1) ACTIVITIES
2) INTERNSHIP FAIR
3) ADVISING
4) HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT TEACHING?
5) PALEOBOTANY being offered in Spring
6) HUMAN ANATOMY LECTURE…additional section
7) SUMMER OPPORTUNITIES
8) AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
1) ACTIVITIES
October Workshops presented by KU Career Services (additional workshops and more information at: http://www.careerservices.ku.edu/): *Dynamic Interviewing Skills; also October 31, 3:30–4:30 pm, 149 Burge Union. *Around the World with Peace Corps; October 31, 12:00–1:00 pm, International Room, Kansas Union.
Tuesday, November 13 – Internship Fair, Burge Union, 3:30 – 6:30 pm (see #2 below).
2) INTERNSHIP FAIR
You are invited to the 2007 Internship Fair - Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - Burge Union: Courtside, McCook, Relays Rooms.
Intern Panel: 3:30 – 4:00 pm, McCook Room
Internship Fair: 4:00 – 6:30 pm, Courtside and Relays Rooms
This event provides an excellent opportunity for employers to meet and visit with students about their experiential learning opportunities and their organizations. Students enjoy learning more about a variety of internship opportunities, while employers meet potential candidates for their internship positions. Students from all majors and academic levels are encouraged to attend both the Internship Fair and Intern Panel to receive insight on important information to help them enhance their career development. Students, employers, faculty, staff and administrators are encouraged to attend the Internship Panel (3:30pm until 4:00pm). This event allows students to receive information from University of Kansas students who have participated in past internships. Panelists will share information about their internship experiences, offer advice to future interns, and answer questions related to their experiences. Dress in business attire and bring copies of your resume! For more information (including a list of participating organizations) check: http://www2.ku.edu/~ucc/cgi-bin/internfair.php University Career Center, 1601 Irving Hill Road, Burge Union 110, Lawrence, KS 66045 • (785) 864-3624 (www.ucc.ku.edu).
3) ADVISING
IMPORTANT NOTICE: You will need to clear all holds before you will be able to enroll (check Enroll & Pay). Freshman will have advising holds placed on their enrollment and any continuing students who have not officially declared a major will have a non-declared advising enrollment hold. Advisors in the University Advising Center (126 Strong Hall) or CLAS Student Academic Services office (109 Strong Hall) will be able to remove advising holds. Students submitting a completed Declaration of Major form to 109 Strong will have their non-declared hold removed.
The following are some links you might find helpful during the enrollment process:
* Links to open sections, searchable timetable -http://www.opensections.ku.edu/ * Retrieving an ARTS form -http://www.artsform.ku.edu/ * CLA&S Student Academic Services main enrollment information page -http://www.collegesas.ku.edu/
4) HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT TEACHING?
Dear students— Have YOU Ever Considered Teaching Secondary Science or Mathematics? KU has started a new program, the UKanTeach Program (open to freshmen through seniors), which will allow you to earn a degree in your field and a secondary teaching license in four years. The first course of the UKanTeach sequence, LA&S 290, is a one-hour course that will allow you to explore teaching as a career. We will even reimburse you for one-hour of in-state tuition. This course will prepare you to teach three science/math lessons in local schools during the semester. It is offered from 1–2:20 pm on Tuesdays next Spring in 142 JRP. Please consider teaching as a career and sign up for this course. If you have questions, please contact Jan Lariviere at jlariviere@ku.edu. Hope to see you next semester.—Jan Lariviere (For more information, go to: http://ukanteach.ku.edu/.)
5) PALEOBOTANY being offered in Spring
Dr. Edith L. Taylor is offering Paleobotany(BIOL 640/641, #82775, 82776) in the Spring semester. The course covers the biology and evolution of fossil plants—from 3 billion-year-old microbes to modern flowers—the fossil history of plants and related groups. For anyone interested in a survey of all the plant groups, this course will cover that information! Lecture: MWF 9:00 – 9:50 am, laboratory M 1:00 – 4:00 pm; prerequisite: BIOL 413, graduate standing, or permission of instructor (etaylor@ku.edu).
