[Agvisors] CALS Monday Message April 13, 2015

[UA Agriculture and Life Sciences Career and Academic Services]

CALS Monday Message
April 13, 2015
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Dates and Deadlines
April 1-April 21: Course withdrawals may be processed only with the approval of the student's College Dean on a Late Change Petition now through April 14th. Students must have an extra ordinary reason for approval. Visit Saguaro Hall Room 221 for additional information.

May 6, 2015: LAST DAY OF CLASSES.  No registration changes can be made after the last day of classes. Last day to: File a complete withdrawal (https://www.registrar.arizona.edu/complete-withdrawal) , File a $25.00 Late Drop Fee Appeal form, File $250.00 Late Registration Fee appeal

May 7, 2015: Reading day - no classes or finals

May 8 - 14, 2015: FINAL EXAMS PERIOD

May 16, 2015:Spring Commencement date and degree award date for students completing by close of spring semester
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The Fall 2015 Schedule of Classes will be available  March 2, 2015.  Students will be able to use their shopping carts and view their Enrollment Appointments in UAccess on March 2, 2015 as well.
April 13 - 19, 2015
Sophomores - You will be able to register beginning at 6am on 4/13/15 through 8pm on 4/19/15.

April 20 - 26, 2015
Freshman - You will be able to register beginning at 6am on 4/20/15 through 8pm on 4/26/15.

April 27, 2015
Registration open to all degree seeking continuing students for registration, adds, drops, and changes.

April 29, 2015
Registration open to all degree seeking readmits and transfer students for registration, adds, drops, and changes.

August 17, 2015
Registration open to all non-degree seeking undergraduate students.
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Are you interested in sharing your experiences as a student with new CALS students?  Do you have a passion for helping people?  Are you interested in being part of a college-wide leadership group that will allow you to work with students from across CALS?  If you answered yes to any of these questions, consider joining the CALS PALS Peer Mentorship program!

Hard copies of the application are available in Saguaro Hall Room 221.

If you have any additional questions you can contact one of the program coordinators:
Nancy Rodriguez-Lorta (nancyr at email.arizona.edu (mailto:nancyr at email.arizona.edu) ) or Kristen Geary (kgeary at email.arizona.edu (mailto:kgeary at email.arizona.edu) )
Phone: 520-621-3616
Office: Saguaro Hall 221
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Visit our webpage for more information and to download the application: https://cals.arizona.edu/cas/deans-leadership-50
Hard copies of the application are available in Saguaro Hall 221.

If you have any questions, contact Dari Trujillo (kdtrujil at email.arizona.edu) or Kyle Sharp (ksharp at email.arizona.edu)
Announcements
Announcing a scholarship opportunity that you may be interested in applying for: the Syngenta Agricultural Scholarship program, which is open to graduate and undergraduate college students pursuing degrees in crop-related disciplines. You may apply by submitting a 750- to 1,000-word essay on the chosen topic (more information on the essay topic can be found on the Syngenta Agricultural Scholarship web page (http://www.syngenta-us.com/scholarships/) ) to compete for a portion of $20,000 in available awards to help grow your future. The application deadline is May 15, 2015.

If this sounds like a scholarship you’re interested in applying for, I encourage you to visit the
Syngenta Agricultural Scholarship web page (http://www.syngenta-us.com/scholarships/) where you can find more information and apply via an online form.
If you have any questions about the scholarship, please feel free to contact Lauren Hafezi at G&S Business Communications. Lauren may be reached at lhafezi at gscommunications.com (mailto:lhafezi at gscommunications.com) or (919) 870-5718.

Looking for a way to share your love of biology with others, serve your community, AND get credit?
Join SORT (STEM Outreach and Recruitment Team) and help K-12 kids, parents, and the general public learn about science!

