Author: Colleen Norden

Apply to Present at the First Yale Undergraduate Research Conference

Colleen Norden / / UR Opportunities

The 2017 Yale Undergraduate Research Conference is seeking student applications from national colleges and universities from which the 90 undergraduate poster presenters and 10 plenary speakers will be chosen.

Research spanning the humanities, social sciences, and STEM is welcome!

Application portal open until Dec. 8, 2016.

In addition, the two-day conference will feature keynote speakers from the Yale community and panel workshops on continuing education and careers after college.

The conference will take place on Saturday and Sunday, February 11-12th, 2017 at the Omni New Haven Hotel and will run from 9 A.M. to 7 P.M.

Middlebury students selected to present can apply to the Academic Conference Travel Fund (go/atf) for trip expenses.

Conference website: http://yura.yale.edu/conference

Summer Research on Resilience to Extreme Weather Events

Colleen Norden / / Summer Program

VT EPSCoR paid summer internships ($5,000) working in Vermont’s beautiful Lake Champlain Basin studying resilience to extreme weather events.

Opportunities for students interested in the sciences and/or social sciences:

Lake and Stream Ecology
Climatology
Water Chemistry and Microbiology
Soil Nutrients
Environmental Policy and Management
Land Use Management
Computer Science and Modeling

See the VT EPSCoR website for additional information: www.uvm.edu/epscor/undergrad.

Students Highlight Research at Summer Symposium

Colleen Norden / / Summer Program

On Thursday, July 28, summer researchers presented posters on topics ranging from a computational linguistics analysis of pop song lyrics to the biochemistry of oral pathogens.

Communications wrote a piece covering the event. Read the article.

Emily Mellen ’17, a psychology major, explains her research project during the summer symposium at Bicentennial Hall.

Faculty and Students: Apply for Community-Connected Research Grants

Colleen Norden / / Uncategorized

Academic Outreach Endowment (AOE) Grants of up to $4,000
Deadline: April 3rd

see go/aoe for more information

The Academic Outreach Endowment (AOE) was created by the generosity of a Middlebury alumna from the 1970s. This endowment, inspired by the very meaningful experience of the alumna’s thesis project, is used to provide support to faculty and students who wish to pursue community-connected projects and integrate “real world” issues within academic course work.

AOE grants are administered by Community Engagement and provide financial support to both faculty and students for pursuits that involve community-connected teaching, learning, and research. Examples of these kinds of approaches include project-based learning (when there is a direct community connection), community-based learning, participatory action research, service-learning, and more.

AOE grants help fund community-connected research, modify an existing course, or prepare a new course offering. The application is available to download at go/aoe. If your idea meets the following criteria, then please consider applying for an Academic Outreach Endowment grant.
• Involves collaboration with a community organization
• Addresses one or more community-identified needs
• Relates to a course that you will teach

AOE grants can be used to pay for the following examples of expenditures for faculty projects (you may think of other needs or ideas!):
• the wages of a student T.A., to help oversee the logistics of a course-related community-connected project
• associated travel costs for you, your students, the community partners, and/or other involved parties
• refreshments or catering for a semester-end presentation of your students’ findings
• materials or supplies needed to carry out the project
• modest honorarium to be given to participating community partner(s) for time, collaboration, and expertise
• publishing costs to print hard copies of report or project findings, etc.

If you have any questions regarding this RFP process, please feel free to contact Tiffany Sargent, tiffanys@middlebury.edu.

Senior Work Funding Deadlines–3/21 and 4/15

Colleen Norden / / Uncategorized

The deadline for applying for the Kellogg Fellowships for senior work in the humanities is 3/21/16. See more information at go/Kellogg.

The next deadline for SRPS funding is 4/15/16, for projects occurring during summer 2016 and academic year 16-17. Rising seniors and super seniors may apply. This deadline is for applications between $350 and $1600. Applications of $350 or less are accepted on a rolling basis as funding permits. More information at go/srps.