YALE UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH CONFERENCE

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On behalf of the Yale Undergraduate Research Association (YURA), I would like to announce the first annual, national undergraduate research conference at Yale University, the 2017 Yale Undergraduate Research Conference!      As a student organization, YURA’s mission is to inspire, integrate, and support undergraduate research across disciplines. We are seeking student applications from national colleges and universities, like Columbia, from which the YURA team will select 90 undergraduate poster presenters and 10 plenary speakers. Research spanning the humanities, social sciences, and STEM is welcome! In addition, the two-day conference will feature esteemed keynote speakers from the Yale community and panel workshops on continuing education and careers after college.      The conference will take place on Saturday and Sunday, February 11-12th, 2017 at the Omni New Haven Hotel and will run from 9 A.M. to 7 P.M. Our application portal will be open until December 8th, 2016.      We would greatly appreciate if you would share this opportunity with research students at Columbia through our conference website: http://yura.yale.edu/conference.      If someone else might be better suited to help us reach Columbia student researchers, we would greatly appreciate if you would direct us to them. If you have any questions concerning the conference, please contact us at yura@yale.edu or me, personally, at charlotte.herber@yale.edu.   Regards, Charlotte Herber, YURC Co-Director

ATHENA SUMMER FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

The Athena Center offers ten emerging leaders from the Barnard class of 2018 the opportunity to participate in the 2017 Athena Summer Fellowship Program.  Beginning early June through mid-August, Athena Fellows will participate in self-selected high-level internships and participate in programs aimed at building leadership skills. Athena Fellows, selected through a competitive process, will receive a $4000 stipend as well as subsidized housing.  

Summer internship can be secured after applying

APPLY

Apply online using Career Development’s NACElink system

Search for: Athena Summer Fellowship Program 

DEADLINE TO APPLY IS JANUARY 30, 2017, 11:59PM

INFORMATION SESSIONS

November 30, 2016

12:00 PM

January 20, 2017

12:00PM

Location: Athena Center located in the Vagelos Alumnae Center

NYCCEP ACTION ACADEMY

The Action Academy is a 10-week training series running from February to April that will teach a select group of students the necessary tools to meaningfully engage in community organizing and social activism.  Students will walk away from every session with a new skill like grant writing, leading a teach-in, speech-giving, etc.  Each training session will feature hands-on learning, led by staff, students, alumnae, and other professional experts.  

The Action Academy will meet on Wednesday afternoons from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm on Barnard’s campus.  Please visit this site for more information and the link to the application. The deadline is Thursday, December 15th, at midnight.

Athena Digital Design Classes

The Athena Digital Design Agency started here at Barnard a couple years ago with the mission of encouraging more women to learn to code. We are a student-run organization and offer free HTML/CSS and Javascript classes to current Barnard students. Students meet weekly for a 2-hour class. No coding experience is necessary to join our classes! 

After the completion of the HTML/CSS course, students are welcome to join our agency where they can take on web design jobs from clients. This is a great way to make some money on the side, improve their coding experience, and add something to their resume. 

Deadline for applications is December 23rd: 

HTML/CSS Application: https://adda2.typeform.com/to/VNNAiY
JavaScript Application: https://adda2.typeform.com/to/ua20DK
SAB Application: https://adda2.typeform.com/to/oblWXo

Humanity in Action Fellowship Information Session

On Friday, November 18, at 11:00 am in the Baer Room on the 4th floor of Lewisohn Hall, Yulia Shalomov, Coordinator of Admissions for the Humanity in Action Fellowship, will be discussing HIA's fully-funded seminar in human rights, which takes place next summer in Europe.

Global Scholars Program: Latin American Cities Information Session

Date: Monday, November 14

Time:1:00 - 2:00 p.m.

Place: International Affairs Building 802

Join the Institute for Latin American Studies and the Office of Global Programs and Fellowships for this information session on the new 2017 Global Scholars Program: "Latin American Cities." In this six week summer course conducted in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro, Panama, and Havana, students will explore, study, and compare local media cultures firsthand. Students will explore the historical origins and contemporary realities of urban life in the region through research and travel in five cities that capture Latin America's cultural diversity.

Taught by Barnard History professor Jose Moya, the program is open for course credit to rising juniors and seniors in all Columbia/Barnard undergraduate schools. Generous financial aid is available. Applications due in early December 2016. 

For more information:

https://columbia.studioabroad.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgram&Program_ID=10905

Interested but can't attend?

Schedule an appointment to meet with Meg Booth (Meg Booth Advising Calendar) or email her at mr2850@columbia.edu

FALL PROGRAM PLANNING MEETINGS

Thanksgiving in New York

Planning on spending Thanksgiving in NYC? Why not have Thanksgiving Dinner with a Barnard Alumnae?

Participate in the Student-Alumnae Thanksgiving Program, an exciting initiative that provides students with the opportunity to have Thanksgiving dinner at a Barnard alum's home, in the event that they are not able to go home for the holiday.

