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Events & Activities

  1. Student Poets Wood, Wasneski and McCord Will Read, Dec 5
  2. The Sullivan Show: Jazz Fundraiser at the Loose Goose, Dec 7
  3. Free Film Screenings Evenings in Butterfield Hall
  4. Ellipsis Release Party, Dec 11
  5. Poetry & Fiction in Butterfield Hall, Dec 12
  6. Help BDIC Brighten Holidays at Jesse's House Homeless Shelter

Achievements, Awards & Accolades

  1. ComCol Senior Katie Huston Named Marshall Scholar
  2. Join DBC Instructor Peggy Woods in Celebrating Novel, Dec 13

— ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES —

  1. History 693L: Introduction to Law and Society
  2. History 389S: Community Service Learning Practicum
  3. UMass Amherst Spring Recess: Gulf Coast 2008
  4. Community Service Learning Honors Independent Study
  5. Exciting Capstone Opportunity Available!
  6. Dean's Book Course + Community Service = 291R or 391S
  7. Dean's Book Course 391D + Film Production = Honors 391V
  8. Molecular Medicine, AnSci 672, A Possible Capstone

— $CHOLARSHIPS and $UPPORT —

  1. Scholarship Information Night, Dec 11

— INTERNSHIPS & EMPLOYMENT —

  1. Take a Leadership Role in Rebuilding New Orleans
  2. College of Charleston Hiring for Summer High School Program

— CAMPUS & COMMUNITY EVENTS —

  1. Senior Student Speaker Sought for '08 Commencement
  2. Campus to Career Program—You've Got Options! Dec 5
  3. Tech Innovation Executive Summary Competition, Dec 6
  4. Visiting Writers Series Presents Poet Bin Ramke, Dec 6
  5. Panel: Surviving Iraq Soldiers' Stories, Dec 10

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Events & Activities

POETS WOOD, WASNESKI AND MCCORD WILL READ, DEC 5
7:00pm
Room 007 Butterfield Hall
Poetry Reading: Kyle Wood, Jackie Wasneski and Kyle McCord
Free and open to the public. Free food, too! For more information, contact Writing Butterfield Academic Coordinator Anjali Khosla (577-0546). Sponsored by Writing Butterfield, The Writing Program, Residence Life and Commonwealth College. [About the Writers]

THE SULLIVAN SHOW: JAZZ FUNDRAISER, DEC 7
8:30PM-11:00PM at the Loose Goose
Support your talented peers and the UMass Spring Recess: Gulf Coast trip! Stop by the Loose Goose in Amherst center to tap your toes to the Sullivan Show in their first jazz performance. The evening will feature UMass Amherst Music Department students Dan McGeeney on piano, Matt Schumer on saxophone, Amato Zinno on bass, and Ted Sullivan on drums. $5-$15 sliding scale cover charge. We hope to see you there!

FREE FILM SCREENINGS EVENINGS IN BUTTERFIELD
Free Film Screening - Part of Daniel Pope's "International Short Story" Course. Open to all (but please be quiet and respectful if you attend - these screenings are part of a class)! Screenings take place in room 135A, Butterfield Hall, and begin at 8pm sharp.
December 10th, 2007 - Children of Men
    For more information contact Anjali Khosla, Writing Butterfield Academic Coordinator - akhosla@english.umass.edu.

ELLIPSIS LITERARY JOURNAL RELEASE PARTY, DEC 11
Do you like free food?...say, cake? ... and soda? Well, today's your lucky day! The editors and staff of Ellipsis, the new freshman literary journal at UMass Amherst, are hosting a celebration in honor of the journal's first issue. Please come and join us on Tuesday, December 11th at 7pm in Buttefield Hall (Room 007). There will be a reading and light refreshments served. Hope to see you there!

POETRY & FICTION IN BUTTERFIELD HALL, DEC 12
Please join Writing Butterfield for an evening of poetry and fiction on Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 at 7pm in Butterfield Hall (room 007). Penni Vaget and Karen Windus will read from their work. Both writers are current graduate students at The University of Massachusetts Amherst. Free food, free admission. For more information, please contact Anjali Khosla, the Writing Butterfield Academic Coordinator (577-0546). This event is sponsored by Commonwealth College, The University Writing Program, and Residence Life.