6) HUMAN ANATOMY LECTURE…additional section
Those of you who want/need to take BIOL 240 Fundamentals of Human Anatomy…please note! We have added a second section of BIOL 240 to the Spring 08 timetable; MWF, 8:00-8:50 am (83975). This section will be tailored to those students concurrently enrolled in both the 8:00 am lecture (BIOL 240) and Human Anatomy lab (either BIOL 241 or 242), and will be designed to coordinate lab and lecture material, thus covering the body in a regional manner (i.e., upper limb, head and neck, thorax and abdomen, etc.). We are encouraging students enrolled in BIOL 241 or BIOL 242 to consider also enrolling in this new section. (The 1:00-1:50 pm MWF section of BIOL 240 will be oriented to those taking the lecture only and will serve as a stand-alone course.)
7) SUMMER OPPORTUNITIES
The Gerstner Sloan-Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences will sponsor a 10-week research program (begins early June and runs for 10 consecutive weeks) for outstanding undergraduate students who are interested in pursuing a career in biomedically related sciences. Students in the program will have the opportunity to: obtain hands-on research experience in cutting-edge laboratories; interact with faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students; attend skills/development workshops, seminars; present research to summer students, present special poster at end of program. Areas of research include: developmental biology and genetics, tumor immunology, immunotherapy, and transplantation biology, cell-cell interactions, adhesion and protein targeting, genomic integrity and human cancer genetics. Students who are accepted will be offered a stipend of $3,000 and housing. For information and to apply go to: http://www.sloankettering.edu/; deadline to apply is February 1.
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (areas include: cell regulation, genetics, immunology, microbiology, molecular biology, neuroscience, cancer biology). Applicants must have completed sophomore year. Ten week program, June 2 – August 8; stipend of $4,000 ($5,250 if housing needed). Information and application at: http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/SURF; deadline to apply is February 8.
Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship at Iowa State University. This is a paid laboratory internship and if you are a biology major with interests in chemistry, computer science, engineering, or physics, this might be of interest. The 10 week internship is from May 27 – August 1; selection begins February 1. To learn more or apply, go to: http://www.scied.science.doe.gov/scied/erulf/about.html.
8) AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
Applications for the 2008 K-INBRE Undergraduate Scholarship Program are now being accepted. The K-INBRE program is a federally funded program that provides financial support to enable undergraduate science majors to gain intensive experience in biomedical related research. Six scholarships are competitively awarded each year. Scholarships will provide up to $1,000 for the Spring 2008 semester and $3,700 for Summer 2008. Detailed information about the program and the application packet can be found online at http://www.kinbre.ku.edu. Applications are now being accepted at 2040 Haworth Hall and will be accepted through 5:00 pm Monday, December 3, 2007. For more information, please contact either Dr. Jim Orr (jorr@ku.edu ) or Emily Huckabay at emilych@ku.edu / 864-7316.
The American Association for Cancer Research announces the availability of 2008-2009 AACR-Thomas J. Bardoes Science Education Awards for Undergraduate Students (must be full-time, third year students). Awardee will receive a $1,500 stipend each year to be used for expenses incurred in attending the 2008 and 2009 annual meetings; a waiver of registration fees for participation in the 2008 and 2009 annual meetings; AACR student membership. Awardees must attend scientific sessions at the annual meeting for a minimum of four days, and are required to submit two reports each year on sessions attended at the annual meeting and on related school projects. Further information at: http://www.aacr.org/; deadline for application is December 3.
The University of Kansas McNair Scholars Program, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, is designed to prepare undergraduates for graduate study and eventual careers in university teaching and research. Applications are currently being accepted for the 2007-2008 academic year; application priority deadline is November 20. To qualify, students must be sophomores, juniors or seniors, who are either: low-income, first-generation college students, or from groups currently underrepresented in graduate education (African American, Native American, Hispanic). In addition, applicants must have at least a 2.8 cumulative gpa and plan to attend graduate school. The McNair Scholars Program provides fall and spring semester academic support, and offers a paid summer research internship ($2800 and 3 hours of research credit). For more information, visit the web site: http://www.ku.edu/~mcnair, or contact them at mcnair@ku.edu if you have questions.
Jan
Jan Elder
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