Notes & News - Week of February 9th, 2014

February 9, 2014

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MASTER’S PIECES

Good evening, destinarians, and hope you are enjoying our extended stay in a winter wonderland. Find somewhere warm and cozy, avoid ice dams falling off roofs, and seize the opportunity to catch up on your reading. Oh, and watch the figure skaters. They are something. It’ll be a fairly quiet week in TD, but there will still be cookies:    

·         Tuesday, February 11th, Thompson Room, 10:00 pm  – Insomnia Cookies Study Break for AIDS Walk  Your TD SAC is collaborating with AIDS Walk New Haven to sponsor this one. Insomnia Cookies is devoting 10% of all proceeds received Tuesday night to AIDS Walk, and you can pick up more info at the study break while you are grabbing some cookies to go.

·         Thursday, February 13th, Thompson Room, 9:30 PM – Workshop for TD students on International Summer Awards (ISA)   Our resident fellow and former University Career Services senior officer Lanch McCormick is back with another workshop, this time on the ins and outs of the International Summer Award. The Yale ISA provides a stipend for one summer experience abroad for eligible undergraduate students receiving a Yale scholarship. Find out which programs are eligible for this funding and take advantage of Lanch’s vast experience advising students on how to get the most out of this fantastic opportunity.

·         Saturday, February 15, Dining Hall closed for dinner  Undergraduate admissions will be hosting the YES Weekend again this year for a group of 100 top science and engineering applicants, and this Saturday they’ll get their taste of the residential college dining hall experience. Use the opportunity to charge into the night and check out a servery you’ve never seen. 

Some dates for down the road to mark on your calendar now:

Friday, February 21, 5:15 to 7:30 pm   TD Sophomore Class Dinner   Class of 2016  watch your email boxes this week for your formal invitation, menu and program, but save the date now!

Friday, February 21, 9:00 pm   TD presents TUIB & Friends  After the sophomore dinner, 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.

Sunday, February 23, 4:00 pm, Master’s House   Chelsea Lane harp recital   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.

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 you get 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 for more.

Finally, Lanch and David McCormick asked me to send you the following note about Dixie:

“We are so deeply touched by the entire TD community for the outpouring of love and support in these days since Dixie’s passing. The last three years of her life was enriched because she lived here. All of you took her into your hearts. No other dog could have asked for better playfellows. She and we love our TD’ers! Thank you, thank you from the bottom of our hearts.”

TIMOTHY DWIGHT

TD Resident Math/Science Tutor, Jialu Chen, is new to us this term.  Her email address is  jialu.chen@yale.edu .  Her office is TD room B007.  She will be available on Sundays and Thursdays from 8pm to 11pm.  The schedules and science and other specialties of all the residential college math and science tutors are posted at: www.yale.edu/mstutor.   She specializes in economics and calculus.  Reminder: any student is permitted to seek help from other tutors in other residential colleges.

TD Senior Mellon Forum will meet over dinner this Tuesday’ in the private room at Great Wall restaurant.  This week’s presenters are Andrew Freeburg (A Roving, Roaming Magic Show), Isaiah Lyons-Galante and Madeline Yozwiak (Solar Energy Mini-Grids: Jumping the Power Grid to Electrify Rural Africa), Carol Hundert (Cognitive Dissonance in Infants?), and Millie Chapman (Assessing a Geographic Correlation between Spina Bifida and Malaria in Kenya.)  Please RSVP when you receive the Evite so that we can give the restaurant an accurate count. Questions to jacob.marcus@yale.edu and diane.charney@yale.edu

FRESHMAN SCHOLARS AT YALE SUMMER RESIDENTIAL COUNSELORSHIP 2014

Any currently enrolled Yale sophomore, junior, senior, or graduate student in good academic standing or any Yale alumnus/a is eligible to apply.  The ideal candidate will have spent at least one or two years in a residential college.  There will be 4 counselors along with an activities coordinator to manage the FSY program in conjunction with the FSY Dean and Yale Summer Session staff. While no single formula can describe the sort of person who would make the most effective counselor, applicants should be mature students who enjoy working with others and who feel committed to the intellectual and social values of residential college life.  The job also requires resourcefulness, integrity, good judgment, and energy.  Previous counseling experience is a plus, as is self-identification with the students who participate in FSY. A commitment to help students from under-resourced backgrounds succeed at Yale is an important aspect to this particular counselor position. Our residential colleges are an exciting place to be during the summer, with an extremely talented and diverse group of students from all over the U.S. and the world, in addition to Yale students.  An information sheet and application are available at:http://summer.yale.edu/student-life.  A completed application form and a resume must be received in the Summer Session Office, 4th Floor, 55 Whitney Avenue, no later than 4:00 p.m., February 10, 2014.

