Please Note: Updated guidelines will be posted at least two months in advance of the deadline listed above. In the meantime, please use the guidelines for the previous deadline, to get a sense of what is involved in assembling an application.

Summer Stipends support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources.

Summer Stipends:

• support full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two months.
• support projects at any stage of development.
• are awarded to individual scholars. Organizations are not eligible to apply.

Summer Stipends may not be used for

• projects that seek to promote a particular political, religious, or ideological point of view;
• projects that advocate a particular program of social action;
• specific policy studies;
• research for doctoral dissertations or theses by students enrolled in a degree program;
• the preparation or revision of textbooks;
• curriculum development;
• the development of pedagogical tools (including teaching methods or theories);
• educational or technical impact assessments;
• empirical social science research, unless part of a larger humanities project;
• inventories of collections;
• autobiographies, memoirs, or works of creative nonfiction; or
• works in the creative or performing arts (for example, painting, fiction or poetry, or dance performance).

For More Information
Contact NEH’s Division of Research Programs at 202-606-8200 or stipends@neh.gov.

We are pleased to announce that the NSF REU site for Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering at The University of Akron will again accept applications for the summer of 2013. This year’s stipend amount is $7,000 and the deadline for applications is February 1, 2013. The attached brochure is primarily for undergraduate students who are currently sophomores or juniors, although we have had a few freshmen. The application and more information can be found on our website: http://www2.uakron.edu/cpspe/DPS/reu.php.

If you have any questions please contact me at 330-972-7667, or by email at polymerreu@uakron.edu.

Thank you,

Kelli Fetter

Events Assistant/REU Coordinator

College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering

The University of Akron

Akron, OH 44325-3909

Office:  330-972-7667

Fax:  330-972-5290

REU Flyer (PDF)

The A&S Fellowship includes a stipend to support a research experience in the summer before matriculation, a personal computer, an increased academic year stipend, and a decreased teaching load to jump start research. These awards are on top of our generous graduate stipend, full tuition, and health insurance provided to all department graduate students.

You and your colleagues are welcome to use the attached form for a nomination. Or, just forward me the names, e-mail addresses and research interests of strong candidates before December 1, 2012. This will allow us time to inform students of their nomination and explain what they need to do to apply for fellowship consideration.

Thanks and best regards, Adrian

Adrian Michael <amichael@pitt.edu>

PittChemNominationForm

We are pleased to announce the fourth year of the summer internship program, SCI Scholars, for chemistry and chemical engineering undergraduates.

The program is a joint effort of the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) America International Group, the American Chemical Society (ACS), and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), and was developed to introduce chemistry and chemical engineering students to careers in the chemical industry.

Exceptional sophomores and juniors with a GPA of at least 3.5 and who are majoring in chemistry or chemical engineering are encouraged to apply.

Program details:

• Thirty-five scholars will be chosen for internship positions in the summer of 2013.
• SCI Scholars receive $6,000-$10,000+ for a ten-week internship.
• Students will be awarded a certificate and an additional $1,000, which can be used for any purpose, such as participation at an ACS or AIChE meeting.
• Scholars nominate a high school chemistry teacher for recognition. Teachers will be awarded a certificate from SCI and $1,000, which can be used for professional development or classroom materials.
• Applications are due December 14, 2012 (December 15, 3 a.m EST).
• Interested students should visit www.acs.org/sci to fill out an application and get more information.

I would greatly appreciate it if you could forward the SCI Program Flyer (PDF at www.acs.org/sci) to any students you think might be interested in the program, as well as to any faculty members who could help promote this program to their students.  Thank you for your assistance in bringing this exceptional opportunity to the attention of your undergraduates.

Sincerely,

Mary M. Kirchhoff, Ph.D.

Director of Education

American Chemical Society

I am writing to request your assistance in identifying outstanding undergraduates who might be interested in, and qualified for, the ACS sponsored Nuclear and Radiochemistry Summer School Program.  We are seeking curious and highly motivated students with strong science backgrounds. If selected, these students receive an all-expense paid opportunity to complete a 6 week summer course in Nuclear and Radiochemistry in either California or New York. They also earn hours (tuition paid) of undergraduate chemistry credit through either San Jose State University or SUNY-Stony Brook.  Selected students also receive a stipend of $4,000.

An announcement for the Nuclear and Radiochemistry Summer Schools that can be posted is attached to this request. It describes the application procedure and the background we hope applicants will have when applying. This information and an on-line application form can also be found on the web at:

http://chemistry.missouri.edu/nucsummer/index.shtml

The deadline for applications is February 1, 2013. If you have any questions about the ACS sponsored program, please do not hesitate to contact me using the information below.

