NEWS @ COMMONWEALTH COLLEGE

Announcements & Activities

Achievements, Awards & Accolades

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1. Oxford Summer Seminar

Internships & Employment

1. Research Director National Priorities Project
2. Public Relations Internships Available
3. Work Study Opportunity

Academic Opportunities

Campus & Community Events

1. My Best Design Decision: The Path from Stockbridge to Success
2. Tuition Raffle
3. Harvard Business School to Host Joint Info Session
4. Are You A Fan Of "The Apprentice"?
5. Students Needed For MIT Synthetic Biology Competition

— ANNOUNCEMENTS & ACTIVITIES —

BDIC INFORMATION SESSION
BDIC is the design-your-own-major program at UMass Amherst and is now housed in Commonwealth College. Concentrations in BDIC range from "Neuroscience" to "Film Studies" to "Entrepreneurship and Information Technology." Com Col students interested in the BDIC major are invited to an information session with Dan Gordon, professor of history and director of BDIC. A brief video will be part of the presentation.
Where: 608 Goodell
When: Every Thursday, 4-4:30 p.m.

WEEKLY WEDNESDAY WORKSHOP
Wednesday, April 8 - Graduation Clearance: Make sure you are on the right track to graduation. The presentation is from 6-7:00 pm and dinner from the Loose Goose Café is provided.
The workshop will take place in the lounge outside of room 504 Goodell. Please RSVP to c3@honors.umass.edu if you would like to attend this workshop no later than Monday, April 6th by 4 PM.

PIZZA & PROF
ADDITIONAL Pizza and Prof Monday April 6: Kathleen A. Brown-Pérez (and a panel of others) "Panel on UMass Native American Indian Studies Certificate Program" Native American Indian Studies promotes an enhanced interdisciplinary understanding of sovereign and distinct American Indian/Alaska Native peoples. The Certificate Program in Native American Indian Studies (CPNAIS) offers students a structured understanding of historical and contemporary issues affecting the Western Hemisphere's First Nations. This Pizza and Prof will introduce students to several of the CPNAIS faculty members, their backgrounds, and their courses, which you may take even you if don't complete the CPNAIS.
The discussion begins at 6:30 and Sibbies pizza is served at 6:15. The discussion will take place in the lounge outside of room 504 Goodell. Please RSVP pizzaprof@honors.umass.edu no later than Sunday, April 5th, 5 PM if you wish to attend either. Please specify in the subject of your e-mail which Pizza Prof you are RSVPing for.

Pizza Prof Tuesday, April 7:
Professor Barry Braun, Kinesiology "The company you keep; revisionist history, windy blather and lies" Don Quixote said "Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art". The associations you have with a few key people are critical to learning the art of doing scientific research. Professor Braun will take you on a tour of the circuitous, sometimes illogical path of his 20 years in research, stopping to highlight the mentors (real and fictional) who taught him the important lessons in life. As Sancho Panza said to Don Quixote, "I sometimes think that all you tell me of knighthood, kingdoms, empires and islands is all windy blather and lies" The discussion begins at 6:30 and Sibbies pizza is served at 6:15.
The discussion will take place in the lounge outside of room 504 Goodell. Please RSVP pizzaprof@honors.umass.edu no later than Sunday, April 5th, 5 PM if you wish to attend either. Please specify in the subject of your e-mail which Pizza Prof you are RSVPing for.

JOIN THE COMCOL STUDENT ADVISORY BOARD ON FACEBOOK
Go to: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/profile.php?id=1083113944&ref=name to join!


WEEKEND WORLD CUP SOCCER INTRAMURALS
Entries due Tuesday, April 14th Interested in joining up for soccer? Please join our facebook group to connect with other ComCol members and set up some teams of your own. Invite your friends ComCol and non-ComCol students. Go to: http://www.facebook.com/groups.php?ref=sb#/group.php?gid=71612430896.


RUN ?N GUN FLAG FOOTBALL INTRAMURALS
Entries due Thursday, April 2nd.
Interested in joining up for Flag Football? Please join our facebook group to connect with other ComCol members and set up some teams. ComCol and non-ComCol students welcome. http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=59134913931.

WEEKEND TENNIS DOUBLES INTRAMURALS
Entries due Tuesday, April 14th.
Interested in joining up for Tennis? If you want to create a doubles tennis team, join this group and contact each other to set some teams of your own up. Invite your ComCol and non-ComCol friends to play. Go to: http://www.facebook.com/groups.php?ref=sb#/group.php?gid=58843356591.

