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*The English Undergraduate Association Newsletter* Weekly News For UC Berkeley's English Undergrads 4/2/07 /In this week's issue:/ ****1. EUA* Meeting **//The Lounge, 330 Wheeler, Tues 5:15-6:00 / / *2. Goings-On About Town* /A Heads-Up on Cultural Events/ *3. *Get Published* *//Scholarships and contests// *4. Summer Plans, Internships and Volunteering* Summer programs 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 Meeting **The Lounge, 330 Wheeler, Tues 5:15-6:00 // Welcome back from Spring Break. In other words, Crunch Time! *Department Info*: Dear English Majors, The date of the English Department's commencement is Sunday, May 13th, 2007 at 3 pm. Commencement information is available on the English Department's web site: http://english.berkeley.edu/commencement/ I will begin processing the degree list soon, please be sure your contact information is current in Bearfacts in case I need to contact you. Feel free to stop by for a quick major check. Now is the time to take care of having courses outside the department or from study abroad approved. Sincerely, Ken Mahru Undergraduate Adviser English *From the EUA*: We will need 6 (non-graduating) volunteers to help out with the commencement. We need people to take tickets, hand out programs, and guard the back stage. This is a great way to help the department and see the commencement for free. Please help! Respond either to Ken at kenmahru@berkeley.edu, or to us, berkeley.eua@gmail.com. *2. Goings-On About Town* /A Heads-Up on Cultural Events/ Frame by Frame: Avant-Garde Film Preservation The need to preserve our film heritage is now widely accepted, and attention has been increasingly focused on avant-garde films, newsreels, home movies, and other less visible components of film culture. Pacific Film Archives's exhibition program has long benefited from being able to present films that PFA has preserved, important works by film artists from the Bay Area and beyond. During the month of April, they will feature four programs of recent preservations of avant-garde films by colleagues. An archivist will be in person at each program to introduce an array of rare, long unavailable, and classic films, all in new prints, and to discuss the issues, questions, and challenges, they face. In addition Bill Brand will host a workshop for artists on how safeguard one's own films. Presented with the support of the Consortium for the Arts. All events listed below are at Pacific Film Archive, admission: $8/$5/$4, unless otherwise noted. For full film notes and details, please visit http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/pfa_programs/index.html Anthology Film Archives: Recent Preservations Andrew Lampert in person April 3, 7:30pm A longtime pillar of the New York City and international arts community, Anthology Film Archives is perhaps most known for its Essential Cinema series, a 330-title repertory screening cycle devoted to avant-garde and independent film classics. This night's mostly silent, genre-hopping program gathers together a wide selection of aesthetic approaches and varieties of personal expression. From a 35mm animation by Harry Smith and the earliest 8mm work of George Landow to a newly discovered short by Marie Menken, the exquisitely photographed images of Hilary Harris and a stunning new print of Carolee Schneemann's landmark Fuses, this show includes many prints that can usually only be seen at Anthology. A Self Preservation Workshop for Film/Video Makers Bill Brand in person April 10, 6pm Drawing on his and Toni Treadway's recent article, "A Self-Preservation Guide for Film/Video-Makers," Brand will talk about how artists can implement simple steps to take better archival care of their films and videos. Copies of Anthology Film Archives's Results You Can't Refuse: Celebrating 30 Years of BB Optics, edited by Andrew Lampert, which includes the article, will be available for purchase and for signing by Brand. BB Optics: Optical Printing and Preservation Work Bill Brand in person April 10, 7:30pm For the last thirty years, Bill Brand has been an artist and an archivist, making films while also doing highly regarded optical printing and preservation work for filmmakers as well as institutions under the name BB Optics. This night's program features an array these projects, including a number of his blowups from super 8 to 16mm. New Left Note marries Saul Levine's two driving pursuits, political activism and experimental filmmaking. The Fallen World by Marjorie Keller and Daffodils by Katy Martin are both intimate portraits of their husbands. Fire in my Belly, an incomplete work by David Wojnarowicz that was preserved