Sincerely yours,

J. David Robertson

National Director,

ACS Summer Schools in Nuclear and Radiochemistry

NuclearSummerSchoolFlyer2013 (PDF)

Department of Labor and Employment – Rizal OIC Engr. Mercedes Delgado together with Provincial Public Employment Service Officer Cecile Diaz, Tanay PESO Sheryl Custodio and STI staff distributed checks worth P 4,400 for each student.

Selected student teachers were assigned to teach out of school youth and BJMP inmates for 176 hours each for 25 pesos per hour.

According to the student teachers both the youth and inmates were eager to learn despite of some them having zero knowledge on how to use computers.

I will be scouring the midstate today during a round of college football games. I want to find out what fans who spend entire calendar days devoted to following the sport think of issues ranging from the BCS and its effects to the idea of the student-athlete and issues of amateurism. There is a smart and informed viewing public in the midstate, where the taverns and restaurants brim with jerseys and spirit every college football Saturday. Their voices will be the live focus of the College Football Forum today. Follow it here with regular live updates as the stories unfold and the debates continue.

To consider:

Are there true student-athletes anymore?

Should the performers who fill the arenas be paid a stipend?

Is tuition, room and board, training food and amenities, etc., enough compensation?

Are athletes being exploited by the “football factories?”

Is the BCS a fair way to crown a champion?

How is the BCS affecting conference structures?

Are the shifting conferences affecting the sport?

FOLLOW LIVE UPDATES TODAY ON THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL FORUM!

My mum’s work day starts at 9am, after we’ve all got up at 7am to walk the dog. She’ll begin with emails, and then staff prayers. On Thursdays, however, her day begins at 6:30am as she gets up to prepare for women’s prayers, beginning in our living room at 7am (I told you our house was mental). After staff prayers at 9:30 (usually finishing around 10), it’s onto either admin or meetings. The meetings could be with anyone from the archdeacon to a random person who came to church for the first time last Sunday. Break for half an hour at 1pm for lunch, unless it’s a Tuesday, in which case it’s staff lunch from 12:30 – 2:30pm. Meetings and / or admin all afternoon, sometimes there would be meetings at 2 – 3:30, 3:30 – 5, 5 – 6:30 and then an evening meeting starting at 7:30. It sometimes gets to the point that at 11pm I have to go up to her study and tell her to turn off her computer and go to bed. On average, I’d say my mother works at least 11 hours a day, 6 days a week. And when she gets up at 5am to write a sermon on a Sunday morning, that can be pushed to 14 hours.

And let’s be honest, vicars aren’t exactly well paid. Yes, you get a nice house, but you do have to share that with 100 other people as part of your life. Incidentally, a vicar’s salary isn’t actually called a ‘salary’, it’s called a ‘stipend’. This means that instead of being paid for the work they do, vicars are actually paid so that they are able to do the work that they do.

The problem with my gorgeous mother, however, is that she takes this seriously. In fact, she doesn’t even see her job as a job – that’s how much she loves it. It is so totally and utterly her that she doesn’t actually realise that she’s working half the time. I, on the other hand, really do.

Initially, I just decided to let her get on with it. After all, I wasn’t used to her working full time (her and dad had job-shared up until I was 16) so maybe I was overreacting. But when it hit the point where I would literally have come downstairs from bed in order to tell her to get into hers, I started gently suggesting that maybe, just maybe, she was working a little too hard. Her response? ‘Oh no don’t be daft, I love my job!’
‘That might be the case, mum, but that doesn’t change the fact that you’ve been working 11 hour days for the past 5 months…’
‘I suppose, but still!’
‘Hmm’

To be fair to her, however, she is exceptionally good at taking a day off; something which not many vicars excel in. So mum, if you’re reading this; well done. I hope you have a lovely day off tomorrow. But please go to bed soon.

You’d be surprised just how few vicars actually realise how much they work, and you’d be even more surprised how many people think that vicars don’t work at all. If anyone ever says to you that your parent ‘must only work on Sundays’, do me a favour and put them right, because if one more person says that to me, I cannot be held responsible for my reaction…

P.S. Thanks to a gorgeous friend for showing me this video (0:49 onwards):

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyNyHLCppMA

We offer competitive teaching assistantships to all students admitted into our program.  We do not admit students into our program that cannot be supported financially during their first year of study.  The maximum annual stipend is $21,289.  Students after their first year are typically supported by research funds from their chosen advisor or from departmental funds, provided that they are making good progress toward completion of their graduate degree.

