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Macaulay Research Opportunity: Interrogating Regional Power through Transportation Decision making in New York Professor Jill Simone Gross, Associate Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College has a summer opening for a research assistant. The project is a part of a global research project (Argentina, China, France, India, Italy, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States) exploring the role of states and markets in shaping the...
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Macaulay Research Opportunity: Transformation of the Urban Political Economy and Rise of the Young Lords Party Professor Johanna Fernandez of the Baruch College History Department has a summer part-time research opportunity on the radical Puerto Rican activist organization that emerged in the late 1960s. The faculty member is working on a book project on the Young Lords, an organization which modeled itself after the Black Panther Party. The project analyzes the...
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Macaulay Visit to Patricia D. Klingenstein Library at New York Historical Society Macaulay will be coordinating a visit to the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library at the New York Historical Society. It is one of the oldest independent research libraries in the United States and includes a wide collection of New York’s rich history. If you would like to attend a workshop on how to utilize the library’s...
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Macaulay Research Opportunity: Impact of Ethnic Culture on Search Behavior Professor Isak Taksa of the Baruch College Department of Computer Information Systems, has an opening for a research assistant this summer. Internet based information retrieval systems (e.g. search engines such as Google and Yahoo) play a vital role in the Internet searching experience. The need to use a search engine is independent of the search...
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New Macaulay Fall Seminars We are happy to announce two exciting Macaulay Seminars: "Imagining Gender: Exploring Narratives of Technology", taught by Professor Lisa Brundage, will apply feminist analyses to the ways that technology affects our lives and the stories we tell about them across multiple categories, including embodiment, theory, work, and creativity. We will spend time defining key concepts...
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Macaulay Research Opportunity: Fate of Black Carbon in Northern Forest Soils Professor Jeffrey Bird of the Queens College School of Earth Environmental Sciences seeks 1-2 research assistants for a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded biogeochemistry research project. In Fall 2011, Dr. Bird's terrestrial biogeochemistry research group began work on a 5-year project funded by NSF that addresses the environmental fate of black carbon (or biochar), which is...
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Public Health Internship at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center The Immigrant Health and Cancer Disparities Service (IHCD) at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) is currently seeking energetic and passionate interns.IHCD interns will have the opportunity to gain practical experience in Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) by participating in the Service’s dynamic projects and interacting with community members, community-based organizations, and health researchers and providers....
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Lehman Scholars Program Seminar 2013-2014 A course description for the two-term Lehman Scholars Program Seminar has just been released. Download it here.
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View Your Activities Record Have you completed community service hours and want to know if they have been approved? Do you want to know how much you have left in your Opportunities Fund? Access your Activities Record to get the info you need. Macaulay students now have access to view their contact information, community service record, and Opportunities Fund...
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Taking Classes This Summer? Read the Summer Tuition Policy Macaulay Honors College will cover two classes (up to eight credits) of summer course work. At the onset of the semester, all students registered for summer should check their tuition bill to confirm the Macaulay Tuition Scholarship has been posted. If a balance appears on your bill or if you believe your scholarship has been...
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Deadline to File FAFSA and TAP Applications is May 15 All Macaulay students must complete the FAFSA application. All New York State residents must also complete the TAP application. Click here to file the FAFSA application. Click here to file TAP or use the link provided in the FAFSA application. Applications must be completed by May 15, 2013, to ensure processing of your Macaulay Honors...
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Attention Juniors: Special Opportunity to Fulfill Capstone Requirement Meet next year's Thesis Colloquium Professors and hear about how the newly designed course will enhance both your writing and technology skills. To find out about the Course and how to pre-register, come to Macaulay on May 8 from 6 to 7pm (2nd Floor classroom). This yearlong course will provide students with a unique opportunity...
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Opportunities Fund Receipt Deadline—May 24 The deadline to submit receipts for Spring 2013 Opportunities Fund Applications for Academic Conferences, Honors Project Professional Development, Licensing and Graduate Exams is Tuesday, May 24, 2013. For questions pertaining to receipts please contact Laura Ibragimova at laura.ibragimova@mhc.cuny.edu or 212-729-2948.
