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S Y R A C U S E U N I V E R S I T Y - G R A D U A T E S T U D E N T N E W S
Dates & Deadlines!
April 3 – Last day to submit
a Request for Exam for
May graduation (PhD and
DPS students)
April 20 – Last day to submit
a Request for Exam for
May graduation (Masters
students)
April 24 – Dissertation
submission deadline (PhD
and DPS students) for May
graduation
May 11 – Masters thesis
submission deadline for
May graduation
Graduate Student Newsletter April/May 2017 Page 1
S Y R A C U S E U N I V E R S I T Y ~ G R A D U A T E S T U D E N T N E W S
EGE Winners 1
2017-18 Teaching Mentors 1
Upcoming Events 2
CFSA Announcements 2
HabitU Stress App 3
Off-Campus Security Cameras
3
Clancy Wins Essay Award 3
Grant and Fellowship Recipients
4
Data Science Fellowship 4
Public Humanities Fellows Presentations
4
Inside this issue:
Volume 8, Issue 7 April/May 2017
SU Events Calendar
Campus Events: http://suevents.syr.edu/main.php?view=month
Around Syracuse: www.syracuse.com/
events/
The Graduate School is proud to announce the Teaching Mentors for 2017–18. Selected for their excellence in teaching and overall graduate study, the Teaching Mentors serve as small-group leaders and mentors to approximately 300 new TAs during the TA Orientation Program in August. They also assist in the development and implementation of TA Program activities throughout the academic year. Thanks to all those who applied, and a warm welcome to our Teaching Mentor staff!
Congratulations New and Returning Teaching Mentors!
Camilla Bell, Cultural Foundations of Education Lindsay Burt, Political Science Andrea Catroppa, History Hsiao-Wen Cheng, English Philip Claghorn, Architecture Ryan Curl, Psychology Naomi Dershowitz, Philosophy Valetin Duquet, Languages Literatures & Linguistics Brittany Eggleston, Psychology Justin Freedman, Special Education Terese Gagnon, Anthropology Rachel Gettinger, Mathematics Woosang Hwang, Child & Family Studies Laura Jaffee, Cultural Foundations of Education Ahram Lee, Counseling & Human Services Nafiseh Majd, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Caleb McWhorter, Mathematics Shanique Mothersill, African American Studies Grace Njuguna, Teaching & Leadership Stella Rwanda, Literacy Education Jennifer Sloane, Psychology Jeremy Sloane, Biology/Science Teaching Yosung Song, Special Education Victoria Wambua, Mathematics Christopher Waters, Anthropology Heather Waymouth, Reading & Language Arts Thomas West III, English Henry Whitesides, Languages Literatures & Linguistics Kimberly Williams Brown, Cultural Foundations of Education Noah Wilson, Composition & Cultural Rhetoric Theresa Yera, Sociology Ying Zhang, Child & Family Studies
The Excellence in Graduate Education Faculty Recognition Award honors faculty members whose dedication to graduate students and commitment to excellence in graduate teaching, mentoring, and career preparation have made a significant contribution to graduate education at Syracuse University. Nominations from across campus were reviewed by a multidisciplinary graduate student committee. Please join the Graduate School in congratulating this year’s outstanding lineup of deserving awardees:
Excellence in Graduate Education Winners Announced
Pictured left to right are Mark Heller, Philosophy; Jay Henderson, Biomedical and Chemical Engineering; Azra Hromadžić, Anthropology; Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, History; Zunli Lu, Earth Sciences; and Erin Rand, Communication and Rhetorical Studies.
April 4 – Qualtrics Workshop Part 3: Survey Flow. 2:00– 3:00 pm, 046 Bird Library (ETC)
April 4 – Interfaith Dialogue Series: Remembering/Honoring/Responding to PULSE, Orlando. 6:00– 8:00 pm, Noble Room, Hendricks Chapel
April 5 – Trans Day of Visibility Closed Community Dinner. 6:00-8:00 pm, LGBT Resource Center, 750 Ostrom Ave.
April 6 – #BlackExcellenceTour featuring CeCe McDonald and Joshua Allen. 7:00-9:00 pm, 001 Life Sciences Bldg.
