responsible for making their own travel arrangements to/from Boise, ID and lodging arrangements in Boise as necessitated by travel schedules. Recipients are encouraged to seek additional support from their home institutions (department, college and/or university) to help defray travel expenses beyond the nominal support provided by the scholarship.

Selection criteria for the award focus on the potential for retreat attendance to transform the applicant's teaching/research/service/networking activities and on the benefits of the scholarship to the applicant's institution and country.

Scholarship recipients will be expected to make a brief presentation at the retreat. This presentation can either be tailored to the theme of the retreat or be used to introduce the recipient's teaching and research agenda to retreat attendees.

At the request of the Jeffrey Cook Charitable Trust, which has graciously provided the funding for this award, a scholarship recipient will be expected to submit a modest note to the Trust describing what the scholarship and retreat attendance meant to them relative to teaching/research/service/networking.

These scholarships are intended to provide support for faculty from developing countries who are teaching environmental control systems (or a closely related area of building science). Retreat scholarships will be awarded on a competitive basis following review of all applications received by the deadline noted above.

How to Apply

There is no prescribed application form. Applications will consist of an electronically submitted Word or pdf document that provides the information noted below. Item 3 (and perhaps 5) will be critical to the selection committee.

Applications must be submitted by e-mail. They may not exceed two 8.5 x 11 pages (or equivalent).

1. Contact information: name of the applicant, current institutional affiliation, citizenship, mailing address, telephone number, and e-mail address.

2. Building science teaching background: current and prior universities and programs, specific environmental control system (or related building science) courses currently and previously taught, and relevant research/service experiences.

3. Impact statement: briefly but clearly describe the benefits you anticipate that you, your institution, and your country would derive from participation in the 2012 SBSE Retreat.

4. Retreat experiences: indicate whether you have attended previous SBSE retreats and/or received a previous Cook scholarship.

5. Special circumstances: if you believe you qualify as an applicant for this scholarship, but are applying while in residence in a developed country you will need to convince the selection committee that your residence therein is temporary and that you are in fact from a developing country and will soon return there to teach.

See critical dates and deadlines above. Late applications will not be considered.

Submit applications to: awards@sbse.org

Use the subject: SBSE COOK SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION

Scholarship Coordinator (inquiries only): Walter Grondzik, gzik@polaris.net

The following countries are deemed to have developed economies. Applicants from these countries are NOT eligible for this scholarship. Applicants who are citizens of a developing country, but who currently reside in a developed country will need to make a case for being qualified for this scholarship (see item 5 above).

*Developing countries are those not included in the following list of advanced economies developed by the U. S. government (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developed_country):