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Emerging Scholars REUW for First Year and Sophomore Women

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Experience real research in a supportive, collaborative environment

First year and sophomore women of all majors are paired with IU faculty mentors from across campus to conduct research in all disciplines in this year-long program. All projects actively use technology and/or computing and require NO previous experience. Together with other students in the cohort, students enroll in a spring class, and participate in a research hackathon and a poster competition.

Who Can Apply:
First-year and sophomore women at IU Bloomington with little or no research experience.
No Experience?
No Problem! You will learn the skills along the way. As long as you are enthusiastic and willing to learn, select projects that interest you, and make the commitment, you will have a great experience.
Program Description:
We will match you with a faculty research project based on your interests. Projects represent many different schools including: College of Arts & Sciences, IU Libraries, Kelley School of Business, School of Education, Hamilton Lugar School of Global & International Studies, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, O’Neil School of Public & Environmental Affairs, School of Public Health-Bloomington, and University Information Technology Services.
Student Requirements:
  • Attend Orientation on September 27, 2020.
  • Attend Fall Meeting on Sunday, November 1, 2020.
  • Conduct 8-10 hours of work/tasks per week on research project as assigned by mentor
  • Meet weekly goals/tasks set by faculty mentor.
  • Meet with mentor face-to-face once per week and maintain communication with mentor regarding progress over entire course of year.
  • Submit weekly reports to research course instructor both fall and spring semester.
  • Attend spring semester Undergraduate Research Methods course.
  • Participate in our Research Hackathon February 12 – 14, 2021.
  • Participate in our Women’s Research Poster Competition April 16, 2021.
  • Submit end of semester reports.
Before Applying:
  1. Take a look at the strong application examples on our website from previous participants to assist you as you plan your responses.
  2. Review this year’s project proposals and choose the top 3 projects that interest you.
Application Deadline: August 1, 2020. To apply, click the button below, or copy and paste this URL into your browser: https://go.iu.edu/2REd.

https://womenandtech.indiana.edu/programs/reuw/index.html

Critical Approaches COLL-C 105 in Fall 2020 has open seats for all students

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Still need to fulfill your Critical Approaches course requirement? Couldn’t get into a Fall 2020 Critical Approaches course, because seats are reserved every fall semester for incoming first-year students?

If you don’t need your Critical Approaches course to simultaneously provide A&H or S&H credit, consider this:

COLL-C 105 Critical Approaches to the Natural and Mathematical Sciences (topic: Brains and Minds, Robots and Computers) has lots of seats open to all students.

COLL-C 105 CRIT APPROACHES: NATL & MATH SCI (3 CR)
Topic: Brains & Minds, Robots & Computers
Prof. Eduardo Izquierdo

What is the nature of mental states? How are thoughts related to the physical world? Could machines think? This course will explore the main thrusts in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence. The topics will include the mind-body problem, the view of intelligence as computation, artificial neural networks, the role of the body in cognition, the study of animal intelligence, collective intelligence, and self-organization, and the ethics of AI. We will compare and contrast the abilities of humans and animals with the current capabilities of machines and robots. These comparisons should yield insights into the incredible abilities of the human mind as well as raise questions about what constitutes true intelligence. Lab sessions will include discussions as well as hands-on experience that will allow students to get acquainted with computer simulations of artificial agents.

If you still need A&H credit or S&H credit and intend to fulfill that simultaneously with your Critical Approaches course, this is not a good course for you, since it does not carry those kinds of credit. Choose a COLL-C 103 or COLL-C 104 course instead. Questions about this aspect? Email bioadv@iu.edu.

But if you are intrigued by this topic, are weary of trying to get into Critical Approaches sections that are full, and don’t need A&H or S&H credit – enroll in COLL-C 105 Critical Approaches: Brains and Minds, Robots and Computers now!

Check out the Biophysics Ph.D. program at University of Texas/Galveston

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The Molecular Biophysics Educational Track at the University of Texas/Galveston is a rigorous PhD graduate program designed for students with undergraduate training in physics, chemistry, engineering or mathematics, who now wish to study biological problems. The MBET curriculum, with accompanying laboratory and computational research, leads to a PhD degree that meets both current and future challenges in biomedical research.

Flyer: MBET Flyer1

Do you love learning languages? Great new online IU meeting for that!

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Announcing the First Language Learner Kickback Meeting on May 14, 2020

Dear Language Learners at IU and other Language Enthusiasts,

The IU Center for Language Technology (CeLT) and the Center for Language Excellence (CLE) are inviting you for an exciting online event for language learners—Language Learners Kickback. We plan to host this event regularly in future and we are excited to announce the first one! This event is open to both those who are enrolled in a language course and those who are simply interested in learning foreign/second languages.

Goals of the event:

  • to meet peers who have similar interest
  • to share language learning tips and experiences
  • to support and motivate each other
  • to get to know experts in language instruction
  • to form a community of language learners

The host is Decker Pope, an undergraduate student learning both French and Estonian here at IU. He has been a lab assistant at Center for Language Technology (CeLT) starting September 2019. He is also one of the organizers of this event.

The presenter of the first event is also Decker. We hope to have more students volunteer to present in future, so please pay attention to the message to call for presenters for the next event.

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Animal Behavior BS students: Don’t take PHIL-P 140 in Summer 2020

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Thinking about taking PHIL-P 140 Introduction to Ethics in Summer 2020, either at an IU campus or to transfer in from another institution? Reconsider!

If taken in Summer 2020 or later, PHIL-P 140 will not satisfy the ethics requirement in the Animal Behavior major. (If you took PHIL-P 140 in Spring 2020 or earlier, don’t worry – it satisfies the ethics requirement.)

