1) Summer Study Abroad Information Session
Wednesday, October 6th – 5-6 p.m.
Center Theater of the UK Student Center
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2) Boren Scholarship and Fellowship Information Session and Drop-in Q & A
Thursday, October 7
Boren Awards representative Michael Saffle will visit UK to discuss the Boren Scholarship and Fellowship opportunities with interested students.
11 am to Noon – Drop-in Q & A: Stop by to ask Mr. Saffle questions about the Boren Awards. You are welcome to drop in between 11 and noon if you cannot make it to the noon info session, or you are welcome to come to both.
Noon – 1 pm – Information Session: Mr. Saffle will give an informational presentation about the Boren awards, followed by a Q & A session.
Both events will take place in Room 205 of the UK Student Center.
Boren Scholarships and Fellowships support intensive study of languages and cultures deemed critical to U.S. national security. http://www.borenawards.org/ Students at every level (1st year through graduating senior and graduate students) in any discipline are eligible to apply; the scholarship is intended for those who are strongly interested in national security and there is a 1-year post-graduation service commitment for awardees (work at least 1 year for any FedGov department related to Nat’l security in some capacity). For a list of languages you may study using a Boren award, including when Spanish or French is a permissible language, see http://bit.ly/bWeImD.
The campus deadline for Boren Scholarship applications is January 18, 2011.
There is no campus deadline for Boren Fellowship applications. Fellowship applicants must observe the Boren Awards deadline of February 1, 2011.
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3) Graduate Student Workshops
Identifying and Helping Students in Difficulty
with Felito Aldarondo and Di Sobel, UK Counseling Center, and Lee Edgerton, Academic Ombud Office
Monday, Oct. 11, at 6:00 p.m. in Whitehall Classroom Building, Room 234 (note slight change in time)
Instructors frequently encounter students who are dealing with personal, academic, or social difficulties
and who may be candidates for intervention, both for their own good and the good of the learning environment. This workshop will help participants identify students in difficulty and will offer strategies for effectively engaging them and, if needed, referring them. The discussion will also include strategies for handling crisis situations of various kinds.
To register for this workshop, please click here: http://www.research.uky.edu/gs/Workshops/Fall10/WorkingSeries.html
College Pedagogy II: Reviewing Management Tools and Responding to Incivility
with Kathryn Cunningham, The Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT)
Thursday, Oct. 28, at 6:30 p.m. in White Hall Classroom Building, Room 234
In this session, after a brief presentation about dealing with incivility in the classroom, attendees will report their management techniques implementation experiences to small groups (how did it go? what are insights to share?). The small groups will analyze why technique implementation went the way it did. (This is meant to be a companion workshop for "College Pedagogy I" on Oct. 4. However, if you missed Part I, you may still attend this session.)
To register for this workshop, please click here: http://www.research.uky.edu/gs/Workshops/Fall10/WorkingSeries.html
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4) Insights into UK Athletics forum featuring UK Men’s Basketball Coach John Calipari
Tuesday, October 12th, 3:30 p.m.
White Hall Classroom Building Room 106
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5) African American Studies and Research Program Fall Events
Fall 2010 Dialogues in Race Film Series: Sisters in the Struggle
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm, Martin Luther King Cultural Center (Student Center)
October 14: Audrey Grevious
November 18: Anne Braden
December 2: Sen. Georgia Powers
Sponsored by the African American Studies and Research Program present
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6) 2011 Nordic Research Opportunity
Deadline: Thursday, January 14, 2011
The NSF, the Research Council of Norway (RCN), the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (TEKES), the Academy of Finland, the Danish National Research Foundation and the Swedish Research Council will support, on a competitive basis, research visits of 2-12 months or 3-12 months (country-specific) in Norway, Finland, Denmark and Sweden (new this year).
Please read the announcement (Dear Colleague Letter) on the NSF Website at: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10073/nsf10073.jsp?org=DUE (also available as a link on the GRFP page, www.nsf.gov/grfp). The 2011 Supplement Request Deadline is January 14, 2011. Announcement of supplement awards will be made in early April, 2011.
If you have any questions after reading the Dear Colleague Letter, please contact Gisele Muller-Parker, e-mail: gtmuller@nsf.gov
