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October 8, 2006
Confirm: Baraboo
Hello on this night under a bright and bulbous moon. Some Notes and News.
ACADEMICS
Sophomores:
SOPHOMORE ADVISING NIGHT with Ice Cream Social Afterwards
MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, TD SOUTH COMMON ROOM, 9 – 10 PM
10 PM: Ice Cream Social in TD Dining Hall. LEARN ABOUT: Choosing a Major, Study Abroad, Fellowships, and Internships and Summer Jobs. PRESENTATIONS BY: Career Services, Office of International Education and Fellowships, A Panel of TD Juniors and Seniors, and Dean Loge
Sophomores and Freshmen:
French Department Information Meeting about the French Major and study abroad in a francophone country. The meeting will take place in the Romance Languages Lounge, 82-90 Wall Street, at 4pm on Tuesday 10 October.
Sophomores and Juniors:
Deadline to apply for spring-term 2007 Term Study Abroad is Monday, October 16. Information and applications for study abroad for Yale Course Credit at the IEFP web site: www.yale.edu/iefp .
FELLOWSHIPS
Seniors:
The Yale School of Management has an MBA program for graduating college seniors, the Silver Scholars Program. Admitted are a handful of college seniors directly from their undergraduate program into our MBA program. Successful applicants complete the core curriculum in the first year, then do a one year internship and return to finish their MBAs the following year. Information reception: Monday, October 9, 6:00 – 7:00 pm, Classroom A-30, 56 Hillhouse Avenue. To register: http://mba.yale.edu/MBA/admissions/apply/silver_scholars.shtml
Further information about the scholarship: http://mba.yale.edu/silverscholar
The first application date is October 25 and the second is January 10. Questions to:
Krista Giancarlo, Assistant Director of Admissions, Yale School of Management
203-432-6855, www.mba.yale.edu
Juniors:
The Science, Technology, and Research Scholars (STARS) Program announces the Pre-Application Process for the Junior Class. A stipend of $10.25 per hour for ten hours of research per week during the academic year; a summer internship stipend of $3,000; a
$400.00 travel grant; and $160.00 for expenses related to scholar research or scholar activities. To learn more about the program, attend the informational session: Monday, Oct 9th in SSS, Room 104 at 5:00 p.m. Please r.s.v.p to Dean Pamela Y. George
pamela.george@yale.edu. A pre-application is available in the TD dean’s office or you can receive an application during the informational meeting. If you
absolutely cannot make the meeting, but are interested in applying,
contact Dean George.
The Science, Technology, and Research Scholars II Program (STARS II)
is a highly selective program for junior year students. Students will
participate in a science research project during the spring 2007;
summer 2007; fall 2007; and spring 2008. The summer lab experience
does not include campus housing. STARS II is a program for junior year students who are underrepresented in the sciences to include students of color, women, and the physically challenged with majors in biology, molecular biophysics and biochemistry, chemistry, chemical engineering, biomedical engineering, applied physics, geology, and computer science. The goal of the program is to empower students to excel in their research endeavors with opportunities to present their research at Yale, and at national conferences. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceutical Company provide funding for the program.The students may spend the
summer internship at their respective Yale research laboratories or at other sites with the permission of the mentor. However, the summer internship stipend will be waived if a site away from Yale is also offering a stipend.
Application Process
The process for applying includes attending an information session;
and completion of a draft research proposal, (pre-application),
endorsed by a faculty mentor in whose lab the student will work. The
draft will be reviewed, and if the selection committee offers
additional comments/questions/suggestions, the applicant will have
the opportunity to further refine the proposal. Applicants will be
scheduled for an interview with selection committee during the first
week of November 13.
DEADLINE DATES:
Information Session:
Monday, October 9, 2006
5:00 p.m. SSS, Room 104
Draft Proposal (Pre-Application) Due:
Wednesday, October 17, 2006
4:30 p.m. SSS, Room 110
Final Research Proposal Due:
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
4:30 p.m. SSS, Room 110
For additional information/questions, please contact:
Dr. Black at iona.black@yale.edu or (203) 432-3316 or;
Dean George at pamela.george@yale.edu, (203) 432-6900
NOTES
I received a wonderful gift the other day, a book called Home Ground, which is a glossary of the words we use to name the parts of our landscape. The subtitle is “Language for an American Landscape.” It includes words I know (headland, hummock, and even Baraboo) and many words new to me. “Home” and “ground” made me think right away of our common ground. That we name what we see made me think of naming in general. We do name in order to try to settle a relationship with our land in our imaginations and in our memory, and we do the same when we name ourselves and each other. That each of us can look into a mirror and see ourselves is a magic of sorts; that we know whom we see in that mirror and that, when we do so, we can call our own name is a settling almost too tacit to even mention (and an unsettling sometimes that we probably keep to ourselves). That I name and maybe know another is another magic altogether.
This evening as I drove from New York City back to the TD Temple St Gate, the moon was rising, so very large and orange, at the horizon. I faced it up front there on the highway for the whole way as it rose slowly before me. I named it, of course, automatically, as I faced it for so many miles, even thinking of it as “my moon.” And so as I name the parts of my home ground (gingko, magnolia, bench, hammock) I make them mine. I suppose ownership and category are implicit in naming in some way, but what I settle on is “relationship.” That is not a word in my new book, the glossary of my landscape, but relationship can be what naming is all about. Indigenous peoples, as you probably know, had relationship especially in mind in their naming, as their landscape mirrored them and they mirrored it. One was part of the other, and the other was part of the One.
My moon. Your moon. Our moon. I call your name and it is yours and also something about a relationship of “us.” And that is something to name. And likewise when you call mine. I look in my mirror and you look in yours. That face there is here also, settling in your imagination, in your memory and in ours, too. I recall the verse of a song, “I see the moon and the moon sees me.” I recall moon festivals and tasty moon cakes. As we bring that moon into our lives we bring in each other as we do. And we do so as we name on our ground and at our home.
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