| AFFORDING
COLLEGE |
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| This section links to Web sites that help you learn about financial aid and scholarship resources. You can also link to personal finance resources. |
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| Nail down the basics to making credit work for
you—not against you—with the helpful tools
and advice on this website. Remember, your actions today
can impact your potential down the road.
Read more:
http://www.citi.com/us/cards/cm/student/index.htm
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| SUCCEEDING
IN COLLEGE |
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| This section links to Web sites that will help improve your higher order thinking skills. |
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| Assigning grades is one of the most protected of
faculty rights and responsibilities.
Talking with your professor about a grade - particularly
if you differ in your perceptions
about what the grade should be - can be very difficult.
The following guidelines are
suggested to assist you in having a productive discussion
with your professor about
your grade.
Read more:
http://www.colorado.edu/Ombuds/Talk%20to%20Prof.pdf
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| A particularly difficult skill we work to develop
in college writing is using other people's ideas and
texts appropriately. All knowledge builds on the contributions
of others: each of us constructs our own new learning
on knowledge discovered or organized by others. In our
college courses, we are continually engaged with other
people's idea: we read them in texts, hear them in lecture,
discuss them in class, and incorporate them into our
own writing.
Read more:
http://www.aug.edu/sociology/plagiarism.html
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| UPCOMING
EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES |
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| This section links to various summer research and internship
programs available to Ventures Scholars as well as upcoming
scholarship opportunities. |
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| The forty-fourth Summer Research Institute sponsored
by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) will be devoted
to algebraic geometry and will be held at the University
of Washington, Seattle, Washington, July 25 through
August 12, 2005.
Deadline: March 4, 2005
For further information see:
http://www.ams.org/meetings/summerinst.html
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| The American Indian Resource Center at University
of California, Santa Cruz will present the Forum on
April 8-9, 2005. The focus of the two-day event will
be to address the atmosphere that promotes ill health
and will cover several health issues facing native peoples.
Presentations, workshops, seminars and experiential
activities will provide practices, programs, models,
paradigms, and points of view that will enhance the
health of native communities as well as the health of
those who attend.
For more information:
http://www2.ucsc.edu/narc/forum/index.htm
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| The Bioinformatics Summer Institute in Genomics
Science will take place from June 13 through August
5, 2005. Both undergraduates (normally at the junior
or senior level) and beginning graduate students are
eligible. Appropriate fields of study include Biological
Sciences, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Computer
Science and Engineering. $4000 of financial support
plus housing, travel and tuition for qualified minority
students.
Deadline: March 31, 2005
For further information see:
http://cegs.cmb.usc.edu/academics/bigs/BIGS.html
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| RESEARCH
AND INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES |
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| This section links to Web sites that offer information about a variety of year-round and summer research/ internship opportunities nationwide. |
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| The purpose of Internships in Computational Modeling
at the Terascale (ICMT) is to prepare graduate and advanced
undergraduate students for employment as computational
scientists. Summer students will have the opportunity
to contribute to ongoing contributions to the Advanced
Simulation Computing (ASCI) code research and development.
ICMT will provide summer students with "hands-on"
experience in the Lab environment and it will encourage
and equip students to develop backgrounds in key areas
of terascale simulation.
Deadline(s): 04/15/2005
Read more:
http://universitygateway.llnl.gov/internships/CSIP/project_icmt.html
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| UNAVCO is looking for a number of student summer
field assistants to work as part of a regional engineering
team to perform station siting, reconnaissance and installation
of permanent GPS and strainmeter instruments in the
western US including Alaska. We are looking for individuals
with geology, data communication, and construction skills
who want to participate in building the Plate Boundary
Observatory, the geodetic component of EarthScope.
Deadline: March 31, 2005
Please visit:
http://achaia.unavco.org/public/careers/currentjobs.asp?view=8
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| UNAVCO is a non-profit membership-governed organization
that supports and promotes Earth science by advancing
high-precision geodetic and strain techniques such as
the Global Positioning System (GPS). Internship is open
to rising third or fourth year undergraduates, or recent
graduates who have an interest in pursuing graduate
work in the research areas related to UNAVCO’s
mission, namely crustal deformation using high-precision
GPS.