April 14 – Tenth Decade Work, Labor, and Citizenship Project: Graduate Research Symposium. 1:00-5:00 pm, 220 Eggers Hall
April 19 – GSO Senate meeting. 5:30 pm, 105 Life Sciences Bldg.
April 22 – 5th Annual “Cripping” the Comic Con: Our Own Icons! 9:00 am, Schine Student Center (Panasci Lounge, Schine 304ABC, and the Underground)
April 22 – GSO Spring Picnic. 10:00 am–2:00 pm, Inn Complete
April 28 – Humanities NY Grad Public Humanities Fellows Presentations. 9:30-11:30 am, 304 Tolley Humanities Bldg.
May 12 – Doctoral Hooding Ceremony. 5:00-6:30 pm, Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center (by invitation)
May 14 – Commencement. 9:30 am–12:00 pm, Carrier Dome
May 18-19 – FPP Conference. White Eagle Conference Center, Hamilton, NY
Graduate Student Newsletter April/May 2017 Page 2
FULBRIGHT INTEREST SESSIONS: The Center for Fellowship and Scholarship Advising (CFSA) will be hosting interest sessions for students thinking about applying for a US Student Fulbright grant in the 2017-18 application cycle. The sessions will be held Friday, March 31, 12:30–1:30 pm in Maxwell 204 and Thursday, April 6, 3:00-4:00 pm in Eggers 341.
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program funds a number of different awards:
The English Teaching Assistant (ETA) programs place Fulbrighters in classrooms abroad to provide assistance to the local English teachers. ETAs help teach English language while serving as cultural ambassadors for the U.S.
Applicants for Open Study/Research awards design their own projects and will typically have affiliations with advisers at foreign universities or other institutes of higher education.
The Fulbright-Clinton Public Policy Fellowship provides opportunities for Fulbrighters to serve in professional placements in a foreign government ministry or institution in partner governments. Eligible applicants should have at least two years of professional full-time experience in policy-related fields, as well as a completed Master’s level degree by the period of the grant.
Applicants for the Fulbright National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellowship submit proposals for an in-depth examination of a globally relevant issue using a variety of storytelling tools. The program funds recipients to participate in an academic year of overseas travel and storytelling in one, two, or three countries. Candidates should have significant background in and experience with digital storytelling.
SCHWARZMAN SCHOLARS INTEREST SESSION: The Center for Fellowship and Scholarship Advising (CFSA) will be hosting an interest session for students considering an application to the Schwarzman Scholars program. Christian Tanja, Outreach and Selection Officer for Schwarzman Scholars, will be visiting to meet with interested students on Wednesday, April 19, 4:00-5:00 pm in Hall of Languages 211.
Schwarzman Scholars is a highly selective, fully funded one-year Master’s program at Tsinghua University in Beijing that is designed to prepare the next generation of global leaders.
Center for Fellowship & Scholarship Advising Announcements
Graduate Student Newsletter April/May 2017 Page 3
SU INFO FOR GRADS
> Slutzker Center: Providing services and programming for international students at SU.
> Maxwell Center for Career
Development: Located in 202 Maxwell, the Career Development office for Maxwell students provides a specialty range of services, Career appointments, interview preparation, cover letter & resume review, and networking advice.
> Counseling Center: The Counsel-ing Center offers members of the SU community free, confidential help through times of crisis and the everyday stresses of life. Referrals for students and stu-dents’ families—with and without health insurance through SU—are available here.
> Health Services: Located at 111 Waverly Avenue, SU health services provides care for graduate students who pay their health fee and include services such as office visits, ambulatory care services, pharmacy, nutrition counseling, immunizations, vaccines, and travel medicine.
> Center for Learning and Student Success: Located on the third floor of Bird Library, CLASS provides and facilitates academic support services for SU students, including one-on-one tutoring, small-group tutoring and workshops, and academic integrity education and training.
> Legal Services: If you are a Syracuse University student (excluding law students) or a SUNY-ESF student, have paid the graduate student activity fee, and are registered on main campus, you are eligible for advice and representation as defined at the Legal Services website.
