MASTER’S PIECES
Ok, I’ve had enough. Maybe you have, too. No mas. Give us a break. Enough with the weather. I hope that an appropriate proportion of you are working on energy and climate change issues. I’m not joking. We’ll do a check of the declared majors in TD this week and don’t be surprised if I call you in for some redirection in your life aspirations. Meanwhile, here’s what’s going as it warms up this week, or so they tell us:
· Friday, February 21, Dining Hall closed because of the Sophomore Class dinner The good news is that a record breaking number of sophomores have sent their rsvp’s. The less good news is that everybody else will again be asked to love another servery somewhere on campus this Friday night. Good hunting!
· Friday, February 21, 9:00 pm TD presents TUIB & Friends After the sophomore dinner clears out, Tangled Up in Blue (TUIB) returns for their annual concert, hosted here in the TD Dining Hall and featuring guest performing “Friends”, including some local TD talent. This is ALWAYS a packed house and ALWAYS for a good reason. Great, down home music. Be there!
Down the road, wanted to remind you of these items, including a change of date on the Chelsea Lane harp recital:
Wednesday, February 26, Bring Your Professor to Dinner in TD. It’s easy, it’s free. You pick the cool professor you want to host and invite them over. When your professor gets here, you write the professor’s name on a card and TD will pick up the tab. This is a great new idea for TD from your Mott Woolley Council and I’m happy to support it!
Friday, February 28, TD SAC brings you the TD Winter Formal. It will be time to start your spring break warm up by putting on your TD dancing shoes. Venue STILL under discussion; watch Notes and News and your email box for more, BUT THERE WILL BE A DANCE.
Sunday, March 2, 4:00 pm, Master’s House Chelsea Lane harp recital (Note the date change here, not next Sunday but instead two weeks from today.) Chelsea is graduating, and if you have heard her play, you won’t miss this final opportunity to see her play part of her senior recital program here in TD, just for us. If you have not heard her play, you owe yourself a cup of tea and a comfortable chair here in the house for a truly exceptional experience.
TIMOTHY DWIGHT
The TD Mellon Senior Forum will meet this Tuesday’s in the private room at Anna Liffey’s. This week’s presenters are Jane Bang (Labor Market Inequality in South Korea), Emily Ullmann (Racial Identity and the History of Mardi Gras), Clio Contogenis (#Romeo and Juliet), and Hilary O’Connell (Public Health for Public Bodies: Harm Reduction, Sex Work, and the Politics of Intervention). Seniors please RSVP when you receive the Evite so that we can give the restaurant an accurate count. Questions to jacob.marcus@yale.edu anddiane.charney@yale.edu
AROTC Detachment 009 will be sponsoring a recruiting event on Wednesday, February 19th, from 11:30-1:30 at their offices at 55 Whitney. Two local Air Force recruiters (one for enlisted and one for officers) will be on-hand to answer questions from any Yale junior or senior interested in serving after college. 12 Yale College undergraduates are currently on the path toward a career in the Air Force.
Questions to Major Tim Secor, Recruiting Flight Commander, Det 009 AFROTC Yale University, (203) 432-9456/9431, timothy.secor@yale.edu
JUNIORS and SENIORS
Rhodes and Beyond: Fellowships for Postgraduate Study in the UK & Ireland (for US and international students at Yale). Friday, February 21 at 11:00am. CIPE, 55 Whitney Avenue, room 305
Fulbright Grants for Study/Research or for English Teaching Assistantships
Tuesday, February 24 at 4:00pm, CIPE, 55 Whitney Avenue, room 305
*Attendance at an information session is required before a one-on-one meeting with an adviser.
