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*The English Undergraduate Association Newsletter* Weekly News For UC Berkeley's English Undergrads 1/29/07 /In this week's issue:/ * **1. EUA**: WELCOME BACK! *//330 Wheeler: The Lounge. Tuesday 5:15-6:00 / / *2. Goings-On About Town* /A Heads-Up on Cultural Events/ *3. Want Money? */Reward your skills in these scholarships and contests./ *4. Internships and Volunteering * /Spring Credits, Summer Plans and other opportunities/ *5**. *The Bulletin Board** /A Smattering of Postings / Visit our webpage: http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~eua If you are getting double e-mails, please let us know: berkeley.eua@gmail.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * ****1. EUA**: WELCOME BACK!* **//330 Wheeler: The Lounge. Tuesday 5:15-6:00// Congratulations on surviving the beginning of classes! To celebrate, come on by the English Lounge for our kick-off party, *Tuesday, Jan 30, 5:15-6:00. *We will be welcoming you back with the grooves of *DJ Matt Werner*, by popular demand, and *Blondie's Pizza*, also by popular demand. Once again, *MUSIC and PIZZA*. Come by if you've been before, come by if it's your first time. Learn about all the fun things we have planned for the semester. *2. Goings-On About Town* /A Heads-Up on Cultural Events/ The University of California at Berkeley Department of English presents /Richard Preiss/ Assistant Professor Department of English, University of Utah "UnWill in the World: Disappearing Acts of the Stage Clown in Shakespeare's Theater." Thursday, February 1, 2007 5:00 PM Maude Fife Room (315 Wheeler Hall) /WESTERN REGIONAL STAND CONFERENCE on Darfur / FEB 2 - 4, UC Berkeley * Attend human rights and activist training workshops * Hear incredible speakers including author Dave Eggers and filmmaker Paul Freedman * Participate in non-violent action * Get involved in the anti-genocide movement * ALL ARE WELCOME * Go to http://berkeleystand.webmotion.com/index.html for application and information! Sign up this week! /Nauman in Context/ February 1-2, 2007 Berkeley Art Museum Theater, free admission This symposium, organized by Berkeley graduate students in conjunction with the Berkeley Art Museum exhibit A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s, will explore Bruce Nauman's sculpture, film, and early video in its contexts: artistic, theoretical, and art historical. Nauman in Context aims to provide an academic discussion about Nauman's work in its larger surround. To these ends, the symposium will be a springboard for a broader discussion of key artistic practices taking place in the late 1960s and 1970s, beyond the range of Nauman's formative years, c. 1964-1969, when he was living and working in Northern California. Nauman in Context is sponsored by the Consortium for the Arts, Graduate Division, the Townsend Center for Humanities, the History of Art Department, and the Division of Arts and Humanities. Thursday, February 1 Keynote Address: "Nauman's Body of Sculpture" Anne M. Wagner, Professor of History of Art, UC Berkeley 7:30pm As Bruce Nauman has famously described it, the radical innovations of his 1960s work emerged from a particular context: his San Francisco studio. With no money for materials, he was "forced" to examine, he said, "myself and what I was doing there." One thing Nauman was doing, in other words, was not making the sculpture that as a student he had been trained to produce. Instead, he undertook a thoroughgoing examination of his erstwhile medium, precisely so as to engineer his decisive turn to the body and self. Nauman, in other words, became one of sculpture's most forceful contemporary critics, and like most critics, his attitude toward his chosen target was a mixture of close scrutiny and blind disregard. In laying out this thesis, Anne Wagner will treat both the artist's best known works and lost objectsstudio experiments that only briefly saw the light of day. Bound up in all of them is a deep ambivalence towards sculpture as the art Nauman most depended onmost loved to hate. Friday, February 2 1-3 pm: Sculpture: Presences and Absences, moderated by Elise Archias (UC Berkeley) Dr. Jo Applin (University of York), "Bruce Nauman, Henry Moore, and the Case of Westermann's Ear" Anna Fishaut (Art Institute of Chicago), "Recasting Life Casting: Bruce Nauman's Earliest Sculpture" Jeremy Melius (UC Berkeley), "Nauman's Skin" 3:30-5:30pm: Mediums and Media, moderated by Ben Young (UC Berkeley) Dr. William Kaizen (U.Mass, Lowell), "A Certain Sympathetic Response: Bruce Nauman, Early Video Installation and Video Psychotherapy in the Summer of '69" Dr. Jane McFadden (Art Center College of Design), "Site and Sound: Nauman's Sculptural Experience" Benjamin Gerdes (MIT), "Possibility over Necessity: Duration and Address in Nauman's Early Video Works" For more information, please visit the symposium website: www.naumanincontext.org. /Abu Ghraib and Botero/ World-renowned Colombian artist FernandoBotero will be opening an exhibition of his works on Abu Ghraib organized by the Center for Latin American Studies. The New York Times said the images "do something the harrowing photographs of the naked, blindfolded and tormented prisoners do not: they restore their dignity and humanity without diminishing their agony or the absolute injustice of their situation." Berkeley professors Tom Laqueur, T.J. Clark and Francine Masiello will place the exhibit in artistic and historical context during a discussion of "Art and Violence" on Wednesday, January 31, at 4:00 pm in the Morrison Room of Doe Library, adjoining the exhibition in Room 190. "Torture, Human Rights and Terrorism" Aryeh Neier is President of the Open Society Institute and Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University. José Zalaquett is president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and a Professor of Law and co-director of the Human Rights Center at the University of Chile's Law School. Jenny S. Martinez argued the 2004 case of Rumsfeld v. Padilla (2004) before the U.S. Supreme Court and