TD Room Draw begins after Spring Break.  Information about and rules of the room draw (from last year – to be updated soon) are posted at www.yale.edu/td.  TD Housing Committee comprises Cory Combs, Shelby Davis-Cooper, Alexandra Krause (co-chair), Eugene Yi (co-chair), Kelly Wu, Alexander Petros, and two members of the freshman class yet to be selected.   An information meeting for TD freshmen will be held during the week before spring break, TBA.

The Intercultural Affairs Council, is assembling a collection of Yalies’ Unexpected Connections, both fleeting and sustained, with their fellow students and with other members of the Yale community. 

The Yale College Dean’s Office is looking for stories, short videos, images, poetry, and spoken word—or any other medium that allows you to best describe what you’ve found in the relationships that begin outside your comfort zone. Selected pieces will be shared with the Yale community, and used as part of the orientation materials for the Class of 2018. To get involved with this project, come to one of the Unexpected Connections community conversations hosted by the student members of the IAC. Click here to register for a workshop. You do not have to attend a workshop to submit material, but the workshop will give more information on the types of stories we are seeking. 

Submissions are due March 3rd, 2014 to lindsay.davis@yale.edu. Written pieces must be under 500 words; video or audio pieces may be no longer than 3 minutes. Joint authorship is highly encouraged.

Work for Commencement and Reunions 2014.  You must be available to work from May 5th through June 1. Please do not apply if you cannot be available all days during this time frame. The positions you are applying for will cover a wide range of responsibilities assisting the Residential College Facilities Superintendents as we prepare for Commencement & Reunions. The positions will include some weekend and evening hours.  Deadline to apply is Friday February 21st.  Additional Summer Housing Coordinator Positions will be available for the summer June 2-August 22. If interested, please contact: Kirsta MacLellan and Ian Hobbs kirsta.maclellan@yale.edu Office # 432-6126, ian.hobbs@yale.edu Office #432-0527

FRESHMEN

Selecting a Sophomore Year Faculty Adviser:   As you arrange to meet and do meet and do talk to  teachers this term, I remind you to keep in mind that by the end of April you must ask someone to be your adviser during your sophomore year.  In due course you will receive an email about the process.  Just giving you a heads up so you can continue to plan ahead.

SOPHOMORES

Sophomore Web Site  http://sophomore.yalecollege.yale.edu/calendar for easy reference, including information sessions on majors and on fellowships available to sophomores. 

SUMMER

FRESHMAN SCHOLARS AT YALE SUMMER RESIDENTIAL COUNSELORSHIP 2014

Any currently enrolled Yale sophomore, junior, senior, or graduate student in good academic standing or any Yale alumnus/a is eligible to apply.  The ideal candidate will have spent at least one or two years in a residential college.  There will be 4 counselors along with an activities coordinator to manage the FSY program in conjunction with the FSY Dean and Yale Summer Session staff. While no single formula can describe the sort of person who would make the most effective counselor, applicants should be mature students who enjoy working with others and who feel committed to the intellectual and social values of residential college life.  The job also requires resourcefulness, integrity, good judgment, and energy.  Previous counseling experience is a plus, as is self-identification with the students who participate in FSY. A commitment to help students from under-resourced backgrounds succeed at Yale is an important aspect to this particular counselor position. Our residential colleges are an exciting place to be during the summer, with an extremely talented and diverse group of students from all over the U.S. and the world, in addition to Yale students.  An information sheet and application are available at:http://summer.yale.edu/student-life.  A completed application form and a resume must be received in the Summer Session Office, 4th Floor, 55 Whitney Avenue, no later than 4:00 p.m., February 10, 2014.

Yale Sustainable Food Project Summer 2014 Internship — Due February 20

The YSFP’s Lazarus Summer Internship for Sustainable Food and Agriculture is now accepting applications. The internship offers Yale undergrads the opportunity to learn and gain hands-on experience in sustainable agriculture and local food systems. Former interns regularly consider the experience as one of their best at Yale; it often has a strong influence on their life plans or course of study. Interns receive an award of $4,000 while working on the Farm from June 3 through August 16. No experience is required and all everyone is encouraged to apply. To apply, click here. For more information, click here.

Yale College-administered summer research fellowships in the sciences and engineering information session will be held on Tuesday, February 11 at 5:00 PM (location to be posted at http://science.yalecollege.yale.edu/yale-undergraduate-research/workshops).  This session will focus on fellowships that provide support for research with a Yale faculty member, including
Summer 2014 Science and Engineering Research Fellowship, Yale Science Scholars Program, Tetelman Fellowship for International Research in the Sciences, Freshman Summer Research Fellowship in the Sciences and Engineering, Yale College Dean’s Research Fellowship (sciences and engineering). For information on these and other fellowships for scientific and health-related research, please see the Science and QR Center’s undergraduate research web site at 
http://science.yalecollege.yale.edu/fellowships-grants .

