The Oak Institute for the Study of International Human Rights at Colby College in Waterville, Maine (USA) is pleased to announce its call for applications and nominations for the 2011 Oak Human Rights Fellowship.
The fellowship is a one-semester appointment for a scholar-in-residence. It is designed to provide human rights practitioners doing “on-the-ground” work at some level of personal risk a respite from front-line duties to enable them to reflect, write, and communicate their work to the campus community.
The appointment is for the fall semester of 2011 (September through mid December). Responsibilities include participation in a lecture series or symposium in the Fellow`s area of expertise and regular interaction with Colby students through a one credit non-graded discussion class.
To identify candidates for the annual search, the Oak Institute relies heavily on nominations from NGOs, journalists, human rights lawyers, and academics — who are most likely to know of the work of on-the-ground professionals. The Oak Institute would like to solicit nominations for the fellowship. (Self-nomination is perfectly acceptable. A candidate can nominate her/himself simply by completing the application. No other paperwork is required.)
Eligibility
- a frontline human rights activist who works on problems created by or associated with poverty outside of the United States;
- the Fellow must have a functional level of verbal ability in English;
- the Fellow is required to lead a seminar class that meets once a week and the discussion will take place in English.
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PhD Opening in Humanoid Robotics
Department of Robotics Brain and Cognitive Sciences (RBCS)
Italian Institute of Technology
The Department of Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences (http://www.iit.it/en/rbcs/) at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Genoa is opening a PhD position in the area of mechanical design of compliant robots.
Project Description:
Conventionally designed robots are made of metal parts, bearings, levers, gears or other components that are assembled with fasteners and screws, to obtain the desired functionality. An alternative approach is to derive this functionality directly from the properties of the materials and to embed components as, for example, with “shape deposition manufacturing” (Merz et al. 1994, Cutkosky et al. 1999). CAD and FE simulations are essential tools to design and optimize the details of the robot’s shape.
The aim of this PhD research program is to contribute to the transition from traditional robotics (metal & screws) to new, unconventional, compliant and more robust robots made exploring alternative materials. The reference task will be manipulation; the goal of this project is to design a robot hand for the iCub (http://www.robotcub.org) featuring tuned stiffness mechanics, embedded sensorization (proprioceptive and tactile), wiring and tendon driven actuation. Appropriate controllers are also required to match and exploit natural compliance but also to compensate for non-linearity (e.g. backlash).
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Italian Institute of Technology, Italy, PhD, Robotics
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