If interested, please fill out this Google Form (https://goo.gl/forms/WrOgsGMXev3GeAtP2) by Saturday, November 5th at midnight. Questions? Contact Angela Bea

Want to learn about oral history research and get a jump start on your master's?   Barnard, Columbia, GS, and SEAS juniors are eligible to apply for our BA/MA Program.  We invite you to join OHMA for our Fall Open House,  sit in on a class, meet with our directors,  or connect with our students and alumni!

ORAL HISTORY MA PROGRAM BA/MA OPTION

Undergraduate students currently enrolled in Barnard College, Columbia College, General Studies, or the School of Engineering and Applied Science may request early admission to our Oral History MA program (OHMA) through the BA/MA option. By way of this program, students have the opportunity to apply in their junior year to take OHMA's graduate-level coursework during the subsequent academic year. The deadline and required materials for the BA/MA option remain the same as the standard OHMA application. Interested students are encouraged to contact OHMA Co-Director Amy Starecheski at aas39@columbia.edu and to submit an online application by our priority deadline of March 1, 2017. Please note that admitted students to the BA/MA option are not formally enrolled in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences until after conferral of their undergraduate degree, but that up to three graduate-level courses (nine to twelve credits) of level-5000 and above and/or one-half Resident Unit taken in excess of their bachelor’s program requirements may be transferred to OHMA.

Nov. 3: FALL 2016 OPEN HOUSE

Please join us for our Fall Open House on Thursday, November 3, 2016 at 6:30 p.m. in Knox Hall 509.  On the agenda:  Information session Meet and greet with OHMA students & alums Presentation by Nyssa Chow (OHMA 2015) Mini-interviewing workshop, taught by OHMA Co-Directors Mary Marshall Clark & Amy Starecheski Refreshments! In this open house, Nyssa Chow (OHMA 2015) will be presenting a portion of her thesis, which focuses on the lived experience of history as told by three women born in Trinidad and Tobago in the 1920s. What was life in the British colony like for these women? In "Still.Life.," you will see and hear accounts that are grounded in that time and place, but also stories that are timeless, deeply personal and universally human. Nyssa is an OHMA student and Teaching Fellow in our Method, Theory, and Interpretation course this fall through Columbia’s Center for Teaching and Learning. Her work with OHMA Co-Director Mary Marshall Clark to transform oral history by teaching visual literacy recently received Columbia’s Faculty Provost Award. She is also a graduate of Columbia University’s MFA program, and a recipient of the Hollywood Foreign Press Award, the Women in Film and Television Fellowship, the Toms Fellowship, and the Academy of Motion Pictures Foundation Award. Born in Trinidad, Nyssa has a particular interest in multimedia experiments in storytelling, and collaborations that bring oral history and education closer together. Please RSVP to our Fall Open House Eventbite page here.

COLUMBIA ENGINEERING INFORMATION SESSION

Learn about graduate program opportunities at Columbia Engineering and MS Express Application for Barnard students.

October 18, 2016.
5:00-6:30pm
LL103 Diana Center

October 21, 2016
3:00-4:30pm
LL103 Diana Center

FOR PRE-HEALTH STUDENTS

Are you planning to apply to medical, dental or postbacc record enhancement programs in 2017? 

If so, you are eligible to receive a Cycle 2017 Committee Letter of Evaluation for application medical, dental or postbacc record enhancement master's programs. 

Cycle 2017 officially opens on October 25, 2016

All students (both first time and re-applicants) planning to receive a Committee Letter of Evaluation to apply to medical, dental or postbacc programs in the spring/summer 2017, MUST complete Part I: Request for a Committee Letter by November 15, 2016.

To learn more about the Committee Letter of Evaluation process, please visit our website. 

To complete Part I: Request for a Committee Letter (Opens Oct 25th)

Note: You may begin completing steps 1-3 prior to October 25th. 

1. If you have not done so already, you must create an AdviseStream account. 

2. In AdviseStream, begin completing your profile and navigate to your Apply widget to indicate your planned matriculation year, which is 2018. 

3. Begin filling in your activities and experiences in the Academics and Engagement Planner.

Beginning Oct 25th: 

4. In the Apply widget, navigate to your Committee Letter Planner and complete required steps for Part I: Request for a Committee Letter

5. Attend a Cycle 2017 Application Year Overview session. Two sessions will be held the week of October 25th (one evening and one daytime session). To view the event details and RSVP, navigate to your AdviseStream calendar. 

Note: If you are currently outside of the NYC area: we plan to record a webinar and post the recorded version in AdviseStream. Stay tuned for more information. 

Part I: Request for a Committee Letter is due on November 15, 2016. 

If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to contact us at prehealthadvising@barnard.edu. 

Sincerely,

Dean Cohen

STUDYING ABROAD IN SPRING 2017? 

The deadline is October 1st to submit the Intent to Study Abroad Form. 

There is no penalty if you end up not studying abroad or decide to study abroad at a later date.

Log onto your myBarnard account, click on the Academics tab, go to the drop-down menu on the right side for Study Abroad and choose the Intent to Study Abroad Form. Then, complete and submit.