HELP BRIGHTEN HOLIDAYS AT JESSE'S HOUSE SHELTER
The office of BDIC has adopted 13 children, so far, from Jesse's House, a family homeless shelter located in Amherst, South Hadley, and Holyoke. Each child living in one of these shelters was asked to create a wish list of gifts they want for the holidays. We have a giving box in BDIC and a list of gifts each child requested. Your kindness would be greatly appreciated. You can visit our office, in 608 Goodell, and choose a gift. All we ask is that you return the gift, unwrapped, to our office on or before December 14 at noon. We will deliver the gifts to Jesse's House in hopes of putting a smile on the faces of these children this holiday season. For more information, please visit 608 Goodell or contact our office at 545-2504.

Achievements, Awards & Accolades

COMCOL'S KATIE HUSTON NAMED MARSHALL SCHOLAR
Journalism major Katie Huston is one of 40 students nationwide to receive the prestigious Marshall Scholarship, created in 1953 by the British Parliament in honor of General George C. Marshall as a gesture of thanks for assistance received from the United States after World War II. Huston, who is also minoring in Political Science and completing the Five College certificate program in International Relations, plans to pursue master’s degrees in global political economy and human rights at the University of Sussex in England. For more about Huston’s work and the Marshall Scholarship, see the current UMass Amherst “In the Loop.”

JOIN DBC INSTRUCTOR PEGGY WOODS IN CELEBRATING NOVEL, DEC 13
6:00PM at Amherst Books, 8 Main Street
Join Dean's Book Course instructor Peggy Woods in celebrating the publication of her first novel, Spinning Will at an Amherst Books book launch party. Woods teaches Honors 291D and is Assistant Director of the UMass Writing Program.

— ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES —

HISTORY 693L: INTRODUCTION TO LAW AND SOCIETY
Tues/Thurs 9:30-10:45
An introduction to the main departments of American law: contracts, torts, constitutional law, labor law, etc. Students will learn to read legal cases and law review articles. They will learn to study law in historical and comparative perspective. Emphasis is on legal concepts such as consent, negligence, privacy, and equal protection. Issues include the responsibility of manufacturers for injuries stemming from use of their products; the legality of union propaganda in the workplace; gay marriage; and affirmative action.
    No background is required. Counts as honors course. Interested students should contact Daniel Gordon at dgordon@history.umass.edu.

HONORS 398S: COMMUNITY SERVICE LEARNING PRACTICUM
Section 2, Knowing Ourselves and the Community, 1 Credit
   This course will provide students in Community Service Learning (CSL) courses/ community service projects with the skills, knowledge, and understanding they need to be effective in their community service placements. Students will develop cultural competencies and explore how their own identities (derived from different social group memberships) intersect with the identities of the people they encounter in their community service. In turn, students will have the opportunity to reflect on and learn from their community service experiences. This course consists of three parts: First Session (Pre-Service), Weekend Workshop, and Final Session (Post Service).
    For more information, including meeting dates/times and registration process, see the Honors 398S flyer.

UMASS AMHERST SPRING RECESS: GULF COAST 2008
Let's make history! This spring, participate in the first UMass Amherst interdisciplinary curricular service trip to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Join this one-credit, student-run trip to relate your major to real-world issues. Road-trip to a different part of the US, and swing some hammers with over 100 of your UMass Amherst peers. Contact abaldi@student.umass.edu for more information on UMass Amherst Spring Recess: Gulf Coast 2008.

COMMUNITY SERVICE LEARNING HRS INDEPENDENT STUDY
Are you interested in designing your own service-learning independent study? The Community Service Learning Honors Independent Study (CSLHIS) program, offered through the Office of Community Service Learning, gives you the opportunity to link service with a community organization to course work.
      This program enables you to earn up to two additional credits by integrating a service-learning experience with one of your UMass courses of 3 credits or more (from this semester or last semester). You will need to find a service placement that relates to your course content and also ask your course instructor to sponsor you. If you need assistance finding a placement, visit Community Service Links at www.umass.edu/csl or speak with the CSLHIS Coordinator. CSLHIS is open to all UMass students. For more information, visit www.umass.edu/csl/CSLHIS, or contact the Office of Community Service Learning, 610 Goodell, 545-2015, servelearn@acad.umass.edu. Applications will be accepted during pre-registration through February 25.

