Lowell House News Volume 31, Issue 5 8 October 2007 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Newsletter Format Guide: Announcements from Advising Tutors will always follow the Ask Beth column each week. Announcements regarding *Events* and Attractions will always be in the last section. Please remember to scroll down to that last section for event announcements and details if you are looking for them. -------------------------------------------------------------------- CALENDAR Monday, October 8 COLUMBUS DAY- UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY, House Office closed. * Makeup examinations for Spring Term begin * Premedical Advising (drop by or e-mail lohomed@fas.harvard.edu to sign up in advance), 6:00-9:00 pm, Dining Hall Tuesday, October 9: * Physics table, 7:30-8:30 pm, Dining Hall * History of Science and Medicine table, 7:30-9:00pm, Dining Hall * HoCo Meeting, 10:00-11:30, JCR Wednesday, October 10 * Greek Reading Group, 2:30-4:00 pm, SCR * Attention Juniors: Lowell House-Mather House 2008 Summer Internship Panel, 7:00-8:00 pm, Mather House Senior Common Room * Chemistry Tables, 9:00-11:00 pm, Dining Hall * Web Design Class, 9:00-10:30 pm, Coolidge Room Thursday, October 11 In honor of President's Installation: * 4:00 p.m. A Reading by Toni Morrison, Memorial Church (ticket required) * 7:30 p.m. Musical Prelude to an Inauguration, Sanders Theatre (ticket required) See website for complete schedule: http://www.president.harvard.edu/news/inauguration/ * Masters' Tea, 5:00 pm, Masters' Residence Friday, October 12: * Formal Installation ceremonies of Drew Gilpin Faust, 1:45pm seating, Tercentenary Theatre Saturday, October 13: * Lowell Dining Hall closed for Hungama DHARMA event, 9pm - 2am Sunday, October 14 * Biology Table: Drop by for help with OEB Coursework! 9:00-10:00 pm, Dining Hall * Lowell Library Milk & Cookies Lewin Musicale, 10:00-11:00 pm, Library Monday, October 15: FIFTH MONDAY * Applications for degree credit for study out of residence (for spring term) DUE at the IOP, University Hall. * No course may be added or dropped from a student's record after this date. * No course may be changed from letter-grade to pass/fail (or vice versa) after this date. * First HIGH TABLE of the season, 6:00pm Masters' Residence, 6:30pm Dining Hall. * Economics Table with Professor Jeffrey Miron, 12:00-2:00 pm, Small Dining Room * Premedical Advising Office Hours: Drop by or e-mail lohomed@fas.harvard.edu to sign up in advance, 6:00-9:00pm, Dining Hall * HoCo Meeting, 10:00-11:30, JCR Tuesday, October 16: * Physics table, 7:30-8:30 pm, Dining Hall Wednesday, October 17 * Greek Reading Group, 2:30-4:00 pm, SCR * Chemistry Tables, 9:00-11:00 pm, Dining Hall * Web Design Class, 9:00-10:30 pm, Coolidge Room Thursday, October 18: * Masters' Tea, 5:00 pm, Masters' Residence Friday, October 19: *Students departing the College after this date are charged 1/4 tuition and SS fee. --Reminder: Please Register All Guests with the Building Manager for Head of the Charles Weekend-- Saturday, October 20: Head of the Charles Weekend Sunday, October 21 Head of the Charles weekend * Biology Table: Drop by for help with OEB Coursework! 9:00-10:00 pm, Dining Hall * Lowell Library Milk & Cookies and Game Night, 10:00-11:00pm *********************************************************** FROM THE RESIDENT DEAN *Ryan Spoering, Allston Burr Resident Dean Room A-22, 5-2283 (< mailto:lo-abrd@fas.harvard.edu>lo-abrd@fas.harvard.edu) - ADD/DROP DEADLINE. Remember to take a look at your course listing on my.harvard.edu and make sure that you're enrolled correctly. The deadline to add and drop courses is NEXT MONDAY, OCTOBER 15TH. Add/drop forms are available in the hallway outside the House office. Please avoid the rush to obtain signatures and file your forms this week. - SIMULTANEOUS ENROLLMENT. If you are adding classes this week, please make sure that the meeting time does not conflict with any of your other classes. Simultaneous enrollment conflicts may take some time to resolve administratively, and you may be in a difficult situation if you create a schedule conflict this late in the term. - NEW ON-LINE UHS APPOINTMENTS. You can now schedule certain UHS appointments online! To make appointments for 20 minute initial intake conversations or for medication follow-up visits, go to their website at huhs.harvard.edu, and click on "making an appointment" under the "Our Clinicians and Teams" menu. - BUREAU PEER TUTORING. Feeling a little lost in a class? Consider hiring a peer tutor through the Bureau of Study Counsel. Tutors are paid with a subsidy and the cost is very reasonable. Interested in tutoring other students taking a class that you loved? Sign up as a tutor! For more information, see the Bureau website: http://bsc.harvard.edu/tutor.html - OFFICE HOURS THIS WEEK. I will have walk-in office hours this week from 11am-noon on Tue, Wed, and Fri. For other times, please contact Kit in the House Office (5-2283, lowell@fas) to set up an appointment with me. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASK BETH, the HOUSE ADMINISTRATOR *Beth Terry, A-22, 5-2283 (lo-admin@fas.harvard.edu) Dear Beth, I am baffled by the murals in the JCR. What historical event(s) are they depicting? ~Historically Hopeless Dear Hopeless: I can tell you the story (from a reliable Lowell House source): It is a narrative painted on mural wallpaper illustrating important events of the Revolutionary War (yes, ours) by a Frenchman, sometime in the thirties. Now, apparently he was instructed to depict an "Indian" or two in the narrative (because the Native Americans were helpful to the revolutionary war effort). Alas, if you look closely at the murals, you will see he translated this instruction a bit too literally. Also, my observation that Philadelphia, Boston and other colonial cities appear decisively European adds a crowning flourish to this eclectic and peculiar depiction of our nation's birth. ~Beth Note from Beth: We are still looking for that motivated work/study student to be office assistant in the House Office. Eat Milky Ways while copying! Enjoy the sunshine every afternoon while doing deliveries! Meditate through clerical projects! Call the office or come by for more information. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- FROM THE FELLOWSHIPS TUTORS * Josh Goldman (jdgoldm@fas.harvard.edu) * Courtney Peterson (cmpeters@fas.harvard.edu) LOWELL FELLOWSHIPS MAILING LIST Want to know what fellowships are out there? Want to know about them before the deadlines appear in the newsletter? Want more information on the fellowships listed below? Subscribe to the fellowships mailing list to get notices about once every week or two of upcoming deadlines and things to think about (important info for sophomores, juniors, and seniors!). To subscribe, go to http://lists.hcs.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/lowell-fellowships . OFFICE HOURS We hold office hours on Sunday evenings in the dining hall, during which we'd be happy to discuss your plans and look over your application essays. To visit us during office hours, you need to sign up at least one day in advance on the sign-up sheet next to the fellowships bulletin board, right next to the entrance to the JCR. If you have specific questions, please email us at any time. UPCOMING INFOSESSIONS - 09 October: Soros Fellowships - Q&A with Soros program staff, 4:30 PM @ OCS Reading Room - 10 October: Introduction to Fellowships, 4 PM @ OCS Conference Room - 11 October: Truman Scholarships (panel discussion), 4:30 PM @ OCS Conference Room - 17 October: Traveling Fellowships, 3 PM @ OCS Conference Room - 18 October: Fellowships Proposal Writing Workshop, 3 PM @ OCS Conference Room * * * UPCOMING FELLOWSHIPS * * * FOR GRADUATE STUDY ABROAD: - 09 October: Churchill Scholarship. Funds one year of graduate study in science/math/engineering at Cambridge University. Must have a 3.7 or higher. - 15 October: Gates Cambridge Scholarship. Funds 1-4 years of graduate study at Cambridge in any field. Must have strong academic record. Open to citizens of any country except the U.K. - 19 October: DAAD Scholarship. Funds 1 or 2 years of study in Germany. - 26 October: St Andrew's Society Scholarships. Funds one year of graduate study in Scotland. You must have at least one Scottish ancestor. - 05 November: Harlech Scholarship. Funds one year of study at Oxford. - 05 November: Ecole Normale Superieure Fellowship, Tower Fellowship, Williams-Lodge Scholarship to the Sorbonne. Funds one year of study in France. ENS and Williams-Lodge fellowships fund study at ENS and the Sorbonne, respectively; the Tower Fellowship is for any university in France. You can get the common application by emailing cgs@fas. - 12 November: first deadline for other Harvard-specific fellowships to the UK. FOR PURPOSEFUL TRAVEL (seniors only): - 23 October: Michael C. Rockefeller Fellowship. Funds a year of purposeful travel in a foreign country. FOR GRADUATE STUDY AND/OR OTHER POSTGRADUATE ACTIVITIES: - 19 October: Merage institute for the American Dream. $10,000/year for two years for study, travel, internships, etc. Must have a green card or be a naturalized citizen. - 26 October: Luce Scholarship. One-year internship in Asia (no prior experience with Asia required). - 01-09 November (depending on field): NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Funds 3 years of graduate study in any field of science or engineering, including economics, psychology, and history of science. - 01 November: Soros Fellowship. Stipend + tuition grant for graduate study of any kind (including law & medicine). Must be a naturalized citizen, have a green card, or be the children of naturalized citizens. - 02 November: Hertz Fellowship. Funds 5 years of graduate study in the applied physical sciences. - 07 November: Carnegie Fellowship. Provides a one-year fellowship at the Carnegie Institute for International Peace. FOR UNDERGRADUATES: - 10 October: HCRP grants for fall 2007. - 30 October: Goldwater Scholarship. Prize for outstanding sophomores or juniors in science/math/engineering. Also comes with funding toward your remaining undergraduate years. - 01 November: Truman Scholarship. Money for senior year of college and graduate school (and prestige). Open to juniors who plan to go into government or public service (generally construed). FOR MORE INFORMATION: Subscribe to the fellowships mailing list. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- FROM YOUR PRE-MED ADVISING TUTORS * Benjamin Rapoport (chair), Marlys Fassett, Ilya Leskov and Mary Alexander *lohomed@fas.harvard.edu. The Premedical Tutors will be holding weekly office hours in the Dining Hall this year on Monday evenings from 6-9pm. We will post sign-up sheets Monday at breakfast by the checker's desk in the dining hall, and students can also sign up for 15-minute time slots by e-mailing . To be added to the Lowell Premed Mailing List, please send an email to lohomed@fas.harvard with "SUBSCRIBE" in the subject line. In the body of the email, include your name, graduation year, likely concentration, phone number, and email. If you were on the mailing list last year there's no need to re-subscribe. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- FROM YOUR CAREER AND PRE-BUSINESS ADVISING TUTORS * Russell Miles (rmiles@oxfamamerica.org, 3-2990) * Christopher Laconi (claconi@mba2009.hbs.edu) * Matthew Tambiah (tambiah@post.harvard.edu) Wanting to discuss your career path? Have interests in business? Make an appointment with your resident Career and Pre-Business Advising Tutor, Russell Miles, by email, phone or drop by J-11 (Weekdays 6.00pm-10.00pm; Weekends 10.00am- 10.00pm.) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- FROM YOUR RESIDENT INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ADVISER * Russell Miles (rmiles@oxfamamerica.org, 3-2990) Interested in international relations, international aid and development? Want to discuss international issues raised in class? Need help thinking about research paper topics? Want to meet and talk with people working in the development or humanitarian sector? Interested in an international career - public service, government or private sector, or simply wanting to travel to other regions of the world? Come and talk with me about all these questions. I am creating an e-mail list in order to send out messages about key dates and events. Please contact me if you are interested to have your name on this mailing list or wish to make an appointment to talk one evening - rmiles@oxfamamerica.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------- FROM YOUR MUSIC TUTOR * Gina Rivera (grivera@fas.harvard.edu) The first Lewin Musicale of the year is fast approaching on Sunday, October 14 at 10:00 p.m. in the House Library. Interested in playing? The whole hour is open. Contact Music Tutor Gina Rivera (grivera@fas) to sign up. Anyone with a Harvard affiliation may play at Musicales, so if you know of musicians from across campus who would like to be a part of this series, sign them up too. ---------------------------------------------------------------- ANNOUNCEMENTS AND EVENTS GREEK READING GROUP Classics majors and all who take pleasure, or struggle, in reading ancient Greek are cordially invited to translate and discuss interesting texts every Wednesday, 2:30-4:00 pm, in the SCR, starting this week (Wednesday, October 10) with Plato, /Charmides/ 158c5-164c6. Contact: John Kirsch (kirschj@post.harvard.edu) WORKOUT TO FIGHT BREAST CANCER Hemenway Gym is holding a special pilates workout session to help raise money for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. The class will be on Thursday 25 October, at 5pm, on the Hemenway Gym Floor. Sign-up starts at 4pm, and the class will be limited to the first 70 participants. A donation (payable in cash) of $10 or more is suggested. Come along and give back while working on those abs of steel! HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE TABLE History and Science is one of the smaller concentrations at Harvard, and is consistently rated well by students. The concentration requirements include general history, history of science or history of medicine courses, and science courses. Pre-med students in particular might also be interested in the history of medicine courses as electives. Come along to the advising table in the Dining Hall on Tuesday, 9 October, from 7:30 to 9:00pm, to find more about the concentration and the courses for some exciting elective options. Contact: ldawes@fas.harvard.edu EARLY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHS AT THE PEABODY MUSEUM The Peabody Museum is opening its new exhibition, ÔÒA Good TypeÓ: Tourism and Science in Early Japanese PhotographsÕ on 25 October, from 5:00-7:00pm, with the CuratorÕs Gallery Talk at 5:45pm. The exhibition displays forty-six compelling images of Japanese photographic prints, many hand-colored, that were produced for the tourist trade in the late nineteenth century. The exhibition examines the transformation of these photographs from tourist collectibles to scientific images through the context of their collection and use as objects in an anthropology museum. The exhibition runs through until April 2008.