Graduate School Announcements
December 7, 2015
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News from the Graduate School:
Cornelia Ye Award Announced
 

The Center for Teaching Excellence announced the 2015-16 Cornelia Ye Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award winners, Wayne Uy (left) and Carolyn Fisher (right).

The Cornelia Ye Award honors two outstanding teaching assistants, at least one of whom is international, who have clearly demonstrated excellence and dedication in their instructional responsibilities to students at Cornell University, thereby enhancing undergraduate and graduate education at Cornell. Recipients of the Cornelia Ye Outstanding TA Award will receive a $500 award in recognition of their exceptional achievements in teaching.


Kudos
 
Congratulations to Jesse Goldberg, a doctoral student in English language and literature.  His first peer-reviewed article "Theorizing and Resisting the Violence of Stop and Frisk-style Profiling" was recently published in print in the College Language Association Journal. Citation: "Theorizing and Resisting the Violence of Stop and Frisk-style Profiling." CLAJ: College Language Association Journal 58.4 (March/July 2016): 256-276.






Congratulations to Robert Hovden, PhD '14.  Hovden is lead author of a paper describing the discovery published in the Dec. 3 edition of the journal Nature Communications. Hovden worked with Lara Estroff, associate professor of materials science and engineering; David Muller, professor of applied and engineering physics; and Stephan Wolf, a visiting scientist from Germany, in Estroff's Bio-Inspired Materials Research Group.





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From the Registrar:
Student Health Plan (SHP) Early Termination Option

 

If you're going to be graduating or withdrawing at the end of this semester, studying in absentia for the spring semester, or are currently on leave from your program, you may be eligible for early termination of your Student Health Plan (SHP) coverage (the plan year ends August 16, 2016). The deadline to apply for early termination is January 31. Learn more here.  

Conference Travel Grants

Students attending conferences in February 2016 are reminded to submit their Conference Grant Applications to the Graduate School no later than January 7, 2016. The Graduate School suggests students to plan ahead as the winter holiday nears staff/faculty attendance may become less frequent.
 
About the Conference Grant Program:
The Graduate School is pleased to provide financial support to students who have been selected to present papers or posters at a professional conference.  Awards range between $185 and $675 based on the location of the conference and are intended to help defray costs but typically does not cover total expenses.  Registered Research Students are eligible to receive one grant each academic year (July 1 - June 30) and we strive to fund all qualified applications.
 

Recognition Event for January 2016 Graduates 

  • Saturday, December 19, 2015
  • Barton Hall

Cornell welcomes all January graduates, their families and friends to attend the special winter Recognition Event and Reception. There is no limit to the number of guests who may attend and tickets are not required. However, for event planning purposes, students who plan to attend are asked to RSVP.

 

 

Please arrive at Barton Hall by 9:15 a.m. on Saturday, 12/19, and bring your cap and gown.  All graduates are individually recognized on stage and PhD candidates also participate in a hooding ceremony. 

 

Visit the Commencement website  http://commencement.cornell.edu/index.html for more information, and feel free to share this email and website with family & friends who plan to attend.


We hope to see you on December 19th. Congratulations!

 

Dates and Deadlines:
December
  • December 7 & 8: Student Parent Study Night
  • December 11: Regeneron Application Due
  • December 12: Dolores Zohrab Liebeman Fellowship Deadline
  • December 12: Big Red Barn Holiday Party
  • December 13: Teaching Assistant Grading Break
  • December 14: Teaching Assistant Grading Break
  • December 15:  National Institute of Justice Fellowship Deadline
  • December 15: Job Search Discussion
  • December 17: Teaching Assistant Grading Break
  • December 19:  Recognition Event for Jan. 2016 Graduates
Graduate School Programs:
Teaching Assistant Grading Breaks
 

The Big Red Barn will have several Grading Breaks for Graduate students in the coming weeks.

 

So mark your calendar and come for FREE Food & soda & coffee; $1.00 beers!  Plus fun activities to reduce your stress!

  • Sunday, December 13th
  • Monday, December 14th &
  • Thursday, December 17th
BRB Winter Holiday Party

Saturday, December 12th at 2:00pm

The Big Red Barn Graduate & Professional Student Center
is sponsoring a Winter Holiday Party for all graduate & professional students and their families!  Entertainment, crafts & hot cocoa & cookies will be provided!
PLUS  a special visit by Santa.

There will be an opportunity for every student/child to take a photo with Santa.   
(Please bring your own camera)
 
Holiday cookies & Hot Chocolate will be provided.
And an opportunity to do a holiday craft!
Open to all Grad & Professional students & their families.
Sponsored by the BRB Family Fellow 

For Student-Parents...

 

Need some additional time to study for an exam, complete a paper, or finish grading, but are unsure what to do with your child(ren)?  


