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    <Title>Coastal Ocean Processes Research Experience</Title>
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          <div><strong>Title: Summer REU: Coastal Ocean Processes</strong></div>
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          <div>This NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program will support ten highly motivated and talented undergraduate students to conduct independent but guided research that focuses on Coastal Ocean Processes during an intensive 10-week program at the USC Wrigley Marine Science Center on Catalina Island, CA. </div>
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          <div>The program will provide students with hands-on research experience, training in laboratory and field methodologies (including a 1-day research cruise), introductory lectures and special seminars in oceanography and marine science, academic and career advisement, professional development workshops, group activities and field trips to explore Catalina Island's unique ecosystems.</div>
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          <div>This program will be especially beneficial for undergraduate students with a strong interest in pursuing graduate school or a career in marine science and research.</div>
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          <div><strong>The program runs from June 5 - August 11, 2017</strong></div>
          <div>The deadline to apply is <strong>FEBRUARY 15, 2017</strong>
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          <div><strong>Benefits Include:</strong></div>
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          <li>A stipend of $500/week</li>
          <li>Housing at the WMSC on Catalina Island and at USC's main campus in Los Angeles</li>
          <li>Access to waterfront, kayaks, wet suits, and snorkeling gear</li>
          <li>Reimbursement for travel from home institutions, up to $500</li>
          <li>Transportation between the WMSC (Catalina) and USC's main campus (mainland) </li>
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          <div><strong>Suggested majors include (but are not limited to):</strong></div>
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          <li>Marine Biotechnology </li>
          <li>Oceanography </li>
          <li>Marine Science and Policy </li>
          <li>Environmental Science</li>
          <li>Ecology </li>
          <li>Biological Sciences </li>
          <li>Microbiology </li>
          <li>Molecular Biology </li>
          <li>Chemistry and Biochemistry </li>
          <li>Mathematics and Statistics</li>
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          <div><em>Click on the link below to read more about this opportunity and see if you are eligible to apply. For help with applying, please contact <strong>Dr. April Householder</strong>, Director of Undergraduate Research and Nationally Competitive Scholarships at <a href="mailto:aprilh@umbc.edu">aprilh@umbc.edu</a>.</em></div>
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  <Title>Cultural, Economic and Ecological Roles of Church Forests</Title>
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    <strong>Title: Undergraduate Research into the Cultural, Economic and Ecological Roles of Church Forests in South Gondar, Ethiopia</strong><div><strong><br></strong></div>
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    <div>Church forests are patches of Afromontane forest surrounding Ethiopian Orthodox churches. Preserved for centuries by church leaders and communities as religious sanctuaries, church forests are, in many parts of Ethiopia, the only indigenous forests left.</div>
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    <div>Under this eight-week summer REU program students receive training at Colby College in social survey research, spatial analysis using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), ecological field methods, and written and oral communication. They then work with mentors from Colby College, the California Academy of Sciences, and Ethiopian academic and government institutions to conduct research into the cultural, economic and ecological values of church forests.</div>
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    <div>In addition to conducting social surveys on church forest uses and management, our student researchers work with Ethiopian priests, farmers, and students to collect an array of ecological data on indigenous plants, insects, and aquatic life. REU Site students work as fully funded research collaborators, developing research designs, conducting social surveys and ecological experiments and analyzing findings side by side with experienced environmental studies and biology professors.</div>
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    <div>Though church forests are usually off-limits to "outsiders", Co-PI Dr. Meg Lowman has established a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Ethiopian Orthodox Church granting us access to the church forests and surrounding communities. </div>
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    <div>The program dates are estimated to be <strong>June 12 - August 9, 2017</strong>
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    <div><strong>The deadline to apply is FEBRUARY 15, 2017</strong></div>
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    <div><strong>Benefits:</strong></div>
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    <li>Students selected to participate in the program will receive airfare, lodging, meals and a $4,000 stipend for the 8-week program.</li>
    <li>While on campus at Colby College (3 weeks) lodging will include a shared dormitory room (with 1 REU team member) and a College meal plan.</li>
    <li>While in Ethiopia (4 weeks) lodging will include shared hotel rooms (with 1-2 REU team members) and restaurant meals.</li>
    <li>Finally, upon returning to the U.S., all Summer participants will be invited to return to Colby College for a long weekend in May 2018 to present the results of their work at the annual Colby Liberal Arts Symposium (CLAS) and to meet the new (2018) cohort of REU Site students. (All airfare, room, and board will be provided for this Spring reunion and research presentation).</li>
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    <div><strong>Suggested Majors</strong></div>This interdisciplinary program covers many fields, but some suggested fields are listed below. </div>
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    <strong>***If your major is not listed, but you are interested, then please apply (see the website for a program description)</strong>. </div>
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    <li>Ecology</li>
    <li>Geography</li>
    <li>Environmental Science </li>
    <li>Biological Sciences </li>
    <li>Mathematics and Statistics </li>
    <li>Sociology and other social sciences </li>