SORT students serve the community by:

Helping K-12 students and teachers, the general public, and their fellow undergraduates get excited and learn about science!
Learning and conducting fun biology demonstrations for public events (both on and off campus)
Organize engaging events for fellow college students, such as lab tours and workshops
Helping high school students learn about what studying science at UA is like
Assisting groups on campus with science outreach and recruitment
Providing feedback to and/or judging K-12 students’ science fair ideas and projects

What do SORT students gain
They hone their public speaking and presentation skills to talk about science to different audiences!
They learn how to communicate science verbally and via media and film
They can tailor their interests in sharing science with others; SORT students have the flexibility to choose from a variety of activities in which to participate over the course of the semester Students in SORT will earn 1 unit of upper division credit for MCB 399, spending a grand total of 45 hours during the semester participating in a combination of the above activities and attending class meetings. Students will be given grades of Superior, Pass, or Fail, based on their attendance and participation.

To be eligible, you must:

Be an UA sophomore, junior, or senior majoring in any biological science (MCB, Biology, EEB, Biochemistry, Physiology, Microbiology, Nutritional Sciences, etc.).

Have a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5

Be able to consistently attend a 50-minute class meeting each week. (Class times will be arranged around students' Fall schedules.)

Preferably have public speaking skills and be involved in independent research on campus.

Interested? Submit the following in a packet to Jennifer Cubeta in Life Sciences South #348 by noon on Friday, May 8, 2015:

·One letter of recommendation from a professor, TA, RA, high school teacher, etc.
·Your resume, including employment history, clubs/activities, and other commitments as appropriate (one page maximum).
·A statement of interest: How would participating in SORT play a role in your future educational and/or career goals? (no longer than one page)

We will inform you by the end of May if you have been selected to participate.

Questions?
Contact Jennifer Cubeta, MCB Outreach Coordinator, at
cubeta at email.arizona.edu (mailto:cubeta at email.arizona.edu) .

MAIN CAMPUS FARMER'S MARKET

The UA is hosting its second farmers' market on the mall Wednesday, April 22, from 10 am until 2 pm.
ENGL Online Summer Courses

In just 5 weeks online students who require ENGL102 or 109H can complete the UA Writing Requirement and students who require ENGL308 can complete a major requirement! If ENGL101 is needed, students should consider the online summer course so that they can take ENGL102 in fall. Visit the summer session schedule of classes to register.

Richard A. Harvill Graduate Fellowship

The mission of the Richard A. Harvill Endowment is to perpetuate knowledge of Dr. Harvill, who served as UA president from 1951 to 1971, a period in which UA began its furious post-war enrollment growth, and the institution took its place among the leading research universities of the west. The award targets University of Arizona senior undergraduates, domestic or international who have completed a bachelor's degree at the UA in May 2015, have an undergraduate GPA of 3.5 or higher, and have been admitted to a PhD program at the UA for Fall 2015. The Fellowship provides an annual stipend of $12,000, disbursed in two equal payments between the fall and spring terms and a Graduate Tuition Scholarship that covers base graduate level tuition (not the differential tuition assessed by some programs) for each semester of award.

Deadline to apply:  May 1, 2015, 5 pm, for 2015-16 award period
Eligibility:  A current UA undergraduate, domestic or international, who will complete his or her UA bachelor's degree in May 2015, who will be admitted to a UA doctoral program for Fall 2015, and who has a cumulative undergraduate GPA of 3.5 or higher.

Award amount: $12,000 plus full base tuition (excludes mandatory registration fees and student health insurance) for one year only.  Please note that the Richard A. Harvill Fellow may hold a concurrent graduate research or teaching assistantship, or additional department funds. Fellows will be required to be enrolled for a minimum of 9 graduate units during the tenure of the fellowship (or 6 graduate units if on a concurrent assistantship).