is Associate Professor of Law at Stanford. Philip Zimbardo is the former President of the American Psychological Association, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Stanford, and the author of a forthcoming book on Abu Ghraib. Wednesday, March 7, 4:00 pm Booth Auditorium, Boalt Hall School of Law For more information on these events and others relating to the exhibit, see: http://www.clas.berkeley.edu:7001/Events/spring2007/01-29-07-bo < http://www.clas.berkeley.edu:7001/Events/spring2007/01-29-07-bo > teroopening/series.html For hours and more information about the exhibit, see: http://www.clas.berkeley.edu:7001/Events/spring2007/01-29-07-bo < http://www.clas.berkeley.edu:7001/Events/spring2007/01-29-07-bo > teroopening/index.html For information on other CLAS events, please visit our Web site at http://clas.berkeley.edu < http://clas.berkeley.edu > /ROBERT PINSKY/ Reading from his translation of The Inferno of Dante Tuesday February 13, 2007 at 12:30 p.m. 111 Minna Gallery (2nd and Minna) in San Francisco Three-time poet laureate Robert Pinsksy will read from his best selling-translation of The Inferno of Dante at a reading presented by the innovative reading series, Lit&Lunch. Pinsky¹s acclaimed translation is known for being highly readable and entertaining in its accounts of the rings of Hell, while also staying true to the original. The work has received the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Howard Morton Landon Prize for translation. One of the foremost poets in America today, Pinsky is also known for his dynamic speaking style and his tireless advocacy of poetry in the world. In 1997, he started the Favorite Poem Project which is ³dedicated to celebrating, documenting and promoting poetry's role in Americans' lives.² Pinsky¹s lively presentation style derives from his belief that when people read poetry aloud, something remarkable happens. His Lit&Lunch reading is an ideal encounter with Dante for both aficionados and the first time listener. Lit&Lunch features dynamic readings of great literature from around the world. The free events encourage the audience to sit down and experience a unique literary reading while enjoying delicious box lunches from the A2 Café. On March 13, Lit&Lunch will present Senghor Celebration, a multi-disciplinary performance of Léopold Sédar Senghor¹s work. On April 10, enjoy a quintessentially San Franciscan event with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Jack Hirschman. The final event of the series will be on May 8th, with acclaimed Vietnamese translator John Balaban and renowned singer of folk poems, Le Pham Le. Lit&Lunch is a program of the Center for the Art of Translation. For more information call the Center for the Art of Translation at 415 512-8812, or visit the website: www.catranslation.org. <http://www.catranslation.org.%C2%A0/> The Center for the Art of Translation is a non-profit organization based in San Francisco that promotes international literature and translation through art, education, and community outreach. *3**. Want Money? */Scholarships and contests/ DONALD A. STRAUSS SCHOLARSHIP Make your public service project reality! The Donald A. Strauss Scholarship allows full-time college juniors to pursue a public service project during their senior year by providing $10,000 for educational expenses. The project may be a new undertaking or an extension of the recipient's current activities. Applicants must be in the upper third of their class (typically a minimum 3.3 GPA) and plan to devote a significant part of their lives to public service. The Strauss Foundation will award at least fifteen scholarships in 2007 that can be used to pay for tuition, fees, books, room and board, and at the recipient's option, for some of the costs of the public service project. Application Deadline: Noon February 15, 2007. For more information contact Alicia Hayes at scholarships@learning.berkeley.edu or 643-6929. Or visit http://scholarships.berkeley.edu/p-strauss.html BEINECKE SCHOLARSHIP The prestigious Beinecke Scholarship provides $32,000 to juniors planning to pursue graduate study in the arts, humanities, or social sciences. Recipients will receive $2,000 prior to entering graduate school and $15,000 per year for the first two years of graduate study. Students must apply as juniors. Application Deadline: Noon February 15, 2007. For more information contact Alicia Hayes at scholarships@learning.berkeley.edu or 643-6929. Or visit http://scholarships.berkeley.edu/p-beinecke.html JACK KENT COOKE GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM The Jack Kent Coke Graduate Scholarship Program awards up to $50,000 annually for up to six years. The scholarship seeks to support exceptional students who are enrolling graduate school. or professional (law, medical etc.) school Application Deadline: February 15, 2007. For more information contact Alicia Hayes at scholarships@learning.berkeley.edu or 643-6929. Or visit http://scholarships.berkeley.edu/p-cooke.html MORRIS K. UDALL SCHOLARSHIP The Morris K. Udall Scholarship provides up to $5,000 for educational expenses to sophomores and juniors who either 1) study the environment and related fields; or 2) are Native Americans or Alaska Natives in fields related to health care or tribal public policy. The Udall Foundation seeks outstanding students who demonstrate, through their areas of study and public service activities, a commitment to and potential for making significant contributions in their fields. UC Berkeley can nominate up to six students. Application Deadline: February 20, 2007. For more information contact Alicia Hayes at scholarships@learning.berkeley.edu or 643-6929. Or visit http://scholarships.berkeley.edu/p-udall.html /Rogers Fellowships in English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas/ The Rogers Fellowships is a competitive scholarship for students who have completed the B.A. and wish to move directly into a Ph.D. Program. It is funded by a very generous philanthropist, and these five-year fellowships will include two true, non-teaching