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*The English Undergraduate Association Newsletter* Weekly News For UC Berkeley's English Undergrads 2/06/07 /In this week's issue:/ * **1. EUA**: Picnic *//Lawn in front of California Hall. 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*** Picnic **//Lawn in front of California Hall. Tuesday 5:15-6:00// To enjoy the beautiful weather (and hopefully we'll have it on Tuesday), we are picnicking on the lawn in front of California Hall, the VLSB side. Theme: Teddybear's Picnic. *2. Goings-On About Town* /A Heads-Up on Cultural Events/ /Cal Literary Arts Magazine Fall '06 Issue Release Party /Come and celebrate the release of CLAM's premiere Fall 2006 issue Thursday evening, February 8th at 7pm in the Heller Lounge! A night of creative fusion packed with live music, student films, and poetry readings from the authors will be enjoyed over Napa's favorite beverages and cheese. A donation of 3$ gets you a copy of the magazine, food, beverages and delightful entertainment while supporting the arts and contributing to publishing student talent! So eat, drink and mingle with fellow English majors (we're the hottest of departments) See you there! http://berkeley.facebook.com/event.php?eid=2231682535&ref=mf /Hip-Hop/ The first general meeting of the Spring semester for the Hip-Hop studies working group will take place on Thursday, February 8th from 10am-12noon in 652 Barrows Hall (The African American Studies Conference room) on the campus of UC Berkeley. Funded by the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, this interdisciplinary working group will bring together faculty, graduate students and undergraduates from all corners of the UC-Berkeley intellectual community, who are currently or considering doing research on Hip-Hop music and culture. This semester, in April, we'll welcome our first speaker to campus, UCLA Professor of Anthropology, H. Samy Alim, author of Roc the Mic Right: The Language of Hip Hop Culture (Routledge, 2006), Tha Global Cipha: Hip Hop Culture and Consciousness (with James Spady and Samir Meghelli Black History Museum Press, 2006) and You Know My Steez: An Ethnographic and Sociolinguistic Study of Styleshifting in a Black American Speech Community (Duke University Press, 2004). At our first meeting of this semester we'll cover some of the logistics of the Alim visit and have a discussion of selected readings on the topic of Authenticity in Hip-Hop music and culture. If you have any additional questions, would like copies of the readings for this meeting or if you cannot make this meeting, please e-mail Michael Barnes at: mpbarnes@berkeley.edu to be placed on our mailing list. /In conjunction with Measure of Time, on view through June 2007 Gallery Talk Bill Berkson The Poetry of Time in Modern Art/ Sunday, February 11, 3 p.m. Gallery 6 Kicking off our third semester of public programs for Measure of Time will be a very special gallery talk by San Francisco-based poet, critic, essayist, and teacher Bill Berkson. Addressing works in the exhibition by David Ireland, Jay DeFeo, and Jackson Pollock, among others, he will consider how these artists treated temporality, duration, and related concerns in their work. A gifted storyteller, Berkson has been active in the art and literary worlds since the late 1950s. He has written extensively on such artists as Hans Hofmann, Willem de Kooning, Pollock, Alex Katz, Jasper Johns, and Yvonne Jacquette. His recent books of poetry include Fugue State, Hymns of St. Bridget & Other Writings with Frank O'Hara, and Gloria. A collection of his criticism, The Sweet Singer of Modernism & Other Art Writings: 1985-2003, appeared in 2004. Berkson was the 2006 Distinguished Mellon Fellow at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and he is professor of liberal arts at the San Francisco Art Institute. Public programs are included with museum admission. /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> 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. GUEST LECTURE BY PROFESSOR HINSHAW "Stigma of Mental Illness--Why Does it Still Exist?" Monday, Feb. 12, 6-7pm, in 3105 Tolman (Beach Room) Golden Key Honour Society invites you to our special honorary member lecture, presented by Professor Hinshaw, professor and chair in the Psychology Department. Dr. Hinshaw was recently featured in the front-page article of the Berkeleyan for his book on how mental illness is viewed in modern society. We encourage you to join us in our open event on Monday, Feb. 12, from 6-7pm in 3105 Tolman to hear more on the subject. Thank you! -- *Monica Chen and Anne Bozack* UC Berkeley Golden Key International Honour Society 2006-2007 Co-Presidents goldenkey@berkeley.edu www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~goldkey www.goldenkey.org *3**. Want Money? */Scholarships and contests/ ATTENTION ALL SCREENWRITERS AND PLAYWRIGHTS LAUNCH YOUR WRITING CAREER IN FILM, TELEVISION AND THEATER THROUGH THE SAMUEL GOLDWYN WRITING AWARDS! It's a writing competition just for YOU -- open only to undergraduate and graduate UC students. Rorri Feinstein, of the Samuel Goldwyn Foundation, will guest lecture on Friday, February 9 from 3:00 - 5:00PM in the Nestrick Room, 142 Dwinelle Hall. She will give an overview of the Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards, discuss the development process and give students an opportunity