Social Science Research Council Accepting Applications for Abe Fellowship

The Social Science Research Council ( http://www.ssrc.org/  ), theJapan Foundation Center for Global Partnership ( http://cgp.org/  ), and the American Council of Learned Societies ( http://acls.org/  ) have announced the annual Abe Fellowship Program competition.

 The Abe Fellowship is designed to encourage international multi- disciplinary research on topics of pressing global concern. The  program seeks to foster the development of a new generation of researchers who are interested in policy-relevant topics of long- range importance and who are willing to become key members of a bilateral and global research network built around such topics. It strives especially to promote a new level of intellectual  cooperation between the Japanese and American academic and professional communities committed to and trained for advancing global understanding and problem solving.

due Sept. 1, 2008