TeraGrid 2009 still needs quite a few student volunteers and the deadline is Wednesday (day after tomorrow). If you are available June 22 - 25 and would like the possibility of a fully paid trip to the D.C. area hit the volunteer page and follow the directions. There isn't a financial aid application currently but we will contact all applicants as soon as we have created one.
Only 46% of fourth graders in low-income areas can perform ‘basic’ math, such as adding whole numbers. As a math, science or engineering major, you are uniquely positioned to change this.
Teach For America seeks individuals from all backgrounds, academic majors, and career interests who possess the leadership skills and experience that will enable them to change the prospects of students growing up today and, ultimately, to effect fundamental change in our society that will make it a place of opportunity for all.
As a member of Teach For America, you will commit two years to teach in one of our country’s high-need public schools and will gain the skills, perspective, and experience that will help you make an impact over the long term and pursue your personal and professional goals, regardless of your career path.
We encourage you to apply to the 2009 Teach For America corps.
FINAL Application Deadline: Friday, February 13th, 2009.
To learn more, visit www.teachforamerica.org or contact admissions@teachforamerica.org.
Full salary and benefits. All academic majors.
The DHS Summer Research Team Program for Minority Serving Institutions has research opportunities available for the Summer of 2009. This program provides a 10-week summer research experiences at DHS Centers of Excellence to early career faculty teamed with undergraduate and graduate students. U.S. citizenship is required.
Stipends plus transportation expenses to/from the internship location for faculty and students will be provided.
Follow-on funding of up to $50,000 for collaborative research between the DHS Center of Excellence and the Minority Serving Institution during the 2009-2010 academic year may be available.
Application Deadline: February 3, 2009
Read about our participant experiences:
Dr. Santosh Mandal, Dr. Patricia Hatch and Shawnta Lloyd focused their research on ricin, a natural toxin that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has designated as a possible agent of biological warfare. More...
Dr. Edu B. Suarez-Martinez hopes to lessen the probability of a pandemic flu occurring through her research of the distribution of avian influenza virus receptors in Puerto Rican wild, migratory and non-migratory birds. More ...
Dr. Terri Adams-Fuller and her undergraduate research team from Howard University studied the responsiveness of public safety officers during the Hurricane Katrina crisis. More...
This program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of University Programs. The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) administers this program for DHS.
Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
P.O. Box 117, MS 36
120 Badger Avenue
Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-0117
science.education@orau.org
Calling all undergraduate students (and some graduate students) interested in a Summer, 2009 Internship at NASA and related facilities.
The time to prepare your applications is NOW
Deadlines are fast approaching for NASA Academies, USRP and
Center specific internships for this coming summer. A list of
internships and their URLs is given HERE. If you are interested, please scan the list and note the due dates in January and early February.
Here also are unique summer research opportunities for undergraduates and a faculty-student team program that is a collaborative effort with the Faculty Resource Network at NYU.
For Students:
* Cutting-edge research
* $4,000 stipend + travel expenses
* Dormitory housing provided on vibrant Union Square!
* Professional development workshops
* Organized group activities with other undergraduate visitors
For Faculty:
* Expanding research horizons
* Cutting-edge research
* Permanent collaborations with NYU MRSEC groups
* Competitive stipends + travel expenses
* Dormitory-style housing
* New advanced methodologies
* Access to state-of-the-art facilities
For all these internships a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0 (out of 4.0) is recommended to be competitive. Some positions require higher GPA’s.
NASA internships are only open to U.S. citizens. (Some exceptions are made for the NASA Academies and internships sponsored by Cal Tech.)
Dr. Charles Nichols at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center is submitting a National Service Foundation (NSF) grant, and would like to partner with a faculty member at Xavier in recruiting 2-3 undergraduates to volunteer a few hours/wk in his lab. The grant focuses on GPCRs, namely serotonin receptors, and the use of Drosophila as a new system to probe biological function. The projects that the students would be working on would involve observing and scoring different behaviors (learning and memory, mating, locomotor assays), learning genetics, as well as working with a graduate student and a postdoc in the lab. The grant will be submitted on January 12, 2009, and upon acceptance, we would like to have the students in the lab beginning Fall 2009. We would also then apply for additional funding to provide stipends for the undergraduates. If this is an opportunity that you would like to be a part of, please let me know. At this time, we would only need a letter of support/participation to submit along with the grant on January 12, 2009. Again, your commitment would involve selecting students that may be interested, and they wouldn't start in the lab until Fall 09.
The students will have to travel to our lab, which is located at the LSUHSC downtown campus. We're generally in the lab Mon-Fri from 9am -5pm, and most of the behavioral experiments that the students will be involved with are done 11am-4pm.
Contact:
Oralee Johnson, Xavier Grad and PhD Candidate
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
1901 Perdido Street
New Orleans, LA 70112
ojohns@lsuhsc.edu
Program Description
The Tulane-Xavier Minority Health International Research Training (MHIRT) Program is sponsored by the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities of the National Institutes of Health to provide short-term (10-12 weeks) research training opportunities for minority students interested in a career in international health research.
Registration is open NOW through Jan. 21, 2009 for the Department of Energy (DOE) University Outreach Event and Career Fair/Interview Fair, which will be held in New Orleans in March 2009. Submit your résumé online. For additional info, visit the Department of Energy or contact Ms. Minnard in the Office of Career Services, U.C. Room 305 and 520-7364.