We offer M. S. and Ph. D. degrees in the five traditional subdisciplines of chemistry, Analytical, Biochemistry, Inorganic, Organic, and Physical, plus research in Toxicology.  More information about the research projects available to students in our program can be found at http://www.chemistry.nmsu.edu.  I am also including a small brochure that provides the type of research being done at our department in all areas of our graduate program.

Students interested in applying for admission into our program should contact Ms. Denise Pedraza at the following address:

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

MSC 3C, P.O. Box 30001

New Mexico State University

Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001

They will also need to complete the admission request through the Graduate School website of NMSU at http://gradschool.nmsu.edu.

We look forward to receiving graduate admission applications from students at your institution and making a competitive offer to them.

If I could be of any further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact me at my email address, wquintan@nmsu.edu, or my phone number: (575) 646–5881.  Students can also contact me, or Ms. Pedraza at (575) 646–2556 or dpedraza@nmsu.edu and we will be happy to provide more information as requested.

Sincerely,

William Quintana

Professor

Department Head

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

New Mexico State University

MSC 3C, P. O. Box 30001

1175 N. Horseshoe Dr

Las Cruces, NM  88003–8001

Phone:  575–646–2505, fax:  575–646–2649

http://www.chemistry.nmsu.edu

NMSU Chem & Biochem Brochure (PDF)

Below we’ve highlighted a number of titles that have recently been made stipend eligible, and you can search for many more over on our title search page (note that you must be logged in as a producer to see stipend eligible titles).

For Female VO’s:

Darklove – Fiction. Dark romance.

Making It Big – Fiction. A smart satirical take on our weight obsessed culture.

Game, Set, Match – Fiction. Hip romance.

Collective Visioning: How Groups Can Work Together for a Just and Sustainable Future –Nonfiction. “A revolutionary guide to collaboration within and across diverse organizations.”

Eurisko Sails West: A Year in Panama – Nonfiction. A family’s adventures in rural Panama.

From Mangia to Murder: A Sophia Mancini Mystery – Fiction.

The Sleeping Night – Fiction. He’s black, she’s white. In 1946 in Gideon, Texas, their undeniable love might get them both killed.

For Male VOs:

Twisted Web –Fiction. A thriller in the style of Tom Clancy or Clive Cussler.

The Unwilling Spy –Fiction.  WWII espionage.

Private: Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and the Biggest Exposure of Official Secrets in American History – Nonfiction.

Desert Atonement – Fiction. When Prophet Ronald Hansen III murders the wife of a journalist who is exposing the prophet’s polygamous cult, the stage is set for a desert showdown.

Vampires: A Field Guide to the Creatures That Stalk the Night – Nonfiction, British accent. A field guide to the history of the vampire legend.

Immortal: A Military History of Iran and Its Armed Forces – Nonfiction. CIA analyst Steven R. Ward’s single-volume English-language survey of Iran’s military history.

An Audience for Einstein – Science-Fiction. Two scientists fight for control of a young boy with implanted memories.

Again, these are just a sampling of the many stipend eligible titles currently accepting auditions on ACX. You can search for more here, and find all the details on our stipend program here.

Best wishes for a productive autumn!

The deadline for spring and summer applications is Nov. 1.

 Interns report for the web-based Scripps Howard Foundation Wire and may also report for campus, hometown or other news organizations. Interns work with an experienced Washington editor to choose, report and edit stories. Tours of Washington journalism and government institutions and guest speakers are part of the program.

Interns produce multimedia coverage using social media, blogs, online stories, videos and slideshows. Spring interns will cover the inauguration.

2013 program and application deadline dates:

• Spring 2013 (Jan. 7 to April 12). Stipend $2,520, plus free housing. Application deadline postmark: Nov. 1, 2012
• Summer 2013 (June 10 to Aug. 16) Stipend $1,800, plus free  housing. Application deadline postmark: Nov. 1, 2012
• Fall 2013 (Sept. 9 to Dec. 13) Stipend $2,520, plus free housing. Application deadline postmark: March 15, 2013

To apply, visit: http://www.shfwire.com. Click on “apply” and “reporting internship” to download the application form.

The foundation also supports an intern in each term who reports for the Hispanic Link News Service. The term, application deadline, pay and housing are the same.

Presently, there are 60 volunteer firefighter vacancies throughout the Sonoma County Fire and Emergency Services Department’s 15 units. That amounts to one in five positions unfilled.