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New York Union Semester at the CUNY Murphy Institute New York Union Semester, for students who are passionate about social justice, is now accepting applications for the Fall 2013 semester.The program at the Murphy Institute, CUNY combines academic scholarship with on-the-ground experience at organizations committed to building a fairer society. NY Union Semester provides undergraduate and graduate students with A 32-hour/week, 15-week internship at...
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Macaulay Research Opportunity: Impact of Ethnic Culture on Search Behavior Professor Isak Taksa of the Baruch College Department of Computer Information Systems, has an opening for a research assistant this summer. Internet based information retrieval systems (e.g. search engines such as Google and Yahoo) play a vital role in the Internet searching experience. The need to use a search engine is independent of the search...
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Resource Assisted Initiatives in Science Empowerment for Women (RAISE-W) The goals of the RAISE-W program are to address training, productivity, and skills acquisition that will empower women in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields to remain in the pipeline and push boundaries in science and innovation. The specific program objectives are: (1) To identify qualified and interested female students at CUNY and...
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Macaulay Research Opportunity: LGBTQ and Poverty Naomi Braine, Associate Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College, seeks research assistants majoring in Sociology or Women's Studies. The faculty member has been doing work on LGBTQ drug users for several years. Professor Braine recently conducted qualitative interviews with 30 sexual minority women, mainly African American and Latina, recruited primarily from needle exchange programs in...
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Macaulay Research Opportunity: Pricing Illiquid Infrastructure Bank Loans and Bonds Professor Rajeev Sawant, Baruch College Assistant Professor of International Business, has an opening for a summer research assistant. The research will determine a pricing methodology for illiquid and hence poorly priced infrastructure debt instruments such as bank loans and bonds. Infrastructure expenditure is financed primarily by debt but illiquidity is a major impediment to institutional...
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Macaulay Research Opportunity: Jews and Culture in Post World War II America Eric Alterman, Distinguished Professor, in the Brooklyn College Department of English and Journalism has two research openings for the 2013-2014 academic year. Professor Alterman is writing a history of transformation of American culture by a group of Jews beginning with Arthur Miller and Saul Bellow, and ending with Larry David and Tony Kushner and focusing...
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Rising Seniors (Class of 2014): Need Help with Capstone Requirement? Would you like to get help and assistance with your Macaulay capstone requirement? Do you want to create a better, more comprehensive and successful thesis or project of whatever kind your major requires? Wouldn't it be great to have an established credential, a portfolio of your thinking, learning and accomplishments that you can show to...
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Humanitarian Intervention Course at City College This course examines and evaluates international responses to mass atrocities within countries. It combines theoretical perspectives (i.e, the leading schools of thought on humanitarian intervention) and case studies. The latter will include the killing and abuse of civilians that occurred during the conflicts within Bangladesh, Cambodia, Somalia, Iraq (following the 1990-1991 Gulf War), Rwanda, the...
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Research Opportunity in Vitamin D Deficiency, Fall 2013-Spring 2014 Join a team at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Vitamin D deficiency is a current hot topic in Pediatrics and many other fields (Endocrinology, Orthopedics, Pulmonology, Rheumatology, Infectious Disease and more). Vitamin D deficiency is a prevalent and silent problem, especially in obese and minority youth living in northern latitudes....
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Macaulay Research Opportunity: Neural and Behavioral Mechanisms of Stress-Related Disorders Professor Mariann Weierich of the Hunter College Department of Psychology, Behavioral, and Cognitive Neuroscience and the CUNY Graduate Center has research assistantship openings for the Fall 2013-Summer 2014 academic year. The lab's work focuses on how the brain and the visual system process affective information, and how these processes contribute to the onset and maintenance...
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Rising Seniors: Harvard Business School Summer Venture in Management Program Are you interested in exploring what an MBA can offer? How about an MBA from the Harvard Business School? If you are interested in business (all areas, not just finance), apply to the Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP). SVMP is a one-week management training program at Harvard Business School designed to increase diversity and...
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Macaulay Research Opportunity in Psychology, 2013-2014 Professor Cheryl Harding of the Hunter College Department of Psychology seeks two research assistants for a project on Mold Exposure, Brain Inflammation, and Cognitive Deficits. Over the last few years, evidence has mounted that exposure to mold causes a broad range of health problems. According to most estimates, about 33-40% of American buildings are moldy....
