Notes and News – Week of 12/11/2017
HL’s Pieces
Dear Red Lions,
I hope you all had a wonderful time at Friday night’s Holiday Dinner. As you can see from this great “photo of the week” the TD staff had a great time decorating and serving up the festive meal in our dining hall.
We also thoroughly enjoyed having some of our first years come to the house to sing! Many thanks to Yasmin Alamdeen for teaching us “Silent Night” in American Sign Language!
Many thanks to all of you for keeping to TD Quiet Hours (11pm-8am). Quick reminder to keep the noise-level down in the TD Library, computer rooms, and Dining Hall (non-service hours) so that they remain “quiet study spaces” for anyone who needs them. Again, Selin Lounge may still be reserved for meetings or group work. Please go to this link to reserve your time.
I’m putting here again the study breaks schedule in case anyone missed the announcement on Friday.
Monday 12/11
8-9:30pm Lightning Game Night (TD House) – All board games played in 15 minutes or fewer!
10pm SAC Popeye’s Study Break (Thompson Room)
Tuesday 12/12
9pm Yoga Study Break (Multipurpose Room)
10pm SAC Zaroka Indian Snack Foods Study Break (Thompson Room)
Wednesday 12/13
4:30-5:30pm Shrinky Dinks (TD Art Studio)
9:30pm TD Ten Minute Courtyard Dance Party
10pm Pizza Study Break (Thompson Room)
Exam Period (Thursday 12/14 to Tuesday 12/20)
Once we are in the exam period, SAC gets to take a break so that they can study! The Head of College office will take over with Pizza Delivery in the Thompson room every night from Thursday to Tuesday night at 10pm. For the first time we will order one veggie gluten-free pizza. Please look for the marked box!
In addition we have these study breaks:
Thursday 12/14
6:30pm Holiday Cookie Baking (TD Kitchen) Sign Up at this link.
Friday 12/15
8-11am Hot Breakfast Exam Period Kickoff (TD Dining Hall)
12:30pm Beethoven Piano Sonatas Recital with Xiaoyi Xu (Yale School of Music)
We have broken open the new TD puzzle in the Common Room and the border is almost done! So feel free to stop over for a quick break and add in a few more pieces. As usual, coffee, hot water, and hot chocolate are in the Dining Hall if you need it to keep going through the night!
Good luck with papers and exams! We are cheering you onto the finish line!!!
Without further ado, here is a word from Dean Mahurin…
Áshe,
HL
***
Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme –
why are they no help to me now
I want to make
something imagined, not recalled?
I heard the noise of my own voice:
The painter’s vision is not a lens,
it trembles to caress the light.
But sometimes everything I write
with the threadbare art of my eye
seems a snapshot,
lurid, rapid, garish, grouped,
heightened from life,
yet paralyzed by fact.
All’s misalliance.
Yet why not say what happened?
(From Robert Lowell’s “Epilogue”)
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UPCOMING DATES AND DEADLINES:
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Dec. 14 |
TH |
Reading period ends, 5 p.m. |
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Dec. 15 |
F |
Application for 2018 Yale Faculty-led Programs Abroad opens. |
CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
IMPORTANT DATES FOR SUMMER 2018 ABROAD
- December 15 - Application/Petition for Credit for Non-Yale Summer Programs Abroad Opens
- December 15 – Application for Yale Summer Session Programs Abroad Opens
- February 1 – Application for International Summer Award Opens
- February 15 – Deadline to submit Application for Yale Summer Session Programs
- March 1 – Deadline to submit Application/Petition for Credit
- May 1 – Deadline to submit Application for the International summer Award
Visit the Apply Page on the Study Abroad Website to learn more
UPCOMING EVENTS
Tuesday, December 12, 8 pm– 9 pm
LC 102
Interested in studying abroad this summer? Take a break from writing term papers with the Study Abroad Student Outreach Coordinators and have some FREE CIDER AND INSOMNIA COOKIES on Tuesday, December 12th from 8-9 pm in LC 102!! Come learn about the different types of programs Yale offers, the application process and tips, funding strategies, and what it’s like to study abroad for the summer!
UPCOMING EVENTS
Proposal Writing Workshop
Tuesday, December 12, 1-2pm AND Wednesday December 13, 3pm – 4pm
CIPE, 55 Whitney Ave., 3rd floor, room 305
In this workshop, we will discuss the things committees look for when evaluating fellowship proposals. We will go over what can turn a ‘decent’ proposal into a ‘great’ one, how to approach creating a budget and we will review resources you can use to construct a successful application.
FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS DROP-IN HOURS
Friday, December 15, 2pm – 4pm
CIPE, 55 Whitney Avenue, 3rd Floor
Visit the Calendar of Events for a full list of upcoming events.
APPROACHING DEADLINES
January 17 - Davis Project for Peace (campus deadline)
January 19 - Beinecke Scholarship Program (campus deadline)
January 22 - National Security Education Program NSEP David L Boren Undergraduate Scholarship (campus deadline)
January 22 - National Institute of Standards and Technology Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (NIST SURF) (campus deadline)
January 26 - Mortimer Hays Brandeis (campus deadline)
January 31 - The CIPE Yale College Post Graduate Fellowships (application deadline)
CUHK-Yale summer seminar: June 15-June 30, 2018
Title: The overbuilt country-side: Territorial Governance and Land Use in Guangdong
Dates: June 15 – June 30, 2018 for Yale participants.
Core Faculty: Professor Deborah Davis, Department of Sociology, Yale, Professor Pierre Landry Department of GPA at CUHK. and Professor CHEN Juan from Department of Applied Social Science at Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Primary goals: As in past CUHK-Yale summer workshops, we have designed the program to meet pedagogical, methodological, and substantive goals where resources at CUHK are of exceptional value. In terms of pedagogy and methodology, this workshop is designed to provide a supervised experience for learning advanced techniques of mapping and data analysis of detailed geo-referred materials on land use. The workshop will use hierarchical spatial analysis to explore connections between territorial governance and land use in rural China since the end of the people’s communes. But we also draw extensively on archival material, only some of which has been digitized.
The initial empirical challenge is to describe variation in land use across the Province of Guangdong as one step toward understanding the relationship between land management and “land-use agents” at the level of village, township, and county. Over the two-week workshop we will move from creating a descriptive overview to testing preliminary explanatory hypotheses.
Location: the workshop will be based at the Universities Service Center for China Studies (USC) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, a research center which houses an extraordinary collection of documentary and statistical materials, as well as the Barometer of Chinese Development, a digital archive of data on all counties in China.
Student Participants: maximum of 10, between 2-4 from Yale and between 6-8 from CUHK.
Minimum Requirements: competence in written Chinese and multi-variate statistics and commitment to join workshop 9:00 am- 5:00 pm Mondays through Saturdays betweenJune 18 and June 30. Students arriving from overseas must arrive in Hong Kong no later than the evening of June 16, 2018.
Application Process for Yale students: By January 25, 2018, email Deborah.davis@yale.edu a one page resume and brief statement of why the workshop’s empirical foci interest you and how you might build on the experience in the subsequent 12 months. Interviews in New Haven will be scheduled between January 29 and 31. Offers will be madeFebruary 1, and February 15 is deadline to accept offer in order to finalize tickets and handle visa application for non-US citizens in a timely fashion. Any questions, please email Deborah.davis@yale.edu.
Financing: For Yale students, the Council on East Asian Studies (CEAS) will cover: one roundtrip economy ticket up to the cost of the airfare between NYC and Hong Kong, cost of visa application (where necessary), and housing for 15 nights in Hong Kong. For both Yale and CUHK participants, CEAS provides daily per diem (25USD)