Posted by Jessica on November 23, 2009 in Internships
June and July 2010
Georgetown University, Washington, DC
www.DCinternships.org/IPVS
*** EARLY APPLICATION DEADLINE – DECEMBER 4, 2009***
****SCHOLARSHIP FUNDING AVAILABLE****
Sponsored by The Fund for American Studies in partnership with Georgetown University, the Institute is a summer academic internship program held in Washington, D.C. for undergraduate students interested in volunteerism and careers in the nonprofit sector.
The Institute combines substantive professional experience for 30 hours a week with a challenging academic experience. This fast-paced, eight-week residential program provides students from around the world with the opportunities to gain an edge in today’s competitive job market and graduate school admissions, and experience the excitement of Washington first-hand.
• Internships – Competitive placements with leading nonprofit organizations
• Classes – Up to 9 transferable credits in ethics and philanthropy from Georgetown University
• Housing – Roommate matching and furnished on-campus apartments in the heart of D.C.
• Service – A variety of hands-on community projects
• Guest Lectures – With Washington’s top nonprofit executives and scholars
• Leadership & Professional Development – Leadership, mentoring and career building activities
• Networking – With seasoned nonprofit professionals and top student leaders from around the world
• Scholarships – Over half of all students receive full or partial funding based on merit and financial need
The Institute will be held in June & July, 2010. Applications will be accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis until March 5, 2010. Students who complete their application by the early deadline of December 4, 2009 will receive a 5% tuition discount as well as priority scholarship consideration and internship placement.
For more information and to begin an online application, please visit the website www.DCinternships.org/IPVS.
Questions may be directed to Emily Hill, IPVS Program Manager, at IPVS@tfas.org or 800-741-6964.
Click here to request an informational brochure: https://www.DCinternships.org/tfas/brochure/index.asp.
Posted by Jessica on November 23, 2009 in Study Abroad
Theme: Law & Order: Greek and Roman Unit
Hist 435 or INTL 330 or PHIL 380: Four credits
Professors Linda Hall and Michael Taber
St. Mary’s College’s Greece Study Tour offers participants an opportunity to gain knowledge of the layerings of history in this part of the world the influence of which so greatly outstrips its modest size.
June 1 through June 22, 2010
The itinerary for the Greece Study Tour for summer 2010 is divided into two portions:
* A stay of 9 nights in the small and welcoming village of Ancient Korinth (a few kilometers from the modern city of Korinth)
* A circuit tour of 5 stops (over the suceeding 11 nights) on a chartered, air-conditioned coach and via ferry, with nights spent in Nauplion, Delphi, the island of Naxos, and Athens
Costs
The price for the 22-day (21-night) study tour (including most of a day of travel on each end) is $4950. This is a non-profit educational experience, so 100% of these funds are used for the itinerary. Additionally, each participant must pay St. Mary’s College of Maryland for four credit-hours of tuition ($720) and we estimate about $420 to cover the cost of meals that are not included in the itinerary. (Meals covered are all breakfasts, 8 lunches and 11 dinners.)
More information is available at: http://www.smcm.edu/greece/index.html
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
http://U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Scholarships and Summer Internships
Undergraduates, Graduate Students, and Faculty
DHS Scholarship Program* Undergraduate students
* U.S. citizenship required
* Funding available for fall 2010
* Full tuition and monthly stipends
* Includes 10-week summer internships at federal research facilities or DHS Centers of Excellence
* Application Deadline: January 5, 2010
DHS HS-STEM Summer Internship Program
* Undergraduate students
* U.S. citizenship required
* Funding available for summer 2010
* 10-week summer research experiences at federal research facilities
* $500 weekly stipends plus transportation expenses to/from the internship location
* Application Deadline: January 5, 2010
Speakeasy: An Undergraduate Journal of Research and Creative Art is now accepting submissions. We are a staff of undergraduate students that is funded by the University at Buffalo Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender (Gender Institute - IREWG), and our publication is dedicated to subjects pertaining to gender, sexuality and feminism in all its forms, from the academic to the creative.
The staff welcomes research papers, fiction prose and poetry, and visual art, as well as responses to previous issues. Our goal is to create an academically fueled dialogue for all students interested in gender and sexuality. Subject matter in our publication focuses on, but is not limited to, subjects explored in the feminist field.
Topics we have explored in the past: shaving etiquette, personal abortion stories both from those receiving the abortion and from health care providers, genital mutilation, gendered American politics, gendered bodies in literature, plastic surgery, architectural design of lesbian public spaces, and pick-up lines and catcalls.
The theme for our Winter Issue is biblical women and effects on modern culture.
The deadline for our Winter Issue is December 5th, 2009.
The theme we will be exploring in our Spring Issue is media and pop culture representations of gendered and transgendered people. The deadline for our Spring Issue is March 1st, 2010.
We also welcome for every Issue:
-Music, book, performance art, and movie reviews -Personal accounts of gendered experiences (good or bad) -Research and critical essays on literature, digital media, and creative art -Drawings, Paintings, Sketches, Figure studies -Responses to previous issues’ articles ]
Please send any submissions to the staff of Speakeasy at mewright@buffalo.edu
Posted by Jessica on November 19, 2009 in Volunteering
Interested in being a Team Leader for Alternative Spring Break? APPLY NOW!
Give Where You Live: Show That You Care Alternative Spring Break provides students with an opportunity to help the Buffalo community over their spring break. This week long initiative gives students the opportunity to take part in a number of volunteer, social, and educational opportunities to help make the Buffalo community a safer and better place. This program requires an application and an interview with a CSLCE staff member. All students selected to participate will be provided on-campus housing. This program is a great way to give back to your local community, get to know other people, continue to grow as a leader and work as a team. The next Alternative Spring Break program will take place during the week of March 6-12, 2010. A blog was created during the 2009 Alternative Spring Break program. Feel free to read about the Alternative Spring Break experience from the students’ perspectives.