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    <div><em>Click on the link below to read more about this opportunity and see if you are eligible to apply. For help with applying, please contact <strong>Dr. April Householder</strong>, Director of Undergraduate Research and Nationally Competitive Scholarships at <a href="mailto:aprilh@umbc.edu">aprilh@umbc.edu</a>.</em></div>
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    <Title>Introducing our latest partnership... Fixt!</Title>
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  <Title>Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day!</Title>
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    <strong>Wednesday, February 1st: </strong>First day applications will be accepted. Application deadline for current URA Scholars. </div>
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    <strong>Wednesday, April 26th: </strong><span>The 20th Annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day.</span>
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    <span>Twelve of us sit in a circle on plastic chairs in an unadorned room, speaking uncommon truths: This is the power I see in you. This is the insight you bring to the group. I witness your burdens, and the ways they have made you stronger; your stories have given me strength in turn. What you describe as your tendency to say too much, I experience as your principled unwillingness to oversimplify. I see the potential in you, because you have taken the risk of sharing yourself. Your vulnerability has lifted the clouds from my own vision and set me free.</span><br><br><span>In other rooms nearby, similar conversations are underway, bringing UMBC’s winter 2017 STRiVE student leadership retreat to its emotional culmination. 56 UMBC students and five staff members have spent the previous days building communication skills, reflecting on our experiences and values, tackling group challenges, recognizing and honoring our differences, exploring ethical questions, and developing plans for positive change on campus. We have earned those frank, empowering Thursday night conversations through the kind of intensive, collaborative work that can banish everyday routines and bridge the distance between strangers and across roles. We had been strangers; now we are friends, and more: we are a community capable of action, strengthened by our compositional diversity in countless obvious ways.</span><br><br><span>It would be easy to view STRiVE as a departure from reality. The phrase “leadership retreat” suggests a temporary escape. But every time I serve as a STRiVE coach, I become a little more convinced that STRiVE helps unveil deep truths about ourselves and the human condition. As one of the participants put it last week, “the real STRiVE was within us all along.”</span><br><br><span>For most of us, most of the time, the background expectation by which we live is that we have little power over our destiny. The subtexts of our workplaces, classrooms, media and politics often tell a disempowering story: of people who have choices to make, but for whom the options are almost always defined by others; the lesser of evils as a way of life. We internalize a sense of ourselves as going through the motions and jumping through hoops, while the real action is always on the other side of a screen. How easily we dismiss our own depths and possibilities, and miss the ways each of us can hold the keys to each other’s liberation!</span><br><br><span>STRiVE surfaces our suppressed stories and harnesses their power, while simultaneously building skills in communication and community organizing. For participants unused to being taken so seriously as agents of their individual and collective destiny, the effect can be transformative. One participant shared last week that he had not imagined approaching his own life with such <em>intentionality</em>, but he was ready to start.</span><br><br><span>I’m with him. In this anxious and confusing moment in our national life, I’m ready to nurture a culture that can liberate the STRiVE within every one of us, and orient us to the collective power that comes from recognizing our burdens, and each other, as sources of profound insight and strength.</span>
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    <div>Since 2011 the Cary REU program has embraced a new focus – Translational Ecology. We hope to train a new generation of environmental scientists who are both prepared and motivated to translate ecological science to the public.</div>
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    <div>Working closely with a mentor scientist, students delineate a research question and hypotheses, develop and implement a project, analyze data, give an oral presentation in a formal symposium and write a paper. Skill building workshops support student learning. The bulk of students’ time is spent in this facet of the program.</div>
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    <div>Students participate in a Scientific Writing Workshop, a Statistics/R Workshop, Responsible Conduct of Research trainings, and sessions in asking good questions, applying theory in research, giving effective talks, and future options in work and study. The Forum on Translational Ecology showcases examples of translational ecology in action, as well as a diversity of professional role models and careers. Students are supported in reflecting on themselves as scientists and translators of science.</div>
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    <div>The program runs from <strong>May 22 - August 11, 2017</strong>
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    <div><strong>The deadline is FEBRUARY 3, 2017</strong></div>
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    <div>Benefits include:</div>
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    <li>A stipend of $6,300 </li>
    <li>Housing in the Bacon Flats dormitory located on our campus just next door to the research and administration building </li>
    <li>A food allowance of $900 for the 12 week program.</li>
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    <div>Students studying these fields are encouraged to apply (other majors are also considered; see the program's website to find out if this is right for you):</div>
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    <div><em>Click on the link below to read more about this opportunity and see if you are eligible to apply. For help with applying, please contact <strong>Dr. April Householder</strong>, Director of Undergraduate Research and Nationally Competitive Scholarships at <a href="mailto:aprilh@umbc.edu">aprilh@umbc.edu</a>.</em></div>
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  <Title>Martin Luther King Jr. Day - January 16th</Title>
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    <p>Parades, performances and more in Baltimore for the 2016
    Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday.</p>
    