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Macaulay Capstone Awards 2013 Every year at Commencement, Macaulay Honors College recognizes the best capstone projects created by graduating Macaulay Scholars. These may take the form of a thesis, a built model, a case study, a work of art, a performance, an online gallery or interactive site–whatever you are doing to satisfy the capstone requirement of Macaulay Honors College....
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Computational Biology and Medicine (CBM) Summer 2013 Internship Program The Tri-Institutional Training Program (Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) in Manhattan is now seeking interns for summer 2013. The program was established to provide undergraduate students the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a biomedical research laboratory. The internship is open to rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors. All...
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Volunteer Research Assistant Position at Children’s Hospital at Albert Einstein There is an immediate opening for a project entitled the Association between Health Literacy and Adherence to Hormonal Contraception in Adolescents: A Clinical Study in Adolescents. Hormonal contraception adherence is low in adolescents and the project aims to increase understanding of health literacy and other variables on adolescents’ adherence to contraception. Description and Qualifications The program is seeking...
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Macaulay Research Opportunity: Fate of Black Carbon in Northern Forest Soils Professor Jeffrey Bird of the Queens College School of Earth Environmental Sciences seeks 1-2 research assistants for a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded biogeochemistry research project. In Fall 2011, Dr. Bird's terrestrial biogeochemistry research group began work on a 5-year project funded by NSF that addresses the environmental fate of black carbon (or biochar), which is...
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Summer 2013 Macaulay Research Opportunity—Energy Use Physics Professor Micha Tomkiewicz of Brooklyn College is seeking a research assistant for a summer project entitled "Correlating Cumulative Energy use with Individual Energy Use." The IPAT equation was developed during the 1970s to simplify a framework to describe environmental impact (I) as a function of socioeconomic factors such as population (P) and income (A)...
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Yale School of Management Pre-MBA Leadership Program The Yale School of Management Pre-MBA Leadership Program is a highly selective, two-week summer program aimed at college sophomores, juniors and seniors and recent college graduates from populations typically under-represented in management education. The program introduces students to the fundamentals of management education and give you the tools necessary to hone your individual leadership skills....
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Macaulay Research Opportunity: What War? A Soldier’s Letters Home Professor Roslyn Bernstein of the Baruch College Department of Journalism seeks a research assistant for a book interweaving the real history of the 94th Infantry with the personal account of one Private. Professor Bernstein recently discovered nearly 200 letters written by her Uncle, PFC Seymour Schwartz, who was drafted out of his senior year as...
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Research Opportunities at New York Methodist Hospital New York Methodist Hospital offers a limited number of research opportunities in a variety of medical specialties. Below are the clinical departments accepting applications: Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Emergency Medicine Non-invasive Cardiology Radiation Oncology To be considered for these positions, you must first apply online here(https://www.volgistics.com/ex/portal.dll/ap?AP=1308100732) and then email your resume to thm9007@nyp.org. Applicants will only...
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Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) in Satellite and Ground-Based Remote Sensing CREST REU encourages students to pursue careers in research by exposing them to research at the undergraduate level and encouraging them to obtain masters and PhD degrees. CREST-REU is a National Science Foundation sponsored research opportunity for City University of New York (CUNY) undergraduate students interested in pursuing graduate education in CREST related Sciences. As...
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New York Union Semester at the CUNY Murphy Institute New York Union Semester, for students who are passionate about social justice, is now accepting applications for the Fall 2013 semester.The program at the Murphy Institute, CUNY combines academic scholarship with on-the-ground experience at organizations committed to building a fairer society. NY Union Semester provides undergraduate and graduate students with A 32-hour/week, 15-week internship at...
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Summer Programs for Under-Represented Students (SPURS) The program is designed to provide under-represented minority undergraduates from the CUNY senior colleges with summer biomedical research fellowship experiences on the campus of, and under the mentorship of, faculty from the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. SPURS provides intense research fellowship experiences on the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons campus to...
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American Physiological Society (APS) Summer Research Programs APS has summer programs for underrepresented groups in biomedicine. The American Physiological Society (APS) is a nonprofit devoted to fostering education, scientific research, and dissemination of information in the physiological sciences. The American Physiological Society is offering opportunities around the country. APS Short-Term Education Program for Underrepresented Persons (STEP-UP) Fellowships The APS Short-Term Education Program...
