Notes and News – Week of 1-18
ML’s Pieces
Dear Red Lions,
Wonderful to have you back in the Courtyard! I enjoyed hearing from several TDers over the break and getting new year’s greetings from different corners of the world. This week’s “photo of the week” titled “Lions abroad” was submitted by TD Junior Naomi Roselaar who traveled to Israel with other Yalies over the break. Naomi explained this photo of herself with fellow TDers Darcy Tuttle ’16, Tyler Bluell ’19, and Sarah Cohen ’17 was taken just “after they had spent a weekend in the Golan Heights near the northern border with Syria and Lebanon.” I look forward to catching up with everyone about their breaks at meals and in office hours.
I hope many of you were able to make it out to the MLK events on campus today. Many of the programs continued the conversations and educational efforts of last fall to understand the history and ongoing work addressing structural inequality at Yale and beyond. Hopefully, you are still inspired to take advantage of this spring’s course offerings to continue to think and act upon these issues this semester.
As you all get ready for the start of the semester and the madness of shopping period, please note that Dean Mahurin and I will be inviting the freshman to participate in Fireside Chats at the TD house. And all TD sophomores should save the date of February 4th for the Sophomore Dinner. We will be continuing with the Senior Mellon Forum presentations starting on February 2nd. All seniors are eligible to participate regardless if they participated in the fall series. Any senior who’d like to present and have not yet signed up, please sign up online to choose your time slot.
For the spring shopping period, I will hold office hours on Tuesday, Thursdayand Friday from 1:30-3pm. Please note that my TD office hours will go back to being on Wednesdays and Fridays from 1:30-3pm. Please email Karen McGovern at Karen.mcgovern@yale.edu to schedule an appointment.
Here are the great events that we have planned for the college these next two weeks:
Wednesday 1/20 6-7:30pm Senior Sushi Night
We have special maki rolls and nigiri galore to launch our seniors into their last semester of course work at Yale and living in TD! We will miss them when they graduate, but in the meantime we will feast!
Tuesday 1/26 4-6:30pm Master’s Tea with Pulitzer Prize winner Sheryl WuDunn
A former executive and journalist for the New York Times Sheryl WuDunn is currently a senior managing director with Mid-Market Securities. She served as the The Times’ first anchor of an evening news headline program for a digital cable TV channel, the Discovery-Times; and as a foreign correspondent for The Times in Tokyo and Beijing, where she wrote about economic, financial, political, and social issues. She is co-author of A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity and Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.
Wednesday 1/27 8-10pm Spring Community Night
In the fall, we had an amazing turnout of performers who made us cheer, sing, laugh, and applaud like mad! What better cure for cold January than to heat up the Dining Hall with more music and raucous laughter. Please email CN stage manager, Seungju Hwang, by Monday 1/25 and let him know what you or your friends would like to do. He can be reached atseungju.hwang@yale.edu.
And here are a few key deadlines coming up for the college:
Creative Performing Arts (CPA) Awards Deadline – Tuesday, January 19 at 4pm
These awards ranging from a few hundred to over a thousand dollars support student art related productions. This cycle covers awards for the spring semester. Go to http://creativeandperformingarts.yale.edu/ for more information. Students will be notified by Februrary 3rd.
TD CD 2016 Call for submissions
We are looking for TDers for our next college CD. Whether you wrote a song that you want to record with one of our amazing certified engineers or just really want to cover that Jonas Brothers song, the CD team of TD recording engineers can make your dreams come true. They will be accepting submissions for the CD for until the end of the month so feel free to send a demo track (iPhone recording or more!) to Jordan.plotner@yale.edu. For freshfolk who have not heard the TD CD, here is a link to last year’s amazing compilation: https://timothydwightcollegemusic.bandcamp.com/track/td-cd-promo
Without further ado, here is a word from Dean Mahurin…
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ML
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Dean’s Domain
Welcome back, all! I hope your breaks were relaxing and regenerative and all the things that breaks are supposed to be. I hope, too, that you’re excited to take on the semester ahead! In lieu of literature (well, in the strictest sense of the word, anyway), this week I will share one of my favorite inspirational montages:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP3MFBzMH2o
MahurINs and OUTs
2016-17 Freshman Counselor applications are available at http://yalecollege.yale.edu/content/freshman-counselors, with a deadline of Friday, January 29th. Prospective freshman counselors can complete the application form and submit their resumes online. If you have questions about the application process or about being a freshman counselor next year, please reach out to me or head froco Micah Jones (micah.jones@yale.edu). Stay tuned for class-wide email about optional froco info session.
