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MASTER’S PIECES
Happy January, campers. Looks like 2014 to me, and I always experience the launch of second semester like a slide down snowy Divinity School hill on a dining hall tray - quite a rush as long as you can keep your balance. More on those dining hall trays below. But meanwhile, WELCOME HOME TD!!! Here’s what’s happening this week:
· Wednesday, January 15, 9 pm – Mindfulness Meditation in the Selin Lounge Our resident fellow David McCormick will be teaching Mindfulness Meditation again on Wednesday evenings at 9 pm. If you have ever wanted to try out meditation, or are already well practiced, this is your weekly chance to clear your head, bring some peace into your life, and learn to concentrate. If interested, please email him at david.mccormick@yale.edu. Beginners are welcome!!!
· Thursday, January 16, lunch from 12-1:30 with Colin Grussing TD ‘07 in the Thompson Room Ok, this is a cool opportunity. The Yale Entrepreneurial Society (YES) and Yale Entrepreneurial Institute (YEI) are hosting serial entrepreneur and TD alum Colin Grussing this Thursday for a 4 pm public talk at the CEID on Prospect Street. Colin also wanted to come here and have lunch with current TD students. Since graduation, he has started several businesses including Spandex Bodysuits, Bear Coats, Motorcycle Sidecars and Real Estate Investing. With his next venture, 52Businesses, he will be starting a new business every week for a year, documenting the adventure in a blog, podcast, and web series. At lunch here in TD, Colin will discuss lessons learned from his startups and from going on ABC’s “Shark Tank”. He wants to meet any TDers interested in getting involved with 52Businesses or learning about entrepreneurship in general. Just get your lunch and pull up a seat in the Thompson Room.
· TD GOES TRAYLESS Well our trial run worked out, and the evidence is overwhelming with respect to the other college dining halls. Trayless dining creates a significant savings in energy use and also creates substantially less food wastage. The cost is learning a new skill set for managing dishes. We will keep a few trays available for those whose mobility needs require them, but otherwise its trayless in TD. We appreciate the community help in making this change.
· TD Creative and Performing Arts Grants (CPA Awards) – application deadline of January 20 Earlier today, I sent around my usual spring update on funding sources, which you can always find on the TD web site at http://timothydwight.yalecollege.yale.edu/fellowship. In it you’ll find info on the CPA grants, which you can also access directly athttp://creativeandperformingarts.commons.yale.edu/. Deadline for the second semester apps is January 20.
· TD Student Kitchen Reservation and Use Our kitchen aides have asked me to remind folks that you can reserve the student kitchen athttp://timothydwight.yalecollege.yale.edu/student-kitchen. This is truly a work of the heart: food = love. And it makes a BIG difference if you follow the guidelines at that link and posted in the kitchen, to the letter, and leave the kitchen more organized and cleaner than you found it, always.
Before the break, it was our profound privilege to host one of my lifelong heroes, Wendell Berry, as the final Chubb Fellow for 2013. Wendell is a farmer, activist, poet, novelist and essayist. For over 50 years in his many writings, he has provoked, encouraged and enlightened us about our relationship with each other and with the land. I hope you got to see him at the Shubert or at the Chubb dinner – his voice is rare, profound and inspiring. As I delved back into it, I came across this quote, which I wanted to share as we look forward to the next three or four months together:
A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that a place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other’s lives. It is the knowledge that people have of each other, their concern for each other, their trust in each other, and it is the freedom with which they come and go among themselves.
TIMOTHY DWIGHT
TD Dean’s Office Hours: Monday – Friday, 8:30 AM to 5 PM.
Visit or call the office to make an appointment (203-432-0754)
Freshman Counselor Applications are now available at the Yale College Freshman Counselor Website: http://yalecollege.yale.edu/content/freshman-counselors Prospective freshman counselors should complete the online application form and also turn in a hard-copy, one-page resume to their own Residential College Dean’s office. These and other guidelines are on the application and the website. The application will be open until Friday, January 31, 4 PM.