Questions? Please contact Stephanie Adamson, Graduate College, adamsons at email.arizona.edu (https://mail.catnet.arizona.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=KPmV2QP4M0iIBVgOiX7tZOSlOVdfPNIInDk6q1kfrhZ0nAwIYoJ3fWToXJvFtMBxRyASsOVCZcQ.&URL=mailto%3aadamsons%40email.arizona.edu%3fsubject%3dHarvill%2520Fellowship)  or 520-626-0095.
The 2015 Montgomery & Associates Summer Writing Internship at the WRRC
The University of Arizona Water Resources Research Center (WRRC) is offering a summer internship to a student interested in gaining experience writing about environmental and water issues. The internship is supported by Montgomery & Associates, an Arizona-based consulting firm specializing in hydrology and water resource issues. The selected intern will contribute to research and writing for an issue of Arroyo, the annual WRRC publication that focuses on a critical Arizona water issue. Arroyo is recognized as source of objective, accurate and understandable information and reaches a wide audience that includes policy makers and water professionals as well as the interested public.
The topic selected for the 2016 Arroyo is potable water reuse. It will provide an overview of history, plans, technologies, water quality concerns, regulations, and public acceptance issues regarding the potable reuse of water in Arizona.
Enrolled students in good standing at the University of Arizona, Arizona State University and Northern Arizona University are eligible. The intern will work approximately 20 hours per week for 10 weeks between the end of May and the beginning of August 2015 for a stipend of $2,500.
The intern will work at the WRRC offices in Tucson.  The successful applicant will be responsible for his/her own accommodations.
To Apply: Complete the application form downloadable from http://wrrc.arizona.edu/montgomery  and send the completed form, along with a writing sample and a letter of recommendation, to Susanna Eden at seden at email.arizona.edu (mailto:seden at email.arizona.edu) .
The 500-1,000 word writing sample may be on any topic; however, it should not be a technical report. The writing sample should avoid jargon and be understandable by general readers.  Applicants are encouraged to look at previous issues of Arroyo on the WRRC website at http://wrrc.arizona.edu/publications/arroyo.
The letter of recommendation should come from a faculty member familiar with applicant’s writing.
Deadline: Applications are due no later than 5:00 p.m., Friday, April 17, 2015.
Questions? Please direct any questions to seden at email.arizona.edu (mailto:seden at email.arizona.edu) .

Become a Recycling Ambassador for Greening the Game!
For Fall 2015
$8.25/hour

APPLICATION DUE TUESDAY, APRIL 21ST, 2015 at 5pm.
Interviews will be held Monday April 27th to Friday April 25th

Greening the Game is an initiative run through Students for Sustainability, an ASUA program. The goal of this program are to reach out to fans and educate them during tailgating and to clean the stadiums after the game. This is a fun and a hands on job that will teach students about how to be educational leaders and inform them about sustainable initiatives on the UA Campus.

PLEASE FILL OUT APPLICATION ON:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1DM0Ehzo9lwJ wOfJQLrarlducrVgWfaZXuJ1YXrvwwqo/viewform (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1DM0Ehzo9lwJwOfJQLrarlducrVgWfaZXuJ1YXrvwwqo/viewform)

For more information visit uasfs.com (http://uasfs.com/)

If you have any questions, please send them to Cole Pihl at colepihl at email.arizona.edu (mailto:colepihl at email.arizona.edu)

This coming Wednesday, April 15th,  Georgia Ehlers, Coordinator, Internships and Community Engagement and Shelley Hawthorne Smith, Program Coordinator Senior, UA Graduate College, will talk about funding opportunities for graduate school and writing scholarship proposals.  This is an opportunity to hear how to get your graduate school paid for!

Speakers: Georgia Ehlers and Shelley Hawthorne Smith from the UA Graduate College
Date:  Wednesday, April 15th
Time:  11:00
Room:  Haury Anthropology Building, Room 215

We hope to see you there!

ENGL Online Summer Courses

In just 5 weeks online students who require ENGL102 or 109H can complete the UA Writing Requirement and students who require ENGL308 can complete a major requirement! If ENGL101 is needed, students should consider the online summer course so that they can take ENGL102 in fall. Visit the summer session schedule of classes to register.