For information about the Yale College Dean’s Research Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences  and other fellowships for research, travel and study abroad, please see the Yale Student Grants Database at http://studentgrants.yale.edu/

If you wish to be added to the Yale College Science and QR Center’s mailing list for undergraduate research opportunities, please send a message to yser@yale.edu with “subscribe” in the subject line.

Yale Summer Session Courses Abroad

With 36 amazing options around the world, you can spend the summer earning Yale credit by participating in a Yale faculty-led program abroad! The deadline to apply is February 15. Have questions about a program or the International Summer Award? Schedule an appointment with a study abroad adviser. Students interested in language programs might also be eligible to apply for Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships through the Student Grants and Fellowships database (http://studentgrants.yale.edu).

2014 Summer Study Abroad for Yale Course Credit:  If you are considering summer study abroad in 2014 with outside (i.e., non-Yale) programs in order to earn Yale course credit, you must apply for approval through the Summer Abroad Program. Information about the application process, including a list of eligible programs, is available at the Center for International and Professional Experience, 55 Whitney Avenue, 3rd floor, and at the CIPE website http://cipe.yalecollege.yale.edu [click on Study Abroad.  The link for information about Yale credit for non-Yale programs appears then at the bottom. Students receiving credit for foreign study on a Summer Abroad may apply such credit toward the distributional requirements (except for the freshman year distributional requirements) or toward a requirement of the student’s major program.

CIPE Summer Fellowships Common Application

Apply for one or more summer fellowships for a variety of purposes, all via this one application

http://studentgrants.yale.edu  Eligible: freshmen, sophomores, and juniors.  Campus deadline: February 19, 2014

Visit the UCS Calendar of Events for a full list of upcoming events. Log in to Yale UCS Symplicity under Events/Employer Information Sessions to RSVP.

Career Services – Summer Internships

UCS-sponsored domestic and international internships continue to be posted in Yale UCS Symplicity each day. Before applying students must complete the UCS-Sponsored Internship Tutorial, which can be accessed in the Symplicity Document Library under Resources. Once the tutorial is complete, UCS will approve students to apply for internships within two business days.

LAST Fellowship Proposal-Writing Workshop before summer deadlines!

Tuesday, February 11th at 4:00pm

CIPE, 55 Whitney Avenue, room 305

What goes into an effective fellowship proposal? 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, and we will review resources you can use to construct a successful application.

Yale College Fellowships for Research in Health Studies

Also: Global Health Initiative fellowships

Support research in health studies, including social, political, economic and biological determinants of health—as well as global health projects

Eligible: Yale freshmen, sophomores, and juniors

http://studentgrants.yale.edu

Deadline: February 19, 2014

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships

Support academic year and summer language programs abroad at the intermediate or advanced level. Proposed language of study must be designated as a priority by the Department of Education. Refer to the Student Grants Database for a list.

Eligible: freshmen, sophomores, and juniors who are U.S. citizens and permanent residents

http://studentgrants.yale.edu

Deadline: February 19, 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

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

Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program

Supports up to a year of study abroad in any discipline

Eligible: U.S. citizens and nationals who are Pell Grant recipients

www.iie.org/gilman

Deadline: March 4, 2014 (for summer and fall 2014 study)

NOTES

Yet again this year as I have in the past I travel with my head down against the cold wind and to watch my step. “Watch your step,” my aunt said. She did not mean observe with my head down, but that is just what I do. I feel my step, too. I feel the hard nubs of ice through my shoes as I make my way up. I feel the unsettling slide beneath my shoes as I cross the frozen ice sheets along the curbs. I feel the cold insinuate itself into my socks and to my feet. I do not see much as my eyes give up tears to the cold wind, but I do my best to at least see where I am going; I do see the  scattered ,moguls of ice and snow as the cold wind catches my coat. And beneath my step I see coarse sand from some truck (very early morning truck, no doubt), salt stains, bits of fallen leaves, and gravel from who knows where.  The detritus of life coincident with trees and bushes and snow and cars and the other large animals like me. When snow falls, all is covered; when the snow melts, we see better how we live, on the ground.

And again this year as I walk along with my head down, I wonder how the birds were doing.  They are around, somewhere, but where, and how are they getting along? I, after all, have been looking only at what is under my own two feet. I guess I am eager to look up and see other conditions of life. The best I can do for now, with the help of others, is to imagine and to hope the birds will return to where I can see them. I know others see them when they go on field trips and bird walks.  I, however, have not seen even a feather among the scrub and scroll of winter. 

We, of course, are around here where we know we live, and we do see each other. We trek to the gym against the wind along Grove up or up Hillhouse to SCL or along College to LC.. It takes a lot of time getting in and out of our layers and wondering where it all will go at our seat in SSS 114. It is a lot of big stuff we must wear and carry about, and a lot of little stuff we must walk on along the way. And now it is even snowing a bit. What am I thinking as I travel, in and out? Sometimes, I am thinking, “Where are the birds?  How they are doing?”  Dean Loge