Information Meeting about Freshman Counseling in TD, Tuesday, January 21, 10 – 11 PM, B-30 [Dean’s apartment]. Current freshman counselors and Dean Loge will be available to answer questions. Attendance is optional. Attending the meeting is not part of the application process. It is an occasion to talk about and ask questions about being a freshman counselor in TD.
Applications for the 2014-2015 Peer Liaison Program are now available for all rising sophomores, juniors and seniors.
Peer liaisons are upperclassmen who help connect freshmen to the programs and services of Yale’s cultural and community resource centers, including the Afro-American Cultural Center, the Asian American Cultural Center, the Chaplain’s Office, the Office of International Students and Scholars, the Latino Cultural Center, the LGBTQ Resource Center, and the Native American Cultural Center.
Click here or go to the Peer Liaison Program website to complete the 2014-2015 online application. The deadline for application submission is Friday, February 7, 2014. Selected applicants will be contacted for a personal interview. Decision letters will be emailed on Friday, March 7, 2014.
Question to Dean Rodney T. Cohen
Assistant Dean of Yale College
The Adrian Van Sinderen Book Collecting Prizes for Seniors and Sophomores In order to encourage undergraduates to collect books, build their own libraries, and read for pleasure and education, Adrian Van Sinderen YC 1910 established two prizes— one for seniors and one for sophomores— in 1957. The Senior Prize is $1,000, and the Sophomore Prize is $700. For more information, including instructions and the application form, visit: http://www.yale.edu/printer/vansinderen. Application materials are due by 5 pm on Friday, January 24, 2014. To view the poster advertising the prize, visit our blog at http://printer.yale.edu. Selected collections will be examined by appointment before spring vacation. If a collection does not reside at Yale, the student should be prepared to show the judging committee what he or she considers the most significant portion of the collection. For your TD information, TD students have applied for and been awarded these prizes.
ACADEMICS
Registration for Seniors, Juniors, and Sophomores
Monday, January 13 8:30 AM – 5 PM
Register and pick up your registration packet in the Thompson Room
Failure to pick up your registration packet on Monday by 5 PM incurs a fine of $50.
Each may pick up only his or her own registration packet.
Martin Luther King Day: Monday, January 20.
- No Yale College or Graduate School classes will meet on Monday, January 20, 2014.
- All Monday classes that would normally meet on January 20 will meet instead on Friday, January 17, in their scheduled classrooms.
- Friday classes will not meet on January 17. The missed Friday will not be made up.
Course Schedule Deadlines:
Class of 2017 Wednesday, January 22, 5 PM
Class of 2016 Thursday, January 23, 5 PM
Class of 2015 Thursday, January 23, 5 PM
Class of 2014 Friday, January 24, 5 PM
Schedules are handed in to your TD dean’s office
The deadlines are strictly enforced
A late schedule incurs a fine of $50
A late schedule cannot elect any courses CR/D/Fail
Clerical Error on schedule: $50
A schedule of 3 or 3.5 course credits and a schedule of 6 or 6.5 course credits needs my permission before the schedule is handed in. Schedule an appointment to see me (see above).
On-line Course Selection: www.yale.edu/sis
1. Use the worksheet capabilities to search courses to shop during shopping period.
2. After you have settled on the courses you will take, print your final schedule.
3. Take the final schedule to your adviser for the signature. Sign the schedule.
4. Hand in your signed schedule to the TD dean’s office by the deadline for your class
(see deadlines above and in the Blue Book)
I remind you that (1) the program does not check for conflicts in class meeting times (that is the student’s responsibility – see “overlapping meeting times” above) and that (2) once you print your final schedule, you cannot reenter the program to make changes and print a different final schedule. Including or removing a course (after meeting with your adviser, for instance) must be hand written on the printed final schedule itself (in the Include and Remove Sections), and each change must be initialed by your adviser or me before the deadline for handing in your schedule.