through the efforts of the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, and Home Avenue by Jennifer Montgomery are seething portrayals of sexuality and violence. Robert Huot's Black and White Film is an elegant study of the female figure. UCLA Film & Television Archive: Anger Rising: The Restoration of Works by Kenneth Anger Ross Lipman in person April 17, 7:30pm Cult icon Kenneth Anger is a unique figure in film history in that his works show a deep investment in both Hollywood and avant-garde cinema, and are celebrated in fine art contexts as well as the low-budget underground. The restorationist approaching his films faces the challenge of simultaneously addressing all these distinct legacies. The challenge is heightened by Anger's careful but varying use of color, his emulation of silent film techniques, his technical experimentations, and his use of pirated recordings. This screening presents new 35mm prints of four of Anger's most famous films: Fireworks, Rabbit's Moon, Scorpio Rising,and Kar Kommandos. Ross Lipman, who restored the films, will also present an illustrated lecture detailing how each title's complex production history played an integral role in its preservation, including a discussion of Anger's career-long fascination with revising his older works. Academy Film Archive: Recent Preservations Mark Toscano in person April 24, 7:30pm Located in the heart of Hollywood, the Academy Film Archive collects, preserves, and restores an extremely wide variety of motion pictures, including features (big studio and independent), animated shorts, documentaries, government films, silents, home movies, and experimental films. In this last category, the Academy has made substantial progress over the past decade. This program will look at experimental films preserved by the Academy within the past year or so, with a special focus on Los Angeles artists. Abstract works from the Whitney brothers and Pat O'Neill will commingle with more conceptual and dryly humorous pieces by Morgan Fisher, Roberta Friedman and Grahame Weinbren. The program will conclude with a new restoration of a film by Stan Brakhage, whose more than 350 works are currently being preserved by the Academy in a long-term project that promises to present its own brand of unique archival challenges. The UC-Berkeley Hip-Hop Studies Working Group presents: "Rhythm, Rhyme and Representation: A Community Discussion on Hip-Hop & Gender" April 2nd and April 3rd, 2007 at the University of California, Berkeley. On April 3rd, from 6-8pm, at Pauley Ballroom (East) in the MLK Student Union Center (Intersection of Telegraph Ave. & Bancroft Way), we will host, "Does Hip-Hop Hate Women?" A Panel Discussion. The goals this townhall style meeting conducted by leading hip-hop intellectuals and activists is to help youth and the greater community think through the range of issues associated with gender & Hip-Hop, place on the table the tensions and animosities between young men and women that some hip-hop music exacerbates, and finally, present the community with viable strategies to implement in their personal lives and organizations. This panel features Bakari Kitwana (co-founder of the National Hip-Hop Political Convention and the author of The Hip-Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture), Joan Morgan (author of the groundbreaking When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: My Life as a Hip-Hop Feminist), Mark Anthony Neal (author of four books including New Blackman), Yo-yo (A Grammy nominated recording artist and actress), Davey D (Hip-Hop Historian, Journalist and founder of Breakdown FM) and is hosted by Erinn Ransom (Hip-Hop Studies Working Group). This panel is also scheduled to speak at Spelman College, Vanderbilt University, UCLA, University of Chicago and other prominent universities and colleges this Spring. Co-sponsored by The Townsend Center for the Humanities, KQED Community Engagement, The Center for Race and Gender, the Consortium for the Arts, the Beatrice Bain Research Group and the Gender and Women's Studies Department. For more information please contact: hiphopworkinggroup@lists.berkeley.edu *3**. Get Published */Scholarships and contests/ Because some students received late notification, we are extending the deadline to apply for the Cinematic and Literary Traditions of Liberty workshop by one week. We will consider any applications submitted by April 6. This year's workshop will be held at UCLA, July 7-13. The cost of participation, including housing, meals, and books, is free. More information is available at www.TheIHS.org/1984. Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular is pleased to announce its fourth annual summer fellowship program to take place June 18-22, 2007 at the University of Southern California's Institute for Multimedia Literacy. We are seeking proposals for projects related to upcoming issues devoted to the themes of Reading (vol. 4 no. 1) and Noise (vol. 4 no. 2). Vectors publishes work which need necessarily exist online, ranging from archival to experimental projects. We invite you to consider submitting an application or to circulate this email to your peers and graduate students. Vectors' fellows not only attend our summer workshop but also have the opportunity to work over several months with a world-class design team in realizing the scholar's vision for online scholarship. You may download the Call For Proposals for the 2007 Vectors Summer Fellowships here: http://www.vectorsjournal.org/pdf/VectorsCFP2007.pdf Please feel free to circulate this document widely. Completed proposals are due by April 15, 2007. Best wishes, Tara McPherson & Steve Anderson http://www.vectorsjournal.org Do you write? Draw? Paint? The Cal Literary Arts Magazine (CLAM) is currently accepting submissions for its Spring 2007 issue! CLAM is a student-run, student-published biannual journal of the arts. We publish student writing (poetry, prose, short fiction, short non-fiction), photography, and other visual artwork. Submissions are reviewed anonymously by student peers. As we only accept submissions from the UC Berkeley Undergraduate and Graduate student body, we are a one of a kind opportunity on this campus for publication. All submissions should be e-mailed to clam.submissions@gmail.com. If you can't send it to us digitally, feel free to contact us for other arrangements. The deadline for the Spring 2007 issue of CLAM is April 4th. We can't wait to see your stuff! P.S. The journal (Fall 2006 issue) is currently available at the ASUC Bookstore and by online/mail-order. For any further questions/comments/concerns, visit our website at ocf.berkeley.edu/~clam. *4. Summer Plans, Internships and Volunteering * /Summer programs and other opportunities/ *JusticeCorps* is an AmeriCorps program that is currently recruiting 100 university students to volunteer intensively in the self-help centers of the Superior Courts of: Alameda, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties. The self-help centers help litigants, who cannot afford an attorney, help themselves resolve their legal matters. JusticeCorps members will participate in an orientation and training on October 15th and 16th 2007 and receive over 30 hours of training over the course of the year. They will commit to serve for 300 hours (including training), which is roughly equivalent to 1 full day or 2 half days a week over the course of the academic year. Benefits for JusticeCorps members include: * The opportunity to serve their community * A $ 1,000 AmeriCorps education award (which can be used to pay back loans or for future education). * Practical law and social services related experience * Opportunities to work with lawyers * Courtroom observation * Shadow days with judicial officers * Field project or internship credit * Letters of recommendation for law school or graduate school For the application and more information about the Justice Corps program you can visit our website <http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/programs/justicecorps/> http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/programs/justicecorps/ Full tuition grants for Fall 2007 and Spring 2008!!! * Community Projects Grants are offered through a partnership between the ASUC and Cal Corps, to fund student-initiated service programs dedicated to addressing vital community needs. Cal Corps sponsorship provides groups with leadership training, specialized advising, and administrative resources to help them manage volunteers and provide effective service to their communities. Any registered student group engaged in off-campus service can apply for grants from $200-$1000. Cal Corps also accepts applications from new and emerging groups, looking to address an unmet community need. Applications Due April 20th, 2007. http://students.berkeley.edu/osl/calcorps.asp?id=1104 Writing Workshops in Europe 2007 Fiction Writing Workshop in Florence: July 13 - 22 Memoir Writing Workshop in Barcelona: July 21 - 30 Poetry Writing Workshop in Dublin: July 29 - August 7 We are now offering 3 new Summer Writing Workshops in Florence, Barcelona and Dublin in the areas of fiction, memoir and poetry. The workshops are taught by award winning authors, Sue Woolfe (fiction and memoir) and Kirpal Singh (poetry). 