    <p><strong>Film screening:
    'Sisters of Selma':</strong> As part of the "Keeping the Dream Alive - a
    celebration of the life of Martin Luther King Jr." observation, St.
    Ignatius Church will present the documentary "Sisters of Selma: Bearing
    Witness for Change." Serving as facilitator for the film and the following
    discussion will be Sister Gwynette Proctor. 7 p.m. Jan. 15. 740 N. Calvert St.
    Free. 410-727-3848 or st-ignatius.net.</p>
    
    <p><strong>Celebrating the Life
    of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:</strong> The Pratt Library's annual King
    Commemorative Lecture is presented by DeWayne Wickham, the founding dean of the
    School of Global Journalism &amp; Communication and distinguished professor of
    journalism at Morgan State University with nearly four decades experience as a
    journalist. 2 p.m. Jan. 16. Enoch Pratt Library, Waverly Branch, 400 E. 33rd St.
    Free. 410-396-603 or prattlibrary.org.</p>
    
    <p><strong>Fired Up: The
    Concert:</strong> Featuring performances from Shades of Yale as well as speakers
    evoking the power and spirit of Martin Luther King's words. 6 p.m.-8 p.m. Jan.
    16. The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum, 1601 E. North Ave. $5-$10.
    410-563-3404 or greatblacksinwax.org.</p>
    
    <p><strong>D.I.V.A.S. For Dr.
    King:</strong> An annual concert honoring local women for community service, in
    honor of the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. 3 p.m. Jan. 17. Triumph Community
    Church, 425 W. Monument St. Free. 410-728-0112 or triumphcommunitychurch.org.</p>
    
    <p><strong>MLK Jr. Day
    Breakfast:</strong> Civil Wrongs to Civil Rights and Back Again will include a
    traditional breakfast with a guest speaker, a performance by Brenda Tucker and
    a self-guided museum tour. 9 a.m. Jan. 18. The National Great Blacks in Wax
    Museum, 1601 E. North Ave. $20-$25. 443-563-3404 or greatblacksinwax.org.</p>
    
    <p><strong>Martin Luther King
    Jr. Day Celebration:</strong> The American Visionary Art Museum offers a day of
    guided tours, birthday cake, music, workshops and special performances. 10
    a.m.-6 p.m. Jan. 18. 800 Key Highway. Free. 410-244-1900 or avam.org.</p>
    
