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Macaulay Monday Student News – November 2, 2009
Do you realize that laptop recertification is a LEGAL obligation? If you have not recertified your laptop, do so today! After that, be sure to register for the Internship Fair! It’s an important way to ensure you will connect with important organizations that offer opportunities to Macaulay undergrads. Capacity is limited! Reserve your place now.
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Macaulay News
NYU Law School Classroom Observation — Macaulay Law Club
Have you ever considered becoming a lawyer but wondered what it’s like to actually go to law school? The Macaulay Law Club has partnered with professors at the prestigious New York University Law School. Students will be able to choose from five different classes and observe. All classes take place on a Friday between the hours of 11am – 2pm. Click here to sign up.
Browse the Snapshot NYC 2009 Photo Gallery
Members of the freshman class have taken their photographs for the Snapshot NYC 2009 event, and they’re all posted in the online gallery. This year’s theme was "My Neighborhood," which our freshmen have interpreted in a variety of ways. Take a few minutes to browse your classmates’ photos, rate them (from one to five stars) and leave a comment. You can even send any of the photos as an ecard, to share with a friend or loved one!
Help "Green" Macaulay!
The Macaulay Student Sustainability Task Force is forming to discuss urban sustainability issues facing your neighborhood and campus. We will first learn what is going on around CUNY and New York City, then take that pedagogy and apply it to areas of interest to you—whether it be biking, water bottles, grey water, or green roofs. Your input is what makes green initiatives take hold!
Contact Sarah Stewart for more information or to become a founding member.
Macaulay Business Club Officer Opportunity
If you are interested in getting involved in the Macaulay Business Club as an officer, please visit the Business Club website for current openings.
Laptop Reinventory! — Deadline November 15
Sophomores and Juniors: It’s time for the MANDATORY laptop reinventory. Under New York State law, you are required to certify that your Macaulay laptop is still in your possession each year. It’s easy to do this—just go to the online form. If you have any questions, email Mary Carney at laptop@mhc.cuny.edu.
Events
DaZe of Doom Film Series — November 3
The "DaZe of Doom" Film Series continues on November 3, with The Matrix at 7pm in the Screening Room at Macaulay Honors College.
Michael Edwards on Love, Reason, and the Future of Society — November 4, 7pm
A discussion with Q&A. Michael Edwards is an independent writer and activist based in upstate New York who is affiliated with the New York-based think-tank Demos, the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University, and the Brooks World Poverty Institute at Manchester University in the UK. From 1999 to 2008 he was the Director of the Ford Foundation’s Governance and Civil Society Program in New York, having previously worked for the World Bank, Oxfam-GB, Save the Children-UK and other NGOs in Washington DC, London, Colombia, Zambia, Malawi, and India. His writings have helped to shape a more critical appreciation of the global role of philanthropy and civil society, and to break down barriers between researchers and activists across the world.
Dean Kirschner Visiting Queens College on November 4
Dean Ann Kirschner is halfway through her campus visits for this semester. She has already visited Lehman, Hunter, CSI, and Baruch. The Dean will be visiting Queens on November 4th, Brooklyn on November 12th, and City on November 19th. She will be available to speak with students during her "campus office hours" in each respective honors lounge/office (no appointments necessary) and will also sit in on a seminar at each campus. The Dean’s remaining visits are listed below:
Queens College – November 4th
Seminar 3 with Professor Gillian Stewart: 10:50am – 12:05pm
Campus Office Hours: 12:15pm – 1:45pm. Honors Hall, Temp Building #3, Room 19
Brooklyn College – November 12th
Campus Office Hours: 2:00pm – 2:30pm. Boylan Hall, Room 2331
Seminar 1 with Professor Geoffrey Minter: 3:40pm – 4:55pm. Boylan Hall, Room 3153
City College – November 19th
Seminar 3 with Professor Pyser Edelsack: 11:00am – 12:15pm
Campus Office Hours: 12:30pm – 1:00pm. Honors Center: NAC Room 4150
Dean Kirschner will also be holding student office hours at Macaulay Honors college at 35 West 67th Street on Mondays from 2 – 4pm when classes are in session. Please contact her assistant Alicia Bibbs at (212) 729-2927 if you would like to attend her office hours.