 

New in Fall 2015 is our Student Parent Study Night.  It's easy, sign-up for free childcare with Cornell Child Care Center during Cornell's Study Period to allow you uninterrupted time to focus on your academics.  Hurry as space is limited and you must sign up to participate.  Dates and time, along with RSVP is found: 

More information:  http://studentswithfamilies.cornell.edu/students-with-children/programs/  This event is sponsored by the Students with Families Advisory Committee.


 

Teaching and Future Faculty:

Become a Better Research Mentor in 2016!


 

The Building Mentoring Skills for an Academic Career Certificate Program will be held at Cornell on six spring Tuesdays from 12:00-2:00 pm. Sponsored by Cornell University CIRTL, it is based on a highly regarded national curriculum. Prepare to be a great supervisor to your summer research students and/or to effectively mentor graduate, undergraduate, and postdoctoral students as a future professor. Join a motivated cohort of graduate students and postdocs in Spring 2016, receive a certificate for attending and participating in at least 5 of 6 sessions (dates: 2/9, 2/23, 3/8, 3/22, 4/5, 4/19). All sessions will be practical in nature and will feature short pre-readings or videos, discussion with panelists, and self-assessments to identify your strengths and desired areas for improvement. Location will be sent upon acceptance into the program. Sign up by February 7, 2016. 


 
More information at: https://www.gradschool.cornell.edu/cu-cirtl/mentoring-program 

 

Fellowships, Postdocs and Awards:

Buttrick-Crippen Fellowship

 

The Buttrick-Crippen Fellowship is open to candidates with an interest in undergraduate writing from any field of the Graduate School at Cornell. Preference will be given to those who are enrolled in a Ph.D. program. The award is intended for graduate students who have had substantial teaching experience. The Buttrick-Crippen Fellow will spend the fall semester preparing a new First-Year Writing Seminar for the John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines and will teach that seminar in the spring. In 2016-17 the award will provide a stipend ($24,658 in 2015-16), tuition, and health insurance. The Fellow may receive the opportunity to attend appropriate conferences. He/she may also be invited to participate in various Knight Institute activities and will be expected to submit a final report on the development of his or her course at the end of the teaching semester.

 

The application and more information about the Buttrick-Crippen Fellowship can be found at Buttrick-Crippen Fellowship Application

 

National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families Fellowship


 

The goal of the Research Fellowship Program at the National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families (Center) is to attract, develop, and expand the pool of emerging scholars focused on studying issues of relevance to low-income and vulnerable Hispanic children and families. Each fellow will have applied opportunities to work on research studies and policy-related projects relevant to the Center's mission around the three research priority areas.


 

The spring (~March 15 - June 15) or fall (~Sept. 1- Nov. 30) in-person fellowship is a full-time position; fellows will be expected to work 37.5 hours per week for the full 12-week fellowship period.  The start and end dates are negotiable. Fellows will be located at either Child Trends or Abt Associates in their Bethesda, MD offices.

The research fellowship program is open to advanced graduate students (those currently in their third year or higher of a Ph.D. program). We seek emerging scholars who demonstrate a significant interest in conducting research with low-income Hispanic populations, understand the cultural and linguistic diversity among the populations, and are excited about contributing to the development of better tools and resources to produce more rigorous and valid research concerning low-income Hispanic populations. 


 

For additional information visit the webpage.

Next Generation Graduate Fellowship Program 

Portland State University's Hatfield School of Government 

 

Two Fellowship opportunities are offered:  

(1) The 10-week Oregon Summer Fellowship is exclusively for current graduate students typically chosen between their first and second years of graduate study. 

(2) The 8-month Hatfield Resident Fellowship is aimed at newly minted master and doctoral graduates who will have completed their degree work by June 30, 2016.

Fellowship Applications


 

The easy-to-complete, "staged," online application process for both programs begins during fall term with finalists notified on or before February 19, 2016.  The timeline for the application process can be found here: Application Timeline.

 

Click here for more information and to apply: https://portlandstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bCUOeFFa8zoILsx

Open Society Foundation Fellowship


 

The Open Society Fellowship was founded in 2008 to support individuals pursuing innovative and unconventional approaches to fundamental open society challenges. The fellowship funds work that will enrich public understanding of those challenges and stimulate far-reaching and probing conversations within the Open Society Foundations and in the world.


 

A fellowship project might identify a problem that has not previously been recognized, develop new policy ideas to address familiar problems, or offer a new advocacy strategy. Project themes should cut across at least two areas of interest to the Open Society Foundations. Among these are human rights, government transparency, access to information and to justice, and the promotion of civil society and social inclusion.

 

To submit a letter of inquiry, please see the Open Society Fellowship guidelines. All letters of inquiry must be submitted by January 4, 2016.

