Notes and News – Week of 1/21/2019
HL’s Pieces
Dear Red Lions,
I hope on this very cold Martin Luther King, Jr. Day some of you bundled up and ventured out on this cold day to see the campus encased in shimmering icicles. Although TD did not experience a long power outage from the storm, power was out just long enough to make our tower clock run ten minutes behind. So don’t rely on the clock to get you to class on time this week!
Speaking of MLK Day, please note the wonderful program for this week, especially this Wednesday 1/23. The theme this year is “Think Globally, Act Locally.” Please go here for more information.
Our “photo of the week” features my wonderful mom, Fung Lui, and our TD Buttery staff and volunteers who helped to lead this year’s “TD Dumpling Night”.
I know it’s freezing outside, but it’s not too early to sign up for the IRIS Run for Refugees on Sunday 2/3 at 10am. TD has 20 spots for this race. Race proceeds go to support the wonderful work of IRIS (Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services) throughout the greater New Haven area. If you are interested, please go to the registration site and enter coupon code TDYALE to have your entrance fee waived. Register here: https://runsignup.com/Race/Register/?raceId=69148
Speaking of IRIS, TD College Community Engagement Fellow, Lizzie Dolan TD ’21, announces that the Yale Refugee Project working with IRIS is expanding their youth program to include college and career prep and are seeking more volunteers! She hopes to bring more TD students to work with a new arts event in the TD Gallery to raise more awareness about the presence of refugees within New Haven. If interested, please access the application here. Applications are due Sunday the 27th at noon. Please contact Elizabeth.dolan@yale.edu if you have further questions.
Here are the important events for this week:
Tuesday 1/22 First-Years Fireside Chats (TD House)
Round one of Fireside Chats. All first-years should have already signed up to attend a Fireside Chat on either evening – 1/22 or 1/28. If you haven’t already reserved your spot, please go to this link.
Friday 1/25 5pm TD Knitting Circle (TD Common Room)
Although the Knitting Circle will start closer to 5pm, anyone who needs to buy new yarn, should first meet our Grad Affiliate coordinator, Sumita Ghosh, at 4pm in the TD Common Room to go to Knit New Haven together. The group will then return to the Common Room before 5pm to start the Knitting Circle. Email sumita.ghosh@yale.edu if you have any questions.
And we have even more important dates and events for the following week:
Monday 1/28 First-Years Fireside Chats (TD House)
Round 2 of Fireside Chats. This is the last night so make sure you do not miss it if you signed up.
Tuesday 1/29 5:30pm TD Senior Mellon Forum (TD House)
Our spring semester series of Mellon Forum presentations continue! Look forward to fabulous presentations, great food and wine, and conversation! We will meet just about every Tuesday night until early April when your senior essays will finally be due!
Tuesday 1/29 8:30-10:30pm TD Spring Community Night (TD Dining Hall)
Another terrific evening of sharing the warm community spirit and talents in the college! The sign-up link was already sent out in a prior email, please make sure to sign up this week to secure your spot to perform!
Wednesday 1/30 4:30pm Tea with Professor Peter Loge (TD House)
TD is excited to welcome Professor Peter Loge of George Washington University who will be talking on the topic “Return to Ethics in Political Communication.” Professor Loge is the Assistant Director in the School of Media and Public Affairs and has had a long career in Washington, D.C. serving under Senator Edward Kennedy and three members of the US House of Representatives, and in the Obama administration contributing to the passing of the Affordable Care Act. His new book, Political Communication Ethics: Theory and Practice will be due out in 2020 and he will also serve as the Director of the Project on Ethics in Political Communication, which is launching on March 5th of this year.
If anyone is interested in going to dinner with Professor Loge after the tea, please email me at mary.lui@yale.edu.
Without further ado, here is a word from Dean Mahurin…
Àshe,
HL
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“Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind. I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what it means to self-create. If I yielded now, I would lose more than an argument. I would lose custody of my own mind.” (Tara Westover, Educated)
UPCOMING DATES AND DEADLINES:
January 23, Wednesday: Final course schedules due for the Class of 2022.
January 24, Thursday: Final course schedules due for the Classes of 2020 and 2021.
January 25, Friday: Final course schedules due for the Class of 2019.
January 28, Monday: Final deadline to apply for a spring-term Leave of Absence. See Leave of Absence, Withdrawal, and Reinstatement.
Withdrawal from Yale College on or before this date entitles a student to a full rebate of spring-term tuition. See Undergraduate Regulations.
First-Years and Sophomores!
Don’t forget this survey from the Yale College Teaching, Learning, and Advising Committee.
It is designed to explore how frequently there is misalignment between incoming students’ level of academic preparation and their courses, and why. Your participation will help Yale improve its course offerings and advising system to better serve the diverse needs of incoming students. The survey closes at 11:59pm on Friday Jan 25th. Link to the survey: HERE
Women in Science at Yale
Interested in STEM research, meeting fellow women scientists, and/or exploring career paths?
If so, you won’t want to miss out on Research Chats organized by Women in Science at Yale (WISAY)! Join us on Thursday, January 31st from 6:00-7:30pm at SSS 410 as Tina Su and Lauie Bracaglia, PhD, share their career paths and research. Tina is a graduate student in the Immunobiology Department working in lab that studies novel regulatory pathways controlling immune cell function and their potential application in cancer immunology and autoimmunity. Laurie is a postdoc in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and is working on using nanoparticle-based drug delivery systems to arm blood vessels against immune-mediated injury.