Deadline: March 25, 2005
For more information:
http://unavco.org/aboutus/aboutus.html
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| The Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
(IRIS) Program for Array Seismic Studies of the Continental
Lithosphere (PASSCAL) has an opening for a summer student
intern. This position is designed for an advanced undergraduate
or graduate student who has an interest in experiment
design, field methods, seismograph electronics, and
data processing.
Deadline: April 4, 2005
For more information:
http://www.iris.edu/services/jobs.htm#20050215
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| Summer Research with NIDA is part is part of the
Research Supplements for Underrepresented Minorities
program. The program exposes students to drug abuse
research and encourages them to pursue careers in biomedical
and behavioral research by providing them with opportunities
to work with investigators in the field.
Deadline: March 22, 2005
Additional information and application available at
http://www.drugabuse.gov/pdf/sposummer.pdf
(PDF File) or by contacting fl20t@nih.gov.
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| INROADS Internships are awarded to outstanding
ethnically diverse students. Only the best and the brightest
are selected. Our Interns are graduating high school
seniors, college or university freshmen or sophomores
with a grade point average of B or better, and a combined
SAT score of at least 1000, or an ACT score of 20 or
better. They have demonstrated a proven leadership ability,
and are interested in pursuing a Bachelor's degree in
business, engineering, computer and information sciences,
sales, marketing, allied health care, healthcare management,
and retail management.
Read more:
http://www.inroads.org/interns/internPublic.jsp
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| Abstracts for poster and oral presentations are
now being accepted for the 2005 SACNAS National Conference.
We encourage abstracts in all areas of science, mathematics
and engineering.
Abstract Submission Deadline: July
20
For more information regarding guidelines,
please go to:
http://www2.sacnas.org/confNew/confClient/current/
Send questions regarding student presentations to:
marilu@sacnas.org.
Please send webmaster@ventures.org
an email if you are applying for this SACNAS activity.
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| The SACNAS News is seeking submissions for articles
on “Minority Scientists and the Corporate World.”
The Editors are looking for articles by students on
student research internships/fellowships in corporations,
professional advice for students interested in pursuing
a scientific career in the corporate sector, and how
K-12 educators can build bridges between corporations
and their classrooms through funding/visiting scientists.
Any other ideas related to the theme will be considered.
Contact Jenny Kurzweil at jenny@sacnas.org
or (831) 459-0170 x227. Please mention that
you are a Ventures Scholar!
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| The General Motors Corporation/League of United
Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Scholarship Program
is intended to assist and encourage outstanding minority
students in completing their college education. The
program is directed specifically to minority students
with career interests in engineering. The GM/LULAC Scholarship
Program is sponsored by General Motors and is administered
by the LULAC National Educational Service Centers (LNESC),
the educational branch of LULAC.
Deadline(s): 7/15/2005
Read more:
http://www.gm.com/company/careers/student/stu_scholar.html
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| WONDERFUL SITE! Select a state and then explore
links to internship positions at a wide range of public
organizations, corporations, arts, sports, high-tech
and more.
Read more:
http://jobstar.org/adjobs/summer.cfm#Tips
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| PROVIDING
YOUR INFORMATION TO MEMBER INSTITUTIONS |
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This section links to the Ventures Scholars
Program Consortium members. The Consortium includes close
to 225 undergraduate institutions, graduate and professional
schools, and professional association members. You can
complete an information questionnaire and share your accomplishments
with member graduate or professional schools, ask questions
about career pathways to member professional association
representatives, or contact member undergraduate institutions
if you are looking to transfer to another college.
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| Information
Link
Would you like to learn about the programs and opportunities
at our member graduate/professional schools? Click
here to access information. If you correspond directly
with the contact person, please remember to mention
that you are a Ventures Scholar.
Questionnaire
If you would like to share your academic and career
goals with the member graduate and professional schools,
please go to http://www.venturescholar.org/undergrad/gradinquiry.asp
and you will receive a response from the selected institutions.
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| CONSIDERING
GRADUATE OR PROFESSIONAL SCHOOL |
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| This section links to Web sites that will help you better understand the graduate and professional school planning process. |
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| The decision to attend graduate school to get a
Ph.D. is an important one, and not one to be made lightly
or without consideration. Typical doctoral programs
take five to seven years to complete; by the time you
are done, you will have spent about one-quarter of your
life in graduate school. In many fields your training
will not be done; in most science fields students then
spend 2-4 years in postdoctoral training before beginning
their professional career.
