10-6-14: TD Notes & News
Master’s Pieces
Hail, gladiators! Another good week on the IM front. Apparently, complacency is the only enemy we need to fear. Think about joining in the delirium of victory and come out to play or cheer your TD teams on to glory. Along with the crispness in the air and the tremendous energy of the team captains and IM Secretaries, some of the other students working on your behalf have planned a couple of foodie events this week:
· Tuesday, October 7: Opening night for the Virtual Buttery!!! 10 pm Here’s the news straight from Kelly Wu, Buttmaster to the Stars: “BABY WE GOT/AND ARE NOW BACK!!!! To the dearest denizens of the TD Basement, your favorite late night establishment is back with our best half a**ed effort to create a butt during these hard times of reconstruction. This Tuesday’s virtual buttery is brought to you by Ivy Noodle. It will be $2/plate (BUTT BUCKS ACCEPTED!!!) and you can come back for seconds once everyone gets a plate. We open at 10 and will keep going until our noodles disappear or we do. Come meet Yale University’s hottest and most talented buttery staff. Eat, drink and think about the good buttery times that are soon to come. We’ll be doing up the Virtual Buttery every Tuesday night until paradise is restored.”
· Thursday, October 9: TD SAC study break with Insomnia Cookies – 10 pm in the Thompson Room Sun setting earlier = moving into October = midterms rising = late nights increasing = hunger growing = TD SAC thinking of you = food = love. Your TD SAC is keeping pace with your life. Head to the Thompson Room on Thursday night for a just-in-time Insomnia Cookies study break “celebrating” midterm season.
· Saturday, October 11: Family Weekend Reception in the Master’s House at 4:30 pm If you have folks coming into town, bring them by. I don’t bite. And if you don’t have folks coming to see you, feel free to stop by anyway.
· Sunday, October 12, 1:30 - 3:00 pm in the Master’s House, Steve Blum ’74 for “Financial Life After Yale.” In the last year and a half, Steve Blum’s sessions have reached more than 1,400 Yalies with essential information about budgeting, saving, investing, taxes and the basic financial road rules you will soon encounter out there in the (shiver) real world. Or even right here in the bubble. To register, RSVP to stephen.blum@yale.edu and complete a one-minute survey athttps://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TDFLAYPreOct2014
Down the Road – Mark Your Calendar
October 13 at 6:30 pm: Kickoff dinner and information session for TD Seniors for the Mellon Forums in the Master’s House – watch your email for more.
October 15 at 4:30 pm: Master’s Tea with Dalia Mogahed, scholar and consultant on Muslim societies and the Middle East
October 16 at 9:00 pm: TD Sac / TD Big Sib Pizza and Movie Night in the DH, showing Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Dean’s Domain
Today I offer not one but two quotations from Malcolm X’s autobiography, which you may apply as you see fit during midterm season.
First: “The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.”
And second: “I don’t think anybody ever got so much out of going to prison than I did. In fact, prison enabled me to study far more intensively than I would have if my life had gone differently and I had attended some college. I imagine that one of the biggest trouble with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all that.”
To resisting distractions. (You can keep some of the boola-boola, I guess.)
Upcoming Dates and Deadlines
Spring - Term 2015 Study Abroad Applications Due: Wednesday, October 15, 2014
For more information, go to: http://catalog.yale.edu/ycps/academic-regulations/special-arrangements/
Midterm, October 17, 2014
- Last day to withdraw from a fall-term course without the course appearing on the transcript
- Deadline to apply for double credit in a single-credit course
GRE Exam given by the Registrar’s Office – October 25, 2014
Exam will be held at 8:30am at Mason Laboratory – 9 Hillhouse Ave.
SENIORS
Fellowships for Seniors Information Meeting
Thursday, October 9, 4:00-5:00pm, CIPE Room 305
We are Yale – China Teaching Fellows
Informational Teahouse on Friday, October 10, at 4pm
Bierwirth room, 442 Temple Street
After a summer of fully-funded Chinese language study, Fellows are placed at one of four sites in mainland China and Hong Kong where they live as members of the local community, teach at their host schools, and lead a variety of extracurricular and service activities.
Learn more at www.yalechina.org/teach
· Supports post-graduate degree study in any discipline at the University of Cambridge. Read advice for Yale applicants.
· October 15, deadline for U.S. applicants; December 2, deadline for international applicants – unless there’s an earlier deadline for your department: History’s is October 1
· Support a year of postgraduate degree study at Cambridge in a STEM field; open to U.S. citizens who are seniors and recent alumni
· October 20, 1:00pm, campus application deadline. See the Yale Student Grants Database for how to apply for Yale’s nomination.
Michel David-Weill Scholarship at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po)
· Supports a two-year master’s degree in any field at Sciences Po, but Economics is especially encouraged. (for US citizens)
· October 31, 1:00pm, campus application deadline. See the Yale Student Grants Database for how to apply for Yale’s nomination.
Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowships
· Support up to five years of graduate study in the applied physical, biological, and engineering sciences at select universities in the United States. U.S. citizens and permanent residents eligible.
