Please note that this opportunity does not come with any endorsement from the School of Natural Sciences at St. Edward’s University.  Feel free to contact nscidean with questions.

From the AESS Listserve:

Announcing two extraordinary summer field courses in Wyoming taught by faculty from the University of Pittsburgh, the  University of Wyoming, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and The  National Aviary.  The courses are open to all majors and have no prerequisites.  One course is headquartered adjacent to Yellowstone National Park and provides one month of studies (four credits) of geology, ecology, and environmental politics of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem on spectacular daily hikes in the park and Beartooth Mountains:  http://www.honorscollege.pitt.edu/yellowstone-field-study/more-information   The other course is situated in the Laramie Basin on the Allen L. Cook Spring Creek Preserve, a tract of land that is rich in dinosaur fossils, intact prairie ecology, Native American artifacts spanning 9,000 years, and American history including a section of the original grade of the 1869 Transcontinental Railroad.  Its six weeks of studies (six credits) focus on geology, paleontology, and ecology, with small sections in archaeology and Western history:  http://www.honorscollege.pitt.edu/wyoming-field-studies A cost of approximately $4,500 for each course covers all expenses including tuition, food, lodging, transportation, camping, hiking, and multiple faculty experts. Admission is on a rolling basis, and time is short.  All interested students should please contact me.

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Edward L. McCord, Ph.D., J.D.
Director of Special Programs and Senior Lecturer
University Honors College
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
412-624-6886 (office)

This summer REU Program on Big Data Analytics at our 3+2 partner institution, Washington University in St. Louis, includes 14 different projects.

Application deadline is Feb. 12!

Interested in teaching math and/or science?

Check out the Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship program, an accelerated graduate school program that moves you from your disciplinary background into teaching positions in middle or high school math or science.  Applications are being accepted through 24 February.

A webinar with more info is scheduled for 11 Feb. @ 5 pm CST.  Contact Jessica Santos for more information.

Application Deadline: March 1, 2016
American Councils for International Education has announced a summer study abroad program that examines Central Asia’s energy industry, the politics of oil and gas, and the potential environmental impact of the industry’s rapid growth. Based in Almaty, Kazakhstan, the four-week program also offers Russian and Kazakh language lessons and concludes with a series of meetings and seminars with industry experts. Participants can earn U.S. undergraduate academic credits from Bryn Mawr College. All applicants are eligible to receive an Air Astana travel scholarship.
http://acstudyabroad.org/ecap/

Applications are being accepted for a NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program based at Colby College and South Gondar, Ethiopia. This REU will provide eight American undergraduate students from diverse academic backgrounds an opportunity to conduct path-breaking interdisciplinary research on the ecological, economic and cultural roles of church forests. Church forests are patches of Afromontane forest surrounding Ethiopian Orthodox churches. Preserved for centuries by church leaders and communities as religious sanctuaries, church forests are, in many parts of Ethiopia, the only indigenous forests left.

Under the eight-week summer REU program students will receive training at Colby College in social survey research, ecological field methods, spatial analysis using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and written and oral communication. They will then travel to South Gondar, Ethiopia to conduct hands-on fieldwork with mentors from Colby College, the California Academy of Sciences, and local academic and government institutions.

Completed applications including 2 letters of recommendation are due by February 15th. The 2016 Summer REU Site program will run from July 6th– August 24th (approximate). All participants must be enrolled at a U.S. college or university at the time of the program (seniors graduating in Spring 2016 are not eligible).

Details about the project and application instructions can be found at: http://www.colby.edu/reu-in-ethiopia/