to practice pitching their projects. There will also be a Q&A session. Rorri has been running the Writing Awards since 2000 and has her M.F.A. from UCLA. The mission of the Samuel Goldwyn Awards is to champion talentedwriters and give them that first break that leads to a writing career. Let Rorri inspire you to finish your projects and enter the competition! For all those interested in practicing to pitch a story idea to Rorri, please contact J. Mira Kopell (Film Studies) to apply for the opportunity. Her email is jmkopell@sbcglobal.net /2007 Writing Competition/Scholarship - Gradware/ Gradware is sponsoring its first annual 2007 College Essay Scholarship: Digital Dorm Room of the Future (deadline: Mar. 16th) Some details about the scholarship: http://www.gradware.com/EssayScholarship.asp 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. INQUIRIES: Direct inquires to centerrg@berkeley.edu. *4. Internships and Volunteering * /Spring Credits, Summer Plans and other opportunities / /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. 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! /Children in the local Berkeley Community need you!/ Kidz Club at Washington Elementary is part of a Cal Corps organization that seeks volunteers to help K-5th grade students achieve a higher quality education. Our mission is to 1) build community through increased adult involvement and 2) improve academic skills and enrichment through direct service. You can choose to volunteer as a teacher assistant in the classroom (duties/tasks vary according to the needs of the teacher), and/or volunteer in our after school program that provides one-on-one tutoring, homework help and recreational/playground activities for our students. We are a flexible program that runs all day from 8:15 am 6 pm, Monday through Friday. We only ask that you dedicate a minimum of one hour per week. Teacher assistant positions run from 8:15 am - 2:15 pm, and after school programs are from 2:30-6:00. We can accommodate your schedule and available times. You can also earn units through Education 97/197 or Ethnic Studies 97/197. Also, we are conveniently located walking distance from Cal at 2300 Martin Luther King Way! We welcome all years and all majors. And if you may have interested friends, encourage them to apply! If you are interested in volunteering please fill-out the attached application and send it to cdiera@berkeley.edu or drop it off at the Cal Corps office at 505 Eshleman. We will contact you ASAP. Or, if you have further questions please direct them to cdiera@berkeley.edu /Want to be a kid again? Why not hang out with one? /By volunteering at Emerson Elementary School, you can... -tutor a student one-on-one! -assist a teacher in the classroom! -help out in the afterschool arts and sports programs! You can volunteer anytime, from M-F, 8am-5pm, for only one hour per week! You can even earn up to 2 units of academic credit! Emerson Elementary is located on 2800 Forest Ave, Berkeley, which is just a few blocks south of UC Berkeley. For more information, or to jump into this exciting opportunity to work with children, please contact us at (510) 883-5247 or emersonmentor@yahoo.com /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 *Twelve months.* *Four Boston teenagers. * *One dream:College Success.* *MATCH Corps: An Urban Education Fellowship in Boston, MA* MATCH Corps <http://www.matchschool.org/WhoWeAre/matchcorps.php> is an urban education service year program: committed individuals make a yearlong commitment to public service in exchange for a modest stipend and housing. Each Corps members is assigned four urban high school students - one each in grades 9, 10, 11, and 12 - to build an in-depth relationship for the entire year, and work towards clear goals, in their various classes and on key exams like MCAS, SAT, and AP. The program is an ambitious, intensive, one-on-one tutoring program designed to fully close the Achievement Gap between minority and non-minority students, and between economically disadvantaged students and their more advantaged peers. MATCH Corps Fellows share a relentless commitment to improving American education, *one student at a time. *MATCH Corps Fellows manifest their drive and dedication to service as they work one-on-one with the same four students each day for an entire year; assist teachers and school administrators; and run electives, clubs, or sports programs. For more information visit us at www.matchschool.org <http://www.matchschool.org/> or send inquiries to recruiting@matchschool.org /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. 