Notes and News – Week of April 16, 2018

April 16, 2018

Notes and News – Week of 4/16/2018

HL’s Pieces

Dear Red Lions,

First, congratulations to our TD SAC for putting together a wonderful spring formal in our beautiful dining hall!  In particular, kudos to SAC officers and TD first-years Ryan Tsedevsuren and Sarah Cameron and TD sophomores Valentina Connell and Juan Otoya Vanini for leading the decorating charge and helping make the evening a success!  We are also grateful to the hard work of our TD Dining Hall staff in providing the tasty food, punch, and beer! 

Congratulations to our first-years for finishing in second place at this year’s First-Year Olympics!!!  Captains Angel Mora and Lizzie Dolan did a fabulous job designing the t-shirts and pulling together spirited teams for each competition.  Although I missed it because of a conference in Sacramento, I received many updates throughout the day and great pictures.  I also heard reports that Kahlil Greene was an emcee extraordinaire!!!  Here our two great photos from Angel featuring Team Aphrodite and our rap battle champion, Roger Guo!!!


 

Speaking of competition, here is our “photo of the week” featuring TD junior Kees Schipper and first-year Jack Arnold, members of the Bulldogs men’s soccer team with our eleven-year-old, Octavio!  The team did a great community outreach event hosting a soccer clinic for New Haven Youth Soccer’s travel teams.  The kids all ranging in ages from 10-12 had a great time and really loved playing on the big stadium!  

Here are some important events for this week:

Monday 4/16 7-8:30pm Seniors White Wine Tasting

David Swensen is back to host his tasting of fine white wines from his personal collections.  We may still have 1 or 2 spots left so if you’re interested write me at mary.lui@yale.edu and I’ll let you know if we still have room.

Wednesday 4/18, 7-10pm Screen printing workshop (TD Art Studio)

Last workshop for this year in the TD art studio and we’re doing t-shirt design!  A great skill for launching your future t-shirt design career or to help out your student organizations.  All participants will get a free t-shirt to print and keep.  To sign up, please email KC at kc.mills@yale.edu

Thursday 4/19 5:30pm “Sanctuary City Town Hall” (La Casa – Latino American Studies Cultural Center, 301 Crown Street)

Coordinated by TD Community Engagement Fellow Alejandra Corona-Ortega working with Unidad Latina en Acción (ULA), this event will focus on the new Sanctuary City ordinance proposed by ULA. Panelists will talk about why such an ordinance should be in a city like New Haven that proudly claims to be a “Sanctuary City”.  You’ll also learn about the important work of ULA.

Here are some important events and deadlines for the following week:

World Fellows Liaison Program Application Deadline April 23, 2018 at 11:59pm!

Each year, the 14 colleges host World Fellows who often participate in dinners and teas for our students.  The World Fellows Liaison program further helps to bring the Fellows in contact with undergraduate activities.  The program is open to all Yale College and Yale Graduate and Professional School students who have completed at least one year of study at Yale prior to Fall 2018.  Incoming students starting at Yale in the Fall of 2018 and non-Yale students are ineligible.  Please go to this link to apply.  Please contact world.fellows@yale.edu if you have any questions.

Friday 4/27  SAC TD Day (TD Courtyard)

Come celebrate the last day of classes with an outdoor barbecue and a fun day of bouncing on inflatable obstacle courses!  As usual, we’ll have a greatnew t-shirts for all students in the college. 

Without further ado, here is a word from Dean Mahurin…

Áshe,

HL

***

In Memoriam Mae Noblitt

A.R. Ammons

 

This is just a place:

we go around, distanced,

yearly in a star’s

 

atmosphere, turning

daily into and out of

direct light and

 

slanting through the

quadrant seasons: deep

space begins at our

 

heels, nearly rousing

us loose: we look up

or out so high, sight’s

 

silk almost draws us away:

this is just a place:

currents worry themselves

 

coiled and free in airs

and oceans: water picks

up mineral shadow and

 

plasm into billions of

designs, frames: trees,

grains, bacteria: but

 

is love a reality we

made here ourselves–

and grief–did we design

 

that–or do these,

like currents, whine

in and out among us merely

 

as we arrive and go:

this is just a place:

the reality we agree with,

 

that agrees with us,

outbounding this, arrives

to touch, joining with

 

us from far away:

our home which defines

us is elsewhere but not

 

so far away we have

forgotten it:

this is just a place.

