The Public Entity Risk Institute (PERI) and the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado-Boulder are seeking applications for the National PERISHIP Fellowship Program, which will award up to six dissertation fellowships for work related to natural and human-made hazards, risk, and disasters. The deadline for applications is February 1, 2008.

The PERISHIP fellowship program is supported with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Swiss Re, and managed by PERI and the Natural Hazards Center. The PERISHIP program is intended to foster the advancement of knowledge in the interdisciplinary hazards field, which relies on scholars committed simultaneously to their own disciplines and to the more practical, applied aspects of the field.

Up to 6 grants of up to $10,000 each will be awarded in 2007/2008 to doctoral students to support their dissertation work on natural and human-made hazards, risk, and disasters in any relevant field of the natural and physical sciences, social and behavioral sciences, specialties in engineering, or interdisciplinary programs such as environmental studies. The grants are flexible and can be used for data collection, travel for field work, or for presentation of findings at meetings, purchase of software, data entry assistance, statistical analysis services, or a combination of these or other similar purposes (but, NOT for stipends or tuition).

Application materials must be received in digital form (in Adobe Acrobat .pdf only, as a single file) by 5:00 pm EST on February 1, 2008. Applications should be sent to periship@riskinstitute.org. Hardcopy applications will not be accepted. Awards will be announced in May 2008. For complete information, go to http://www.cudenver.edu/periship/.