Changes in Classes and their Meeting Times and Places: Course changes and courses added or deleted since the publication of the Blue Book are recorded on line at OCS. The on line list of courses is the most current one, updated as needed.
Overlapping Class Meeting Times: Class meeting times may not overlap by more than 15 minutes once a week. Required are a conversation with me, compelling academic reasons for the overlap, and with my assistance a petition to the Committee on Honors and Academic Standing.
A schedule with a course in The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (and also not listed in the Blue Book) or a professional school requires an additional form, which is available in the TD dean’s office and at www.yale.edu/sfas/registrar/blue_form.pdf . Hand in the completed form with the syllabus attached by the deadline for your course schedule. [Note: SOM courses cannot be added to your schedule through OCS; they must be written by hand in the “include” section on your schedule. It is advised that the form (above) for those SOM courses be completed in the first week of shopping period, well before the deadline for your course schedule, so that you can be sure the SOM registrar can enroll you in the SOM in the course(s) you want.]
Courses at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and at a professional school cannot elect the CR/D/Fail option.
Credit for these courses on your transcript: When you put a Graduate or Professional School course on your schedule, zero (0) course credits are recorded for the course until you hand in to my office the form for graduate school courses (syllabus attached) and the registrar’s office determines the course credits for that course after that. Some courses earn 1 course credit in Yale College and some earn .5 course credits (most commonly in SOM and EPH).
Independents Studies (Directed Reading, Directed Research, etc as listed by most departments): There are limits on the number that a student can enroll in during a given year and over four years. See YCPS (Blue Book) page 42, paragraph 4. Independent Studies cannot be taken on a CR/D/Fail basis.
List of QR and Science courses without prerequisite:
http://www.yale.edu/yalecollege/sqr/qr/courses.html
New natural science seminar courses for spring 2014. The following courses should be accessible to non-science majors who are looking to complete the Sc distribution requirement.
APHY 100, Energy, Technology and Society
ASTR 040, Expanding Ideas of Time and Space
CSYC 300, Performance and Performance-Enhancing Substances
G&G 020, Origins of Everything
MCDB 040, The Science and Politics of Cancer
Deadline to apply for a Spring-Term Leave of Absence: Wednesday, January 22, 5 PM. See me if you are thinking about applying for a leave of absence for this term.
FRESHMEN
Course Schedule Deadline for Class of 2017 is Wednesday, January 22, 5 PM
Freshmen must earn a minimum of 8 course credits after the completion of two terms of enrollment.
Most first year language courses are “credit/year only.” That means that a student who completed FREN L1 last term will get no credit for last term unless she also completes FREN L2 this term. (Note: Students for whom the language of instruction in secondary school was other than English may satisfy the foreign language requirement in other ways; see me if you think this applies to you)
Freshman Year Distributional Requirement: At the end of the freshman year (after two terms of enrollment) the student’s record must record enrollment in at least one course credit in two of the three skills categories (WR, QR, and foreign language). For a course with two distributional designations, only one or the other designation can be counted toward the distributional requirements; in other words, no double dipping. A course may, however, count toward both the requirements for a major and for a distributional requirement. NOTE: If a freshman distributional requirement needs to be made up during the summer following freshman year, that course must be completed in Yale Summer Session.
Applications for the 2014 STARS Summer Research Program is now available online. The STARS (Science, Technology and Research Scholars) Program provides students with an integrated experience that includes mentorship, academic support and engagement in original research. STARS identifies and supports students from groups that are underrepresented in the scientific and technological disciplines, and students who come from disadvantaged circumstances, in any of Yale’s natural sciences and engineering majors. Applications are accepted in the spring semester from students who, at the time, are freshmen or sophomores.
