Information Meeting on Rhodes, Marshall, and other UK Postgraduate Fellowships

The Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships are among the nation's best known and most prestigious awards for U.S. undergraduate students; less known, but equally selective, are the Gates-Cambridge Scholarship, supporting graduate study at Cambridge University, and the Mitchell Scholarship, which supports study in Ireland.

An information meeting about the 2015-16 Rhodes, Marshall, Gates-Cambridge and Mitchell Scholarships will be held on Friday, March 6 from 4:10 to 5:00 p.m. in 1151 Jischke Honors Building.

Seniors graduating in the 2015-16 academic year and recent alumni are eligible to apply; candidates must be US Citizens. Students interested in these programs but not yet eligible to apply are encouraged to attend the meeting to learn about the fellowships and about what criteria constitutes a strong candidacy.

Unable to attend the meeting? Review the information at  http://www.honors.iastate.edu/scholarships/scholarships.php and then contact Dana Schumacher at dschumac@iastate.edu.

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Undergraduate Research Assistantship Program

Applications are available for the 2015-16 Undergraduate Research Assistantship (URA) Program, which encourages outstanding juniors and seniors to pursue graduate study by offering them hands-on experience in a formal research environment. Participation in the URA Program assists students in making career decisions and in attaining information about graduate education and fellowships.

To qualify for the URA Program, students must:
- Be classified as juniors or seniors by the beginning of the term employed as a URA
- File the 2015-16 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and be eligible for work study funding (be a U.S. citizen or eligible non-citizen)
- Maintain an ISU cumulative GPA of at least 3.25
- Complete URA application (deadline of March 31)

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"Hunter Games" Honors Seminar performance on Tuesday

The "Hunter Games" Honors seminar, which includes music from found objects and found images, will be doing their final presentation next Tuesday, March 3 at 5:15pm in the Music Hall Lobby. Stop in to see/hear what these Honors students have created!

Seminar description:
Since just about any material object can be used to create music, just about any natural or manufactured object can become an experimental musical instrument. Similarly, since just about any group of graphical figures can be used to express aesthetic concepts and guide actions in a performance, just about any found or uniquely drawn images can be used as musical notation. This seminar will examine the underlying design concepts of both musical instruments and musical notation, considering in turn how any object and image can create musical sounds and motivate musical ideas. You will also design and participate in a game, a kind of scavenger hunt for objects and images that can become musical. You will develop the rules for this game in response to assigned readings in simple acoustics, history and ethnographies of instruments and notations, and of course from your imagination and participation in collaborative brainstorming. You’ll keep a formal journal, build instruments, design notations, and give demonstrations in a festive event to be part of the Lipa Festival of Contemporary Music, March 3.

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English Department Scholarships for Excellence in Creative Writing

For more information, including on writing scholarships open to ALL students regardless of major, click here: http://www.engl.iastate.edu/undergraduate-students/awards-scholarships/

Pearl Hogrefe Freshman Scholarship in Creative Writing
Application Deadline: July 31, 2015
 
The English Department’s Pearl Hogrefe Creative Writing Fund awards the Freshman Scholarship in Creative Writing in the amount of $1,000 toward tuition for up to two Iowa State University students with freshman status (0-31 credits) whose work exemplifies promise or talent in one of the genres of creative writing. 
 
For consideration, students must submit up to ten pages of creative writing (e.g., poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction essays, or excerpts of plays, screenplays, or novels).  Mixed genre submissions are acceptable.  The award is made solely on the basis of the excellence of the work submitted. A letter of recommendation (for example from a former teacher) that attests to the student’s promise and talent in creative writing and a high school GPA of 3.0 or more are required. 
 
Submissions (10-page writing sample, letter of recommendation, proof of high school GPA) should be typed, double-spaced, scanned as one set of documents (Word or PDF) and emailed to Christiana Langenberg, Undergraduate Creative Writing Awards Coordinator:  clang@iastate.edu  Submissions must be postmarked by July 31 to be considered. Because this scholarship is also open to incoming freshmen, all students will be notified by the first week of classes in August.
 
Pearl Hogrefe Sophomore Scholarship in Creative Writing
Application Deadline: March 6, 2015
 
Up to 2 awarded of $1,000 each
The English Department’s Pearl Hogrefe Creative Writing Fund awards the Sophomore Scholarship in the amount of $1,000 toward tuition to up to two promising sophomores (between 32-59 overall credits applied to degree program) who exhibit original and imaginative use of form and language; show evidence of having promise in creative writing; GPA in the major of at least 3.0. Submission should include one or two short stories, or a collection of poems, screenplay or play excerpt, or nonfiction essay  - any/all totaling not more than 5000 words. Candidates will also include the name of one Creative Writing faculty member who has agreed to serve as a reference.  Materials will be submitted/attached to this cover sheet as a portfolio during the English Department spring awards and scholarship submission process. Name must be left OFF of portfolio itself.
 
Pearl Hogrefe Junior Scholarship in Creative Writing
Application Deadline: March 6, 2015
 
Up to 2 awarded of $1,500 each
The English Department’s Pearl Hogrefe Creative Writing Fund awards the Junior Scholarship in the amount of $1,500 toward tuition to up to two juniors (60-89 credits applied to degree program) who have taken at least one, preferably two creative writing classes and combine unique ideas and fresh choices in language with bold reaches into original and imaginative use of form and language; show evidence of having produced a significant body of creative writing; GPA in the major of at least 3.0. Submission should include one or two short stories, a collection of poems, screenplay or play excerpt, or nonfiction essay  - any/all totaling not more than 6000 words. Candidates will also include the name of one Creative Writing faculty member who has agreed to serve as a reference. Materials will be submitted as a portfolio during the English Department spring awards and scholarship submission process. Name must be left OFF of portfolio itself.
 
Pearl Hogrefe Senior Scholarship in Creative Writing
Application Deadline: March 6, 2015
 
Up to 2 awarded of $2,000 each
The English Department’s Pearl Hogrefe Creative Writing Fund awards the Senior Scholarship in Creative Writing to up to two seniors (90+ credits applied to degree program) with outstanding originality and potential whose work exhibits an unusual perspective and unique voice not necessarily measured by conventional standards. GPA in the major of at least 3.0. Submission should include any of the following: short stories, a collection of poems, screenplay or play excerpt, or nonfiction essay  - any/all totaling not more than 7000 words. Candidates will also include the name of one Creative Writing faculty member who has agreed to serve as a reference. Materials will be submitted as a portfolio during the English Department spring awards and scholarship submission process. Name must be left OFF of portfolio itself.