Franke Fellowship in Science and the Humanities supports senior essay, research, and art projects that explore intellectual connections between science and the humanities. Eligible: Yale juniors
http://studentgrants.yale.edu Deadline: March 4, 2014
Fulbright-National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellowship provides a unique platform for an in-depth 9-month exploration of a globally relevant issue, comparing and contrasting how that issue is experienced across borders. Fellows will focus their digital stories on one of the program’s eight themes: biodiversity, cities, cultures, disasters, energy, food, oceans, and water. Utilizing a variety of digital storytelling tools and media, including blogs, photography, video, and social media, Fellows will share their stories by providing content to a National Geographic blog and other platforms with the support of National Geographic’s editorial team. Eligible: U.S. citizens, graduating seniors and alumni
http://us.fulbrightonline.org/fulbright-nat-geo-fellowship Deadline: February 28, 2014
NIH Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award (Postbac IRTA/CRTA) provides recent college graduates who are planning to apply to graduate or professional (medical/dental/pharmacy) school an opportunity to spend 1-2 years performing full-time research at the National Institutes of Health. Postbac IRTAs/CRTAs work side-by-side with some of the leading scientists in the world, in an environment devoted exclusively to biomedical research. Eligible: seniors and recent alumni, U.S. citizens & permanent residents who plan to apply for graduate/professional school during their tenure in the IRTA/CRTA program https://www.training.nih.gov/programs/postbac_irta Deadline: rolling; application should be made 3-6 months before hoped-for start at NIH
SUMMER
Yale Conference & Events is hiring students for Summer 2014 with paid summer housing on campus. Yale Conferences and Events (YC&E) seeks to hire friendly, detail-oriented, and organized Yale College students to welcome guests to our campus this summer. As a Summer Operations Coordinator, you will participate in the planning and execution of summer camps, conferences, and events hosted on Yale’s campus and supervise the day-to-day operations of satellite YC&E offices in the Residential Colleges. The position runs from April or May until August 2014, with the possibility for flexible night and weekend hours as well as time-off with supervisor’s approval. Student employees will receive a salary of $13/hour and free housing, meals, and parking on campus for the duration of their summer employment. Leadership positions with additional compensation are available for exceptionally qualified applicants. Students can apply to the position “Operations Coordinator” on Yale Student Jobs or contact Matthew Finney (matthew.finney@yale.edu) or Sara Machowski (sara.machowski@yale.edu) for further information. The application closes on March 1, 2014. Questions to matthew.finney@yale.edu or sara.machowski@yale.edu.
Yale-Tec de Monterrey Intern in Sustainable Development
Participate in sustainable development projects in Mexico during summer 2014, in collaboration with Tec de Monterrey, Harvard, and M.I.T. students. Internship based on student’s area of interest, including nutrition, education, public health, and sustainable agriculture. Application deadline March 3.
2014 International Summer Award Application are available for freshmen, sophomores and juniors on financial aid. (Also: students applying to fund designated study abroad programs must apply for Yale credit by the March 1st deadline – click here for more information.)
Alan S. Tetelman 1958 Fellowships for International Research in the Sciences support summer research projects abroad in the natural and applied sciences. Eligible: Yale freshmen, sophomores, and juniors. http://science.yalecollege.yale.edu/tetelman-fellowship Deadline: February 24, 2014
Summer Environmental Fellowship supports summer projects and internships relating to environmental issues. Eligible: Yale freshmen, sophomores, and juniors.www.yale.edu/evst/summer_fellowship.html
Deadline: February 28, 2014
NOTES
Clouds in winter, even on a sunny day. I see them gathering and dispersing over the Yale power plant, a sort of cloud factory (to borrow from Thoreau on Ktaadn), their grays of many shades and the white between. Turner painted clouds in their sunset and dawn colors, paintings for us to see at the British Art Center with the pinks and oranges of even our own sunsets on campus.
In our travels about campus, mostly looking down to step up or step around the piles of snow this year, we may not look up. And our infrequent open spaces and heights on campus do not put many prospects before us. There is one benefit of having classes on science hill, though: a stop on the downhill path to Hillhouse offers a prospect, a look out that can take us away for a moment, maybe in the light of a bright day, maybe even in the gray of a cloudy one. A stop can be a pause to see at a distance and to gain some sense of our true size and the right proportion of all own worries.
At Yale it always seems there is something that must be done. That is the nature of this place that expects a lot of us and where we came because we expect a lot of ourselves. But even in music there is a pause and a rest. Our pause to look up and around can be a perspective, just in time, as we conduct our diurnal scores. Large wild animals take a nap after a big meal. We all have heard of the benefits of sufficient sleep and dreaming. We all know the dreamy benefit of classrooms with windows that let in the daylight and a chance to glance outward and to have private thoughts. It is those “something elses” we may not get enough of: the shades and hues of a private moment, a dreamy formation of ourselves and our view, a slight looking away to get a sense within. And the rest. Be sure to take in rest. Dean Loge