fellowship years, three years with typical graduate-assistant teaching obligations, and annual stipends of $25,000.00., with all tuition and fees paid as well. During the three teaching years of our program, students will teach composition courses, world literature courses, and perhaps a course in their field during year five. We have purposefully kept our Ph.D. program small and selective, at about 20 students, offering very personalized attention for those candidates. Interested students need to file their applications by Feb. 15, 2007 and should visit our website at http://liberalarts.unlv.edu/English/ and follow the admissions guidelines for Ph.D. students. /CENTER FOR RACE AND GENDER: Undergraduate Grants Program /The Center for Race and Gender (CRG) at the University of California Berkeley, announces the availability of grants of $200 to $1,000 to fund undergraduates for research or creative projects that address issues of race and gender. Topics should be consonant with the CRG's mandate to promote increased understanding of race and gender and their intersections in a wide variety of social, cultural, and institutional contexts, especially on the Berkeley campus and its neighboring communities, but also in California, the nation, or the world. Projects may be oriented toward academic research or may approach race and gender issues from the perspectives of the media, fine arts, and performing arts. These grants are designed to provide Berkeley undergraduates with an opportunity to explore questions of interest to them via media of their choosing. ELIGIBILITY: Applications can be submitted by any Berkeley undergraduate not graduating at the end of the semester. Applications are particularly sought from students majoring in areas where race and gender issues have not previously been of major concern, such as Public Health, Education, Economics, Business, Journalism, Political Science, and Environmental Science, as well as areas where they have been more central. GRANT PERIOD AND USE OF FUNDS: Grants will be awarded for periods of up to six months from the start date. Funds may be used for direct costs related to the proposed project, such as travel to archival or ethnographic research sites; supplies and services, and equipment rental. Funds may not be used for equipment purchase, stipend, living expenses, conference attendance, or educational travel. Grant payments will be in the form of reimbursements for expenses. GRANTEE REPORTING: Grant recipients will be responsible for submitting a brief midterm report of their progress along with the faculty mentor's evaluation of the project's progress to date. Grant recipients are required to submit a final report within two weeks of the end of the grant period containing; 1) a statement of what was accomplished; and 2) the faculty mentor's evaluation of the project. Grant recipients will be asked to present their projects at a CRG Forum and their project description will appear in the Center's newsletter "Faultlines." APPLICATION PROCESS: PLEASE SUBMIT AN ORIGINAL AND TWO COPIES OF THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION, SINGLE SIDED, DO NOT STAPLE (FORMS AT http://crg.berkeley.edu ) ... Student Information and Agreement form ... Faculty Mentor Information and Agreement Form ... Letter of support from a faculty mentor ... 1-2 page project description ... Timeline for project completion ... Budget proposal To: Undergraduate Grants Program, Center for Race and Gender, 642 Barrows Hall, MC 1074, Berkeley, CA 94720-1074 APPLICATION DEADLINES: Spring 2007 deadline, March 7th, 3:00 p.m. Awards will be announced within two weeks of the deadline. INQUIRIES: Direct inquires to centerrg@berkeley.edu. *4. Internships and Volunteering * /Spring Credits, Summer Plans and other opportunities / Spring 2007 Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP) project listings with an extended deadline (February 2, 2007) are now available on our website at http://research.berkeley.edu/urap/projects/openlist.lasso. URAP provides the opportunity for undergraduate students to work with professors throughout campus on existing research projects. Projects are still available in a range of disciplines, from the humanities and social sciences to physical sciences. You can receive one to four units of academic credit for your participation in URAP. If you have any questions about the program or the application process, please contact Stefanie Ebeling, URAP Student Affairs Officer, at 643-5376, or by email at urap@learning.berkeley.edu. /WriterCoach Connection/ Help 7-9th graders develop their thinking and writing skills! Working right inside the English classes, we provide one-on-one assistance to all students in a class, allowing those who are more proficient to expand their knowledge and those who are struggling to get the extra help they need without stigmatizing them. Our three Berkeley and two Albany schools are filled with students from a variety of ethnicities and cultural backgrounds so our aim is to recruit a diverse group of Cal students as volunteers. We are currently recruiting for this semester. For a commitment of just two hours a week, a volunteer coach can make a big difference in a child's life and give him or her the confidence to succeed in school. WCC makes it easy to volunteer by providing a condensed 1.5-hour training for Cal students. We have three Cal trainings scheduled in the next few weeks (and another may be scheduled if needed): Cal-# 3 Tuesday 1/30/07 12:00-1:30 pm Students may register for the above trainings on our website: www.writercoachconnection.org (go to "Volunteer") or by responding to Minisha Trivedi (Cal Bonner Leader for WriterCoach Connection) minishatrivedi@berkeley.edu /Volunteer for Education Credits!