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The Wildlands Studies Program, California State University, Monterey Bay
offers a series of environmental and cultural ecology
field studies that we invite you to join. This year you can choose
among sixteen wildlife, wildland and cultural ecology field studies
searching for solutions to environmental and cultural challenges.
Each program grants 4-12 upperdivision units credit. Please
note that all programs are open and accepting applications now.
Field studies take place in wildland locations throughout the
Montana Rockies, California, Washington, Colorado, Alaska, Hawai'i,
Belize, Spain, Brazil, Thailand, South Africa, Himalaya, China and Mexico.
All of our programs, now available for your consideration are described
at our website:
www.wildlandsstudies.com (please click on or type
in this address on your browser); or a catalog can be sent to you in
the mail. Our email address is wildlands@wildlandsstudies.com
If you have questions about any of our programs, please feel
free to get back in touch with us.
The San Diego County Regional Airport Authority
is looking for an Environmental Affairs intern for the 2008 summer.
For ten weeks and at $12 an hour, we are offering Undergraduate students
an excellent opportunity to gain hands on experience, while providing
a forum for personal and educational enrichment, teamwork and problem
solving. Please see the attached flyer and detailed job bulletin.
It would be appreciated if you could post the information in your office.
Please feel free to contact with any questions.
Thank you for your support of our World Class Summer Intern Program!
Michelle Ambriz .: Human Resources Assistant
San Diego County Regional Airport Authority
PO Box 82776 I San Diego, CA 92138
T. 619.400.2517 I F. 619.400.2530
email: mailto:mdambriz@san.org
www.san.org
The Virginia Space Grant Consortium (VSGC)
in partnership with NASA Langley Research Center is
offering the NASA Langley-VSGC Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Internship program. This program will place student interns at
NASA Langley to support the NASA GIS team. Positions are open
to high school, undergraduate and graduate students and are available
in summer and fall 2008 and spring 2009.
This is a great opportunity for any student majoring in civil engineering,
technology, geography or other major and interested in developing and
improving their skills and experience in GIS. Prior experience
in GIS is not required as training will be provided. Students
will work 20 hours per week and be paid a stipend based on their academic
level. Deadline for summer applications is March 24 and the deadline
for fall internships is July 1. Please view the attached flyer
and visit
http://www.vsgc.odu.edu/gisintern/
for more information and to apply. The NASA Langley GIS team
site can be viewed at http://gis.larc.nasa.gov/
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Chris Carter (cxcarter@odu.edu),
Assistant Director of VSGC, at 757-766-5210. Thank you for considering!
The Chemistry Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (Chem-SURF) at
the University of California, Irvine (UCI), provides a unique 10-week
summer research opportunity for undergraduates to become fully immersed
in a wide range of exciting, cutting-edge specialized and interdisciplinary
research projects. With a goal of helping students gain the skills
and confidence to become independent researchers and make better career
decisions, the experience focuses on intensive and direct contact with
a large number of faculty and their graduate students through a series
of pre-research lectures, hands-on projects, weekly seminars and workshops,
industry field trips, and social activities.
Participants will have the opportunity to choose from a variety of challenging
and original research projects that explore a diverse and exciting range
of topics in chemical biology, chemical physics, and analytical, atmospheric,
bioinorganic, bioorganic, theoretical, inorganic, organic, physical,
and polymer chemistry.
The Chem-SURF Program is committed to promoting diversity within the
fields of science and engineering. Women, underrepresented minorities,
and individuals from economically and socially disadvantaged backgrounds
are especially encouraged to apply. Community College students,
who are transferring to a 4-year institution next year, are also encouraged
to apply.
Applications can be submitted online at the Chem-SURF Web site:
http://www.urop.uci.edu/chem-surf.html
Program E-mail address: urop@uci.edu
Deadline to submit application: Monday, April 7, 2008
Deadline to submit supplemental documents: Monday, April 14, 2008
Program Dates: June 22 - August 30, 2008
Program Benefits: $3,500 stipend, unique on-campus housing, and
travel allowance.
I
am writing to inform you of a fabulous opportunity to get involved
with the BIO International Convention,
which we are fortunate to have in
San Diego this year: June 17-20, 2008. If you will be 21 years
of age
by June, I thought that you might be interested in submitting an
application to volunteer at the spectacular convention with 30,000
attendees from all over the world. Click
here for more info on the convention.
Please note the following: Students should list their academic
advisor
or professor as a secondary reference, and me, as your primary reference
(see #2 and #3 below).
Volunteer Requirements
All volunteers will go through a screening process. In this process
your
credentials will be verified, including possible contact with your
employer/reference.
Volunteers should use a member of the 2008 Host Committee or a BIO staff
member as a reference. (If these do not apply, a corporate reference
may
be used).
Students must be at the Graduate Level with a demonstrated interest
in
life sciences and must provide two references. (An academic reference,
i.e. a professor or advisor, in addition to the committee member or
BIO
Staff member).
All volunteers must be at least 21 years of age to participate in the
program. There are no exceptions to this requirement.
Preference will be given to volunteers that work within the life science
sector.
All volunteers must attend one training session prior to their volunteer
assignment. Upon selection into the program you will receive more
information on these training sessions. There will be two sessions which
are tentatively scheduled for Saturday, June 14.
Some Volunteer positions require 6:30 am start times.
Some Volunteer position shifts are 10 hours in length.
Some Volunteer positions are scheduled prior to the official opening
of
the convention.
Most Volunteer positions require long hours of standing.
All volunteers will be asked to complete an evaluation following the
convention in order to assist us in building the volunteer program for
future years.
Please contact Angie Kocken or email volunteer@bio.org
if you have any
questions concerning the Volunteer Program.