STUDY ABROAD INFORMATION SESSIONS FALL 2016

Friday September 30, 227 Milbank, 3-4 pm

Thursday, October 13, 307 Milbank, 1:15 - 2 pm

Friday, October 21, 227 Milbank, 12 -1 pm

Wednesday, October 26, 214 Milbank, 1:15 - 2 pm

Friday, November 11, 227 Milbank, 12 -1 pm

Thursday, November 17, 306 Milbank, 1:15 - 2 pm

Monday, December 5, 227 Milbank, 12:15 - 1 pm

These sessions give a complete overview of the study abroad process at Barnard and are an opportunity for you to ask questions.

COLUMBIA/BARNARD STUDY ABROAD FAIR

Wednesday, October 5, 12 – 3 pm

Lerner Hall, Roone Arledge Auditorium, Columbia University

Meet with returnee study abroad students AND 40+ program representatives to learn about academic year, semester and summer abroad!  Programs provide students with a variety of overseas experiences including practicing Japanese in Japan, studying economics in the UK, researching psychology in Brazil or even completing an archaeological dig in Italy

Please go to https://www.barnard.edu/global/study-abroad/calendar for a full schedule of Barnard study abroad events.

STUDY ABROAD INFORMATION SESSIONS

Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies Information Session

Date: Thursday, September 22nd
Time: 3-4pm
Location: Core Conference room, 202 Hamilton
 
Program Highlights:

• Take advanced coursework in Japanese language at the 3rd, 4th & 5th year levels plus courses in Japanese studies.
• Participate in a Community Involvement Project – do volunteer work, join a student club, or study a Japanese art with a mentor.
• Live with a homestay family.
• KCJS Need-based Scholarships available. Awards vary between $500-$5,000. 

Eligibility:
Must have completed at least two years of college-level Japanese for the fall semester, and five semesters for the spring semester, or the equivalent.

Upcoming deadlines:                                           
Spring 2017: October 5
Fall 2017 & Academic Year 2017-18: March 15

For more information:
http://columbia.studioabroad.com/?go=KCJSAYOverview
http://www.kcjs.jp/index.html 

Questions?
Interested but can’t attend? Schedule an appointment to meet with Robin Leephaibul (Robin Leephaibul Advising Calendar) or email her at rl2705@columbia.edu.   

Tropical Biology and Sustainability in Kenya Information Session

In partnership with Princeton, Columbia runs a field semester abroad program in the Spring focusing on ecology, evolutionary biology, conservation biology, environmental engineering, and sustainable development. Based at Princeton's Mpala Research Centre, student also travel to places such as the forested slopes of Mt. Kenya, the wildlife-rich savannas of Laikipia, and the coffee and tea plantations of western Kenya. Courses can be counted toward the E3B and Sustainable Development major/concentration. Come learn more at the information session!

Date: Friday, September 23
Time: 12pm
Place: 1106 Schermerhorn Extension

For more information: http://columbia.studioabroad.com/?go=Kenya 

Interested but can't attend?
Schedule an appointment to meet with Meg Booth (Meg Booth Advising Calendar) or email her at mr2850@columbia.edu   

Berlin Consortium for German Studies (BCGS) Info Session

Date: Friday, September 23

Time: 2pm
Location: 606 Kent Hall (Office of Global Programs & Fellowships)

Studying abroad at the Berlin Consortium for German Studies (BCGS) offers an incredible opportunity to master German language skills by engaging in intensive academic coursework while integrating into German culture. Students enroll at the Freie Universität Berlin, which hosts a variety of departments including Biology, Economics, Political Science and much more. Students may also consider taking select courses at other universities in Berlin such as the Humboldt.  Berlin’s vibrant nightlife, art scene and fascinating history create an exciting environment to experience life in the new Europe.  The equivalent of at least two years of college- level German is required to apply to the program. Studying in Berlin for the full academic year opens the possibility of arranging full-time internships during the semester break in February and March.  Motivated students, with the help of the program, have arranged many interesting internships over the years in political foundations, government offices, hospitals, opera houses, public relations firms, and schools.

For more information: www.bcgs.columbia.edu

Application deadline for Spring 2017: October 15

Interested but can't attend?
Schedule an appointment to meet with Meg Booth (Meg Booth Advising Calender) or email her at mr2850@columbia.edu   

Columbia in Beijing at Tsinghua University Information Session

Date: Tuesday, Sept. 27th
Time: 3-4pm
Place: 403 Kent Hall

Columbia University in Beijing provides a rare opportunity for advanced students to directly enroll in a broad range of courses at Tsinghua University, one of China's top institutions. 

Eligibility:
Students must have completed at least three years of college-level Chinese, preferably more, or the equivalent, and have a firm grasp of reading and writing in Chinese. Students who have completed at least two years of Chinese in heritage tracks (W track at Columbia) may also apply. 

For more information: http://ogp.columbia.edu/?go=BeijingAY 
Upcoming deadlines:   Spring 2017: October 14
                                        Fall 2017 & Academic Year 2017-18: March 15

Questions?
Interested but can’t attend? Schedule an appointment to meet with Robin Leephaibul (Robin Leephaibul Advising Calendar) or email her at rl2705@columbia.edu.