The need is greatest in the most rural pockets on the region where, perhaps not surprisingly in this economy, many of the locals who could volunteer so close to home are working elsewhere.

“Many people choose to live in the rural areas and then commute out,” acknowledged Sonoma County Fire Chief Mark Aston. “Some of the staffing challenges that we have in our particular area have to do with the ranch land and farm land.”

“Most of us travel long distances to work and we’re not working in the communities where we live,” he added.

“We’re being creative and innovative,” Aston said optimistically, “and coming up with a variety of what we call non-resident programs.”

KCBS’ Margie Shafer Reports: [audio_link url="http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/nyc.podcast.play.it/media/d0/d0/d1/d1/dB/dC/dN/11BCN_3.MP3" name="Sonoma County Struggles to Fill Volunteer Firefighter Vacancies" artist="Margie Shafer"]

Even if residency requirements were to be relaxed, Aston recognizes that the time commitment – and lack of generous compensation – prove to be sticking points for many would-be volunteers.

“There’s really no difference between what a career firefighter that’s on duty 240 hours a month, at a minimum, is expected to know and do, and a volunteer,” he acknowledged. “So, it takes a tremendous commitment.”

Volunteer firefighters are required to undergo a minimum of 150 hours of basic training.

“It’s not just fires,” he pointed out. “We respond to hazardous calls and rescues and medical calls and, of course, vegetation fires and structure fires.”

“Probably one of our largest call volumes for fires in our area is for vehicle-related fires.”

“We look for a minimum of 5 years,” Aston was upfront about the commitment expected of a volunteer firefighter. “It’s going to take a year to a year-and-a-half to get them and their skills up to where they really need to be.”

Sonoma County recently received word that it would receive nearly $275,000 in grant funding from the Dept. of Homeland Security, and Aston hoped to dole it out in the form of modest stipends and financial incentives for training sessions, travel costs and retention awards.

(Copyright 2012 by CBS San Francisco. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

I’ve rented from countless places. Land. Homes. Shacks & mansions. At one point I even lived in a sewer just to write a review about it.

Mr. C. Cow Needs A Lot Of Room To Moo.

Yes. I have used the premium member sandbox often. But, if you think about it, you can basically just go to any sandbox to rez something. If you belong to some communities you can just use their sandbox. If you rent land you can just build there. While it’s always empty at a premium sandbox it doesn’t really make too big of an impact on me.

This brings me to the premium gifts offered to those of us that shell out the ten dollars a month. We’ve been given stuff from furniture to a sail boat with few things in between. For paying a monthly fee to be a premium member I feel that we should at least get something every month. Not this every so often in more of a “Oh shit! We need to hand out something” format we seem to follow now.

Eat. My. Dust.

Our current premium gift is a dune buggy & landmark to a place called “Racers Gulch (G)”. Like the sailboat & railroad thing it’s nice that they include a place we can actually use it. I have yet to find this racing fun they speak of as I have never actually run into anyone at Racers Gulch. As for bringing my friends to race with me that proves to be difficult. One reason is because I am a hermit. The other reason is that none of them actually have a premium account. Some use to but they no longer do. Those that actually have one really have no interest in racing a dune buggy.

I Can Change It’s Colors & Patterns.

From gifts to a sad little stipend a week to a free home that looks like it’s been dropped in the middle of a slum I am starting to fail to see the point of actually paying for a premium account anymore. Owning land? Well…you see…I would have to pay for the privilege of owning land. Buy the land. Pay more on top of my monthly account (if it’s larger than a 512). If I buy a sim or island or whatever I would need to pay even more on top of the monthly fees. I cannot justify spending so much damn real life money on something that is virtual.

So I sat down & really thought about it. I did the math using a L$ converter and a calculator. Took the monthly members account & subtracted the real life money totals from the stipend. Added up the cost of the place that I rent. I looked at how many prims I get from combining the prims from my office with the prims from my rental home. Taking these numbers I compared them to renting a large chunk of land with a nice amount of prims.

What I found is that, despite the sparse gifts & a special sandbox I would save money by just renting land. Land in a community that I spend most of my time anyways. It would put me closer to future projects I have brewing. It would actually benefit my office to be here instead of on this tiny 512 in the sky. I might lose this “premium member” status but in all reality does the title actually mean anything? From this viewpoint it doesn’t mean squat anymore.

What do you think? Do you have a premium account? Did you use to have one? I’m curious as to what others have to say.

“Tipsy” Cerulean