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Articles provide an opportunity for you and our
member colleges and professional associations to share
information and experiences with other undergraduate
Ventures Scholars. Possibly you would like to tell Ventures
Scholars about your experiences with a good program.
Maybe you'd like to offer advice about research or a
career major or share your thoughts about the graduate
admissions process. Articles are published in the undergraduate
e-newsletter and are transferred to the VSP Web site.
You can also write articles for the high school e-newsletter
so that you can have a positive impact on high school
Ventures Scholars.
If you are interested in submitting an article to the
high school or undergraduate e-newsletter, please go
to www.venturescholar.org/e-news/submission.asp.
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In academic year 1999–2000, 50 percent of
undergraduates who were enrolled for credit at institutions
that participate in the federal Title IV student aid
programs, or approximately 8 million students, failed
to complete a Free Application for Federal Student Aid
(FAFSA), the standard application used by the federal
government, state governments, and most colleges and
universities to award financial aid. Who were these
students and what might explain their failure to apply
for aid? Would many of them have received aid had they
applied?
Read more:
http://www.acenet.edu/resources/HigherEdFacts/issue-briefs/2004FAFSA.pdf
(PDF File)
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Are you a student or family looking
for scholarship aid or a volunteer looking for a rewarding
opportunity? Use the convenient drop-down box to locate
your state. Then scroll to the chapter serving your
town (alphabetical order by town). Click on the different
options to see the towns and high schools served by
the local chapter and the contact information of the
chapter’s leadership.
Read more:
http://www.scholarshipamerica.org/dfs/find_chap.php
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Many times, students can access special
opportunities if they desire to pursue higher education
in their home state. This link provides information
on each state's education programs, colleges and universities,
financial aid assistance programs, grants, scholarships,
continuing education programs, and career opportunities.
Read more:
http://bcol02.ed.gov/Programs/EROD/org_list.cfm?category_ID=SHE
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| CONSIDERING
GRADUATE OR PROFESSIONAL SCHOOL |
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You should begin the application process no later
than the summer before your senior year of college or
at least a year before you plan to start graduate school.
Many students who have had graduate school in mind for
most of their undergraduate careers start much earlier.
This timetable is approximate, but it offers an idea
of the steps you must think about and, roughly, when
you must complete each step. No generalized chart provides
the specifics that you will need to meet your personal
timeline.
Read more:
http://www.cgsnet.org/ResourcesForStudents/timetable.htm
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| PROVIDING
YOUR INFORMATION TO MEMBER INSTITUTIONS |
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UniSci was the first science daily news site on
the Web, and remains the only one that selects stories
based on their scientific importance. As a result, UniSci
counts many laboratory scientists among its readers.
Read more:
http://unisci.com/aboutunisci.shtml
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| This online book presents the findings of a quantitative
study designed to profile the career outcomes of male
and female Ph.D. scientists and engineers from the years
1979-1995.
Read more:
http://www.nap.edu/books/0309055806/html/ |
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Nuts and Bolts offers not just a bunch of rules
to memorize but a framework for how to analyze essays,
from their overall structure down to individual words.
You become a better writer primarily by reflection and
analysis (and by writing!) rather than rote memorization.
Read more:
http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/
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An internship is any short-term, supervised
work experience usually related to a student's major
field, for which the student earns academic credit.
The work can be full- or part-time, on- or off-campus,
paid or unpaid. Many students interested in math- and
science related careers participate in summer internships.
This section provides you with links to opportunities.
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| Internship programs in biology. Some information
here has been updated for 2004. Within each category,
sites are listed more or less geographically, radiating
outward from the center of our universe (Morningside
Heights).
Read more:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/ug/intern.html#ecol
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| This program places students in paid internships
in Science and Engineering at any of several Department
of Energy facilities. Many of the participants in the
program have decided on a career in science and engineering
because of the nature of the experience. Students work
with scientists or engineers on projects related to
the laboratories' research programs.
Read more:
http://www.scied.science.doe.gov/scied/erulf/about.html
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| Science.gov 1.0 was launched in December 2002, providing
for the first time wide public access and a unified
search of the government’s vast stores of scientific
and technical information. Science.gov is an interagency
initiative of 17 U.S. government science organizations
within 12 Federal agencies. These agencies form the
voluntaryScience.gov Alliance. Visitors to the site
can search across Alliance agency resources via one
query.
Read more:
http://www.science.gov/internships/undergrad.html
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These web pages were created to provide the layperson
with an easy understanding of what forensic science
entails. With a large number of homepages on the net
for forensic organizations, no one seems to have taken
the time to explain the basics or to make them easily
understood.
Read more:
http://home.earthlink.net/~thekeither/Forensic/forsone.htm
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| What is the key to a successful career? Start with
a good high school education. From there, you can find
well-paying jobs with rewarding futures. Career Voyages
has a range of options that you can choose from below.
Read more:
http://www.careervoyages.gov/Index.cfm
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Mathematics has burst the old boundaries
that limited what an engineer could design, a scientist
could know, or an executive could manage. Subtle interactions,
masses of data, and complex systems are all within the
scope of the tools and ideas of applied mathematics.
Read more:
http://www.siam.org/careers/careers.htm
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Four informative (and, no doubt, slightly
biased) career guides from pharmaceutical giant Pfizer:
"Nursing Guide", "Pharmacy Guide",
"Physicians Guide" and "Public Health
Guide".
Read more:
http://www.pfizercareerguides.com/ |
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FASEB Career Resources is a year-around career
opportunities and development service that matches applicants
at all career levels with employers who hire biomedical
scientists, physicians, and technicians.
Read more:
https://career.faseb.org/careerweb/
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| It is very important to make a good impression
on your potential employer be it through your resume,
over the phone or in an interview. Here, you'll find
some good tips on how to launch a succesful marketing
campaign. And the product is you.
Read more:
http://www.wpi.edu/Admin/CDC/Students/MarketingYourself/ |
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Recent studies by Stanford's SIQSS and Carnegie
Mellon's HomeNet Project have shown that increased use
of the Internet leads to social isolation and depression.
People who spent more time on the Internet spent less
time socializing with peers, communicated less within
the family and felt more lonely and depressed. However,
other studies emerged contradicting these results, suggesting
that the Internet actually brings people closer together
by bridging geographical barriers.
Read more:
http://cse.stanford.edu/class/cs201/projects-00-01/personal-lives/intro.html
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