Overview
The S.A. Rosenbaum Earthwatch Mississippi Teaching Fellows Program provides faculty of Mississippi schools and community colleges the opportunity to participate in Earthwatch Expeditions to further their personal and professional development. Eight to ten fellowships are awarded each year. Through these expeditions, educators have the opportunity to work with leading research scholars, to gain practical science experience, to work cooperatively with people of widely different backgrounds and ages and to experience different cultures and geographical/political areas of the world.
Earthwatch, located in Watertown, Massachusetts, sponsors more than 130 scientific research projects each year with more than 4,200 volunteers. Through the Earthwatch Education programs, more than 300 faculty members in a wide variety of disciplines are provided the opportunity to participate in research projects around the world. These projects include travel/study in the following areas: animal behavior, archeology, art and architecture, ornithology, biodiversity and ecology, coral reefs, culture and folklore tradition, earth dynamics, endangered species, dinosaurs and other fossils, global change, public health and nutrition, marine animals, rain forests, resource management, sustainable environment and wildlife management.
About S.A. Rosenbaum
Mr. S.A. Rosenbaum of Meridian, Mississippi, was a businessman and entrepreneur with family roots that reached back in East Mississippi to before the Civil War. He was dedicated to the region, serving throughout his life as an innovator and catalyst in its economic and community development. He and his wife also traveled widely and often from the Amazon to the Far East, Africa, Russia, the Middle East and many destinations in Europe. Mr. Rosenbaum died in 1984. He served as president of the Phil Hardin Foundation from 1981 until his death. The Earthwatch Mississippi Teaching Fellows Program celebrates Mr. Rosenbaum's passion for history, culture, geography and travel. For him, such study and travel were worthy ends in themselves as well as the means to understand the dynamics of an increasingly interdependent world that more directly affected East Mississippi. Reading and travel were his means to personal and professional development, his vehicles for shaping and sharpening the capacity, as the Commission on the Future of the South put it, to "think globally and act locally." The Phil Hardin Foundation is honored to establish the S.A. Rosenbaum Earthwatch Mississippi Teaching Fellows Program to provide faculty in Mississippi schools and community colleges the opportunity for similar personal and professional development.
Eligibility for S.A. Rosenbaum Earthwatch Mississippi Teaching Fellows Program
Mississippi faculty in grades K-12 and in community colleges are eligible to apply. Earthwatch and the Phil Hardin Foundation especially hope that educators who are curious, adventuresome, flexible and committed to their personal and educational growth will seek Rosenbaum Fellowships.
How to Apply
To receive a list of projects and an application, contact the Phil Hardin Foundation. Applications are generally due in February. For a detailed list of Earthwatch expeditions, please see the Earthwatch web site.
About Earthwatch
Founded in 1971, Earthwatch is a nonprofit organization that sponsors field research around the world. The Earthwatch mission is to improve human understanding of the planet, the diversity of its inhabitants, and the processes that affect the quality of life on Earth.
Fellowship Amounts
Each year Earthwatch will award eight to ten S.A. Rosenbaum Earthwatch Mississippi Teaching Fellowships. The total amount of all fellowships awarded each year will be up to $25,000. The fellowships will pay all Earthwatch expedition costs and a portion of travel costs to the field site. For those expeditions requiring extensive travel the recipient may be responsible for paying some of their own travel costs. Overseas travel will require a passport. Recipients will be reimbursed for covered travel expenses after the expedition upon receipt of their final report and documentation of travel expenses.
Reports
Rosenbaum Fellows are asked to submit a three-to-five page report to Earthwatch reflecting on the impact of the expedition experience and their personal and professional development. This report will also include a brief description of the classroom project derived from the Earthwatch experience that could be introduced in Mississippi classrooms. Earthwatch must receive the report within one month of the fellow's return expedition.
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