/ LeConte Elementary in Berkeley is looking for volunteers for for its after-school program, Community Kidz. We need compassionate and enthusiastic volunteers to help our children with homework, to join in during play time, and to provide much needed adult attention and support to our K-5th students. There's no weekly class, and your time on site can earn you between 1 and 4 units! We are looking for group assistants, as well as people interested in one-on-one mentoring. We are also in need of Spanish speakers! Email danielled@berkeley.edu for more information. We hope you can join us! /Summer Reporting Internships/ Why make coffee when you can make headlines? IHS Journalism Internships begin with a weeklong workshop covering advanced journalism topics ranging from policy analysis to understanding statistics. After the workshop, interns spend eight weeks reporting at a daily paper. Interns typically walk away with 40 or more professional clips and invaluable contacts. Placements range from Orange County to New York City to the Mexican border. For more information about internship locations, visit www.TheIHS.org/journalism. Application Deadline: January 31, 2007 /Public Policy and Nonprofit Management Internships/ Spend the summer in Washington, DC, working with public policy or nonprofit management or work on public policy in your home state. In addition to internship placements at liberty-minded think tanks and organizations, the Charles G. Koch Summer Fellow Program offers intensive workshops for professional skills such as public speaking, conducting media briefings, and effective networking, as well as weekly sessions on current policies and how to analyze them. www.TheIHS.org/intern Application Deadline: January 31, 2007 /Production Internships in Broadcast Journalism and Film Production/ Positions vary by location, experience, and interests -- participants could spend the entire semester working part time at a major news network or spend ten intensive weeks shooting on-location for a feature film. We are particularly looking for rising seniors interested in spending the summer working in broadcast journalism for a major news network. www.TheIHS.org/production Application Deadline: March 1, 2007 /Seniors: Spend a year in Hunan, China with WorldTeach! /*About the China Year Program* We are moving into our fourth year partnering with the Hunan Department of Education in China, where we have sent over a hundred volunteers to teach English in the public schools of Hunan province. There is currently a huge demand for English teachers in China. In many parts of the country, only students from the most elite schools have the opportunity to learn English from a native speaker. The WorldTeach Hunan Program was established to bring volunteer English teachers to a broader range of students through the Province's public schools. Our partner generously subsidizes our volunteers, facilitating the participation of all qualified individuals. The program fee is $500 plus a $500 returnable deposit, which covers pre-departure information and preparation, round-trip international airfare from a US departure city, visa, intensive in-country orientation training, health insurance, meals and housing during orientation and throughout your teaching service, and 24 hour in-country support. Once in-country, the volunteers will also receive a monthly stipend of approximately $300USD. Please read more about our costs and services at http://www.worldteach.org/program_information/costs.html. More information about the China Year program can be found at: http://www.worldteach.org/programs/china_year/, or call 800-4-TEACH-0 to speak with a WorldTeach representative. *About WorldTeach* WorldTeach is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that provides opportunities for individuals to make a meaningful contribution to international education by living and working as volunteer teachers in developing countries. Based at the Center for International Development at Harvard University, WorldTeach offers the benefits of a well-established volunteer organization, while also providing more comprehensive, personalized support and training as a small NGO. In each of our programs, volunteers are placed in schools and host communities in developing countries that specifically request WorldTeach volunteers and would otherwise be unable to afford or locate qualified teachers. Volunteers receive training, language preparation, and field support, empowering them to make an impact that will last long after they leave. WorldTeach also offers programs in Chile, China, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guyana, Marshall Islands, Namibia, Pohnpei, Poland and South Africa. For specific information about each program, please visit our website at http://www.worldteach.org/. The website includes photos, past and present volunteer stories, the current application and departure dates and the first part of the Volunteer Application. ***Become a WorldTeach volunteer. Change the world, one student at a time.*** *5**. The Bulletin Board* /A Smattering of Postings / /A message from the Administrators /We're writing to remind you that this is the time each semester when we should all be making efforts to ensure that as many students as possible are officially registered. To be 'registered', a student must meet ALL of the following criteria each semester: 1. Enrollment in at least one course. 2. Registration fees paid, either in full or the first installment (20%). 