Cornell Travel Registry 

Cornell provides a free assistance program to all students, faculty, and staff traveling on university business 50 miles or more away from campus. Cornell's vendor, UHC Global Assistance (formerly FrontierMEDEX), provides emergency evacuation assistance, medical referrals worldwide, and travel assistance in emergency situations. We encourage you to visit Cornell's Travel Assistance website to print a Global Assistance card with Cornell's UHC ID# so that you can more quickly access health, safety, and security services should you need them while on In Absentia status. Further, more information about staying safe abroad and using Cornell's Travel Registry website is found here. Additional information is available at this site about contacting Cornell Police (607-255-111) for urgent health, safety, and security concerns while away from campus and for contacting UHC Global Assistance in a medical emergency while abroad. 

Before beginning any Cornell-related international travel, students must register at Cornell's Travel Registry, a secure system to record travel plans and contact information that supports emergency communications and emergency travel assistance while abroad. Once registered, students receive a confirmation message by email, which should be submitted with any petition to request In Absentia status during the academic year.

Amit Anshumali

 

Congratulations to Amit Anshumali, a doctoral student in development sociology. He has been awarded the prestigious Clifford C. Clogg Scholarship to participate in the 2015 ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 

The Clogg Scholarship is awarded each year to a handful of graduate students in sociology and political science. This scholarship was established in 1995 by the ICPSR Council to commemorate the late Clifford C. Clogg, a prominent sociologist and social methodologist. The application process is highly competitive. 

 

Tonia Ko

Congratulations to third year graduate student, Tonia Ko (a doctoral student in music). She is one of nine young composers to win a BMI 2015 Student Composer Awards.  The competition, now in its 63rd year, is designed to recognize and encourage young composers who exhibit superior musical compositional ability. Deirdre Chadwick, BMI Foundation President, commented that she hopes, "winning this award helps them trust their instincts, take chances, and move forward with confidence."  The winners receive scholarship grants to be applied toward their musical education.  More at: bmifoundation.org.

 

Congratulations to recent graduate, Franz Hofer M.A. '06, Ph.D. '12.  He has been named a 2015 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Public Fellow. 

Hofer joins a cohort of 22 public fellows who will take up full-time staff positions at a range of nonprofit and government organizations across the United States and, for the first time, in Europe.

 

Samuel Birch

Tyler Pauly

Sean Marshall

 

Congratulations to Samuel Birch, Tyler Pauly and Sean Marshall. These graduate students in the field of astronomy were among 29 who recently received NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) awards."The awards are given to individuals pursuing Master of Science (M.Sc.) or Doctoral (Ph.D.) degrees in Earth and space sciences, or related disciplines," according to Terry Herter, chair of the astronomy department. The winners of these awards receive research grants to continue their work in pursuit of NASA's scientific goals.

Chris Dalton

Congratulations to graduate students Allison Tracy, ecology and evolutionary biology; Sarah Maxey, government; Danielle Morgan, English; and Laura Manella, neurobiology and behavior. They won the Deanne Gebell Gitner '66 and Family Annual Prize for Teaching Assistants.

Congratulations to Jay Falk, a graduate student in the field of neurobiology and behavior, whose paper was published in theProceedings of the Royal Society B. Falk is a first author of the paper along with Hannah M. ter Hofstede of Dartmouth College. The study looked at how bats listen for signals in prey mating calls.

Careers in Marketing for STEM PhDs: Versatile PhD Online Panel Discussion

June 8-12

Versatile PhD will host a free web-based asynchronous panel discussion on Careers in Marketing for STEM PhDs. All panelists are PhDs from STEM fields, including:

- a Market Insight Manager at a health insurance company

- a Marketing Development Manager at Eastman Kodak

- a Data Scientist at a marketing agency

- an Associate Medical Director at a pharmaceutical marketing agency

- a high-level Manager at a global research company who has a great deal of marketing responsibility

More information here:  http://vphd.info/1ciGMzx 

Interested in learning more about how VPhD can help you develop relationships beyond your academic circles? Learn more here:  http://versatilephd.com/networking-and-building-relationships/?pk_campaign=20155ur 

EdX is offering the first online course of its kind:  

Making Science and Engineering Pictures, a Practical Guide to Presenting Your Work

The free course is globally targeting research scientists and engineers, however the content is rich in the basics of macro photography and graphics and will easily engage design and general audiences.

The 6 weeks of video tutorials are accompanied by photography assignments. Learners will upload their images to small, online working groups for discussion and review.  Students will discover how subtle changes in lighting, composition, and background contribute to creating more compelling images. The course also includes interviews with notable image-makers and art directors. 

Registration is now open.  The course begins June 15.