AMSTEMM Weekly E-Newsletter Volume 5, No.

16 - April 28, 2010

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please e-mail: AMSTEMM@uky.edu.

In this Issue
Page 1
Note from the Coordinator/Advisor Page 2
Academic Resources Research Opportunities & Fellowships
UK Career Center Spring 2010 Programs Important Events & Opportunities
Scholarship Opportunities

Message from Sue Scheff, Academic Advisor for AMSTEMM: Good Luck with
finals! Have a wonderful summer break and we will see you next Fall 2010.

Congratulations to the AMSTEMM students that gave oral presentations at the 4 th Annual Student Research Symposium “Preparing the Next
Generation for Careers and Opportunities in STEM” held at the Hilton Lexington on April 16 & 17: Loretta Kwan, Mechanical Engineering, Con-
solee Karangwa, Biology, Alysha Lewis, Agricultural Biotechnology, Brittany Obi, Agricultural Biotechnology and Ralph Saint Pierre, Mechanical
Engineering. This conference was sponsored by the Kentucky – West Virginia Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP).

Academic Resources - new events in red

FREE Tutoring in Ingles Hall 6:00 - 8:00p.m. every Monday. Advanced math courses, physics, and engineering courses included.
Visit Academic Enhancement's "The Study"! Offering a variety of tutoring for different subjects, academic consultations from AE's staff, exam reviews and
more. All for FREE. The schedule as well as a full list of services offered can be found at: http://www.uky.edu/UGS/study/.
SAACS (Chemistry Student Organization) Officers and Members can tutor or mentor students free of charge. Simply stop by CP-144 if interested.
Find the Physics Resource/Tutoring Room Hours at: http://ukamstemm.blogspot.com/2010/02/physics-resource-room-hours-for-spring.html
The General Chemistry Learning Center is open Monday-Thursday, 9-5 and Friday 9-12 and is located in CP-25. Help is available from gen chem TAs for all
100-level chemistry classes. Students can see who is there when the schedule is posted on Blackboard. The Department of Chemistry also maintains a
tutor for hire list which is available in CP-120.
SSS Study Skills Classes (Provided every week in the SSS conference room): TAC - Tuesdays at 1:30-2:30 & Thursdays at 12:00-1:00; SOS - Mondays at 3:00-
4:00; ME INC - Fridays at 12:00-1:00. RSVP by email valerie.rister@uky.edu or call 257-9797
UK Writing Center: Located on the 5th floor, west stacks of Young Library. Open M-Th 10-2; F 12-2, and Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 6-
9pm. Offers individual consultations on any writing project at any stage in the process and are happy to meet regularly, even every day, if needed! It is a
free service offered to all students, faculty and staff.
Mathskeller: The center is a computing and mathematics learning center of the Mathematics Department and the Mathematical Sciences Computing
Facility at the University of Kentucky. The center is located in CB 63, which is close to the loading dock in the basement of White Hall Classroom Building.
The Math Resource Center is open from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Monday through Friday. Faculty, Graduate Students, and Undergraduate Assistants for 100
level courses hold office hours in the Mathskeller. http://www.mathskeller.com/
Campus Libraries: The library system maintains a humanities, social sciences and life sciences collection in William T. Young Library as well as subject librar-
ies in several colleges and departments around campus, each library holding materials related to the particular discipline it serves. There are 16 libraries,
find them at: http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/branches.php

UK Career Center Spring 2010 Programs

Career Exploration Sessions - Held at the Career Center, RSVP Required: 257-2746 - Apr. 29 - 11:00am-12:00pm
Thursday Practice Interviews: Schedule a 1 hour practice interview with an employer through Wildcat CareerLink. Most Thursdays, 9am-12pm.
Watch for future events to be announced here or check out the calendar for the full semester at www.uky.edu/careercenter

Scholarship Opportunities - new opportunities in red

UK Noyce Fellows (for seniors in science education and math education majors. May 1 deadline http://www.uky.edu/Education/EDC/Math/NOYCE/
application.html
The Fulbright Scholarship can be used to do independent research or a 1-year graduate program, or to teach English in one of many countries around the
world. Students may apply as early as the fall of their senior year (with the scholarship period beginning the following fall). Students and recent alumni are
eligible to apply for a Fulbright Scholarship until they receive a PhD. The Fulbright Scholarship is the nation's largest internatinal exchange program; it facili-
tates cultural exchange and promotes mutual understanding among Americans and citizens of grantees' host coun-
tries. See http://us.fulbrightonline.org/home.html for more information about the many exciting opportunities Fulbright offers! The campus deadline for
Fulbright Scholarship applications is 9/15/10. For more information contact Dr. Lisa E. Broome-Price, Associate Director, Gaines Center for the Humanities,
lbroome@hotmail.com
 Research Opportunities & Fellowships - new opportunities in red
AMSTEMM Summer Research Fellowship application deadline is May 12, 2010: http://www.scribd.com/full/29229618?access_key=key-
269xtfjjhx9mo80zlcxa
National Science Foundation (NSF) funds a large number of research opportunities for undergraduate students through its REU Sites program. For more
information: http://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/index.jsp.
Check out this great website for Co-op/Internship Opportunities for 2010 in Biomedical Research and for Pre-Medical Studies Students -
http://people.rit.edu/gtfsbi/Symp/premed.htm
For summer laboratory opportunities, check out: https://science.education.nih.gov/SummerScience.nsf/Index.htm
Summer Research Opportunities at Virginia Tech:
REU Site: Modeling and Simulation in Systems Biology (MSSB) http://biomath.vbi.vt.edu/; Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Summer Institute
(BBSI) http://www.bbsi.sbes.vt.edu/; REU Site: Microbiology in the Post Genome Era http://microbiologyreu-ret.vbi.vt.edu/;
Multicultural Academic Opportunities Program (MAOP) http://www.maop.vt.edu/
Opportunities at Virginia Tech For Prospective Graduate Students: For the graduate program, degrees are granted through Virginia Tech. For a specific
specialization please see the Genetics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology graduate program
(https://www.vbi.vt.edu/education_and_outreach/educational_programs/graduate) or the Virginia Tech Departments of Mathematics, Computer Science,
Physics or Biological Sciences.
Assistantship opportunity:"Transdisciplinary Team Science in the Life Sciences" https://www.vbi.vt.edu/tts
Fellowship opportunity: VT-Initiative to Maximize Student Diversity (VT-IMSD) http://www.imsd.apsc.vt.edu/