Visit to Bloomberg L.P. Hosted by Macaulay Business Club — November 6
The Macaulay Business Club is hosting a visit to the main headquarters of Bloomberg L.P. Bloomberg is known for its terminals and news services. At this event, students will get a tour of the building, be exposed to the Bloomberg terminal, network with Bloomberg recruiters and employees, and learn about their internship program. This is a great way for students to gain some exposure to a large company and get a leg up in the process of obtaining an internship. This event is going to take place at the Bloomberg L.P. headquarters in Manhattan on November 6 from 1 – 3pm.
Click here for more information
Macaulay Perspectives with Bill Goldstein: Reading in a Digital Age — November 11, 6pm
A brilliant group of visionaries who are shaping today’s digital landscape will come together at Macaulay Honors College to discuss their own experiences, and answer your questions, pose their own, and open a window onto the future of newspapers, magazines, books—and of reading itself. Join us for an lively evening of prognostication and conversation. Every day brings a new story—about ebooks, enhanced digital content, new reading devices, Google, and Amazon Kindle, the latest rumors of an Apple tablet. But what will the news items we read today mean for the way we read tomorrow? How and what will we read in the future?
Bill Goldstein, founder of the New York Times Books online, Times reviewer for the Today Show, and frequent moderator of Times Talks, will interview and interact with panelists: Adam Moss, editor of New York Magazine, which has continued to keep its subscribers engaged, both in print and online, despite the precipitous decline of the magazine industry in the last few years; Lisa Holton, former president of Scholastic Books and Fairs, whose first new interactive series, The Amanda Project, was recently profiled in a front page New York Times story; Ben Vershbow, now in the Digital Ventures group at the New York Public Library, and previously a fellow at Institute for the Future of the Book; and Dean Ann Kirschner, author and long time digerata, who recently wrote about her old and new reading experiences in an article for the Chronicle of Higher Education on "Reading Dickens Four Ways."
Save the date: Macaulay Honors College Internship Fair — November 13
Macaulay Honors College will host its first Internship Fair on Friday, November 13, from 12 – 3pm. Meet employers offering Spring and Summer 2010 internships and post-graduate opportunities. Organizations will include Teach for America, Weill Cornell Medical College, JP Morgan Chase, Citizen Schools, HBO, Gerstner Sloan-Kettering Graduate School, WNET.ORG, and Bellevue/NYU Medical Center Department of Emergency Medicine. Click here to sign up.
Dean’s Brunch with Rodney Nichols, Science Policy — November 15
Join Dean Ann Kirschner for brunch and conversation with Rodney Nichols, former President and CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences and science policy expert. Mr. Nichols has advised the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; the State, Defense, and Energy Departments; the National Institutes of Health; the National Science Foundation; the United Nations; the US Congress Office of Technology Assessment; and the National Academies of Science and Engineering. An applied physicist, he has co-authored two books and scores of papers. He frequently lectures on research and development trends, international scientific cooperation and competition, and K-12 education for economic growth.
This brunch will be of special interest, of course, to science majors as well as those interested in public policy, education, or politics. It will be a great opportunity to explore career directions and make important connections.
Executive in Residence with Sy Sternberg: Dinner and Discussion about the Economy — Monday, November 16
Join Sy Sternberg, Chairman of the Board and former CEO, NY Life Insurance Company and Dean Kirschner for dinner and a discussion about the economy. Of special interest to business, finance, accounting, and economics majors. Please note that in some places this event has been advertised as occurring on Tuesday. It will take place on Monday, November 16. Reserve your place today on the events page.
Study and Research
Explore Research Opportunities Provided by Macaulay!