3. No active registration blocks. Becoming officially registered now will provide you with many benefits, including access to campus services. It will also enable you to pick up your AC Transit Class Pass and fully utilize University Health Services. In addition, if you are not officially registered by Friday, February 2, you will be charged a Late Registration Fee of $150. You can obtain an Emergency Loan in an amount sufficient to become officially registered (if you are enrolled in classes and have no blocks). For more information, please see http://uga.berkeley.edu/fao/emergencyloans.html. If you need advice about financial aid, you should contact the Financial Aid Office at fao_ugr@berkeley.edu. To pay your fees, you can use the e-billing system available through Bear Facts (http://bearfacts.berkeley.edu). If you wish to pay your fees in person, you can do so at Billing and Payment Services, 140 University Hall. If you still need to enroll in classes, please use Tele-BEARS as soon as possible; waitlisted classes alone do not count towards becoming officially registered. If you are blocked, please see Bear Facts to determine which office has placed the block, and then clear the block with that office. If you do not wish to attend Berkeley this semester, please contact your college or school (undergraduates) or department office (graduates) to have your registration cancelled. /Xbox Job / Do you love magazines, websites, and writing? Do you consider yourself a gamer? Are you active in the videogame online community & forums? Do you know what all of these acronyms stand for: MMORPG, FPS, RTS, FFXI? Do you have aspirations to write about games for a living? Official Xbox Magazine is looking for an intern to help with covering games, interacting with the videogame online community, and basically doing anything from data entry to taking screenshots to actually writing about games. You'll be our jack of all trades -- which also includes playing unreleased games! This is a great opportunity to have fun and learn more about the videogame industry and publishing both in print and online mediums. We can work out a schedule based on your availability. NOTE: This position is unpaid, but we guarantee regular bylines and the chance to participate in the editorial brainstorming and planning process of a nationwide magazine. We're also willing to work with your college to arrange course credits. Requirements: - Need to have a positive, outgoing attitude. - Must have a talent for writing and some writing experience (unpublished is fine, but you must understand how to critique a product). - Must have strong videogame background and knowledge. - Must have strong time-management skills and understand how to be a self-starter. - Must be willing to work in a wacky, sometimes fast-paced, always geeky office environment. Email your writing samples and résumé to paul@officialxboxmagazine.com /Supreme Educational Services/ We are looking for well-qualified students who enjoy teaching and would like to tutor part-time, both during the summer and the school year. I founded this company while I was a graduate student, and the focus is kept on the tutors' flexibility and happiness. You can take on as many or as few students than you think you can handle. We even have some tutors who just have 2 students during the semester. You will always have the last say on whether you want to work with a particular student, and we try to preserve as much of your own teaching style as possible. Our starting pay for tutors is *$22 *an hour. We also offer additional compensation if your students are more than 6 miles away from campus, so you could make as much as $27 per hour. We try to provide in-home tutoring, if possible (about a 20 min radius around Berkeley is our typical area, so a car is helpful). In particular, we're looking for people who can go to Orinda and Moraga (just on the other side of the Caldecott tunnel) and San Francisco. You must be a U.S. Citizen or permanent resident to work for us. If this sounds interesting to you, please let me know so we can set up a meeting. I look forward to hearing from you. You can reach me by e-mail at atlee@supremetutors.com or by phone at 510 912-6773. Albert T. Lee Supreme Educational Services www.supremetutors.com /UC Students and Staff Participate in Research!!/ Berkeley Experimental Social Science Lab aka "XLab" Located at F310 Haas Participate in decision making experiments and Earn on average $15 per hourof participation. Join the subject pool and become informed about when experiments will take place. To register as a new participant, go to: http://xlab.sona-systems.com/ Visit our website for more information on the Xlab: http://xlab.berkeley.edu /VOLUNTEER WITH UCSF TO PROVIDE HEPATITIS B EDUCATION/ The San Francisco Hepatitis B Collaborative at Berkeley seeks UC Berkeley students or faculty interested in volunteering their time as translators to a UCSF medical school sponsored clinic in San Francisco Chinatown. On weekends, the permanent clinic functions as a center for Hepatitis B testing, vaccination, and education of the at risk Asian and Pacific Islander population in the Bay Area. Translators would be involved in communicating between UCSF medical students and their patients through basic intake and Hepatitis B education. We specifically need students who speak Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Korean, or Japanese fluently, although knowledge of medical terminology is not required. If you are interested in this public health opportunity, simply contact CalSFHBC@gmail.com with your name and the language in which you are fluent and we will contact you with the date of our first informational meeting in early February. Thank you! /Matchbox/ A UC-wide Literary arts magazine "Matchbox" based out of UC Santa Cruz, "Matchbox" wants YOUR WORK! If you have any questions or comments please email the Matchbox staff at matchboxmag@yahoo.com or can call (530)921-0128. /Summer Job with CTY/ WRITING TEACHING OPPORTUNITIES SUMMER 2007 Who: Johns Hopkins University - Center for Talented Youth We are seeking enthusiastic writing instructors and teaching assistants to instruct in our summer programs for gifted elementary, middle, and high school students. CTY offers intense, 3-week academic programs for highly talented students from across the country and around the world. Where: We have residential sites located in California, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. We have day sites for commuters located in the Baltimore/Washington, DC and Los Angeles, CA areas. When: Session 1: June 21 July 14 Session 2: July 14 August 4 Instructors and teaching assistants can work one or two sessions. Why: CTY staff work with exceptional students, make contacts and friendships with dynamic colleagues, and gain valuable teaching experience in a rigorous academic setting. Courses: CTY offers critical and creative writing courses ranging from