THE LIBRARIAN IS IN!
Emily Alling, librarian for Commonwealth College, will be in the ComCol Lounge for one hour per week from 12:00 ? 1:00 p.m. Stop by with any research you might be working on, or just to say hi and learn more about what the Libraries have to offer. Dates are as follows:
Wed Apr 1
Tue Apr 7
Wed Apr 15
Tue Apr 21
Wed Apr 29
Tue May 5

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OXFORD SUMMER SEMINAR
FIVE MORE SPOTS for 2009! Seven facts about the Oxford Summer Seminar! 1) All students live in a 500-year-old college for 6 weeks. (This year?s dates are July 4 ? August 14).
2) Students can earn up to 8 credits with class offerings that range from Jane Austen to Modern Irish Literature.
3) Lewis Carroll, C.S. Lewis, and J. R. R. Tolkien all taught at Oxford. How cool is that? Although they won?t be teaching you, all of your instructors will be Oxford faculty members.
4) The exchange rate is the best it has been in the past two decades.
5) The cost of taking 8 credits in Oxford is only $600 hundred dollars more than taking 8 credits at UMass over the summer. And you are in Oxford.
6) The best place to find out about the Oxford Summer Seminar is at www.umass.edu/oxford.
7) We have about 5 more spots left and will accept people until we fill them.

— INTERNSHIPS & EMPLOYMENT —

RESEARCH DIRECTOR NATIONAL PRIORITIES PROJECT
The National Priorities Project seeks a full time Research Director with strong quantitative skills to supervise the work and personnel in the Research Department. This position plans and executes the research necessary for the hard-copy and on-line materials NPP produces and works closely with other staff in the development and direction of the organization. Click here to view PDF.

PUBLIC RELATIONS INTERNSHIPS AVAILABLE
Public Relations Internships available this summer in Boston with Regan Communications. Application deadline: April 23, 2009. More information.

WORK STUDY OPPORTUNITY
Have extra work study hours? Want a way to get the most out of your hours? If you have excess work-study hours and would like to use them, please contact Melissa Beesley at Melissa@honors.umass.edu and ask about ComCol's work study opportunity!

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— CAMPUS & COMMUNITY EVENTS —

MY BEST DESIGN DECISION: THE PATH FROM STOCKBRIDGE TO SUCCESS
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
4:00 p.m. in Memorial Hall
Golf courses are his thing!
As part of the Eleanor Bateman Alumni Scholar in Residence program, UMass Amherst alumnus, Brian Silva ?73S, ?76, will share his story from student to award-winning, nationally prominent designer. Immediately following the talk, all guests will have the opportunity to visit with Mr. Silva at the complimentary reception.
Click here to view PDF announcement.

TUITION RAFFLE
Need money towards fall tuition and bills? Now?s your chance to win up to $2,000!
Purchase your chance to win the 2009 Tuition Raffle today and you may be the lucky recipient of up to $2,000 towards your fall 2009 tuition. For more information, rules and eligibility and to enter TODAY, go to www.UMassAlumni.com/students.
Click here to view PDF announcement.

HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL TO HOST JOINT INFO SESSION
Harvard Business School MBA Admissions is pleased to host a joint information session for University of Massachusetts Amherst undergraduates, particularly sophomores and juniors, on Wednesday, April 8th from 5:00-6:00 p.m. in the Campus Center room 1001. A member of the HBS MBA Admissions team is traveling to UMass to conduct a presentation and answer questions regarding the HBS MBA College Initiative and HBS MBA 2+2 Program.
   This presentation is open to students of all majors and backgrounds. We invite and encourage all students who are interested in learning more about what an MBA can offer them to attend.
Click here to view PDF.
Click here to learn more about Harvard Business School.

ARE YOU A FAN OF "THE APPRENTICE"?
If so, then here is an opportunity for you to strut your problem-solving and presentation skills in front of several local non-profit Executive Directors, including Habitat for Humanity of Greater Springfield, Center for Human Development, Second Chance Animal Shelter and several others.
   On Monday, April 6th from 3:00 ? 7:30 p.m. on the Bay Path College campus, there will be a FREE Call to Action Summit open to all area undergraduate students. This conference will increase awareness amongst local college students of the non-profit organizations in our area.
   Through a win-win scenario, non-profits will come away with a fresh perspective to challenges they are facing, and the participating students will be given a short course in how they can make a difference lifelong in terms of fundraising, creative problem-solving, and grassroots advocacy. As the day culminates, the students will have a chance to break into teams and present formal solutions to the non-profits. Great for resume building and networking, especially if you are thinking about jobs in the non-profit sector in the future!
   Register to attend by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, April 3rd to:acalltoactionsummit@gmail.com or call 413.565.1307. Click here for directions to the Bay Path College campus.

STUDENTS NEEDED FOR MIT SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY COMPETITION
Calling all interested students who would like to participate in a prestigious competition hosted by MIT. Team members will work in a lab at UMass over the summer, genetically engineering microbes to do new and exciting things. During the fall, all iGEM teams meet up at MIT to present their projects to each other and to the public. Past projects include arsenic sensing to warn potential drinkers of its presence in ground water, engineering photographic biofilms, and engineering E. coli to smell like banana or wintergreen.
    Students of all majors are invited to apply, including those in non-science majors such as business, since the team will need help networking with biotech companies and getting sponsors. Please visit umassigem.org for more information.