> Graduate Student Organization: The GSO is comprised of repre-sentatives from degree-granting programs and elected officials. It represents graduate students in the University Senate, allowing graduate students a voice in the larger issues of the University.
Overwhelmed with grad-school work? Want to form healthy habits, but don't know where to start? If you are interested in reducing stress and successfully building the habits you wish you had, then this app is for you. It works by combining machine learning with behavioral psychology and a
simple habit tracking system to quantify and actually motivate you to do the important things in life. Click here to sign up to be a beta tester. HabitU was developed by SU PhD student Luka Negoita, to help him pull the plug on grad-school stress. HabitU is now a semi-finalist in the Panasci business plan competition at SU, and seeking anyone that might be interested in joining the HabitU
team as a co-founder. Contact Luka Negoita for more info or if you have any questions: [email protected]
Grad Student Develops Stress-Busting App
GSO Helps Raise $30K for Off-Campus Security Cameras
In March, the GSO successfully petitioned the administration for funds to install security cameras in nearby off-campus locations. In a joint action with the SU Student Association, SU Student Bar Association, SUNY-ESF Graduate Student Association, and SUNY-ESF Undergraduate Student Association, the GSO initiated a campaign that has yielded $30,000 in university funds to allow completion of Phase 1 of a project to install 32
security cameras around the immediate off-campus neighborhood, particularly on Euclid Avenue and Westcott Street. Multiple SU offices contributed to the amount, including the Office of Government and Community Relations, the Department of Public Safety, the Division of Enrollment and the Student Experience, the Graduate School, and the Chancellor’s Office. Also funding the project are local landlords and business owners ($40,000), the SU Student Association ($20,000), SUNY-ESF ($3,000) and the GSO itself ($1,000).
Luka Negoita
Clancy Wins Essay Award
Sean Clancy, a PhD candidate in Philosophy, has been named the winner of this year’s Mary Hatch Marshall Essay Award for the best essay by a graduate student in the humanities at SU. His paper “Psychopaths, Ill-Will, and the Wrong-Making Features of Actions” is forthcoming in the open-access philosophy journal Ergo. A reading and reception will take place Thursday, April 13, at 3:30 pm in Bird Library 114. Sean Clancy
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PhD Comics — LOLGrads!
Graduate Student Newsletter April/May 2017 Page 4
The Data Incubator is an intensive 8-week fellowship that prepares masters, PhDs, and postdocs in STEM and social science fields seeking industry careers as data scientists. The program is free for Fellows and supported by sponsorships from hundreds of employers across multiple industries. In response to the overwhelming interest in our earlier sessions, we will be holding another fellowship.
Locations: There will be both an in-person (in NYC, DC, SF, Seattle, Boston) and online sections of the fellowship. There is a common application for both the online and in-person sections.
Dates: All sections will be June 19–August 11, 2017. Apply online.
Data Science in 30 minutes: Learn how to build a data-science project in our upcoming free Data Science in 30-minutes webcast. Sign up soon as space is limited.
Who should apply?: Anyone within one year of graduating from a masters or PhD program or who has already obtained a masters or PhD is welcome to apply. Applications from international students are welcome. Those not within a year of graduating are encouraged to sign up for a future session.
DATA SCIENCE FELLOWSHIP
Terrance Burgess (PhD, Teaching and Curriculum), National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship
Mallory Hennigar (PhD, Religion), Fulbright Research Grant to conduct research in India
Ana Monzon (Masters in Public Relations and International Relations), US State Department Critical Language Scholarship to study Bahasa Indonesian
Andrew Scheuer (MA, Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics), Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to teach English in Argentina
Humanities NY Graduate Public Humanities Fellows Presentations
April 28, 2017
9:30-11:30 am
304 Tolley Humanities Building
This year’s Humanities NY Graduate Public Humanities Fellows, Kishauna Soljour (PhD candidate, History) and Jesse Quinn (PhD candidate, Geography) discuss the experiences and challenges of developing their public humanities research projects with, respectively, refugee communities in Syracuse and environmental groups in the Adirondacks.
Congratulations Graduate Grant and Fellowship Recipients!