Pre-Doctoral Applications Available

Applications are available online for the 2008/2009 California Pre-Doctoral Program. The Pre-Doctoral Program is designed to increase the pool of potential faculty by supporting the doctoral aspirations of California State University students who have experienced economic and educational disadvantages.

Applicants to the Program must be upper-division or master’s degree students who are enrolled at a CSU institution as of spring 2008 and who will also be enrolled at a CSU campus for at least one semester of the academic year 2008-2009. Applicants will be selected on the basis of three criteria: potential for success in completing a doctoral program, probable effectiveness of the student/faculty plan, and level of economic and educational advantage. All applicants must be either U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Each applicant must have a faculty sponsor who will be available for the duration of the plan specified in the application.

The $3,000 award is disbursed during the 2008 fall semester and 2009 spring semester. The award can be used towards travel reimbursement for the student and faculty sponsor to visit doctoral granting institutions, acquisition of materials such as reference books, software, journal subscriptions and payment of doctoral program application and entrance examination fees.

Additional information and an electronic application are available at the web site. Hard-copy applications and brochures are available at Tehama 209. The CSU, Chico local deadline for submission of applications is Monday, March 17, 2008 at 4pm. Please submit original application plus 3 copies to the School of Graduate, International & Interdisciplinary Studies in Tehama 209.

Archived under Opportunities on January 10, 2008

2008 CSU, Chico Interior Design - Lighting Design Competition - Call for Entries

Call for Entries - Lighting Design Competition

Judged by industry professionals - $5 entry fee per submission - $200 cash prizes - entries due Feb. 29, 2008.

• Create an energy efficient and/or eco-friendly luminaire (floor lamp, wall sconce, pendant light, ceiling fixture, table lamp, or other design only limited by your imagination).
• Submit entry as an illustration or rendering, a model, or as an actual fixture. All entries must include a written description of design choices.
• Visit http://chicostateid.blogspot.com or email chicostateid@gmail.com for more information and to download the entry form.

Archived under Information on January 8, 2008

Humanities Center Book Theme Guest: Thomas Kren, Medieval Manuscripts at the Getty, Jan. 31

Thomas Kren Book Theme Lecture “Treasures of Medieval Manuscript Illumination at the J. Paul Getty Museum”

Thurs., Jan. 31, 2008, 7:30pm, PAC 135 (Reception to follow, Humanities Center Gallery, Trinity 100)*

Thomas Kren has a BA (1972) from Oberlin College and an MA and PhD (1978) from Yale University in the History of Art. He has been curator of the Department of Manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles since the founding of the department in 1984. The Getty has one of the finest holdings of European manuscript illumination in the United States.

Call Troy Jollimore, director of the Humanities Center, for more information: 898-4506.

*The Humanities Center’s theme for this year—“The Book”—is being underwritten by a generous grant from New Urban Builders, which enables the center to bring a wide range of outside speakers to campus as well as to host a number of community events.

Archived under Events on January 8, 2008

University Film Series: Peter Watkins' EDVARD MUNCH, hosted by Laird Easton, History, Jan. 29

University Film Series
Tuesdays at 7:30pm in the Little Theatre (Ayres 106)
$3 donation appreciated
898-4642

Jan. 29
Edvard Munch (1974, Norway) 174-220 min. Directed by Peter Watkins for television. Introduced by Laird Easton, Department of History and Humanities Center Board.

Following a rough chronology from 1884 to 1894, when Norwegian artist Edvard Munch began expressionism and established himself as northern Europe’s most maligned and controversial artist, the film also flashes back to the death from consumption of his mother, when he was five, his sister’s death, and his near death at 13 from pulmonary disease. The film finds enduring significance in Munch’s brief affair with “Mrs. Heiberg” and his participation in the café society of anarchist Hans Jaeger in Christiania and later in Berlin with Strindberg. Through it all comes Munch’s melancholy and his desire to render on canvas, cardboard, paper, stone, and wood his innermost feelings. With Peter Watkins, Eli Ryg, Geir Westby, Gro Fraas, Knut Khristiansen.

Archived under Events on January 8, 2008