The Testing Office is seeking student employees for a temporary project that will take place between May 4th and May 15, 2015.  These position would be for test proctors who will assist with facilitating Advanced Placement (AP) exams on behalf of TUSD.  All exams will take place at Santa Rita High School and work hours will range between 6 am – 5 pm depending on the day and exam(s) being proctored.  In addition, we have a couple of permanent positions at the office that need to be filled.  You would have to be available to work Monday – Friday over the summer and have to be enrolled as a full time student in the Fall, 2015.  Please add if you would be interested to be considered for this postion as well in your email.

If interested email both Dafne Johnson (dafnej at email.arizona.edu (mailto:dafnej at email.arizona.edu) ) and Hannah Douglas (hndouglas at email.arizona.edu (mailto:hndouglas at email.arizona.edu) ) with your resume and your availability over this time frame (May 4 – May 15, 2015).  We will contact you for an interview. Please keep in mind that this project will be taking place over finals and right before Spring Commencement, please be mindful of this when providing your availability.

This fall, the UA School of Journalism will be offering a science journalism course that might interest your students. The course will be taught by a former bench scientist who studied genetics in the Animal Science Department at UC Davis and is now a science journalist.

There are no prerequisites, and we encourage graduate and undergraduate
students of all majors to consider taking the course.

Science journalism students will:

uLearn how to communicate with the public about science, technology, nature, the environment, medicine and health.
uObserve scientists in their habitat, interview researchers in action and interact with prominent science journalists and scientists.
uGain career skills, write stories for newspapers and magazines.
uExplore the world of online science journalism and learn how to start a science blog.
uLearn how to mine science websites for story ideas. Learn how to design and produce a simple infographic.
uGive themselves a competitive edge, and learn about science journalism opportunities, including internships!

The instructor will teach transferable critical thinking skills and hands-on writing skills.


The Testing Office is seeking student employees for a temporary project that will take place between May 4^th and May 15, 2015.  These position would be for test proctors who will assist with facilitating Advanced Placement (AP) exams on behalf of TUSD.  All exams will take place at Santa Rita High School and work hours will range between 6 am – 5 pm depending on the day and exam(s) being proctored.  In addition, we have a couple of permanent positions at the office that need to be filled.  You would have to be available to work Monday – Friday over the summer and have to be enrolled as a full time student in the Fall, 2015.  Please add if you would be interested to be considered for this postion as well in your email.

Please find the attached job description and if interested email both Dafne Johnson (dafnej at email.arizona.edu (mailto:dafnej at email.arizona.edu) ) and Hannah Douglas (hndouglas at email.arizona.edu (mailto:hndouglas at email.arizona.edu) ) with your resume and your availability over this time frame (May 4 – May 15, 2015).  We will contact you for an interview. Please keep in mind that this project will be taking place over finals and right before Spring Commencement, please be mindful of this when providing your availability.

Thank you,
Leah M. Chávez
Program Director
(520) 626-1389 Office
(520) 603-0946 Cell
leahchavez at email.arizona.edu (mailto:leahchavez at email.arizona.edu)

Become an Academic Skills Tutor at the THINK TANK!

The THINK TANK is now hiring for Fall 2015 for Academic Skills Tutors!  We accept Academic Skills Tutors from any major.  The deadline to apply is May 1st.

Benefits include:
-Flexible hours (5-20 hours)
-College Reading & Learning Association (CRLA) certification and pay raises for completing training.
-Becoming a leader and mentor
-Gaining mastery of learning techniques and methods Want more information? Have questions?
Attend a recruitment meeting at the
Bear Down Gym Think Tank
location 5-6pm Thursday, 4/9
or 4/23 or Monday 4/13.

A full position description is available on Wildcat JobLink, Academic Skills Tutor #772010.

Apply: http://thinktank.arizona.edu/ information/jobs (http://thinktank.arizona.edu/information/jobs)  under Academic Skills Tutors. Please note that there is a paid, mandatory training the week before school starts (August 19-21).

For more information contact Amanda Parkman, Academic Skills Coordinator at aparkman at email.arizona.edu (mailto:aparkman at email.arizona.edu) . Completed application can be turned in electronically or dropped off at the THINK TANK Bear Down Gym front desk.