Read more:
http://www.phd-survey.org/advice/advice.htm
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~harchol/gradschooltalk.pdf
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| PREPARING
FOR THE WORKPLACE |
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| This section links to Web sites that will help you prepare for the workplace. Access information about interviewing, resumes, the job market and more! |
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| A new report reveals that in the next two years,
the federal government will be hiring more than 15,000
people trained in engineering, 5,198 in biology, 3,322
in the physical sciences, and 3,200 in information technology.
Find out where the jobs are and why the federal government
is an attractive employer.
Read more:
http://www.mentornet.net/documents/about/news/2005/marchnews2.aspx
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| Each month Science's Next Wave focuses on a special
topic that scientists will find useful in planning their
next career moves, whether they be alternative avenues
for their hard-earned talents or simply to gain new
insights into the worlds of academe and industry.
Read more:
http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2003/10/22/4
Username: gue5txs
March Password: spr6ing
This username and password will allow you to access
MiSciNet from any computer.
The password for April will be 'ap2fool'.
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| ARTICLES
OF INTEREST |
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| This section links to Web sites that discuss
a variety of math- and science-related topics. |
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| Kétévi Assamagan, a physicist at
Brookhaven National Laboratory, develops detectors and
software to explore still-uncharted areas of particle
physics.
Read more:
http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2005/03/03/4
Username: gue5txs
March Password: spr6ing
This username and password will allow you to access
MiSciNet from any computer.
The password for April will be 'ap2fool'.
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| Tania Ruiz, manager of the Centre for Interdisciplinary
Science at the University of Leicester in England, has
a background in astrophysics, but her career in science
has allowed her to participate in a variety of specialties:
research, science education, science educational software,
museum science communication, and program management.
Read more:
http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2005/03/03/5
Username: gue5txs
March Password: spr6ing
This username and password will allow you to access
MiSciNet from any computer.
The password for April will be 'ap2fool'.
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| Dr. Clemmons helps an entry-level engineer at a
large company deal with honesty and integrity issues
at work.
Read more:
http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2005/03/03/6
Username: gue5txs
March Password: spr6ing
This username and password will allow you to access
MiSciNet from any computer.
The password for April will be 'ap2fool'.
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| The SACNAS Biography Project is pleased to announce
that three new biographies have been added to the on-line
archive.
Profiles of Drs. Craig Love, Margaret Hiza,
and Elba Serrano can be viewed at: http://64.171.10.183/biography/default.asp
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| Three SACNAS members featured on national radio
program: Native America Calling. Drs. Joan Esnayra,
Linda Burhansstipanov, and David Burgess were interviewed
on the subject of human cloning on the February 21st
edition of Native America Calling.
Listen to the show on-line at:
http://www.nativeamericacalling.com/
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| THE
PERSONAL SIDE |
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| This section links to Web sites that share informational resources about undergraduate students' issues and concerns. |
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| In the fall and the spring, we invite high school
and undergraduate Ventures Scholars to register for
the VSP E-Buddy Welcome Program.
- High school Ventures Scholars can connect with
other high school Ventures Scholars across the country
who share similar majors.
- High school Ventures Scholars can ask undergraduate
Ventures Scholars about the college planning process.
- Undergraduate Ventures Scholars can help high school
Ventures Scholars with the college planning process.
- Undergraduate Ventures Scholars can also communicate
with other undergraduate Ventures Scholars who share
the same major or who are at the same institution.
This year's program begins during the first
week of April.
Return Users
You should have received an email asking you to review
your information. If you have not received it, please
email webmaster@ventures.org
and provide us with your name and email address.
New Users
If you would like to sign up for the VSP E-Buddy Program,
please go to www.venturescholar.org/vswp/undergrad-register.asp
and complete the form.
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Undergraduate Ventures Scholars can now communicate
with other Ventures Scholars through the listserv. Find
out about math, science, and technology-related careers,
graduate/professional school and other important information
from your peers!
To sign up for the listserv, login at http://www.venturescholar.org/login
and click on the listserv link at the bottom of the
page.
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