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. Our instructors are award winning writers who are also accomplished teachers. Classes are open to writers of all levels of experience. Fiction Writing Workshop in Florence: July 13 - 22 Instructor: Sue Woolfe, Best Selling Author of Fiction and Essays and Professor of Creative Writing, Sydney University. Our fiction writing workshop is focused on exercises that help you open up to inspiration and sharpen your writerly instincts. You develop techniques that allow you to plumb your creativity and release it onto the page. This is a workshop in which the number one rule to learn to follow where the pen leads you, uncensored by your 'logical' mind. We call it "dangerous writing," because the story emerges almost in spite of us, of its own accord. Memoir Writing Workshop in Barcelona: July 21 - 30 Instructor: Sue Woolfe, Best Selling Author of Fiction and Essays and Professor of Creative Writing, Sydney University. The memoir writing workshop is intended to help each individual find the story that reveals her/his mind and heart through personal narrative. Each day we learn and practice techniques to delve into our memories, our imagination and our powers of descriptive prose. We do writing exercises that will help us find and gather the strands to weave our memoirs. Poetry Writing Workshop in Dublin: July 29 - August 7 Instructor: K. Singh, Award winning Poet and Essayist, Professor of Creativity, University of Singapore. 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 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, memory, 'the moment'. Class size is limited. Reserve your space in advance. Classes meet 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 $1,900 (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 $2,150 (including tuition and 9 night accommodations) $100 off Poetry Workshop by mentioning reduction POE-654 -- Limited time only. For more information: http://creatingandexploring.net/writing Sue Woolfe (fiction and memoir) is a writer of both fiction and creative non-fiction. Her best-selling novel, Leaning Towards Infinity, won the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for many other prizes, including the prestigious US Tiptree Prize. Her other novels include "Painted Woman" and "The Secret Cure." She has also published many essays and aox0bn0q0zz. In her current non-fiction book, "The Mystery of the Cleaning Lady", Woolfe explores what science and brain imaging teach us about the creative imagination and how to make it work for us. She lives in Australia and is a professor of creative writing at Sydney University. 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 the author of 4 books of poetry, including Cat Walk and Nestled Dreams.He 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. For more information: http://creatingandexploring.net/writing 1-866-217-1980 (Toll-Free) 1-212-922-1555 contact@creatingandexploring.net Please mail all inquiries to: Vivian Glusman 245 E 40th St. 25th Floor New York, NY 10016 contact@creatingandexploring.net *5**. The Bulletin Board* /A Smattering of Postings/ Volunteer and have a high school student "shadow" YOU for a day. Receive FREE breakfast, lunch and a t-shirt for your volunteer efforts! Great one-time volunteer opportunity for a group or individual! The YWCA presents... 14th annual Shadow Day Thursday, April 19, 2007 8AM - 3:30PM Shadow Day will give over 250 Oakland and Richmond high school students the opportunity to see what college is really like. This experience may encourage them to visualize college as a real option for their future. Each high school student will be matched with a Cal student, one-on-one. They will attend classes, tour the campus, dorms, Greek houses or Co-ops, workshops, and spend the day with a Cal student who can give them "the inside story." Many of these high school students are not "college-tracked" and are under-represented in the university system. For some of them, it will be their first time on a college campus. The high school students come from diverse backgrounds and experiences. We hope to have Cal students from many backgrounds participate, and we welcome individuals or groups to participate. Applications can be downloaded online or picked up at the YWCA. Completed applications may be dropped off or e-mailed at the YWCA by FRIDAY, APRIL 6TH by 5PM. Download online at http://ywca- berkeley.org/events.html#asd Browse photos from past Shadow Day events: http://homepage.mac.com/ ywca/PhotoAlbum27.html If you have any questions please contact Yaoyao Wang by e-mail yaoyao_wang@berkeley.edu or call the YWCA at (510) 848-6370. Organized through the YWCA Student Volunteer Board. *Mortar Board* is a national honor society that recognizes college seniors for academic