Important update on Banquet tickets! The ticket schedule for the end of the year banquet, Banquet Like A Rockstar, has been changed! Graduating seniors can reserve their seats free of charge starting Monday of week 7 (May 11) in the Honors Office. A seating chart will be available for you to choose your seats! Tickets for all others will be available in the Honors Office for $18 from Monday of week 8 until the CHSC meeting on the Wednesday of week 9 (May 18-27). Be sure to get your ticket early, since they will run out!
Physical Graffiti 2009
UCI Department of Dance presents Physical Graffiti 2009
- Thur.-Sat., May 7-9, 8 pm
- Matinee: Sat., May 9, 2 pm
- Claire Trevor Theatre. $12 general, $11 staff, $9 student
13 original works by UCI undergraduate choreographers, including CHP members Sarah Alaways, Caitlin Sikora, Marissa Osato, and Jenna Otter!!
Tickets by phone: UCIArts Box Office, (949) 824-2787, 12pm – 4 pm (weekdays)
Tickets online: Ticketmaster
Scholarship Opportunities
Spring scholarship workshops
It’s spring quarter, and many of us are planning what we will be doing next fall. Have you considered setting time aside to apply for prestigious scholarships? Stay tuned for updates on a workshop about the Scholarship Opportunities Program and the scholarships, grants, and fellowships that we facilitate for you.
Thanks to everyone who submitted the Big 6 pre-application! We are excited about working with you in the application cycle this year.
Seize the day! Community service scholarship available:
If you have done extensive community service and are a freshman, sophomore, or junior, the Carpe Diem Foundation Scholarship is for you! Winners receive $1,500 to be used towards tuition, room, board, and books. For more information check out our website or visit www.carpediemfoundation.org. The final application is due directly to Carpe Diem by 5/12/2009.
UROP Spring Call for Proposals
Announcing the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Spring Call for Proposals! UCI undergraduates from all disciplines who are conducting research projects or creative
activities under the guidance of UCI faculty are encouraged to apply. Complete proposals must be submitted online at the UROP Web site (www.urop.uci.edu/grants.html), by Monday, May 18, 2009. Click here for more details.
Charles Lave Paper Prize
Named in honor of Charles Lave, (an economics professor who served on the UCI faculty for more than 30 years), the $1,250 prize will be awarded to papers that display clear exposition of creative models (theories) and point to, or include, data that permit evaluation of the models. Any UCI student is eligible for the prize. The paper may be in any social or behavioral science discipline, or interdisciplinary in nature. It may be qualitative (with words only) or quantitative (with mathematical expressions) and may range from a scholarly article (including papers done as class assignments or dissertation chapters) to an op-ed piece. In keeping with Charles Lave’s values, clear and concise writing will be appreciated. The deadline for submission is Friday, May 15, 2009. Papers should be turned in to Teresa Neighbors, Undergraduate Program Coordinator, in SSPA 5135. Click here for the application.