DEAN'S BOOK COURSE + CSL = 291R OR 391S
Do want to give back to the community? Are you in Commonwealth College? Consider taking this “two-in-one” Dean’s book course!
    The Dean’s Book Community Service Learning class, or CSL Dean’s Book, is a 3-credit course that combines either 191 and 291 or 291 and 391 along with a community service component. You must have second-semester freshman status or above to be eligible for the 291R class and sophomore status or above to be eligible for the 391S class. Both classes will be held on Tuesdays from 4:00-5:55. This spring, there will be two books, A Primate’s Memoir by Robert Sapolsky and another chosen by the instructor.
     Students then do 20 hours of community service in Holyoke based on the themes from the book. If you would like to apply for the course, either stop by 610 Goodell to pick up an application, or print out an application from www.umass.edu/csl. Contact the community service coordinator, Ashley Pratte at CSLdeansbook@comcol.umass.edu for any additional questions. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling admission basis so the sooner you apply, the better your chances are of getting into the class.

DBC 391D + FILM PRODUCTION = HONORS 391V
Honors 391V (Video DBC) combines the final level of the Dean's Book Course with an introduction to the elements of documentary film production.
    Video DBC follows the regular Honors 391D curriculum but with an emphasis on documentary film projects. Students learn the foundations of video/film technique and theory necessary to produce their own short subject documentaries on topics related to the semester's text and arising out of their class-based research.
    This is a special three-credit section of the Dean's Book Course, which meets 4 hours a week for the full semester. Prerequisites are Honors 191D and 291D or Honors 291G or R. No previous film/video courses are required and all levels of experience are welcome. Join and learn the how to place your views on the screen by stepping behind the camera.

EXCITING CAPSTONE OPPORTUNITY AVAILABLE!
Looking for a fun and different way to complete your Capstone requirement and give back to the community? Apply for the Dean’s Book Service Coordinator Position! This position is a two-semester commitment in which you will be able to work closely with community based organizations, students, the Office of Community Service Learning, and course instructors to provide service placements and lead discussions for students enrolled in both sections of the CSL Dean’s Book course (291R and 391S).
     This role will also fulfill the 6 credits needed for completion of the Commonwealth College Capstone requirement!
     Please stop by the Office of Community Service Learning in 610 Goodell for more information or to pick up an application. You may also contact the current service coordinator, Ashley Pratte, at csldeansbook@comcol.umass.edu for an application or any additional information.

MOLECULAR MEDICINE, ANSCI 672, A POSSIBLE CAPSTONE
Want to find out what is going on in Biomedicine? Wondering about how research can be applied to human medicine? Molecular Medicine is designed to provide an awareness of the needs of clinical medicine and how basic research is addressing the problems. This course can be used as the first three credits of your six-credit capstone experience; to complete add three or more credits of 499T individual capstone.
      The course provides an introduction to contemporary biomedicine. Emphasis will be on 1)instruction in pathology and physiology of disease and how physicians approach diagnosis staging and treatment of specific diseases; 2) application of principles offered by basic research and the tools of molecular & structural biology. The course is taught by a team of instructors that include physicians at Baystate Medical Center and faculty at the University of Massachusetts.
     Specific Objectives:
     • Introduce students to pathogenesis of disease.
     • Critically review approaches to diagnosis and treatment of specific diseases.
     • Review tools and strategies for therapeutic intervention. Prerequisites: Required: Introductory Biochemistry (Biochem 420 or 523) or Graduate Student status. As the course covers broad areas of science, undergraduates should have familiarity with the following areas: Introductory Physiology (ANIMLSCI 220 or BIOL 565); Mendelian Genetics (ANIMLSCI 311 or BIOL 283); Introduction to Molecular & Cellular Biology (ANIMLSCI 200 or BIOCHEM 285), Immunology (ANIMLSCI 472 or MICRO 540). For questions or to request enrollment, contact Joseph Jerry (jjerry@vasci.umass.edu). See flyer for more info.