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/ From the Administrators: Now is the time to double check that you are enrolled in the courses you want and have dropped the courses you do not. *February 16th* is the course drop deadline; add deadline for all classes, deadline to change from P/NP to letter grade /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 /Theory /"Theory" is a general interest scientific magazine that hopes to provide an easily accessible and widely appealing medium through which anyone may learn of the latest breakthroughs in science, irrespective of scientific background. We have a specific emphasis on research being conducted in labs here at Berkeley. At the moment, "Theory" is looking to find undergraduate science majors interested in writing or graphic design. I was hoping that you would be able to forward a message to the students in the English major informing them of this great opportunity. As "Theory" is an extremely young publication, having just started last year, publicizing opportunities to get involved in the magazine to a wide audience is still an obstacle that we are struggling with. However, I genuinely believe that there are a great many undergraduates here at Berkeley who would love to write for a magazine such as "Theory" if they simply heard about it. At any rate, please let me know what you think, and I will send you our short informational/recruitment message if you think that this would be ok. If you are interested, you can view the last edition of Theory here: http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~ugsa/theory.htm. /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! /The IAJ /is looking for quality academic papers written by current undergraduate and graduate students. The International Affairs Journal at UC Davis is comprised of articles and research by students with a range of multidisciplinary perspectives on issues of concern in the international arena. Articles are intended for an educated, yet multidisciplinary audience, and thus highly technical locution and equations are discouraged. We are committment to offering publishing opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate students. To that end, we strongly encourage undergraduate students to submit papers to the IAJ. The IAJ is published quarterly, and accepts articles from undergraduate and graduate students from any accredited university in the world. While each issue has a Forum where articles on ALL subjects are welcome, the IAJ also provides the opportunity for authors to explore a particular "Regional Spotlight." See below to find out the Regional Spotlight for coming issues. Spring 2007 Deadline: March 1st Regional Spotlight: South-East Asia and the Pacific A $10 submission fee will be charged for paper submissions. Exemptions based on special financial situations will be taken into consideration on a case-by-case basis. Earnings from the submission fee go entirely towards defraying the cost of publication. We are a non-profit, all-volunteer staff. There are no paid positions with the IAJ. Article Criteria: - Articles on all topics relating to international affairs. - 3-10 pages, single-spaced, 12 point Times New Roman font. Page count includes body as well as endnotes - Citing and bibliographies are a must. Please use APA Formatting and Citation. Consult dianahacker.com for help with citations. - Include cover letter with the title, author's name, email, short bio (4-5 sentences) and brief abstract. - Authors must be full time students. Articles may be submitted within one term past graduation. - Articles by multiple authors are accepted, and authors may submit as many articles they wish. (A maximum of only one article will be published per author per issue.) - All submissions must be original. Articles must not have been previously published in any journal or other publication. - Dividing the papers into sections with titles is recommended. To submit, please send your article to ucdiaj@ucdavis.edu. If your article meets the guidelines above, then you will be sent the $10 submission bill via email. Authors will be informed no later than a month after the listed deadline if their submission has been selected for publishing. -- International Affairs Journal University of California, Davis http://iaj.ucdavis.edu ------------------------------------------------------ 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 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- *Prizes for undergraduates' students creative work administered by the financial aid office in film, prose, poetry, music composition and photography http://students.berkeley.edu/fao/Scholarships/default.htm *Prizes for Art Practice and Theater are administered by those departments. *Beinecke Scholarship ($32,000 for MFA or PhD in Arts, Humanities, or Social Science: requires financial need; deadline Feb. 15) http://scholarships.berkeley.edu/p-beinecke.html *Haas Scholars Program ($12,600 for a creative project, or research: eligibility = 3.5 UCB GPA, graduating F'07 or Spr/summer '08; financial aid -- deadline March 5, 2007). http://research.berkeley.edu/haas_scholars/ *SURF: $3,000 for L&S students with 3.0+ gpa, to cover research component of a creative project (or simply a research project). http://research.berkeley.edu/surf/index.html *Stronach: for after graduation, up to $25,000 for research or creative project for the public good, for UCB students graduating between (and including) summer 2006 and summer 2007. http://ls.berkeley.edu/StronachPrize/ *Many other external scholarships for students in the arts, linked to http://scholarships.berkeley.edu/ (Click on "search data base" then "search by type of award and eligibility criteria" then click on discipline = arts/humanities. ). About 200 scholarships come up, among them ones that are specifically for those seeking a career in the arts. You can also sign up for the listserv to be notified of deadlines as they approach. 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/ 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 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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