During the summer program students conduct full-time research with a faculty mentor in a Yale science laboratory, enroll in SCIE 101, Scientific Research: Process and Presentation, participate in study sessions and journal clubs, and conduct a formal presentation of their summer research. All participants are required to maintain on-campus residency throughout the duration of the program.
Application deadline is Monday, February 17, 2014 at 4:30 p.m. Information sessions will be held on January 16 and January 30, 2014 at 5:30 at the Yale Afro-American Cultural Center’s Lighten Room, 211 Park St.
Questions to Dean Rodney T. Cohen
SOPHOMORES
Course Schedule Deadline for Class of 2016 is Thursday, January 23, 5 PM
Sophomore Year Distributional Requirement: At the end of the sophomore year (after four terms of enrollment) the student’s record must record enrollment in at least one course credit in each disciplinary area (Hu, Sc, and So) and at least one course credit in each skills category (WR, QR, and foreign language). For a course with two distributional designations, only one or the other designation can be counted toward the distributional requirements; in other words, no double dipping. A course may, however, count toward both the requirements for a major and for a distributional requirement.
Sophomore web site; www.yale.edu/sophomore. Among other information and advice for sophomores, listed on the site are seminars for sophomores and departmental information meetings, which are updated during the term. As for other information about majors, at the web site you can search alumni by their major in Yale College and learn what they do now. And at www.yale.edu/facebook you can search other undergraduates by major, and even by major in your own college.
Applications for the 2014 STARS Summer Research Program is now available online. The STARS (Science, Technology and Research Scholars) Program provides students with an integrated experience that includes mentorship, academic support and engagement in original research. STARS identifies and supports students from groups that are underrepresented in the scientific and technological disciplines, and students who come from disadvantaged circumstances, in any of Yale’s natural sciences and engineering majors. Applications are accepted in the spring semester from students who, at the time, are freshmen or sophomores.
During the summer program students conduct full-time research with a faculty mentor in a Yale science laboratory, enroll in SCIE 101, Scientific Research: Process and Presentation, participate in study sessions and journal clubs, and conduct a formal presentation of their summer research. All participants are required to maintain on-campus residency throughout the duration of the program.
Application deadline is Monday, February 17, 2014 at 4:30 p.m. Information sessions will be held on January 16 and January 30, 2014 at 5:30 at the Yale Afro-American Cultural Center’s Lighten Room, 211 Park St.
Questions to Dean Rodney T. Cohen
The Mellon Mays and Edward Bouchet Fellowships for sophomores interested in a career in Academia Attention Sophomores interested in a career in Academia. The Mellon Mays and Bouchet Fellowships aim to increase the number of minority students and others with a demonstrated commitment to eradicating racial disparities, who will pursue PhDs and subsequent careers in academia. The Fellowships are open to Sophomores interested in teaching and research at the college and university level. Those interested are encouraged to attend the January 15th Information Session.
Information Session:
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Asian American Cultural Center, 295 Crown Street (bet. High and York)
4:30-6:00 (Dinner will be served)
For more information contact: Dean Saveena Dhall, Director of Mellon Mays and Bouchet Fellowships (saveena.dhall@yale.edu) and Tyler Rogers, Coordinator of Mellon Mays and Bouchet Fellowships (tyler.rogers@yale.edu).
Additional information and Application Forms can be found online at:
http://yalecollege.yale.edu/content/edward-bouchet-undergraduate-fellowship-program
http://yalecollege.yale.edu/content/mellon-mays-undergraduate-fellowship-program
JUNIORS
Course Schedule Deadline for Class of 2015 is Thursday, January 23, 5 PM
The foreign language requirement must be completed by the end of the junior year (sixth term of enrollment) in order to be promoted to senior standing (a seventh term of enrollment).
Junior Year Distributional Requirement: At the end of the junior year (after 6 terms of enrollment) a student’s record must show successful completion of all skills requirements: two course credits in QR, two course credits in WR, and foreign language). A course completed CR cannot count toward a distribution requirement. For a course with two distributional designations, only one or the other designation can be counted toward the distributional requirements; in other words, no double dipping. A course may, however, count toward both the requirements for a major and for a distributional requirement.