Stories and Poems (2nd and 3rd grades) to The Critical Essay: Popular Culture (7th grade and above) to The Crafting of Fiction (7th grade and above). For a complete list of writing courses, including course descriptions and sample syllabi, please visit www.cty.jhu.edu/summer/employment/writing.html. New courses this year include Introduction to Creative Writing (7th grade and above) and The Graphic Novel (7th grade and above). Salary: Instructors start at $1,970 to $2,970 per 3-week session. Teaching assistants earn $1,050 per 3-week session. Room and board is provided at our residential sites. TO DOWNLOAD AN APPLICATION AND LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR PROGRAMS AND SITES: Please visit www.cty.jhu.edu/summer/employment, or contact us at (410) 735-6185 or ctysummer@jhu.edu. Johns Hopkins University is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. /Announcing New Poetry Writing Workshop in Europe, Summer 2007 /We are now offering 3 Summer Writing Workshops in Florence, Barcelona, and Dublin The workshops are taught by award winning authors, Patricia Foster and Kirpal Singh. Fiction Writing Workshop in Florence: July 13 - 22, 2007 Memoir Writing Workshop in Barcelona: July 21 - 30, 2007 Poetry Writing Workshop in Dublin: July 29 - August 7, 2007 Our Writing Workshops in Fiction, Memoir, and Poetry share in common a focus on the importance of the writer's journey and how to keep it vital and growing. We delve into our deepest emotions and insights and explore transformation, metaphor, and the innate structures of our writings. We learn from each other's writing and ideas in a supportive environment. We encourage risk-taking and experimentation. We examine how to listen to and distill our instinctive ideas, images and inspirations into language that is true to the core, into words that sing. All levels of writing experience are welcome. Workshops focus on writing exercises with some readings of master writers as a way to examine issues of craft. The atmosphere is non-competitive with a focus on freeing up your writing. We help make this possible through bringing down the walls of fear and anxiety that inhibit our imagination and tapping into the intelligent heart, the compass of our being. Our instructors are award winning writers who are also accomplished teachers in their disciplines. Poetry in Dublin: Our newly added Writing Workshop Instructor: K. Singh The Poetry Writing Workshop will take place in the most lyrical of cities, Dublin, a vibrant center of renowned museums and universities, lush green parks, and traditional Irish music. Ireland is famous for its writers, such as W. B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett. Here, poetry is literally the stuff of daily life! The workshop will explore techniques by which our poetic imaginations can be more fully made alive to the intense emotions, thoughts and dreams that lie within and without. We will stretch our creative musings with various exercises in imagery, sense perception, tone, and musicality. Each day there will be a theme which we will use to loosely focus our writing, such as nature, solitude, 'the moment', and Dublin, itself. At the end of the workshop we will each go away with a portfolio of at least 6 poems and a myriad of ways to bring forth your Muse! Fiction Writing Workshop in Florence Instructor: P. Foster The Fiction Writing Workshop will take place within the walls of the old city, home of Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and Botticelli. Florence is also the setting of Bruneleschi's Duomo which revolutionized architecture and the Uffizi Gallery which contains masterpieces of Renaissance art. In this class we will look at how to create characters whose desires compel us. We will do writing exercises that will stretch our literary muscles, helping us create characters who emerge from the particularity of our experience as well as characters who emerge solely from our imagination. Memoir Writing Workshop in Barcelona Instructor: P. Foster The Memoir Writing Workshop will take place near Paseo de Gracia, a tree-lined street with some of the finest modernist architecture in this fascinating city, which inspired Gaudi, Picasso, Dali, and Miro. Barcelona also has a beautiful beach/restaurant area in which to walk, sunbathe, or swim. Seaside resorts are only a 30 minute train ride away. What we'll try to do in this workshop is find that deeper story, engage that secret self. Getting to that place of inner clarity will not be the same for everyone, but for everyone, exploration is the point. We will do exercises to jump-start our memories, to discover vivid detail in ordinary moments, and to create a narrative "I." Most importantly, we will do writing exercises designed to find the emblematic moments in our lives. Class size is limited. Reserve your space in advance. Classes meets 3.5 hours per day. You can obtain 3 University credits for taking any of these workshops. Contact us for details. Pricing: Fiction Writing Workshop in Florence: From $1,750 (including tuition and 9 night accommodations). Memoir Writing Workshop in Barcelona: From $1,850 (including tuition and 9 night accommodations). Poetry Writing Workshop in Dublin: From $2,200 (including tuition and 9 night accommodations). SPECIAL OFFER $100 off Early Registration (offer good until 1/15/2007) Patricia Foster (Fiction and Memoir) is the author of All the Lost Girls (memoir), Just Beneath My Skin (personal essays; starred review from Kirkus Reviews) and the editor of Minding the Body and Sister to Sister. She won the PEN/Jerard Fund Award, the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award, the Hoepfner Award, and the Dean's Scholar Award for nonfiction, received a Florida Arts Council Award, the Lake Effect Fiction Award, and a Yaddo Fellowship for fiction as well as four Alabama Arts & Humanities grants. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times Book Review, Atlanta Journal & Constitution, Vogue, Chronicle for Higher Education, Glamour, Ploughshares as well as other newspapers and journals. She's published both nonfiction and fiction in the Iowa Review, Gettysburg Review, Antioch Review, Massachusetts Review, Glimmer Train and other quarterlies. She received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and her Ph.D. from Florida State University. She is a professor in the MFA Program in Nonfiction at the University of Iowa and has been an exchange professor in France. Kirpal Singh (Poetry) is a poet whose work is featured in the forthcoming Norton Anthology of Asian Verse. Singh is the Editor of the forthcoming Penguin Book of Southeast Asian Verse and numerous other writing collections. He is the author of 4 books of poetry, his latest, Nestled Dreams: Poems of Love is due out in Spring 2007. Singh, a recipient of numerous writing awards, has given readings of his work at Literature & Arts Festivals all over the world, including The Edinburgh, Cambridge, York, Adelaide, Toronto, Sydney, Festivals. He has taught poetry writing and fiction workshops at the university level for over 25 years. He has given lectures and served as Visiting Poet at universities in Japan, Hong Kong, Australia, Canada, UK, USA, India, Pty8jfhchrs, Mexico, Germany, Italy, France, Indonesia, Malaysia, Latvia, and Hungary. In many of these countries Kirpal has also conducted Poetry Workshops. In 1997 he was Distinguished International Writer at the world-famous University of Iowa International Writing Program. His poems have been translated in ten different languages and published all over the world . Many of his poems have been dramatized and/or set to music. In his other life, Kirpal has a PHD in English literature and is known internationally as a scholar in Post-Colonial and Asian Literature. He is Professor at the Singapore Management University, where he teaches creative thinking. This year he is a visiting writer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, teaching poetry writing. For more information: http://creatingandexploring.net/writing 1-866-217-1980 (Toll-Free) 1-212-922-1555 contact@creatingandexploring.net ------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS: 1. Research Workshops A & B and Information Sessions for SURF and URAP 2. Research Program Deadlines for EARLY SPRING 3. Preview of Deadlines for MID to LATE SPRING ------------------------------------------------------ 1. Research Workshops A & B and Information Sessions for SURF and URAP: Workshop B Writing a Research Proposal (you should come with a specific topic in mind, since you will be guided through the writing of a first draft of the proposal during the workshop; science/engineering students should already be in a lab.). All sessions in 344 Campbell Hall Tuesday, 1/30 3:30-5 Wednesday, 2/7 3:30-5 PM Tuesday, 2/13 12:30-2 PM Friday, 2/23 4-5:30 PM Detailed info on "Getting started in undergraduate research" and "How to Write a Research Proposal" workshops can be seen at this link: http://research.berkeley.edu/haas_scholars/schedule.html ---------------- The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program (SURF): The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program (SURF) is designed to allow Berkeley undergraduates in the College of Letters and Science to spend the summer doing concentrated research in preparation for a senior thesis or another major capstone research project. In Summer 2007 fellows will receive a $3000 summer stipend, which is intended to cover basic living expenses for two months. Students with need-based financial aid may be eligible for additional funds. 2007 SURF INFORMATION SESSIONS: a basic question and answer session about the SURF program and the application process. Don't wait! It is to your advantage to come to an early session so you can map out your application tasks. The deadline is March 23rd. All sessions in 344 Campbell Hall: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 4:15-5:00 PM http://research.berkeley.edu/surf --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. RESEARCH PROGRAM DEADLINES FOR EARLY SPRING For OFF-CAMPUS research opportunities for the summer see http://research.berkeley.edu/summer3.html as well as the other links in the "Summer Research Opportunities Beyond Berkeley" section of the research@berkeley web site: http://research.berkeley.edu/ 01-31-07 deadline. UC LEADS: Math, Engineering, and Science Research Program Amount: $4,500 UCB summer; $3,500 other UC summer. Program especially aimed at students who have experienced ed. disadvantages, broadly defined. For math, science and engineering; considering PhD at a UC; apply as soph. or junior; UCB and other UC students may apply. Student works one summer at a UCB lab, one summer at a lab at another UC. Participates in state symposium, GRE prep. 6 participants. http://research.berkeley.edu/otheropps/UCLeads/UCLeads.html 01-31-07 deadline. SUPERB: Summer Undergraduate Program in Engineering Research at Berkeley, and SUPERB-IT $3,750+rm.+bd. Non-traditional underrepresented students in the fields of engineering including low-income and first generation college students. Most participants will be non-UCB students as required by NSF/other funding sources. For Engineering students, 3.0+ gpa with upward trend; for summer before last semester or last two semesters. National program for 8-weeks; 2 mentors for students in engineering labs-- grad student and faculty; grad school prep. 20-25 participants, most non-UCB. http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/cues/superb/index.html 01-31-07 estimated deadline. VIGRE Program Amount: $187.50-$375/month. Students are expected to work 5-10 hrs/wk. Student should have statistics skills, but not necessarily stat major; must be US citizen or perm. resident. Apprenticeship w/ faculty in Statistics dept. 5-7 participants/semester http://stat-www.berkeley.edu/users/vigre/ 01-31-07 deadline. CENTER FOR BRITISH STUDIES UNDERGRADUATE SUMMER RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP Amount: $2,500. Fellowship is to support advanced research in, or about, Britain. Usually for juniors or seniors; proposed research must be part of broader course of study supervised by a faculty member. 