 

UPCOMING DATES AND DEADLINES:

 

Apr. 20 Friday Last day to convert from the Credit/D/Fail option to a letter grade in a course offered in the second half of the term. See Grades

Apr. 27 Friday Classes end, 5:30 p.m.; reading period begins.
Last day to withdraw from a full-term course or a course offered in the second half of the term. See 
Withdrawal from Courses and Grades.

   

 

ACADEMIC STRATEGIES: NEW WORKSHOPS FOR END OF TERM!

Finals Strategies: Avoiding Procrastination  

Learn why we procrastinate and how to minimize procrastination during stressful periods.

Tuesday, April 17, 2018 6:00 PM       

Center for Teaching & Learning,

301 York St., RM. M104A

Public speaking for undergraduates: Academic and Professional Presentations

Learn strategies for developing and presenting brief talks, including shaping content, using visuals, and engaging your audience.

Tuesday, April 17, 2018 7:30 PM       

Center for Teaching & Learning,

301 York St., RM. M104A

Final Paper Strategies: Starting, Revising, and Finishing on Time  

Tired of pulling all-nighters and begging for extensions? Get organized for your end-of-semester papers with advice from our workshop.

Wednesday, April 18, 2018 6:00 PM  
Center for Teaching & Learning,

301 York St., RM. M104A

Final Exam Strategies 

Reduce exam stress by learning new strategies for preparing and studying for finals.

Tuesday, April 24, 2018 6:00 PM        

Center for Teaching & Learning, 

301 York St., RM. M104A

Final Paper Strategies: Starting, Revising, and Finishing on Time  

Tired of pulling all-nighters and begging for extensions? Get organized for your end-of-semester papers with advice from our workshop.

Tuesday, April 24, 2018 7:30 PM        

Center for Teaching & Learning, 

301 York St., RM. M104A

Finals Strategies: Avoiding Procrastination   

Learn why we procrastinate and how to minimize procrastination during stressful periods.

Wednesday, April 25, 2018 7:30 PM  

Center for Teaching & Learning, 

301 York St., RM. M104A

 

 

FELLOWSHIP INFORMATION AND OPPORTUNITIES

 

Schwarzman Scholars Program Information Session with Stephen Schwarzman ‘69 and Rob Garris, Global Director of Admissions:

 

Tuesday, April 17, 4:30pm, GM Room, Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Avenue   Register for this event HERE

 

Schwarzman Scholars is a highly selective, one-year master’s program at Tsinghua University in Beijing that is designed to prepare the next generation of global leaders for the challenges of the future.

 

APPROACHING APPLICATION DEADLINES

April 22 – Japan Foundation – Center for Global Partnership Grant

April 25 - Blair Dickinson Memorial Prize

April 27 - New York Senate Graduate Fellowships

May 30 - The Global Rhodes Campus Deadline .

May 31 Rotary Peace Fellowship. 

 

UPCOMING EVENTS

A Regulatory Analyst from the Human Subjects Committee will guide you through the IRB application process. There will be time for Q and A in this session, so feel free to come along with any questions specific to your application.

Discover how you can earn your Masters in 1 year or PhD in 3 years at a world-leading university. This session will cover topics including entry requirements, the application process, funding opportunities, some of the differences between the UK and US study experience, and more.

Fulbright Grants offer you many terrific postgraduate opportunities—from scientific research to the practice of an art to the teaching of English in more than 160 countries. Now is the time to start thinking about applying!

Fellowship Programs will be joined by Ryan Wepler, Assistant Director of the Yale College Writing Center, for this writing workshop which is designed to help candidates prepare for external fellowship applications

 

FRESH CHECK DAY

Yale’s undergraduate mental health awareness and advocacy group. We are writing to you to share a groundbreaking event on April 20th from 12pm to 3pm on Cross Campus: Fresh Check Day at Yale. Fresh Check Day is the central piece of programming of the Jordan Porco Foundation (JPF), a suicide prevention foundation.

 

Fresh Check Day is a celebratory, fair-like event that includes peer-run interactive expo booths on a range of topics from substance abuse to suicide prevention, free food, music, and prizes to engage students in discussion about their mental health and suicide prevention in an approachable manner. With this event, Mind Matters hopes to create a positive atmosphere for open dialogue on mental health and mental illness, educate the Yale community on the vast array of mental health resources available to them on campus, and spread awareness of mental illness.