Important Events & Opportunities - new events in red

Summer of Science! Want to learn more about your own body? Why not try “Bio 110, Human Biology and Health” this summer? Fulfilling a
USP, this Blackboard offering will have multiple choice exams online for summer 2010. Earn three semester credits while working full time and studying
at your leisure during off hours. Textbook and Study Guide are the required books. Contact John P. Seabolt, course instructor, at john.seabolt@uky.edu
for additional information
The Office of Undergraduate Studies in Miller Hall will conduct Applicant Information Sessions for Pre-Medicine, Pre-Dentistry, Pre-Podiatry, and Pre-
Optometry students who plan on starting a professional program in 2011 In addition to receiving general applicant information, students can open a file
Undergraduate Studies’ Letter of Recommendation Service. Students wishing to utilize this service are required to attend one of the information ses-
sions. Information sessions will be offered in March, April, May, September, and October. If you opened a file for a previous application cycle you will
need to (re)open your file and attend another information session. Upcoming Information Sessions will be held in the conference room in Miller Hall, and
all students who attend must swipe in at the Kiosks in Miller. Currently scheduled Info sessions will be held on the following dates and times: April 28th @
12:00 noon
Showcase of Undergraduate Scholars - As a culminating event each academic year, the Office of eUreKa! (Experiences in Undergraduate Research and
Kreative Activities) and SPUR (the Society for the Promotion of Undergraduate Research) co-present The UK Showcase of Undergraduate Scholars each
spring. The date for this year’s event is Wednesday, April 28, 2010, from 4-7 pm in the Student Center Ballrooms.
Student Employee Job Opening for Summer 2010 – Spring 2011, Office for Commercialization and Economic Development Von Allmen Center for Entre-
preneurship. A student employee is expected to work 10-15 hours per week during the weeks when UK classes are in session. Wages are $10.00/hour. For
more information, see www.EconDev.uky.edu.
EXAMKRACKERS is excited to announce….Starting May 29th – We are now offering our live MCAT 9 Week Course in Lexington! Enroll before May 5th
save $150 !! http://www.examkrackers.com/course-schedule.php?id=978 Classes start May 29th (Tuesday & Thursday Evenings 6-10) complete schedule
available at www.examkrackers.com To prepare you for the Aug/Sept/Oct MCAT : This course is our Comprehensive MCAT Review, runs for 9 weeks, and
covers absolutely everything on the MCAT. Contact Janis Stott for more information – janis@examkrackers.com – 1-386-585-7280
The Georgetown Summer Medical Institute (GSMI), a program of the Georgetown School of Medicine, will be offering medical school courses, seminars
and workshops for premedical (rising juniors and seniors), post-bacc, graduate and medical students this summer. For undergraduate and post-bacc pre-
medical students, this is a unique opportunity to experience the medical school environment, get to know medical school faculty, and get an in depth edu-
cation in an actual medical school course. http://gsmi.georgetown.edu. Register by June 4, 2010.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is currently hiring talented engineers, scientist and administrative professionals for full-time positions at our locations
in Greenbelt, Maryland and Wallops Island, Virginia. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is the home to the nation’s largest organization of combined scien-
tists, engineers and technologists who build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the Sun, our Solar System, and the Universe.
From high school interns to accomplished Nobel Prize winners, each member of the Goddard team plays a vital role in mission success. Don’t miss out on
this unique opportunity to become part of our family :) ! To learn more about NASA Goddard, please visit our website at http://www.nasa.gov/goddard.
To apply or learn more about our currently open vacancies, please visit the USAJOBS website at http://www.usajobs.gov. Using the search engine, type in
“Goddard Space Flight Center” for the complete list of our open vacancies. NOTE: Please read carefully the “Qualifications and Evaluation” section of each
job post to determine eligibility. NOTE: All positions require US Citizenship and the listings close on April 30, 2010. Please let us know about you by
emailing us at hace.gsfc@gmail.com. Attach your resume and let us know about your areas of interest within NASA Goddard and include USAJOBS vacancy
#’s you applied to.

AMSTEMM, 113 Bowman Hall, Phone: 859-257-2613, Fax: 859-257-8734, E-mail: AMSTEMM@uky.edu