Applications for the 2016 STARS Summer Research Program is now available online. The STARS (Science, Technology and Research Scholars) Program provides students with an integrated experience that includes mentorship, academic support and engagement in original research. STARS identifies and supports students from groups that are underrepresented in the scientific and technological disciplines, and students who come from disadvantaged circumstances, in any of Yale’s natural sciences and engineering majors. Applications are accepted in the spring semester from students who, at the time, are freshmen or sophomores. During the summer program students conduct full-time research with a faculty mentor in a Yale science laboratory, enroll in SCIE 101, Scientific Research: Process and Presentation, participate in study sessions and journal clubs, and conduct a formal presentation of their summer research. All participants are required to maintain on-campus residency throughout the duration of the program.
For Sophomores interested in a career in academia: Mellon Mays & Edward A. Bouchet Undergraduate Fellowships
The Mellon Mays & Edward A. Bouchet Fellowships aim to increase the representation of students of color and others with a demonstrated commitment to eradicating racial disparities, who will pursue PhDs and subsequent careers in academia. The fellowships are open to Sophomores interested in teaching and research at the college and university level. Those interested are encouraged to attend the upcoming Information Session on January 20 from 5-6:30pm at the Afro-American Cultural Center (211 Park St.). Dinner will be served.
Teach with the U.S. Grant Foundation!
• About U.S. Grant: Since 1953, The U.S. Grant Foundation has been providing exceptional academic enrichment programs during the summer for middle school students from New Haven public schools. The program gives Yale undergraduates the chance to develop a course to teach and provides local students with an exceptional academic program that expands their academic horizons beyond the classroom.
• The Teachers: Every year, nine talented undergraduates who are interested in education and committed to the New Haven community are hired to teach a six-week long core course as well as two electives that they have developed.
• Compensation: Teachers are paid $3,300 over the course of the summer.
• The Program: The summer 2016 program runs from June 27nd to August 5th.
• How to Apply: Complete the following application. Applications are due on February 12th.
• Information Sessions: Information sessions are in the Dwight Hall Library on dates TBA.
• For More Information: Visit http://usgrant.commons.yale.edu/ or email us at usgrantdirectors@gmail.com.
Student Organizations Registration Deadline is February 2nd. All new student organizations, or groups who missed the fall registration deadline, mush register with the Yale College Dean’s Office by midnight on February 2nd to be recognized as an official student organization for the spring of 2016. You can register HERE. Groups who registered in the fall do not need to re-register until the summer of 2016. If you have any questions please contact Dean Hannah Peck at hannah.peck@yale.edu.
Interested in becoming a CCE? The CCE mission is to create a more positive sexual climate on campus. The CCEs themselves are an exceptionally diverse, creative group of students who collaborate with each other and with their own communities to create space—both literally and figuratively—for students to more easily make mindful social and sexual choices. The CCEs also serve as a resource for students who have experienced or heard about sexual misconduct, providing a peer avenue to SHARE, the UWC, Title IX, and the Yale Police. The CCEs are paid employees of the YCDO. Once the start-of-year trainings are complete, they generally work 5-10 hours per week. There’s no need for prior experience in sexual violence prevention. The prime qualification for being a CCE is the desire to make Yale a better place; optimism and humor are helpful, too! For more information or to apply, please visit yale.edu/cce. Rolling applications, with deadline January 29th.
The United Nations Summer Study (UNSS) program, offered by The New School’s Graduate Program in International Affairs, puts graduate and undergraduate students on the ground in the United Nations and in New York City. Unlike other UN study programs, UNSS takes you beyond a narrow focus on security and diplomacy to investigate development, human rights, humanitarian action, peacekeeping and peacebuilding, environmental, and reform issues. UNSS course work prepares you to understand and engage with contemporary issues, policies, and debates in international affairs. UNSS practicums, not found in any other UN summer program, enable you to gain hands-on experience in the UN system. Visit the UNSS website to learn more about our three different program options as well as the structure of the class, colloquia, and site visits in New York City. The UNSS is open to undergraduates (rising juniors and seniors), graduate students, and continuing education professionals from all fields and studies. Please contact our office with any questions: unstudy@newschool.edu
New courses this term:
EENG111b: The Science of Science Fiction
Mark Reed
TTh 4.00-5.15
The genre of science fiction has allowed us to explore new technological and scientific frontiers, and their societal implications. This course is to designed to quantitatively explore the scientific basis (and inaccuracies) of modern science fiction. Technologies explored include space travel, robotics and artificial life, nanotechnology, cyber technology, and environmental sustainability/terraforming.