· October 31, direct application deadline
Woodrow Wilson-Rockefeller Brothers Fund Fellowships for Aspiring Teachers of Color
· New, time-limited opportunity, offering support for teacher candidates of color to complete master’s degree programs in education and become excellent educators who ensure student success in high-need schools. Benefits include a $30,000 stipend to apply toward the cost of a master’s degree at a participating graduate program, preparation in a high-need public school, and mentoring throughout the three-year teaching commitment.
· Interested seniors should contact katherine.dailinger@yale.edu as soon as possible, as applications must be submitted before the end of October.
Studies in Grand Strategy – Applications due October 27
Grand Strategy is a year-long program in strategic thought and leadership training open to all students, graduate and undergraduate, and we encourage students of all majors to apply. The course is team-taught both by Yale faculty and practitioners from the worlds of politics and journalism, and it combines study of the classics of strategic thought with real-world application of strategic principles to contemporary political, economic, and social problems. In addition, all students are given the opportunity to receive funding for a summer odyssey of their choice. The application can be found at http://iss.yale.edu/programs/grand-strategy and is due on October 27.
An information session will be held on October 8, 6-7:30pm, in WLH 119. If you cannot make the information sessions, please email Jeremy Friedman at jeremy.friedman@yale.edu.
Study Abroad
Learn more about Yale’s study abroad application process. October 15, 2014 is the deadline to apply for Yale credit for Spring 2015 programs abroad.
Study Abroad with the Swedish Program
Tuesday, October 7, 4:00-5:00pm, CIPE Room 309a
Fellowships
Visit the fall Calendar of Events and sign up for the Fellowships newsletter to keep track of upcoming opportunities and workshops.
Global Health Fellows Program Information Session
Monday, October 6, 4:00-5:00pm, WLH 117
Application deadline November 4, 1:00pm (search Global Health Studies Program)
Light Fellowship Information Meeting
Monday, October 13, 4:00-5:00pm, CIPE Room 369
The Schwarzman Scholars Program Information Session
Monday, October 13, 5:00-6:00pm, CIPE Room 369
Participate in Celebrate Sustainability, a week of sustainability-related events taking place October 6-10! To view the 40+ events, ranging from power plant tours, to a green art show, to an EFFY film screening, visit the Office of Sustainability’s calendar. You can also participate (and win prizes!) through the social media campaign, #YSustain.
Want to win $1,000,000 in funding to create a social enterprise that will change the world? Check out the Hult Prize competition at Yale: http://hultprizeat.com/yale.
PLEASE DON’T TURN TD INTO A GERMY PETRI DISH. GET YOUR FLU SHOTS!
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Location |
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October 9 |
10 am to 3 pm |
Yale School of Medicine, |
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October 14 |
10 am to 3 pm |
Yale Health Center |
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October 17 |
10 am to 3 pm |
West Campus |
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October 23 |
1 pm to 6 pm |
Yale Health Center |
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October 27 |
10 am to 3 pm |
Yale School of Medicine, |
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October 29 |
10 am to 3 pm |
Woolsey Hall, |
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November 12 |
10 am to 3 pm |
Yale School of Medicine, |
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November 14 |
10 am to 3 pm |
Yale Health Center |
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December 3 |
1 pm to 6 pm |
Yale Health Center |
SHARE Support Groups
The SHARE Center will be offering sexual assault support groups for students this fall. Support groups offer a valuable space to share concerns, strategies, and support. Most survivors say they find support groups to be a helpful way to connect with others around an experience that can often feel isolating and confusing.
The SHARE (Sexual Harassment and Assault Response & Education) Center will be offering support groups during the fall semester (Dates and times to be set based on schedules of members)
Where: SHARE Center (Yale Health, Lower Level)
When: Weekly
Number of Sessions: 6
Length of Sessions: 75 minutes
Please contact Carole Goldberg (Director), Jennifer Czincz (Assistant Director), or Amy Myers (Program Associate) if you are interested in participating in a group or for more information:
Carole Goldberg, Psy.D. - carole.goldberg@yale.edu - 203 432 0310
Jennifer Czincz, Ph.D. – jennifer.czincz@yale.edu - 203 432 2610
Amy Myers, LCSW – amy.myers@yale.edu - 203 436 8217
The Special Academic Program in Human Rights, beginning this fall, offers the opportunity to explore human rights from an interdisciplinary perspective and to acquire the analytical and practical skills necessary for human rights study and related careers. The Program connects students to faculty and peers with similar interests, supports research projects and internship opportunities, and offers career guidance. The Program consists of 6 courses - a gateway course, four electives, and a capstone course - and is to be completed in addition to one’s major.
The application is due November 7, 2014, and all currently enrolled members of the Class of 2017 (sophomores) are eligible to apply; there are no prerequisite courses. To learn more about the Program and access the application, visit http://humanrights.yale.edu/apply. Please email humanrights.program@yale.edu with any questions about the Program; an information session will also be held in early October.