The UBRP office has received information and application materials
for a variety of research experience programs, grants,
scholarships, conferences, jobs, and graduate programs.
What follows is a sampling:
Correction from October Gazette regarding
the Knowles Science Teaching Foundation – Science
and Mathematics Teaching Fellowships: Deadline:
January 16, 2006. A fellowship is available to young
men and
women who have received a bachelor's or advanced degree
in a physical science, engineering or mathematics and
are committed to teaching high school science and/or
mathematics in United States schools. The fellowship
supports you professionally and financially for up
to five years through a teacher preparation program
to eligibility for tenure. Contact: Roseanne Rostock
(rrostock@kstf.org) Knowles Science Teaching Foundation,
20 East Redman Avenue, Haddonfield, NJ 08033; 856-216-8080
(Phone); 856-216-9987 (Fax); Visit: http://www.kstf.org
The East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes
(EAPSI) provide U.S. graduate students in science and engineering
first-hand research experience in Australia, China,
Japan, Korea, or Taiwan and orientation to the society,
culture and language. The primary goals of EAPSI are
to introduce students to East Asia and Pacific science
and engineering in the context of a research laboratory,
and to initiate personal relationships that will better
enable them to collaborate with foreign counterparts
in the future. The institutes last approximately eight
weeks from June to August. The deadline for applying
to the 2006 EAPSI program is December 13, 2005.
The new EAPSI website www.nsf.gov/eapsi is
now a portal for all information regarding the EAPSI.
The help desk
for all questions and concerns is eapinfo@nsf.gov
Sea Semester at Woods Hole: Dr.
Michelle Wood, visiting professor from the University of Oregon,
Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, is teaching
SEA Class 203: Atlantic alongside SEA Chief Scientist,
Dr.
Kara Lavender One highlight during the sea component
on the SEA Semester 203 Atlantic cruise track: "Light
in the Sea" as an overview of ocean optics,
pigments and other material that affect the in-water
light field, remote sensing, and bioluminescence.
We're currently reviewing applications for the SEA
Semester, Class 203. Semester dates: December 27,
2005 through March 18, 2006. All questions regarding
Class 203: Atlantic can be directed to Dr. Lavender,
800-552-3633 ext. 1960, klavender@sea.edu Anyone
interested in teaching with SEA in the future can
contact Academic Dean Paul Joyce, Dean Paul Joyce,
800-552-3633 ext. 1947, pjoyce@sea.edu
Posters on the Hill: Call for Abstracts has been issued
(see: www.cur.org/pohcall.html). UBRPers should consider
participating in this event, which is held annually in
Washington, DC. The event is designed to inform federal
elected representatives about the importance of funding
for undergraduate research. Students whose posters are
accepted (60 students nationwide) meet with their Congresspersons
and Senators (or their staff) and present posters of
their experimental results to each other, to members
of Congress, and to representatives of federal funding
agencies. This event provides a great opportunity to
talk to people who make decisions on federal funding
for research. Abstracts are due November 15 and the event
is scheduled for the second week of April 2006. The call
for abstracts for the 17th annual UBRP Conference
January 21, 2006 has been issued and will be due around the same
time, so UBRPers could, with little additional effort,
submit an abstract for both. The Posters on Capitol Hill
event requires a letter of recommendation so it would
be good to do this soon.
Application deadlines vary, so don't waste any time!
Check our files (LSS 348)
or contact these sites directly.