The course will have readings from both fiction and non-fiction sources, including (but not limited to) excerpts from Flatland, by Edwin Abbott; Forever War, by Joe Haldeman; Mr. Thompkins, by George Gamow; Dragon’s Egg, by Robert Forward; Ringworld , by Larry Niven; The Physics of Star Trek, by Lawrence Krauss; Foundation, by Isaac Asimov; Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, by Philip Dirk; Neuromancer, by William Gibson; and The Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson.
As this is a Science credit class (Sc), there will be weekly quantitative homework assignments.
The grade for the class will be based on the homework assignments (50%), midterm (25%), and final (25%).
CSYC 340 “Identity Crisis: The Politics, Privileges, and Perils of Reclaiming Ancient Heritage in the Contemporary Middle East.”
The Middle East is in crisis. What do ancient civilizations have to do with it? This unique course will provide a perspective on the Middle East underrepresented in the media: examining the ancient ethnicities and identities that many groups claim as their heritage, and that underpin current and past political, religious, and cultural conflicts. From minority groups to antiquities destruction to propaganda, this course will reveal ancient history’s critical role in understanding today’s Middle East. No prerequisites required.
Yale-in-London is now accepting applications for the 2016 Summer Sessions; the deadline is February 15th. Earn Yale credits automatically as well as distribution credits in Humanities. Take classes that immerse you in historical sites, theater, and museums–all while living in one of the world’s greatest cities! Details on courses, faculty, and the application process are available at
http://britishart.yale.edu/education/yale-college-students/yale-in-london or http://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/yale-in-london/overview. Talk to YIL alums in your college to find out more, or come to our info session at the Yale Center for British Art, January 20th, from 3:00-4:00 p.m. Please enter the Center through the Museum Shop at 46 High Street.
ACADEMICS
Course Schedule Deadlines:
Class of 2019 Wednesday, January 27, 5:00 pm
Class of 2018 Thursday, January 28, 5:00 pm
Class of 2017 Thursday, January 28, 5:00 pm
Class of 2016 Friday, January 29, 5:00 pm
Schedules are handed in to your TD Dean’s Office. The deadlines are strictly enforced. A late schedule incurs a fine of $50.
A late schedule cannot elect any courses CR/D/Fail.
A schedule of 3 or 3.5 course credits and a schedule of 6 or 6.5 course credits needs my permission before the schedule is handed in. Schedule an appointment to see me if you’re considering either of these options.
On-line Course Selection: www.yale.edu/sis
1. Use the worksheet capabilities to search courses to shop during shopping period.
2. After you have settled on the courses you will take, print your final schedule.
3. Take the final schedule to your adviser for the signature. Sign the schedule.
4. Hand in your signed schedule to the TD Dean’s Office by the deadline for your class
(see deadlines above and in the Blue Book)
I remind you that (1) the program does not check for conflicts in class meeting times (that is your responsibility – see “overlapping meeting times” above) and that (2) once you print your final schedule, you cannot reenter the program to make changes and print a different final schedule. Including or removing a course (after meeting with your adviser, for instance) must be hand written on the printed final schedule itself (in the Include and Remove Sections), and each change must be initialed by your adviser or me before the deadline for handing in your schedule.
Overlapping Class Meeting Times: Class meeting times may not overlap by more than 15 minutes once a week. Required are a conversation with me before the Course Enrollment deadline, compelling academic reasons for the overlap, and with my assistance a petition to the Committee on Honors and Academic Standing.
A schedule with a course in The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (and also not listed in the Blue Book) or a professional school requires an additional form, which is available in the TD Dean’s Office and atwww.yale.edu/sfas/registrar/blue_form.pdf. Hand in the completed form with the syllabus attached by the deadline for your course schedule. [Note: SOM courses cannot be added to your schedule through OCS; they must be written by hand in the “include” section on your schedule. The form (above) for those SOM courses must be handed in to my office in the first week of shopping period, well before the deadline for your course schedule, because SOM determines its class enrollments well before your schedule is due.]
Courses at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and at a professional school cannot elect the CR/D/Fail option.