Are you interested in doing research with outstanding CUNY faculty? Macaulay’s matching program links faculty working on a variety of projects with students wanting research experience. Click below to see opportunities in the areas of journalism, environmental chemistry, english, political science, and more:
Present Your Research at the 24th National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR); April 15-17, 2010
The National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) is dedicated to promoting undergraduate research, scholarship, and creative activity in all fields of study. The upcoming conference will be held at the University of Montana at Missoula, Montana, April 15-17. If you would like to present your research, submit at abstract by December 4.
Click here for more information
International Competition For Undergraduate Research Papers Sponsored by Wartbrug College
Students from around the world are invited to submit research papers that will focus on the relationships between technology, the natural world, and human identity or spirit. Submissions are due no later than June 1, 2010. All papers must be written in English and will be evaluated by a blind review process. Cash prizes in the amounts of $1,000, $500 and $250 are available to the top three papers. Send papers to lake.lambert@wartburg.edu. For more information, call (319) 352-8684 or email dean.johnson@wartburg.edu.
John & Edythe Portz Fellowship for Undergraduate Honors Projects
National Collegiate Honors Council announces a new fellowship for undergraduate honors students. The Portz Fellowships support original and extended interdisciplinary projects for up to eighteen months. Applications for the first round of grants will be accepted beginning in January 2010. The highly competitive award of up to $7,000 is open to students at NCHC’s 800+ member institutions in the United States and beyond. Click here if you would like more information about the Portz Fellowship. You can also contact Dr. Patrice Berger at pberger1@unl.edu, or (402) 472-5425.
Study Abroad/Internship Program in Sydney Australia, Spring 2010 — Application Deadline November 13, 2009
Sponsored by The Washington Center, this program begins in early January with a ten-day Washington, DC, Seminar. In this academically intensive component, students will learn about the Nation’s capital as a basis for comparison with their destination city. While abroad in Sydney during spring, participants will be in three- to four-and-a-half-day internships that match their academic and professional interests. Coursework will focus on Australia’s government, politics and trade. In a second course, students will prepare a portfolio documenting, analyzing and reflecting on the semester’s learning. More information is available at this link or by email at Internabroad@twc.edu.
Spring 2010 Harman Poetry Workshop with Major Jackson, Harman Writer-in-Residence — Deadline November 5
This special workshop in poetry writing will be taught by Major Jackson, the author of Hoops, Leaving Saturn, and the poetry editor of the Harvard Review. In this poetry workshop, students will write poems based on their study of the rich and varied poetic movements of present day and 20th century schools of thought including Ezra Pound and the Imagists, Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance poets, Frank O’Hara and the New York School, Allen Ginsberg and the Beat Poets, Saul Williams and other Slam Poets.
Students will study the manifestoes, personages, and pioneering poems as well as the socio-political and aesthetic ferment that gave rise to such rich flourishings in American poetry. Students will study poems, read correspondences, listen to recordings, and acquaint ourselves with important biographies. Students must submit samples of their writing for review in order to register for this course. The samples are to be submitted by November 5th to Professor Roslyn Bernstein, who can be contacted at (646) 312-3930, or roslyn.bernstein@baruch.cuny.edu. Click here for more information.
Examkrackers All-Day MCAT Event — November 7 and 14, 8am – 5pm
The event begins with a free full-length practice test immediately followed by a two hour review with one of our top MCAT Instructors! All premed students are invited to sign up. RSVP to freetest.MCAT@examkrackers.com today to save your seat. Please include your full name, email address, phone, and the name of the school you attend. All students who sign up and attend the test get $100 off the next Examkrackers course.
The event will take place at Hunter College on November 7, and on November 14 at Queens and Brooklyn College campuses. The exact location will be sent to you once you have RSVP’d.
CUNY Pipeline Honors Conference: Call for Student Papers, Posters, and Creative Performances — Abstracts Due December 21
The CUNY Pipeline Honors Conference will highlight the accomplishments, achievements, and research of Honors students from campuses across the City University of New York. Presenters are invited to engage the conference on topics from a variety of disciplines including the visual arts, film, musical composition, performance, or any other form of cultural production. There are three presentation options: individual podium presentations, poster presentations, and creative performances. All CUNY students are invited to submit proposals. The CUNY Pipeline Honors Conference will be held on February 19, 2010.