OR

Become a THINK TANK tutor!

The THINK TANK is now hiring for fall 2015 in writing, math, physics, chem, econ, accounting, MIS 111 and more. We accept tutors from any major. The deadline to apply is 4/27!

Benefits include

-Flexible hours and paid training.
-Opportunities to earn CLRA (College Reading & Learning Association) tutor certifications and pay raises for completing training.
-Becoming a leader and mentor! Master Tutors mentor new tutors and lead trainings. Interviewing, outreach and other opportunities are also available in later semesters.
-Gaining mastery of content knowledge and tutoring methods. Helping others learn challenges you to think about and apply your knowledge in new ways each day.

Want more info? Have questions? Attend a recruitment meeting at the Bear Down
Gym Think Tank location 5-6pm
Thursday 4/9 or 4/23 or Monday 4/13.

Apply: http://thinktank.arizona.edu/ information/jobs (http://thinktank.arizona.edu/information/jobs)   under “Content Area Tutor.”  Please note, there is paid, mandatory training the week prior to beginning of the semester.

To request more info, contact Mel Williams, Tutor Coordinator at meliss00 at email.arizona.edu (mailto:meliss00 at email.arizona.edu) . Completed applications can be turned in to Mel by email or dropped off at the Think Tank Bear Down Gym front desk.

A full position description is available on Wildcat JobLink, Math and Science Tutor #771516 and Writing Tutor #771515.

Interning in NYC this summer?
Save $200 through April 30^th on housing with Educational Housing Services.

EHS provides more than just housing. EHS provides the ultimate NYC intern lifestyle!

All EHS residences include a long list of amenities like AC, private bathrooms, and fitness facilities.
You can focus on your internship and let EHS take care of the rest. With EHS reservations are confirmed within 24 hours.

Call EHS for more information: (888) 255-0296 or visit:
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Do you have graphic design skills? Do you love making flyers for events? LGBTQ Affairs will be hiring for the following student worker position for next fall.

The SPEAKOut position is a new student worker position funded by the student services fee. SPEAKOut staff work primarily on marketing and outreach for the LGBTQ Resource Center and the other UA Cultural/Resource Centers. This is an advanced student worker position at $10.00 for 10-15 hours per week. This position does not require a work study award to be eligible for hire. Interested students should send a 1 page cover letter, no more than a 2 page resume, and 2 examples of recent marketing pieces you’ve created (flyers, posters, brochures, banners, etc.) to jhoefle at email.arizona.edu (mailto:jhoefle at email.arizona.edu) by Friday, April 17th to apply.

Details are attached, please make sure you meet the minimum requirements if you apply!

New workshop!
Memory Techniques for Students
This workshop is free to all students.
Because class space is limited, we're asking that students RSVP here:
http://wwww.irisreading.com/memory-techniques (http://email.irisreading.com/send/l/oUGZ3GueCOeKpkIuBk4892LA/zB789tOf3lw29FENFY6892NA/Xh6VCwg9qVk8921ML6892jtCLQ)
This workshop will cover the following:

-How To Remember More of What You Read
-How To Memorize Lists of Information
-How To Memorize Equations
-How To Memorize New Vocabulary

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Office of Career and Academic Services Advising located in Saguaro Hall 221

Hours of Operation 8:00am-5:00pm Monday-Friday
Appointment Number: (520) 621-3616

Walk-in Hours for the week of April 13 (for quick questions - 10 minutes or less):

For Academic Advising Questions:
Nancy Rodriguez-Lorta:
No walk-ins this week

Kristen Geary:
Monday: 2 pm to 3 pm
Tuesday and Friday: 10 am to 11 am
Wednesday: 11:00 am to Noon
Thursday: 1 pm to 2 pm

For Career and Internship Questions:
Kyle Sharp:
Thursday: 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm

Dari Trujillo:
Tuesday: 1 pm to 4 pm
Thursday: 9 am to Noon
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