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MassMutual Scholars Program‐Application Deadline May 3 MassMutual is focused on expanding access and opportunity of higher education and employment to students who reflect the rich cultural diversity of our nation. We seek to increase the number of minority students completing college nationally, raise awareness of careers in financial services, and recruit and retain the top talent touched by our programs. A...
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Scientific Research Summer Internship Program at LIU The program will fund four highly-motivated undergraduate students to work with LIU Post science faculty for 10-week research projects from June 2 to August 12, 2013. The program is organized by the Office of Academic Affairs, the Provost, the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the Biology Department at LIU-Post. Students...
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Opportunities Fund Access Period is Here The Spring 2013 Opportunities Fund Access Period will be held from late February through early March. Please inquire about application deadlines at your local campus honors office. Click here to read more about applying to the Opportunities Fund.
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Macaulay Research Opportunity: Boxed for a Dollar: My Mother’s Life as a Number Runner in Post-War Detroit Professor Bridgett Davis of the Baruch College Department of Journalism seeks a research assistant for a book that will focus on her mother’s personal story from the time she arrived in Detroit in 1955 until her death in 1992. During those years, while married and rearing five children, her mother was a “number-runner,” or illegal-lottery...
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Jewish Thought and Enduring Human Questions, Princeton University Exceptional students from America, Israel and around the world will convene in Princeton to study Jewish texts, Jewish thought, and the contemporary situation of the Jewish people. They will be guided by world-class scholars and teachers, including: Leora Batnitzky, Director of the Tikvah Project at Princeton University, Michael Walzer, Moshe Halbertal, Christine Hayes, Jon Levenson,...
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Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship—Deadline Mar. 5 Are you planning on studying abroad for summer 2013 or fall 2013? Then apply for the Gilman International Scholarship Program which offers scholarships for undergraduate students to pursue academic studies abroad.Eligibility The Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program is open to all U.S. citizen undergraduates, in good academic standing, who meet the criteria listed below:...
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Summer Research Opportunity: Operation ETank–Energy and the Environment The focus of the Northern Illinois University (NIU ) Operation Etank program is in 4 Es areas – energy, environment, with aspects to ethics and economy incorporated into broader problems and related to the broader issue of sustainability. Operation Etank is NIU’s summer Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) program. Students involved in the program will...
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Macaulay Research Opportunity: The 2013 Mayoral Election Professor Richard Flanagan of the College of Staten Island Department of Political Science, Economics and Philosophy seeks two-three research assistants to work from anywhere within NYC. Professor Flanagan is writing a book on the upcoming Mayoral election. The Research Assistants will work on data collection and participant-observer work (e.g. reporting on campaign event). The positions...
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Rutgers Summer Research Program Current sophomores, juniors, and non-graduating seniors are invited to apply to the RiSE (Research in Science and Engineering) program. Students with strong academic credentials, a passion for research in the STEM disciplines or social sciences, and an interest in graduate school may apply. The program particularly encourage applications from underrepresented minorities and students from...
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Human Rights Programs in NYC and Rwanda—Feb. 15 Global Youth Connect, a human rights education and activism organization based in NYC, is accepting applications from young leaders for its Summer 2013 programs, which will take place in Rwanda and in New York City. Each program brings 15 visiting youth (from around the world) together with 15 youth in the host location (Rwanda or...
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Macaulay Research Opportunity: Coronary Heart Disease Epidemiology and the Transformation of Public Health Policy in the United States Professor Gerald Oppenheimer of Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center has an opening for a research assistant this summer for a project that spans health & nutrition Sciences, history, and public health. The faculty member is writing a book about the great epidemic of heart disease that occurred in the mid-20th century and that...
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Spring Research Assistant Openings for NYC Housing Study at Columbia University Columbia University and the New York City Commission on Human Rights are conducting a survey-based study to assess the dynamics of the rental housing market in New York City. As part of this study, there are openings for a diverse pool of research assistants to collect detailed field notes and survey data about interactions with...
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Apply for a $5,000 Portz Fellowship—Deadline Feb. 10 Honors students in good standing from 2-year colleges or 4-year colleges and universities with current Institutional membership in NCHC are encouraged to apply. The Portz Fellowship supports creative and innovative endeavors that cross boundaries, inviting application from individuals who wish to undertake cross disciplinary research or from a team of two students from different disciplines...
