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Gap-Year Fellowship — Project Horseshoe Farm

by chamberslm

This upcoming year, Project Horseshoe Farm is offering our traditional Gap-Year Fellowship, which will begin in June of 2022 and finish in July of 2023 at the Greensboro, Marion, and Pomona sites. For applicants who are available and interested, we are also offering a 6-month Fellowship opportunity in Greensboro from January through July of 2022. It will be shorter, but similar in experience to the full-year Fellowship.

The application deadline for the 2022-23 gap-year Fellowship is on February 13th, 2022. The application deadline for our 6-month Fellowship in Greensboro is November 14th, 2021. Your students can find us (and the application) on Handshake or at our website, and can obtain more information from the attached flyer.

How We Want to Learn! — Call For Abstracts for Edited Volume

by chamberslm
Are you a student who is frustrated with your education?

Do you feel disengaged? Unsatisfied with PowerPoint lectures and hungry for more community in your classes? Passionate about social movements on campus? Are you feeling anxious in the face of climate change and angry about ongoing structural racism and other forms of inequality? Are you troubled by the pandemic’s unprecedented technological transformation of education? Looking for a way to process and deal with school functioning more like a business focused on the bottom line rather than on providing you with an enriching education

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Submit an abstract to our edited volume – “How We Want to Learn!”: Radical Student Voices from the Academy in a Crises World. This edited volume explores the rarely heard radical voices of graduate and undergraduate students expressing in critical and heartfelt ways how YOU want to learn, as opposed to how ‘we’ in the academy want to teach. This is your opportunity to dream about what school would look like in an ideal world. Write about your frustrations, your personal experience of pain or of success in an academic or other learning setting. Write about the learning that has set you on fire – or your longing for such an experience.

We seek academic works that can take any form such as theoretical, autoethnography, ethnography, or other styles that enable you to document your experiences and / or those of other students. Creative submissions are strongly encouraged – including poems, prose, art, photography, personal narrative – whatever form of expression you are passionate about, we are interested in!

Accepted submissions will become part of a diverse community of passionate students. As we work together to craft this edited volume, we will dream together about transformation of education and of society.

Submission Guidelines:
• Last date of Abstract Submissions – January 15, 2022
• Abstracts should be approximately 500 words
• Include a short bio/introduction in your email ·Submit via email to cara.cancelmo@uconn.edu & phoebe.godfrey@uconn.edu

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Paid Biotech R&D Internship

by chamberslm

Paid Internship Opportunity with Firststring Research

FirstString Research is seeking an intern who works collaboratively, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and seeks opportunities for growth as a developing scientist. This is a part-time internship for candidates currently enrolled in a Bachelor’s degree in life sciences or a quantitative field, or graduate students pursuing a Master’s or PhD in a relevant field. Interested candidates with a background in data science or statistics may also apply. Level of responsibility and pay will be commensurate with experience. This position does not involve laboratory work and will be based at FirstString’s office in Mount Pleasant, SC, with opportunity for remote work as deemed appropriate.

Position Details: Hourly position with expected commitment of 15-20 hours/week for 8 weeks, with potential for opportunity to extend internship duration. Pay range of $15-20/hour, commensurate with experience and education.

Submit a Statement of Interest and CV or resumé to Dr. Carissa James, james@firststringresearch.com. The deadline to submit an application is December 1.

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FirstString Research is a biotechnology company focused on the development of novel therapeutics for unmet medical needs associated with dysregulation of inflammation and impaired injury response. The Biotechnology Internship at FirstString will provide exposure to pharmaceutical Research and Development, at a clinical stage biotech company with drug candidates in multiple therapeutic areas. The intern will support FirstString’s Research and Development team, which is responsible for translating a drug candidate from idea to clinical application. The intern will have opportunities for exposure to drug formulation development, toxicology and pharmacology, and efficacy studies intended to support approval for use in humans.

Responsibilities may include one or more of the following:

  • Process and analyze data from in vivo and in vitro studies using Microsoft Excel, Graphpad Prism, and/or SAS
  • Perform literature reviews in various subject matter areas to support optimization of in vitro and in vivo study design
  • Draft meeting summaries and project reports to support Research and Development team efforts
  • Assist with Project Management of preclinical studies led by the Research and Development team
  • Additional duties to support the Research and Development team, as appropriate

Necessary Qualifications:

  • Interest in a career in medical/pharmaceutical Research and Development
  • Competency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and Powerpoint
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Availability to commit 15-20 hours/week to internship

Preferred Qualifications:
·       Prior research experience
·       Competency in Graphpad Prism, SAS
·       Comfort with data analysis, statistical analyses

Position Details: Hourly position with expected commitment of 15-20 hours/week for 8 weeks, with potential for opportunity to extend internship duration. Pay range of $15-20/hour, commensurate with experience and education.

Submit a Statement of Interest and CV or resumé to Dr. Carissa James, james@firststringresearch.com.

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Free Tickets For Charleston Literary Festival

by chamberslm
CofC Students Get Complimentary Tickets for Charleston Literary Festival

The College of Charleston is the Academic Partner of the Charleston Literary Festival (CFL), Nov. 5–14. Current students, faculty and staff may register for complimentary tickets to 27 in-person and virtual sessions with renowned authors and celebrities, including Walter Isaacson, Yaa Gyasi, Carl Zimmer, Yiyun Li, Lisa Taddeo, George Saunders, Lauren Groff, Bernard Cornwell, James Ivory and a host of others. You’ll see distinguished CofC colleagues and alumni featured in the programs as well.’