Freshman Counselor Applications are now available at the Yale College Freshman Counselor Website: http://yalecollege.yale.edu/content/freshman-counselors Prospective freshman counselors should complete the online application form and also turn in a hard-copy, one-page resume to their own Residential College Dean’s office. These and other guidelines are on the application and the website. The application will be open until Friday, January 31, 4 PM.
Information Meeting about Freshman Counseling in TD, Tuesday, January 21, 10 – 11 PM, B-30 [Dean’s apartment]. Current freshman counselors and Dean Loge will be available to answer questions. Attendance is optional. Attending the meeting is not part of the application process. It is an occasion to talk about and ask questions about being a freshman counselor in TD.
CIPE Research Fellowships for Juniors
Support summer research abroad that is related to senior essays and senior projects in the humanities and social sciences. http://studentgrants.yale.edu Campus deadline: January 22, 2014
SENIORS
Course Schedule Deadline for Class of 2014 is Friday, January 24, 5 PM
Distributional Requirement for the degree: Successful completion of two course credits each in WR, QR, Hu, So, and Sc and completion of the foreign language requirement. A course completed CR cannot count toward a distribution requirement. For a course with two distributional designations, only one or the other designation can be counted toward the distributional requirements; in other words, no double dipping. A course may, however, count toward both the requirements for a major and for a distributional requirement.
Friday, January 24 is the last day for the Class of 2014 to petition for permission to complete the requirements of two majors. The form is in the TD dean’s office and requires the signatures of both DUS’s.
SUMMER
2014 Summer 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 on the CIPE Web site. Students receiving credit for foreign study on a Summer Abroad may apply such credit toward the distributional requirements for the bachelor’s degree or toward a requirement of the student’s major program.
Ulysses S. Grant Foundation, a summer enrichment program for New Haven middle school students that is run out of Dwight Hall is hiring teachers for the summer.
• About U.S. Grant: Since 1953, The U.S. Grant Foundation has been providing exceptional academic enrichment programs during the summer for middle school students from the New Haven Public Schools. The program gives Yale undergraduates the chance to develop a course to teach and provides local students with an exceptional academic program that expands their academic horizons beyond the classroom.
• The Teachers: Every year, nine talented undergraduates who are interested in education and committed to the New Haven community are hired to teach a six-week long course that they have developed.
• Compensation: Teachers are paid $3,300 over the course of the summer.
• The Program: The Summer 2014 program runs from June 15th to August 2nd.
• How to Get Involved: Apply by visiting www.yale.edu/usgrant and clicking on the “Teachers” heading. Applications are due on February 7th.
Yale University President’s Public Service Fellowships provide summer opportunities for Yale students to work on behalf of economic development, human development, and neighborhood revitalization with public sector and nonprofit organizations in New Haven. Eligible: Yale freshmen, sophomores, and juniorswww.yale.edu/ppsf/ Deadline: January 24, 2014, 4pm
Summer Internships UCS-sponsored domestic and international summer internships are open for students to apply in Yale UCS Symplicity under Job/Internship Search. Before applying, students must complete the UCS-Sponsored Internship Tutorial & Registration, which is on the homepage of Symplicity. Once the tutorial is complete, UCS will approve students to apply for internships within one business day. The application deadline for most positions is February 3. The following positions have earlier deadlines: Sitka Fine Arts Camp (11 positions), early deadline January 1, final deadline February 1.
Yale Summer Session Courses Abroad With 36 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. http://summer.yale.edu/programs-courses/study-abroad/programs-abroad for a listing of the 2014 programs. Contact summersession.abroad@yale.edu with questions.
Yale in London – Information Session Wednesday, January 15 – 6:30-7:30 pm, Yale Center for British Art Lecture Hall. Meet program alumni, and find out more about courses, the application process and living in London!