All applications must be turned in to Center for Student Leadership & Community Engagement. Interviews will be scheduled as applications are received. For more information, as well as the application please go to http://leadership.buffalo.edu . If there are any specific questions please email Brian Magee at lead.brianmag@vpsa.buffalo.edu
Posted by Jessica on November 19, 2009 in Volunteering
SATURDAY OF SERVICE: CLASSISM AND HIGHER ED
DATE: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2009 @ 8:45 AM- 2:00 PM
LOCATION: STUDENT UNION LOBBY
SPONSORED BY: CENTER FOR STUDENT LEADERSHIP AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
Students will be working with Buffalo Prep and their students. Buffalo Prep has 2 purposes: (1) to help bright, economically disadvantaged minority students prepare for, obtain and excel in demanding college-preparatory high schools, and (2) to help our partner private, independent and exam-based public schools recruit, embrace and take advantage of a more diverse student body. UB Students will be working in small groups with Buffalo Prep Students to talk about the college experience. To find out more about Buffalo Prep and about “Classism and Access to Higher Education”, please come to the SITE Workshop on Tuesday, November 17th from 5:30-6:30pm in 240 Student Union.
For more information on this event, please visit: https://www.student-affairs.buffalo.edu/leadership/sos.php
WORKSHOP: FINDING SUMMER RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
DATE: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2009 @ 3:30 PM
LOCATION: 12 CAPEN HALL
SPONSORED BY: CENTER FOR UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AND CREATIVE ACTIVITIES
Join CURCA for a workshop on how to find and get those summer research opportunities!
To register for this event, please visit: http://workshops.buffalo.edu
Posted by Nigel on November 18, 2009 in Study Abroad
Consider joining us in Beijing, China as a participant in the next UB SLIDE program, an international leadership and travel experience, during the summer of 2010. The SLIDE Program (Student Leaders International Dialogue and Exchange) is an opportunity for student leaders not only to learn about leadership from a global perspective, but to experience it first hand by traveling to other parts of the world to learn from and work with other student leaders.
In July 2010, you will have the opportunity to travel to China for an intensive seven-day leadership and educational seminar, joining students from across the United States to meet with students in Beijing. The program is called the Silk Road to China and is sponsored by the Legends of China Foundation. Other universities, including several in the University of California system, Cornell, UNC, Yale, Stanford, have all participated in this program.
In addition to the trip to China, from July 17th to 23rd, you will also participate in pre-trip and post-trip academic requirements. You will earn one academic credit for satisfactory completion of all program requirements. The price for the seven day trip starts at $1,400 – this includes domestic and international air fare, hotel accommodations, ground transportation, food, programs and events, and travel insurance. (There are optional, additional excursions that would increase this price.)
To learn more about the experience, we are hosting an information session on January 20th – you can enjoy some Chinese food while learning more about the program. Location and time for the session are being finalized, but if you would like to reserve your spot at the session or if you have questions, please email Kristen Brill, Coordinator for Constituency Relations, at kbrill@buffalo.edu.
Posted by Nigel on November 18, 2009 in Academics
COL 302: The History of Literary Theory
Instructor: Megan MacDonald
Tuesday/Thursday 9:30-10:50 am, Clemens Hall 640
Registration Number: 462951
Why do philosophers read poets, and why do poets read philosophy? This course will trace the history of this question, beginning with the “quarrel” between philosophy and poetry in antiquity and leading up to the contemporary conversations and polemics between the two disciplines. The course is an introduction to the history of criticism but is open to all students interested in exploring the fascinating and challenging intersections between the two main areas of the humanities: literature and philosophy. Reading literary and philosophical texts, we will discuss such questions as the nature of human existence, the problem of time, death, and finitude, the role of gender, as well as the differences and similarities between the imagination and reason, passion and logic, literary language and philosophical argumentation.
In the first part of the course, we will examine convergences and differences between literary and philosophical texts in antiquity (Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, Sophocles’ tragedies), the Middle Ages(Boethius and Dante), the Enlightenment (Voltaire, Candide), and Romanticism (Schlegel, Philosophical Fragments, HÃlderlin, poetry). Rethinking the heritage of Greek culture and tragedy for the moderns, Nietzsche’s influential study The Birth of the Tragedy will serve as the transition to the questions, which will characterize contemporary debates between philosophy and literature. After The Birth of Tragedy, we will read several essays by Heidegger and Irigaray, and a number of literary texts: short stories by Dinesen and Borges, excerpts from Joyce’s Ulysses , and poetry by Gertrude Stein and Wislawa Szymborska.
***This course is not an Honors Seminar though you might be interested in it.***
Posted by Nigel on November 18, 2009 in Study Abroad
UB Study Abroad is pleased to invite you to the 7th annual Study Abroad Photo Contest & Exhibition scheduled to take place one week from today Thursday, November 19th in the Student Union, Flag Room (2nd Floor) from 4-6pm. We have had over 70 study abroad participants submit photos illustrating their study abroad experience and we strongly encourage you to come to the Student Union Flag Room to see the over 200 photos taken all over the world by UB study abroad participants. A presentation of the winners will start at 4:30pm and refreshments will be provided. Please come to the Student Union, Flag Room (2nd Floor) next week Thursday 4-6pm to attend this International Education Week event and vote for your favorite photo for the People’s Choice Award.
We hope that you will join us in this showcase event and look forward to seeing you there!