This
is a final reminder that the 33 rd Annual
WCBSUR Conference will take place on Saturday, April
12 th , at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego (see website
below).
It should be an exciting day as hundreds of
students and faculty mentors representing dozens of institutions from
all over the nation come together for a day-long celebration of science.
There will be ~150 seminar and poster presentations by undergraduate
researchers in biochemistry and all fields of biology; cash prizes
(20 in all) will be awarded for the best seminar and poster presentations.
Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Human Genome Research
Institute, will cap off the day with a keynote address entitled “Genomics
and the Future of Medicine and Society”.
If there are undergraduate researchers working
in your lab, I hope you will encourage them to consider participating.
Thanks and best wishes to you.
Michael McConnell
http://www.pointloma.edu/Biology/WCBSURConference/GeneralInformation.htm
Hello! My name is Enrique Baloyra, and I work with the Fund for Public Interest Research. We are a non-profit that runs campaigns for some leading progressive organizations like the Sierra Club, the State PIRGs and the Human Rights Campaign. I am writing because I am hoping to get the word out to your graduating seniors about interviews we'll be holding this spring to fill leadership positions in our organization. We're hiring graduating seniors to help run our campaign offices next year as Canvass Directors. It's a lot of responsibility, mainly centered on hiring, training and managing a staff that goes out into communities to build grassroots support for the above organizations and their campaigns. We're looking for students who might be up for this challenge and would be passionate about working on environmental and social justice campaigns. We know that many students who would be interested in this work don't necessarily know how to find jobs like ours. Thanks in advance for any help you can give me! Enrique Baloyra Canvass Director FFPIR - San Diego (619) 297-5512 [o] www.fundcareers.org
http://spacegrant.nmsu.edu/opportunities/ispcs_summer.html
The New Mexico Space Grant Consortium is proud to announce the 2008
International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS)
Summer Internships. The ISPCS summer internships are designed
to give students real-world experience in the growing personal and commercial
spaceflight industry. Students are placed with top players from
business and government to participate on the ground floor of what may
become the foundational enterprise of the 21 st Century! Internships
are available across the United States including New Mexico, Colorado,
and Washington D.C. in fields as diverse as engineering, business management,
graphic design, and public policy!
Students will be given a $5000 stipend for a 10 week internship which
will take place during the student's summer 2008 academic term.
At the end of the internship, students write a one page report on their
experiences. The internships are funded by the International Symposium
for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight.
Internships are open to graduate and undergraduate students. Internships
are open to all majors unless specifically stated by the internship
opportunity listed. New Mexico Space Grant will accept applications
until the internships are filled. New internships are expected
to appear regularly, so check back often!
Internship opportunities and application are listed online at:
http://spacegrant.nmsu.edu/opportunities/ispcs_summer.html
The University of California White Mountain Research Station
http://ties.ucsd.edu/events/internships/ecology_internship.pdf
Biological Sciences Eureka! Scholarship promotes engagement in basic and translational biology by facilitating students' participation in research opportunities both at the UC San Diego campus and at research facilities on the San Diego Mesa. Students must be juniors or seniors in 2008-09 with a declared major in the Division of Biological Sciences. Successful proposals will show evidence that the scholarship will provide the students with an opportunity to have a significant research experience. This is a one-year award up to $3,500.
The prompts to get to the application are:
Below is a link to a video that describes the program.
http://video-jsoe.ucsd.edu/asx/PRIME.asx
The AWIS Educational Foundation awards ~ 25 fellowships annually, totaling
about $15,000-20,000. Awards are made under the aegis of three programs:
(1) the predoctoral program, for graduate students in the natural and
social science;
(2) the Kirsten R. Lorentzen award for college sophomores or juniors
studying physics or geoscience;
(3) the college program for high school seniors planning on majoring
in natural science in college.
Details and downloadable applications are at http://awis.org/careers/edfoundation.html
and applications are due Feb 1.
AWIS-San Diego:
The San Diego Chapter of AWIS will award 10 scholarships totaling
$10,000.
Attached are 2 documents - one application and one flyer. The application
deadline is February 15.
Awardees will be honored at the AWIS Gala on Saturday April 19, 2008
at the Coronado Boathouse.
This is the site of the original Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
and 2 of the original 9 scientists there were women.
The Gala keynote speaker will be UCSD's own Dr. Naomi Oreskes, Professor
of History and Director of the Science Studies Program.
Early bird Gala registration ends March 1; all Gala registration end
April 15.
For details please see these web links:
http://awis.npaci.edu/committees/scholarship_program.htm
http://awis.sdsc.edu/committees/gala2008.html
AWIS_2008_Scholarship_flyer.pdf
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey,
invites applications to our
highly successful summer research program, RISE (Research In Science
and
Engineering) at Rutgers/UMDNJ, http://rise.rutgers.edu
. RISE is
co-sponsored by our sister institution, The University of Medicine and
Dentistry of
New Jersey (UMDNJ). Please circulate this announcement to students who
- are graduating in
December 2008 or anytime thereafter
- have strong academic
credentials
- are considering future
PhD programs.
We particularly encourage applications from traditionally
underrepresented minorities and from students who are from disadvantaged
or
first-generation college families, have followed non-traditional trajectories
through
college, or attend undergraduate institutions that offer only limited
opportunities for research.
-- Easy on-line application
at http://rise.rutgers.edu .
Rolling
admission begins at the end of January and is highly competitive. We
advise early application.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Evelyn S. Erenrich, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean, Rutgers University and UMDNJ
Director, RISE (Research In Science and Engineering)
rise@rci.rutgers.edu
732.932.7275