Starting Summer 2020, PHIL-P 140 will change to new course PHIL-P 141 INTRODUCTION TO ETHICAL THEORIES AND PROBLEMS. PHIL-P 141 will fulfill the ethics requirement in the ABEH major, but PHIL-P 140 (if taken Summer 2020 or later) will not.

Please contact an Animal Behavior advisor if you have any questions.

Libby, Jane, Zach, and Gabby

The Animal Behavior advisors

Congratulations to all Department of Biology scholarship winners

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Congratulations to the individuals listed below who received Department of Biology scholarships!

Aditya Belamkar
John R. and Wendy L. Kindig Scholarship

Kyra Colston
​William J. Tatum Scholarship

Alexis Edgin
​John R. and Wendy L. Kindig Scholarship

Abigael Frederick​
L.S. McClung Scholarship in Microbiology​

Alexa D. Howser
Barwe/Rexing Scholarship

Sylvie Martin-Eberhardt
Michael Tansey Outstanding UTA Award

Rebecca McAvoy 
Alfred Parson Mower Scholarship

Sam A. Norrell
Sid Robinson Scholarship

Megan Perkins
L.S. McClung Scholarship in Microbiology

Sophia C. Ren
L.S. McClung Scholarship in Microbiology

Daniel Rhoda
Biology Undergraduate Research Award
Fox Glen Research and Education Fund Award

Kaitlyn Ross
Carl H. Eigenmann Scholarship

Matthew Ross
​Sid Robinson Scholarship

Mary Ellen Samels
​John R. and Wendy L. Kindig Scholarship

Mary Grace Slaughter
​Microbiology Undergraduate Summer Research Award
William G. Roessler Microbiology Scholarship

Payton J. Sparks
​George M. Malacinski Scholarship

Abigail M. Weber
Outstanding Honors Thesis Award

Adam Weiler
​Fred Seward Award

Caroline Wilkowski
Aldred Family Scholarship

Samantha M.​ Worthington
Barwe/Rexing Scholarship

Summer Intensive Writing

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2 new sections of Intensive Writing courses just opened for Summer 2020 (online)

 

The Department of Criminal Justice has added two online 400-level Intensive Writing courses for the Summer 2020 term. One is a second section of CJUS-P 414 for the first 6 weeks term, while CJUS-P 407 is being offered during the second 6 weeks.

 

​​CJUS-P 414: Adolescents and the Law

This course examines the place of adolescents in American law and policy. Students explore the foundations of adolescents’ rights, their limits, and their relationship to changing sociocultural images of adolescents. The course focuses on the ideological conflicts between the proper role of adolescents, parents and communities in ensuring adolescents’ rights. The conflicting ideologies are addressed specifically from the perspective of adolescents themselves. Students who do well in this class (1) will have learned how the social sciences generally approach the period of adolescence, (2) will be able to articulate different myths about the period of adolescence and their influence on the manner society regulates adolescents, (3) will understand how the legal system regulates families as well as adolescents, (4) will appreciate the importance of civil rights in addressing issues relating to criminal justice as well as broader justice, (5) will understand how to read case law as well as develop a working knowledge of key legal issues such as the right to privacy, due process, equal protection, seizure, punishment, as well as how the legal system generally approaches constitutional rights.

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Class Nbr Class Type Session Units Component Status Avail Wait
Details
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15032 Enrollment Si​x Wk 1 3 Lecture 25
Days & Times Room Instructor Meeting Dates
ARR ARR Roger Levesque 05/12/2020 – 06/19/2020
Class Notes
Above class COLL Intensive Writing section

 

CJUS-P 407: Terrorism

Terrorism is a serious challenge today and its policing demands varied responses. In this course we study how terrorists evolve and carry out their operations. The course will analyze police responses and debate the issues of legal boundaries and systems of checks and balances using case studies.

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First  1 of 1  Last
Class Nbr Class Type Session Units Component Status Avail Wait
Details
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15031 Enrollment Six Wk 2 3 Lecture 25
Days & Times Room Instructor Meeting Dates
ARR ARR Arvind Verma 06/22/2020 – 07/31/2020
Class Notes
Above class COLL Intensive Writing section

 

Both sections are open for all students, so the seats could go quickly!

Emergency Meal Project for Students

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In response the pandemic, IU Dining is collaborating with the Food Institute, the Campus Kitchen, the Food Project, GPSG, and others on an Emergency Meal Project:

 

http://go.iu.edu/emp

 

The goal is to provide free meals via carry-out or delivery to IU students who are suffering from food insecurity. Students can request meals using the link above. ​

 

Also, the project is in need of money to pay for the food. Donations can be made at the link below.

 

https://foodinst.sitehost.iu.edu/ ​

 

Looking for L104 & L112 UTAs

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Professor Chooi is seeking undergraduates who may be interested in being UTAs for L112 or L104 next fall (2020)

Applicants: Please send Professor Chooi (chooi@indiana.edu) the following by the deadline – April 30th, 2020

1.Resume
2.Transcript
3.Completed Application
https://biology.indiana.edu/documents/undergrad-student-documents/UTA-application.pdf 

  1. 4. Fall schedule for all courses.


Mandatory requirements

1. Attend all course lectures

L112  MWF 10:10 am -11:00 am
L104  MWF 11:15 am -12:05 pm

2. Most available positions are for X371 credit.

Most payroll positions for both courses have already been allocated.

 

  1. Conduct one Discussion Group per week for L112.

L104 does not have discussion groups.

4. Help in grading, office hours, and proctoring exams.

5.  Applicants must have junior status (or credit equivalent) and a minimum GPA of 3.5.

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