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SCHOLARSHIP INFORMATION NIGHT, DEC 11
5:30PM in Memorial Hall
Learn how to apply and receive merit-based scholarships, such as the Rhodes, Leaders in the Making, Fulbright, and Life Member Scholarship for Internships. All UMass Amherst sophomores and juniors are invited to attend. [More information]

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TAKE A LEADERSHIP ROLE IN REBUILDING NEW ORLEANS
UMass alum invites you to take a meaningful leadership role in rebuilding New Orleans. Spring graduates are encouraged to apply. Nathan Rothstein ’06 has been named one of 40 under 40 in New Orleans, and is seeking 12 of the brightest people from across the country to link into top jobs and rebuild New Orleans. Learn more and apply at http://www.nolayurp.org/ or see the informational application flyer.

COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON HIRING FOR SUMMER H.S. PROGRAM
The College of Charleston will be hiring 12 counselors this summer for its South Carolina Governor's School, an academic enrollment program for rising high school seniors in public and private high schools in South Carolina. They are seeking college seniors and graduates who may be interested in serving as Governor's School counselors. Counselors are responsible for coordinating community, social and sports activities and supervising 200 students in the residence hall. Counselors should be mature individuals with excellent interpersonal skills and with demonstrated aptitude for working with students. Candidates must have earned at least a Bachelor's degree by June 2008. The period of employment is June 1 - July 7, 2008. In addition to full room and board for the duration of their employment, counselors receive a stipend of $2,200 and will be accorded faculty and staff privileges.
   More information, including an application form, is available online at www.guvie.cofc.edu. or by contacting Maria Richardson, the Associate Director of the Governor's School, by telephone (843) 953-6592 or by e-mail richardsonm@cofc.edu. The application deadline is January 18, 2008.

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SENIOR STUDENT SPEAKER SOUGHT FOR COMMENCEMENT
What are your thoughts as a graduating senior? Would you like to share them with your classmates, family and friends? If so, you are invited to submit a proposal for consideration as the Student Commencement Speaker. Submission deadline: 2/12/08. [More Information]

TIC EXECUTIVE SUMMARY COMPETITION, DEC 6
3:30PM in Campus Center room 163C
Come cheer on our final five teams in the Technology Innovation Challenge competition: Winning team receives up to $5,000 in prize money to make their business plan a reality! $2,500 People's Choice award Two honorable mention prizes of $1,000 each! Event open to the public. [More Information]

CAMPUS TO CAREER – YOU'VE GOT OPTIONS! DEC 5
5:30PM in Memorial Hall
Alumni guest speakers will share personal experiences about their current career paths and the decisions they made to get where they are today. Come listen to a variety of options available to you upon graduation. Admission is free and pizza provided. [More Information]

VISITING WRITERS SERIES PRESENTS BIN RAMKE, DEC 6
8:00PM in Memorial Hall
Bin Ramke is editor of the Denver Quarterly. He teaches at the University of Denver, where he holds the Phipps Chair in English, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His ninth book of poems, TENDRIL, published by Omnidawn this fall, includes poems influenced by the disastrous events of his home region, New Orleans to Orange, Texas, of the past few years.
    The reading will be followed by a reception and book signing. All Visiting Writers Series events are free, wheelchair accessible, and open to the public. Visiting Writers Series events are sponsored by the MFA Program for Poets and Writers and made possible in part by grants from the Amherst Arts Council, UMass Arts Council, and UMass Alumni Association.

PANEL: SURVIVING IRAQ SOLDIERS' STORIES, DEC 10

6:30-9:00PM in the Student Union Ballroom
VASMA—Veterans and Service Members Association—will host a panel of speakers from Dr. Elise Tripp's book Surviving Iraq Soldiers' Stories sharing their stories of experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan, and living with the consequences of war after returning home. For more information, see the UMass calendar of events.