excellence, outstanding leadership abilities, and unwavering commitment to community service. Mortar Board was established in 1918, and has been at the University of California at Berkeley since 1925. The society boasts more than 200 active chapters and 50 alumni chapters nation-wide and has initiated more than 200,000 college seniors, including Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Conner and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. Today, we welcome you and invite you to share our tradition. We are currently accepting nominations for the 2007-2008 school year. Students are eligible to apply the spring semester of their junior year and are selected on the basis of their academic records, extracurricular activities, and community service involvement. To be considered for Mortar Board, nominees must have a minimum 3.4 cumulative grade point average, senior standing (90 or more units) by the beginning of the fall 2007 semester, and not be graduating before December 2007. The application requirements include a resume and a one-page personal statement. The application DEADLINE is April 4th, 2007. In order to obtain an APPLICATION in person please visit the Office of Student life (102 Sproul Hall) or electronically by sending an email to mortarboard@berkeley.edu with a subject line of "Request for Electronic MB Application." Volunteers Wanted! Writing Tutors at Berkeley High School AP English teachers at Berkeley High School are looking for one or two Cal student volunteers to help their students with editing and revising written work. The assignment involves working one-on-one with the students, in the afternoons and occasionally during high school class times. Although the work is unpaid, it is very rewarding and stimulating. Berkeley High students are bright and articulate, and will greatly benefit from the help you provide. This kind of community service will enhance your undergraduate resume as well. The ideal volunteer should be an English or Comp Lit major with strong language skills. If you are interest in helping or would like additional information, please contact Professor David Lieberman at dlieberman@law.berkeley.edu. Professor Lieberman is helping coordinate this effort for Berkeley High. You can send him a brief and informal description of any relevant experience or a copy of your c.v. Thank you for your interest and your help! Yours, David Lieberman San Francisco Hepatitis B Collaborative at Berkeley Are you fluent in Ilocano, Pampangan, or Basian? Would you like to collaborate with UCSF volunteers committed to the underserved Asian-American/Asian immigrant population for the purposes of providing Hepatitis B patient education and testing? We're looking for a couple volunteers fluent in these particular Filipino dialects to help out at a special clinic that will take place on Sunday, April 17 at the Bayanihan Community Center. Those who wish to continue volunteering with SFHBC are welcome and encouraged! If interested, please email CalSFHBC@gmail.com ASAP and include the dialect that you are fluent in. *The Prytanean Society* was founded at Berkeley in 1901 to recognize Cal women students who demonstrate faith, service and loyalty to the University Of California, Berkeley. Prytanean Prizes are awarded to women students with junior standing in recognition of campus and community service as well as academic excellence (GPA Of 3.2 required). The recipient will receive a cash prize and will be honored at the Prytanean Alumni Brunch on Saturday, May 5, 2007, at the Garden Room of the Clark Kerr Campus. Please download an application at www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~prytnean *ĦĦTHE FOLLOWING THREE INTERNSHIPS ARE FOR SUMMER 2007!! * *Position*: Avalon Travel Editorial Intern *Reports to*: Senior Editor *Term of Internship:* one semester *Minimum number of hours*: 20 per week *Job summary*: The Editorial Intern provides administrative support to the editorial department as a whole. The Intern, while performing a select number of regular administrative tasks outlined below, may also be asked to learn and perform a variety of functions related to book acquisitions and editing, i.e., proofing, electronic file clean up, reviewing bluelines, checking alts, indexing, research, etc. *Specific duties*: * Provide administrative support to the editorial department, including faxing, filing, photocopying, and other general office tasks. * Assist editors by applying for ISSNs and organizing ISSN data. * Learn BBEdit and convert archived Quark files to text files to send to authors. * Attend weekly Editorial meetings. * Participate in a Product Development Group. * Research sales figures of travel guides