Each informal talk will be 30 minutes with time afterward to mingle with students and postdocs in the sciences. Pizza is provided! RSVP here: https://goo.gl/forms/4uSaIP0PJoPOrzaB3. This event is funded and sponsored by Associate Dean Sandy Chang and Science and Quantitative Reasoning Education. Email wisay@yale.edu with any questions.
U.S. Grant Foundation Teaching Opportunities
About:
Since 1953, the U.S. Grant Foundation has provided exceptional summer academic enrichment programs for New Haven Public
Schools middle school students. The program gives nine Yale undergraduates the chance to teach creative, self-developed courses and local students the chance
to expand their academic horizons beyond the classroom.
Who Should Apply:
Ideal candidates should be passionate about education,
invested in the New Haven
community, and good with children. All candidates
must be prepared to teach a six-week long core course as well as two electives that they have developed.
Compensation:
$3, 500 over the course of the summer.
Dates:
The 2019 summer program runs from June 24th
to August 2nd.
Application:Complete the following
by
February
2nd at 11:59 PM.
For More Information:
Visit
http://campuspress.yale.edu/usgrant/
or email
Splash at Yale’s Spring Sprout Program
Interested in sharing your passions with middle schoolers? Splash at Yale is an education outreach organization that runs two programs each semester for students from all over the Northeast. All classes are taught by Yale students, and cover topics ranging from “The Geography of Happiness” to “Epigentics” to “An Introduction to Skepticism.” Teaching is a small time commitment but has a huge impact on our students!
On February 16th, February 23rd, and March 2nd, we will be holding a program called Sprout for middle schoolers where you can teach a one hour class. Your class can be a one-time only elective on any of the three weekends or it can be a sequential core class that goes on for all three days! Teacher registration is currently open until January 26th and you can register here.
If you’re interested in learning more, please visit our
or email us at yalesprout@gmail.com.
Watanabe Scholarship
The Toshizo Watanabe Endowed Scholarship Fund provides financial assistance to undergraduates/graduate students for a semester or year-long study abroad program in either the United States or Japan. A generous endowment gift of $10 million from Mr. Toshizo (Tom) Watanabe to the U.S.-Japan Council makes it possible to award scholarships to students for whom study abroad would not be possible without financial support.
The scholarship will support up to the full cost of attendance to the study abroad program of the applicant’s choice. The scholarship program grants awards to recipients in amounts determined by financial need and other qualifications. 2019 marks the second year to support American students studying abroad in Japan, and the fourth year for Japanese students studying abroad in the United States.
The application for the 2019-20 academic year is now open. Click here to access the application.
Application deadline: February 17, 2019 at 11:59pm
Please join our mailing list for more information.
Eligibility (to Study Abroad in Japan)
- U.S. citizen or permanent resident
- Currently in good academic standing at an accredited college or university in the U.S.
- Will be enrolled in a credit-bearing course of study at a college, university or approved academic center in Japan in the upcoming academic year
- Demonstrates financial need for international study (i.e. Without financial assistance or support, would not be able to study abroad)
- (Preferred) Applicants who have been raised by a single parent or who have lost both parents
- (Preferred) Applicants without significant international travel or study experience
- (Preferred) First in family to attend/graduate from college (i.e. first-generation)
- (Priority) The priority for the scholarship is undergraduates who are studying abroad for a year or less. Graduate students and international degree-seeking students may also apply, however the maximum amount of an award is $25,000 for one year.
Watanabe Scholarship
The Toshizo Watanabe Endowed Scholarship Fund provides financial assistance to undergraduates/graduate students for a semester or year-long study abroad program in either the United States or Japan. A generous endowment gift of $10 million from Mr. Toshizo (Tom) Watanabe to the U.S.-Japan Council makes it possible to award scholarships to students for whom study abroad would not be possible without financial support.
The scholarship will support up to the full cost of attendance to the study abroad program of the applicant’s choice. The scholarship program grants awards to recipients in amounts determined by financial need and other qualifications. 2019 marks the second year to support American students studying abroad in Japan, and the fourth year for Japanese students studying abroad in the United States.
The application for the 2019-20 academic year is now open. Click here to access the application.
Application deadline: February 17, 2019 at 11:59pm
Please join our mailing list for more information.
The scholarship will support up to the full cost of attendance to the study abroad program of the applicant’s choice. The scholarship program grants awards to recipients in amounts determined by financial need and other qualifications. 2019 marks the second year to support American students studying abroad in Japan, and the fourth year for Japanese students studying abroad in the United States.
The application for the 2019-20 academic year is now open. Click here to access the application.
Application deadline: February 17, 2019 at 11:59pm
Please join our mailing list for more information.
Eligibility (to Study Abroad in Japan)
- U.S. citizen or permanent resident
- Currently in good academic standing at an accredited college or university in the U.S.
- Will be enrolled in a credit-bearing course of study at a college, university or approved academic center in Japan in the upcoming academic year
- Demonstrates financial need for international study (i.e. Without financial assistance or support, would not be able to study abroad)
- (Preferred) Applicants who have been raised by a single parent or who have lost both parents
- (Preferred) Applicants without significant international travel or study experience
- (Preferred) First in family to attend/graduate from college (i.e. first-generation)
- (Priority) The priority for the scholarship is undergraduates who are studying abroad for a year or less. Graduate students and international degree-seeking students may also apply, however the maximum amount of an award is $25,000 for one year.
For more information on the scholarship’s establishment, please read the press release.
For any questions, please email watanabescholarship@usjapancouncil.org.