Click here to view a PDF document with more information. The Faculty Approval Form can be found at this link.
Opportunities
Show your CUNY pride at The Early Show on CBS — November 9 – 12
November is CUNY month. The Early Show on CBS will highlight CUNY during the week of November 9! This is your chance to be on TV! Each day specific CUNY groups will be featured.
* Monday - CUNY Veterans
* Tuesday - Volunteerism @ CUNY
* Wednesday - CUNY Athletics
* Thursday - CUNY Student Leaders
* Friday - Diversity @ CUNY
Time: 7 – 9am, with studio tour to follow the show
Location: CBS Studios at 767 Fifth Ave (at 59th St. next to the Apple Store)
Students will receive "We Are CUNY" shirts, CUNY bags, and have a tour of the CBS studios following the show each day. Students are encouraged to bring college, program, and CUNY banners. If you are interested, please contact Solita Alexander at solita.alexander@mhc.cuny.edu.
Volunteer at the Lincoln Square 10th Annual Winter’s Eve Celebration on November 30
Winter’s Eve is New York City’s largest holiday festival providing New Yorkers an evening of free entertainment, food tastings (nominal cost), live music, and shopping with dozens of activities in the stores and public spaces along Broadway from the Time-Warner Center at Columbus Circle to 68th Street. Volunteers are needed to pass out programs, survey festival-goers, staff information tents, assist production staff, and more. Volunteers will receive a boxed dinner and a free Winter’s Eve souvenir. Most volunteer positions take place from 4 – 9pm (starting with a volunteer orientation beginning around 3:45 or 4pm), If you are interested, please contact Solita Alexander at solita.alexander@mhc.cuny.edu.
The Caucus CUNY Scholars Program — Deadline November 19
The Caucus CUNY Scholars Program is a local internship program for students who are interested in the workings of the New York State Legislature. The Program enables students to learn about the work performed by the Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic & Asian Legislative Caucus, as well as the services provided by the State Legislature to communities of color and need in and around the City of New York. In addition to the first hand experiences they receive in the district offices of New York State Senators and Assembly members, all Caucus CUNY Scholars are given academic guidance through enrollment in campus-based seminars with CUNY faculty, as well as regular meetings with members of the Caucus and their staff. CUNY will award a stipend of $2,000 to each student and will cover the costs for any Albany visits and other related events.
Click here for more information and application materials
Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars Program — Deadline December 4
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is accepting applications for the 2010 Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars Program. This intensive summer program provides college students with an opportunity to work on health policy issues in a congressional office, and to engage in original health policy research and analysis under the guidance of Foundation research staff. College seniors and recent college graduates who have a strong interest in addressing racial and ethnic health disparities or who are themselves a member of a population that is adversely affected by racial and ethnic health disparities are eligible to apply. The application deadline is 5pm ET on Friday, December 4. Click here for more information and for application materials.
Macaulay Honors College Internship Fair
See listing in Events above, or find information about the internship fair at this link.
More Opportunities
A complete, real-time listing of Internship opportunities is available on the Macaulay Honors College website. Click here.
Trivia
Question: Which holiday — Holy Day — is actually anticipated on October 31?
Send your answers to studentnews@mhc.cuny.edu!
Last Week’s Answer: Congratulations to Grace Ko ’13 (Queens), who was the first to answer that Presidents Jefferson and Monroe were members of the Academy
Throughout its history, the Academy’s membership has featured leaders in science, business, academia, and government, including U.S. Presidents Jefferson and Monroe, Thomas Edison, Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Margaret Mead, and Albert Einstein. Today, the NYAS President’s Council includes 26 Nobel Laureates as well as CEOs, philanthropists, and leaders of national science funding agencies. The Academy numbers 24,000 members in 140 countries, and 400,000 unique visitors access the NYAS Web site each month.
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