1 participant. http://ies.berkeley.edu/cbs/grants.html#cfbsusrf 02-01-07 deadline AMGEN SCHOLARS PROGRAM For students in biological sciences. Recipients receive $3,500, will attend weekly seminars, prepare a poster presentation, and participate in symposia and a Journal Club. Requires 3.2 gpa. http://amgenscholars.berkeley.edu/ 02-01-07 deadline. SROP: Summer Research Opportunities Program (Graduate Division) Amount: $3,000 + rm. + bd. For citizens or perm residents only; both UCB and non-UCB students may apply. Special consid. given for students with financial and/or educational disadvantages, 3.0 GPA; grad 12/06 or later. Program matches students w/faculty mentors; weekly meetings, workshops, GRE prep. 16-20 participants (2-4 from UCB) http://www.grad.berkeley.edu/gop/srop.shtml 02-01-07 deadline. SULTAN UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP FUND FOR ARAB STUDIES Amount: up to $2,000. To support research on topics related to Arab Studies. Applicants must be enrolled in Fall 2007. Funds can support research or conf. travel, overseas or summer Arabic language study, or internships. 1-3 participants/year. http://www.ias.berkeley.edu/cmes/programs_files/programs_sultan.html 02-02-07 deadline. PHYSICS UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOLARS PROGRAM Amount: $500. Only declared physics majors may apply. no Apprenticeship; Students must turn in "deliverable" in May to receive stipend. 20 http://research.berkeley.edu/otheropps/physicsunder.html 02-02-07 deadline. LESLIE LIPSON SCHOLARSHIP AND PRIZE PROGRAM Provides $4,000 research funds. Projects must related to humanistic values and their implementation; apply soph. year To win research grant, must win one of the essay prizes. Funds independent research or creative project. Up to 5 participants/year. http://students.berkeley.edu/fao/prizes/Lipson/default.html 02-05-07 deadline. ROSBERG-GEIST U.GRAD RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP FOR TRAVEL TO AFRICA Amount: $3,000. Students with training in African studies and foreign languages, particularly African languages, will be given priority. For current UC Berkeley Undergraduate Students with an interest in Africa who will be registered during the 2007-2008 academic year. Fellowships of up to $3,000 are available to defray the costs of travel to Africa to conduct research focused on Africa-related topics. 2 participants. http://ias.berkeley.edu/africa/fellowships/Geist/UGtravel.htm 02-10-07 deadline. QB3 UNDERGRADUATE BIOTECH INTERNSHIPS Competitive full-time salaries for 10 wks. For students interested in quantitative biomedical research; no seniors; bio/chem lab experience. Applicants must have completed one semester at UCB, 3.2 gpa; requires 2 recs, 1 from a UCB prof. Provides interdisciplinary biomedical research and development internships in local biotech companies, full-time, 10 wks of summer. 15-20 participants. http://www.qb3.org/intern.htm 02-15-07 deadline. NSF Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program in Cell, Developmental, and Evolutionary Biology -- APPRENTICESHIP. Amount: $3,500 + rm. and board at UCB for 10 weeks of the summer. 10-wk. summer program to expose participants to core concepts of Cell, Developmental and Evolutionary Biology. 21 participating faculty provide broad range of research options. Students gain first-hand research experience and training, working on individual projects. Students from underrepresented minority groups, economically disadvantaged backgrounds, or who are the first generation in their families to attend college are especially encouraged to apply. 12 participants; most will be non-UCB students as mandated by NSF. http://mcb.berkeley.edu/nsfreu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. RESEARCH PROGRAM DEADLINES FOR MID- TO LATE SPRING Deadline: Usually around 4th wk of semester, but soft deadline. HISTORY TRAVEL GRANT Amount: up to $600. http://research.berkeley.edu/otheropps/HistTravel.html 02-28-07 deadline. UCDC Internship in Washington, DC; no funding provided. -Information sessions begin in late January - contact program coordinator. http://learning.berkeley.edu/ucdc/program.htm 02-28-07 deadline. CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS Amount: $3,500. http://www.hrcberkeley.org/fellowships/index.html 03-?-06 estimated deadline. BERKELEY SUMMER BIOENGINEERING RESEARCH PROGRAM (APPRENTICESHIP) Amount: $3,000. http://bioeng.berkeley.edu/bsbrp/ 03-?-2007; April, 2007. BIOLOGY FELLOWS PROGRAM Amount: $1500 ac. year, $3500 summer. http://research.berkeley.edu/Biology_Fellows/BFP.html 03-01-07 deadline. JUDITH LEE STRONACH BACCALAUREATE PRIZE (FOR AFTER GRADUATION) Amount: up to $25,000. http://ls.berkeley.edu/StronachPrize/ 03-02-07 deadline. CENTER FOR LATINO POLICY RESEARCH MINI-GRANT Amount: $250-$750. http://clpr.berkeley.edu/pages/aboutus/programs/minigrant.html 03-05-07 deadline. HAAS SCHOLARS PROGRAM (ALL MAJORS) Amount: $12,600. http://research.berkeley.edu/haas_scholars/ 03-07-06 3 PM deadline. CENTER FOR RACE AND GENDER Amount: $200-$1,000. http://crg.berkeley.edu/programs/grants/grants.html 03-17-07, 3pm estimated deadline. SUMMER UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROGRAM (SURP) -- APPRENTICESHIP http://mcb.berkeley.edu/groups/SURP/ 03-23-07 deadline. SURF: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (L&S) http://research.berkeley.edu/surf/ 04-01-07 estimated deadline. GROUP Summer Research Apprenticeships (Townsend Center, HUMANITIES/SOC.SCI.) Amount: $2,500. http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/groupapprentices.shtml 04-03-07 estimated deadline. CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF PEACE AND WELL-BEING UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS Amount: $3,000. http://peacecenter.berkeley.edu/research_fellowships.html 04-04-07 deadline. DAVID SCHOLARS PROGRAM Amount: $20,500. http://research.berkeley.edu/david/index.html 04-30-07 deadline. 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