and build competition analysis spreadsheets for the acquisitions committee. * Provide support to editors as needed. For example the intern may be assigned to generate indexes, fact check, review proofs, and input corrections and updates for travel and women's literature titles. * Complete research on topics of interest to the editorial department (style updates, competing titles and sales data, as well as destinations being considered by the acquisitions committee). * Assist Acquisitions Editor with organization and purge of editorial library. * Manage the reader feedback and acquisitions email accounts. This task includes responding to all queries. * Manage the organization of reader mail and monthly mailings to all authors. * Organize a team building editorial outing/event for the entire department. *Suggested Reading:* /The Copyeditor's Handbook/ by Amy Einsohn /Words into Type/, third edition /The Chicago Manual of Style/, 15th edition If you'd like to apply for this internship, please email a resume and cover letter formatted as Microsoft Word attachments to internships@avalonpub.com <mailto:internships@avalonpub.com>. Please put the name of this specific internship in your subject line. Our schedules are flexible to accommodate other course work. This is an *UNPAID* internship. We do not accept phone calls concerning the internship program. For more information please visit www.avalonpub.com/internships/index.html <http://www.avalonpub.com/internships/index.html> or get to know us (our history, imprints and books) at www.avalonpub.com. *Position: Marlowe & Co. Intern **Reports to:* Marlowe Editor *Term of Internship:* one semester *Minimum number of hours:* 8 per week The intern's duties will include: * Assisting Editor on all administrative matters, including filing, typing correspondence, mailing * Shipping advance copies to authors & agents * Assembling Author Orientation packets * Author/agent correspondence (phone/email/letters) * Drafting and sending out rejection letters when necessary * Applying for Library of Congress information * Soliciting endorsements (compiling lists of potential endorsers, * Locating contact information, drafting correspondence, assembling and mailing packets) * Providing reader reports (or another form of brief) on slush manuscript/proposal submissions * Research (competing titles; various organizations that relate to books in progress or future commissions; potential authors) * Draft and/or proof copy for AIs, catalog, back panel * Reviewing/proofing first pass pages Additional duties may be assigned according to the intern's interests and experience, as well as the needs of the department. If you'd like to apply for this internship, please email a resume and cover letter formatted as Microsoft Word attachments to internships@avalonpub.com <mailto:internships@avalonpub.com>. Please put the name of this specific internship in your subject line. Our schedules are flexible to accommodate other course work. This is an *UNPAID* internship. We do not accept phone calls concerning the internship program. For more information please visit www.avalonpub.com/internships/index.html <http://www.avalonpub.com/internships/index.html> or get to know us (our history, imprints and books) at www.avalonpub.com. *Position:Seal Press Editorial Intern Reports to:* Editorial Assistant *Term of Internship:* one semester *Minimum number of hours:* 15-20 *Job summary*: The Seal Editorial Intern provides administrative support to the Seal staff. While performing a select number of regular administrative tasks outlined below, she may also be asked to learn and perform a variety of functions related to book acquisitions and editing, i.e., proofing, checking alts, research, etc. *Specific duties*: * Provide administrative support to the editorial department, including filing, faxing, photocopying, data entry, and other general office tasks. * Maintain the Avalon California library. Check inventory, submit weekly orders to our distributor, stock shelves when the books arrive. * Manage the flow and recordkeeping for unsolicited submissions to Seal Press. This entails reviewing manuscripts, logging submissions decisions, and sending correspondence. * Complete research on topics of interest to the Seal editors (new acquisitions topics, competing titles, sales data, potential authors). * Manage the organization of reader mail and monthly mailings to Seal authors. * Attend Seal Editorial meetings (as schedule allows). * Provide editorial support as needed. If you'd like to apply for this internship, please email a resume and cover letter formatted as Microsoft Word attachments to internships@avalonpub.com <mailto:internships@avalonpub.com>. Please