Credit for these courses on your transcript: When you put a Graduate or Professional School course on your schedule, zero (0) course credits are recorded for the course until you hand in to my office the form for graduate school courses (syllabus attached) and the registrar’s office determines the course credits for that course after that. Some courses earn 1 course credit in Yale College and some earn .5 course credits (most commonly in SOM and EPH).
Independent Studies (Directed Reading, Directed Research, etc. as listed by most departments). There are limits on the number that a student can enroll in during a given year and over four years. See YCPS (Blue Book) page 41. Enrolling in an independent study requires the additional permission of a Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Important Dates to Note:
January 28 Last day to apply for a spring term leave of absence
January 29 Last day for students in the class of 2016 to petition for permission to complete the requirements of two majors.
CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (CIPE)
Yale Summer Session
The 2016 Summer Session application will open the week of January 18th. Browse the list of available summer courses now. Financial assistance is available for all summer session programs. Visit summer.yale.edu to learn more.
Study Abroad Deadlines
Yale in London: February 15, 2016
Yale Summer Session Programs Abroad: February 15, 2016
Summer Abroad Credit for Designated Programs: March 1, 2016
Year or Term Abroad Application for Academic Year 2016-2017 and Fall 2016 Abroad: March 5, 2016
Global Summer Program: March 7, 2016
Study Abroad Walk-in Hours in Bass Library
Study abroad advisers will be available for walk-ins on select Fridays during the spring semester. These meetings are 15 minutes in length and will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Walk-in hours will be held the following Fridays, from 1-3pm, in Bass L30A:
January 22, 2016
January 29, 2016
February 5, 2016
February 12, 2016
February 19, 2016
February 26, 2016
OFFICE OF CAREER STRATEGY
Interested in the Yale-coordinated Domestic and International Internships?
In order to apply for these positions you must first complete our program tutorial. Students can access the program tutorial by clicking on the ‘2016 Yale-Coordianted Internship Tutorial & Registration’ available in Symplicity under Resources, Document Library. If you reviewed this document last year you will need to review it once again! Students who complete the tutorial will be able to apply to positions. The primary application deadline for these positions will be Tuesday, February 2.
On-Campus Recruiting (OCR) Program
OCR provides an opportunity for students to interview predominantly for summer internships during the spring semester. On-campus interviews begin the last week of January. To become eligible to apply for OCR opportunities, follow the instructions in the ‘OCR Program Tutorial and Registration’ available in Symplicity under Resources, Document Library. Once you are eligible, visit Symplicity and click on ‘Campus Interviews I Qualify For’ under the On-Campus Recruitment section to view the positions and deadline dates. Applications are currently being accepted.
Panel Discussion: Careers in Medicine and Science, Real World Perspectives
Wednesday, January 20, 2016, 7:00 – 8:30 pm, Sudler Hall
The purpose of this event is to introduce undergraduates interested in the Biomedical Sciences and provide them with information on different careers in medicine and science. There will be a panel discussion, comprised of Yale faculty covering the following topics:
How I came to be an MD, PhD, MD/PhD
What my daily life is like
My advice for those who’d like to pursue this path
Yale-Coordinated Internships: Freshman & Sophomores Open Hours
Friday, January 22, 2016, 12:00 – 4:00 pm, Pierson Common Room, RSVP Required
2016 Future Global Leaders Fellowship
Deadline: January 31, 2016
Director Positions, Yale Summer Events in NY, DC, San Fransisco
Deadline: February 2, 2016
Serve as Yale College Representative for the Yale Summer Events in New York, Washington, DC, or San Francisco programs. Collaborate with alumni, employers, and students to manage activities, plan events, and schedule meetings for the benefit of the students who are living and working in these cities during summer 2016. Search for “Yale Summer Events” in Symplicity to apply. Contact Stephanie Waite with any questions.
A Conversation with Dominic Barton, Global Managing Director, McKinsey & Company
Thursday, February 4, 2016, 11:45 am – 12:45 pm, Yale School of Management
Yale CASE Advancement Internship Program
Deadline: February 5, 2016
The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) is a professional association serving educational institutions and the advancement professionals who work on their behalf in alumni relations, communications, development, marketing and allied areas. Yale’s CASE intern project focuses on the university’s active and robust stewardship effort. The Yale Case Advancement Intern will work closely with experienced professionals, designing a new stewardship initiative.
FELLOWSHIPS – see http://www.yale.edu/yalecollege/international/funding/fellowships/