Predoctoral Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania


 

The University of Pennsylvania is pleased to invite applications for the 2016-17 Predoctoral Fellowships for Excellence through Diversity. These awards are designed to provide mentorship and access to Penn's resources for doctoral students in the humanities or social sciences.


 

These residential Fellowships support graduate students in the final stages of dissertation research or writing at Penn for an academic year, normally September through August. They offer an opportunity for scholars who plan an academic career to take advantage of Penn programs and faculty expertise and afford access to libraries and the resources of the Philadelphia region. Each scholar will be selected and hosted by a department or school and assigned a faculty mentor. Recipients will be in the stage of either advanced dissertation research or writing.


 

The Fellowship provides a stipend of $30,000, health insurance, library privileges, and a $3,000 research and travel fund. Moving expenses are also covered.  The application deadline is January 15, 2016.  This year, three Fellowships will be awarded.  See the website for full information at https://provost.upenn.edu/diversity-predoc

 

CCST Science & Technology Policy Fellowship 


 

Open on Tuesday, December 1st- 

 

CCST plays a unique role in Sacramento: connecting the Executive Branch and the State Legislature with clearly communicated science from a trusted, impartial network of scientists and engineers. Unique to CCST is our Science & Technology Policy Fellowship program,which enlists scientists and engineers for a year of public service and government leadership training working as staff in the California State Legislature.

 

The Fellowship trains scientific thinkers to be policy-savvy -- and helps equip California's lawmakers with science-savvy staff.

  arenas in the world:

  • Our departing 2015 Fellows staffed 30 pieces of legislation, analyzed 69 bills and resolutions, and organized 10 informational hearings. And five of these Fellows have since been hired as staff in the Legislature or state agencies.
  • The Fellowship is open to scientists holding a PhD degree, professional engineers, medical doctors, and those holding equivalent degrees in veterinary medicine, dentistry, and certain social sciences. About 10 fellows are accepted each year from around the country, with degrees from more than 30 institutions including Stanford, Cornell, Duke, Emory, and University of California campuses.

Learn more...

Regeneron Prize

 

The competition seeks to recognize research excellence by graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in the biomedical sciences. A $50,000 prize will be awarded in each category; additional prizes of $5,000 will be awarded to up to 10 graduate students and up to 10 postdoctoral fellows. 

Cornell's internal application deadline is Friday, December 11th for submission of a complete application. An email message indicting the intention to apply should be sent no later than Tuesday, December 1st. 


 

Graduate students should send their intent-to-apply message as well as the complete application to [email protected]. Postdoctoral fellows should send their intent-to-apply message and application to [email protected].


 

Center for Retirement Research at Boston College Announces 2016 Sandell Grant Program & 2016 Dissertation Fellowship Program

 

The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College announced the 2016 Sandell Grant Program and the 2016 Dissertation Fellowship Program for research on retirement income and policy. These programs are funded by the U.S. Social Security Administration. The submission deadline for both awards is January 31, 2016, and grant award recipients will be announced by April 2016. 


 

Visit the Sandell Program website and the Dissertation Fellowship website for more information. 

Graduate Student Supplement Research Support Program

 

For the 29th year, the First Presbyterian Church in Ithaca is providing funding to help alleviate hunger in developing countries.  IP/CALS has been asked to make this information and opportunity available to faculty and graduate students. The funds will provide supplemental financial support to several international graduate students whose thesis research deals with a hunger-related topic in his/her country.  In the broadest sense, topics can range from environment and natural resources issues to nutrition or water quality.  The main goal is, in some way, to address the problems related to world hunger.  Selected proposals will receive a modest grant that can be used for expenses related to the research project.

 

Information about this program and application forms can be found on this website: http://ip.cals.cornell.edu/professional-development/scholarships-awards-and-assistantships/first-presbyterian-international-hunger-student-aid-program

 

For more information please contact Denise Percey ([email protected]).  

 

Fellowship Opportunities at the National Institute of Justice

 

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is looking for doctoral students with innovative research that aims to solve problems faced by criminal justice practitioners. Apply to be part of one of NIJ's Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) programs. The deadline is December 15.

 

For doctoral students in social and behavioral sciences (SBS), NIJ awards up to $32,000 in stipend and research support.

 

For doctoral students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), students can receive stipends of $35,000 as well as up to $15,000 annually to cover tuition and research expenses. Up to three years of support are possible, with demonstration of continued enrollment and satisfactory progress.

 

Learn more about the NIJ Graduate Research Fellowship. Deadline: Dec. 15, 2015. 

 

View a flier for the Graduate Fellowship Opportunity in STEM.

 

View a flier for the Graduate Fellowship Opportunity in SBS.

Dolores Zohrab Liebman Fellowship 

 

The Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowships are to be awarded only to candidates who have outstanding undergraduate records, have demonstrated a need for financial assistance, are citizens of the United States of America, are enrolled in accredited colleges and universities in the United States and have received baccalaureate degrees.