put the name of this specific internship in your subject line. Our schedules are flexible to accommodate other course work. This is an *UNPAID* internship. We do not accept phone calls concerning the internship program. For more information please visit www.avalonpub.com/internships/index.html <http://www.avalonpub.com/internships/index.html> or get to know us (our history, imprints and books) at www.avalonpub.com. *THE XLab * The XLab runs behavioral social science experiments on behalf of graduate student researchers and faculty at UC Berkeley, and is part of the Institute of Business and Economic Research. One of our goals is to recruit a large pool of subjects, both students and staff. Students can register on-line for our subject pool, then get invited to participate in particular experiments. Subjects in Xlab experiments earn payments that usually vary by performance, but average $15 per hour. This is great way for students to participate in science AND get paid for doing so. To find out more about us: http://xlab.berkeley.edu/sitemap.html. To register as a new participant, go to: http://xlab.sona-systems.com We really appreciate your support for the Xlab and its researchers. Apply the skills you learn in class in a hands-on environment! RESEARCH PROGRAM DEADLINES FOR MID- TO LATE SPRING 04-03-07 estimated deadline. CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF PEACE AND WELL-BEING UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS Amount: $3,000. Applicant's work should relate to how people connect with each other and how we can reduce the tensions and alienation that get in the way of benevolent interactions. Topic can be across a broad spectrum of academic disciplines, with a particular focus on the social-behavioral sciences. Fellows receive research funding; contribute to Center's website and quarterly magazine; attend Center symposia and lectures; go to monthly fellows meetings to share progress, solicit feedback, and identify resources; poster presentation; final report. 1 participant. http://peacecenter.berkeley.edu/research_fellowships.html 04-04-07 deadline. DAVID SCHOLARS PROGRAM Amount: $16,500. sciences Applicants should be planning a PhD, in good ac. standing; soph. or jr. , eligible for need-based fin. aid. Funds indep. research in the sciences; community service in low-incomes schools req'd; 4 participants, app. Info sessions: Tuesday, February 13, 2007, 2:00-3:00pm, 2063 VLSB Thursday, March 1, 2007, 1:00-2:00pm, 2063 VLSB Friday, March 9, 2007, 12:00-1:00pm, 2063 VLSB Tuesday, March 20, 2007, 2:00-3:00pm, 2063 VLSB http://research.berkeley.edu/david/index.html 04-06-07 deadline; September, 2007 deadline; Jan. 08 deadline. SPONSORED PROJECTS FOR UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH (SPUR - CNR) Amount: up to $2,000 for student-initiated. Both faculty and student must be in College of Natural Resources. 2.0 gpa Students can apply to work on faculty-initiated projects (soph, jr., or sr.), or can submit their own projects for funding (with support of a faculty mentor) -- usually jr. or sr. 25 participants/yr. , app. http://cnr.berkeley.edu/site/about_spur_students.php 04-30-07, Sept. 07, Dec. 07 deadlines. TRAVEL GRANTS FOR UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH (L&S) Amount: up to $500. L&S only priority to seniors. Provides funds for travel for data collection or for presentation at professional meetings. 15 particip./year., approximately. http://research.berkeley.edu/travel/ Deadline: rolling until $ is gone. ASUC ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITY FUND GRANTS Amount: usually up to $500. Highest priority to students with carefully thought-out proposals, support of a faculty mentor, and who have sought out other support. Academic Opportunity Fund awards grants for academic travel that enhances student access to valuable educational experiences beyond the classroom. 90 participants/yr. , app. http://www.asuc.org/grants Thanks for reading! *The English Undergraduate Association* *EUA President:* Elizabeth Kremen * Vice President:* J. Antonio Templanza *Treasurer:* Kali Peterson *Publicity Officer, Website Editor:* Lisa Caravello *Social Events Coordinator:* Kevin Ligutom *Community Outreach Coordinator:* Stephanie Haaser Would you like to subscribe, unsubscribe, or be emailed in text-only? Are you receiving duplicate emails? Do you have announcements to be posted? Email us and let us know. Our address is berkeley.eua@gmail.com. Visit our webpage: http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~eua We have *ARCHIVED COPIES * of the newsletter at: http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~eua/html/newsletter.html |