Students may register for complimentary tickets here: https://bit.ly/CofCSFStixCLF while supplies last. Please bring your Cougar Card to check-in at the event.

Check out the schedule and COVID-19 safety protocols here to choose the event(s) you would like to attend.

Ernest F. Hollings NOAA Scholarship is Now Open for Applications!

by chamberslm
Awards include academic assistance up to $9,500 per year

The Hollings Scholarship Program provides successful undergraduate applicants with awards that include academic assistance (up to $9,500 per year) for two years of full-time study and a 10-week, full-time paid ($700/week) internship at a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) facility during the summer.

Current sophomores majoring in and conducting research in oceanic, environmental, biological, and atmospheric sciences, including geography, physics, hydrology, and geomatics, are invited to apply.

The application is now live and available online at: https://www.noaa.gov/office-education/hollings-scholarship

Applications Due: Monday, January 31, 2022, at 11:59 PM EST

Questions or application help? Contact the Office of Nationally Competitive Awards, nationalawards@cofc.edu.

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The internship provides scholars with hands-on, practical experience in NOAA related science, research, technology, policy, management, and educational activities. Awards also include travel funds to attend a mandatory NOAA Scholarship Program orientation and the annual Science & Education Symposium, scientific conferences where students present their research, and a housing subsidy for scholars who do not reside at home during the summer internship.

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Entry-level Marketing Positions Available with Environmental Engineering Firm

by chamberslm
Wright-Pierce Hiring for Clifton, NY and Manchester, NH Offices

Wright-Pierce, an environmental engineering firm with offices in New England and Florida, currently has two openings for entry-level Marketing Coordinators in our Clifton Park, NY and Manchester, NH offices. As a marketer at Wright-Pierce, you will be part of a collaborative marketing team that supports efforts in locations throughout New England, New York, and Florida. You will have the opportunity, through proposal development and interview preparation, to directly impact our firm’s growth.

The ideal applicant will have 0-2 years of marketing and proposal experience, excellent written communication skills, and a BS/BA in marketing, business administration, or English.

Details on position and steps for applying can be found at https://www.wright-pierce.com/careers/#current-openings.

**Interested applicants from CofC Honors are encouraged to email Honors alum Dianne Turgeon Richardson directly at dianne.richardson@wright-pierce.com.

Conduct Neuroscience Research with the Reichel Lab at MUSC

by chamberslm
Research opportunity with Honors Immersed and Bachelor’s Essay potential
The Reichel Lab at MUSC is looking for undergraduate volunteers to assist with neuroscience research. The lab investigates the neural pathways underlying addiction to multiple drugs of abuse. Dr. Reichel has worked with numerous Honors students from CofC and has overseen the completion of Honors Immersed and Bachelor’s Essay projects. Students will be trained by graduate student(s) and post-doctoral fellow(s). As positions become available, there are opportunities for part-time employment in the lab.

Application Deadline: End of the Fall 2021 Semester

Contact: Jordan Carter (carterjo@musc.edu)

Johns Hopkins Macksey Symposium Applications Now Open

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Gather To Disseminate Your Humanities And Interdisciplinary Research On A National Scale

Johns Hopkins University’s third annual Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium was designed to offer students across the country the chance to gather together and disseminate their humanities and interdisciplinary research on a national scale. COVID forced us to adapt to a virtual event, but that in turn was a great success with close to 1,000 participants and more than 25,000 visits to the conference site to date. This year’s event will be virtual as well, held live April 8th-10th, 2022, and our application portal is now open. The submission deadline is February 15, 2022.

Students can email mackseysymposium@jhu.edu to indicate their interest in drop-in hours.

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The 2022 Macksey Symposium will feature the following:

  • A robust national student audience: undergraduate students from any two or four-year college or university who would like to present their original humanities and/or interdisciplinary scholarship.
  • Multiple panels of student papers and original creative works.
  • A keynote delivered by the contemporary poet Elisabet Velasquez, who recently released When We Make It and whose poetry has been featured in TIDAL, NBC, Latina Magazine, and more. Elisabet Velasquez will share in a fireside chat with students about creative inspiration and her research process.
  • Multiple professional development panels featuring Johns Hopkins graduate students and faculty as well as JHU Press editors.

Following the conference, student participants will also have the opportunity to work with our peer editors to revise their presentation into a journal-length publication for our journal of proceedings, the Macksey Journal. Student feedback about Macksey has been overwhelming positive, with 93% of students saying that they were very or highly likely to recommend Macksey to a friend or colleague and over 90% rating their experience at the conference as satisfied or highly satisfied.

Registration will be $175; late registration will be $205. You can learn more at our conference site: https://krieger.jhu.edu/macksey-symposium/. We would also be glad to answer any questions you might have. We are also holding virtual drop-in hours for students to ask questions about the symposium, the application, and creating an abstract. Those hours are:

  • November 10, 2021: 1:00-2:00pm eastern
  • November 18, 2021: 5:00-6:00pm eastern
  • January 27, 2022: 5:00-6:00pm eastern
  • February 9, 2022: 1:00-2:00pm eastern

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