    <p><strong>MLK Day at the Museum:</strong>
    Featuring a reading of Jeff Stetson's play "The Meeting," about
    Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., presented by Evolutionary Art Works. A
    Q&amp;A follows with the director, as well as an afternoon of film screenings
    related to King and the civil rights movement. The galleries will also be open.
    10 a.m.-5 p.m. Jan. 18. Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St. $5.
    443-263-1800 or lewismuseum.org.</p>
    
    <p><strong>Songs of Freedom:
    Honoring Dr. King through Songs of Human and Civil Rights:</strong> Includes
    projects/displays, a performance from the Florence Bain Senior Center Gospel
    Choir. young vocalists and an interactive music workshop from musician Scott
    Paynter, who will teach and perform freedom-based songs from Bob Marley, John
    Lennon, Peter Tosh and more. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Jan. 18. Roger Carter Center, 3000
    Milltowne Drive, Ellicott City. Free. 410-480-3250 or hchsmd.org/events.</p>
    
    <p><strong>Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade: </strong>Baltimore
    honors the life of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with regional marching
    bands, color guards, steppers, equestrian units, dance squads, civic
    organizations, and floats. The parade steps off at Martin Luther King Jr.
    Boulevard and Eutaw Street, continuing south on Martin Luther King Jr.
    Boulevard.  Sonja Sohn of 'The Wire,' Ravens' Justin Forsett to be
    MLK parade grand marshals.  Noon Jan. 18. Free. 410-752-8632 or
    promotionandarts.org.</p>
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    <p><strong>Dr. Martin Luther
    King Jr. Parade:</strong> The parade will proceed through Annapolis' downtown area,
    beginning on Amos Garrett Boulevard, making a right turn on West Street,
    proceeding around Church Circle, then down Main Street, turning left on Randall
    Street, and ending at the Market House. Noon Jan. 18. Free. annapolis.gov.  </p>
    <p></p>
    
    <p><strong>2016 Martin Luther
    King Jr. Convocation: </strong>Claudia Rankine, a Jamaican-born award-winning author
    and poet, will speak at Loyola University Maryland's annual convocation. 5 p.m.
    Jan. 18. McGuire Hall, Loyola University Maryland, 4501 N. Charles St. Free.
    410-617-2000 or loyola.edu/joinus/mlkconvocation.aspx.</p>
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    <div> The mission of Quality of Life Technology research is to <strong>transform lives of people with reduced functional capabilities due to aging or disability through intelligent devices and systems</strong>. The program is a unique partnership between Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the University of Pittsburgh, integrating CMU’s strength in the design, implementation, and technology transfer of intelligent systems, and Pitt’s strength in rehabilitation, health sciences and aging research. The primary objectives of QoLT REU are to excite undergraduate students about technology and engineering, engage them in cross-disciplinary research in QoLT to gain understanding of how to relate human functions (physiological, physical, social, and cognitive) to the design of intelligent devices and systems that aid and interact with people, expand their knowledge of emerging technologies in QoLT, and prepare them for graduate studies or professional careers in QoLT.</div>
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    <li><strong>Rehabilitation Science, </strong></li>
    <li><strong>Exercise Physiology, </strong></li>
    <li><strong>Psychology, </strong></li>
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    <div>Missouri Botanical Garden is pleased to announce the opening of the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program that will provide research opportunities for 10 students, for 10 weeks during the summer of 2017. Students will work on independent mentored projects in plant systematics, conservation biology, and ethnobotany. Participants will have access to the Garden’s herbarium of more than 6.5 million specimens, an excellent botanical library, rich garden collections, a laboratory facilities for plant anatomy, microscopy, digital imaging, SEM, and DNA analysis, and the Shaw Nature Reserve – a 2,400 acre ecological preserve featuring prairie, forest, glades, wetlands, and 14 miles of hiking trails.</div>
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    <div>The program runs from <strong>May 30 – August 4, 2017</strong>.</div>
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