 

The Graduate School will select [three] Cornell Graduate students to nominate for the Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship. Applications must be submitted to Jan Allen ([email protected]) by December 12th.

 

Application and information... 

 

L'Oreal Fellowship Program


 

The L'Or�al-UNESCO For Women in Science program recognizes and rewards the contributions women make in STEM fields and identifies exceptional women researchers committed to serving as role models for younger generations.  More than 2,250 women scientists in over 110 countries have been recognized since the program began in 1998. 

 

In the US, the For Women In Science fellowship program awards five post-doctoral women scientists annually with grants of $60,000 each. Applicants are selected from a variety of fields, including the life and physical/material sciences, technology (including computer science), engineering, and mathematics.

 

Applications will open on November 30, 2015 and are due by February 5, 2016.

 

The application and more information about the L'Or�al USA For Women in Science program can be found at www.lorealusa.com/forwomeninscience

 

International Research Travel Grants

Receive Funding for Travel Abroad to Conduct Research

 

The Einaudi Center sponsors the International Research Travel Grants. These grants provide travel support for Cornell University graduate students conducting short-term research and/or field work in countries outside the United States. They also provide travel support for professional students engaged in various academic experiences in the international arena.

 

Eligibility

Applicants must be enrolled in an approved PhD or Masters degree program at Cornell University, or be enrolled in one of the professional schools. Groups are not eligible to apply as grants are awarded on an individual basis.  Grant recipients are eligible to enter  Einaudi Center photo contest.

 

The application for 2016-17 is now open and closes on February 1, 2016. Click here to apply

 

Information Handout
Careers and Jobs:
The CCMR Industrial Partnerships Program sponsors the MRS 2016 Spring Meeting iMatSci - Innovation in Materials Science! 

 

Deadline for applications: December 15, 2015


 

The goal of the Materials Research Society (MRS) iMatSci program is to give an opportunity to Materials Science innovators to present their technologies to industry leaders and investors and to spur collaboration that accelerates the adoption of new materials technologies for real-world applications. iMatSci will showcase technologies that have not yet been productized but where there is a working prototype or evidence of a repeatable process.

 

The innovators' demonstrations will take place on Wednesday March 30, 2016, in front of an Angel Investing Panel, during the 2016 MRS Spring Meeting.

The finalists will receive cash prizes.

Job Search Discussion Group 


 

Tuesday December 15, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. 

 

Are you a postdoc or graduate student going on the job market? Come join a lunch discussion with others in the same boat, interact with a community of peers to help find advice, support, and feedback facilitated by the Office of Postdoctoral Studies and CU-CIRTL. Lunch served!

 

Registration required: RSVP


 

Wellness:
 

FREE Mindfulness Meditation

 

Thursdays December 10th and December 17th

12:15-12:45pm

WSH Garden Room

Around Campus:
Ithaca Ice Festival

 

December 10-12, Ithaca Commons


 
Free fun for the entire family -- watch expert ice-carvers compete and practice their craft; enjoy a cocoa, wine or beer at the popular ice bar; savor samples of the Chowder Cook-off; join in the Habitat for Humanity annual Cookie Walk; see the Mt. Pleasant Dogsled Team, and more -- schedule and details here.

 

FREE Cornell Outdoor Education STRESS BUSTER!


 

Thursday, 12/10 6-9pm and is open to the Cornell Community

We are opening our forty foot high Giant Swing in Bartels Hall.  

  

What is that, you ask?  Check out our video here.  No experience necessary and you can choose how high you go! In addition to the swing, we will have some on-the-ground trebuchets for your object flinging pleasure. If you are interested in signing up, go to this form: Stressbusters RSVP Form


 

St. Luke's OPEN for study hours!


 

St. Luke Lutheran Church (directly behind CTB) welcomes ALL CORNELL STUDENTS to use their multipurpose room any day from Sunday, December 6th to Wednesday, December 16th from 10am to midnight, as a quite study space with FREE coffee and tea. Students are welcome to bring in their own food (but please, no alcohol); wireless internet is available throughout the church. Several small group study rooms are also available.


 

St. Luke Lutheran Church; 109 Oak Ave, Ithaca; 607.273.6811; [email protected]


 

Off-Campus Living is sponsoring two "surprise" break periods at St. Luke's between December 6th and 16th:

  • Cookies and Cuddles with CUPD Dog! Take a break from studying and spend time petting one of the dogs with CUPD
  • Relaxation with Cookies and Gannett! Need help dealing with the stress of exams. Catherine Thrasher-Carroll (Mental Health Promotion Coordinator) will be available to provide tips and resources.

De-stress @ Noyes Rec. Center


 

Monday, December 7th & Tuesday December 8th, 8-10pm

Mini-Manicures, Chair Message, Fat Jack's BBQ (Tuesday), Cupcakes and more!


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