Yale Summer Session 2014 – New Haven Take a course in New Haven this summer – the application opens January 15 and you can view course listings online atwww.yale.edu/summer
CIPE Research Fellowships for Juniors
Support summer research abroad that is related to senior essays and senior projects in the humanities and social sciences. http://studentgrants.yale.edu Campus deadline: January 22, 2014
Alan S. Tetelman 1958 Fellowships for International Research in the Sciences
Support summer research projects abroad in the natural and applied sciences
Eligible: Yale freshmen, sophomores, and juniors
http://science.yalecollege.yale.edu/tetelman-fellowship
Deadline: pre-applications due January 31, and applications February 24, 2014
Amgen Scholars Program Celebrates scientific inquiry by providing undergraduates with faculty-mentored summer research opportunities in science and engineering fields at 10 U.S. host universities.
Eligible: college sophomores and juniors who are U.S. citizens and permanent residents
www.amgenscholars.com Deadline: February 3, 2014
CAREER SERVICES
Walk-In hours with a UCS adviser are Monday-Thursday from 1:00-4:00pm. Dwight Hall walk-in hours will resume on Friday, January 17.
On-Campus Recruiting (OCR) Program OCR provides an opportunity for students to interview with representatives of some of the country’s largest organizations. OCR interviews for summer internships begin the last week of January. To become eligible and apply for OCR opportunities, review the OCR Program Tutorial and Registration in Yale UCS Symplicity in the Document Library under the Resources tab.
Juniors: Applications are currently being accepted to OCR positions. For a list of current positions and deadline dates, visit Yale UCS Symplicity, and click My Shortcuts, On-Campus Recruitment, and Campus Interviews I Qualify For. First application deadline January 14, 9:30am.
FELLOWSHIPS
Online fellowship advice available 24/7 at www.yale.edu/fellowships.
NOTES
At the beginning of a spring term, I like to tell about an old wooden serving bowl in my apartment that was cracked and repaired on one edge by some previous owner. In some ways I think each of us is cracked and mended, maybe during our experiences last semester and maybe in previous days.
I (like you) am driven indoors by the cold weather. Perhaps you (like me) do a lot of reflecting in the winter. When it is cold and days are shorter, I turn to nature in my usual ways and maybe even take a turn out in it. At other times I simply turn to reflecting, indoors. I think we do not do enough reflecting in our busy Yale lives.
At beginnings, like this one at the start of our spring term, choices must be made, and we must turn and return to some place in us to make them. That place is not a place fixed or well formed, but a place that is shaped by experience and some metaphorical repairing from previous days. By our efforts to make choices we will try to come to know and to sense who and what we are and who and what will define us. We think about what we want and hope to be. We think we understand that our choices for now will not lead to perfection or to some certain sense of who and what we are; that would be unrealistic (and dull). More realistically, I hope we think that we must accept the uncertainties and ambiguities that are part of being a human animal. I hope and think we can accept the difficult passage of making decisions even though we do not have all the information we would like to have to make them – even though we do not have a map.
We just do our best to mediate among competing values and goals and to be free to do what we came here to do, which is to do our work , to be ourselves as best we can as we know ourselves, to be the best we can for ourselves and for others, to do no harm. That is certainly sufficient for now. One way to think about uncertainties is to accept that the uncertainties, and the ambiguities they contain, are rich with possibilities. Maybe we do not always need trial signs for all our choices, even though it can be reassuring to find a trail sign when we are looking for it.
And what about the wooden bowl? It is the clear and present imperfection of that bowl that means so much to me. I like it that this imperfect bowl meant so much to someone who took the trouble to repair it, and now the imperfect and mended bowl means a lot to me because an imperfect and loved bowl is real (like you and me). In its way, for me it is a trail sign – a sign of the hope that a little mending and repairing can bring.
Dean Loge