The Grad Digest: July 10, 2019

Owl night long.
Updates and opportunities from the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.

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Open Enrollment Began July 9
All students that have NOT enrolled in coverage, or submitted a waiver by August 30th (Fall) or January 17th (Spring) will be automatically enrolled in coverage and charged the full premium. More.

🔜 O-Week Volunteers Needed!
Remember those nice people that helped you out during O-week? You could be one of them now! The Graduate Student Association needs help with Orientation for the new first-year grad students! Please email GSA student engagement to volunteer!

We need your opinions on LibGuides!
Fondren Library needs grad students that can take a look at LibGuides pages, and offer feedback on how to restructure them to help more grad students! This will help organize the most relevant and get rid of the clutter. For more on how to help please contact susan.garrison@rice.edu. Thanks for your feedback!

Applying for the NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA (F31) or (F32) this year?
Please fill out the survey here, and Dr. Kim Gonzalez will email you to set you up with a coach!

July 19: Schmidt Fellowship Nominations
$100,000 fellowship for natural sciences, computing, engineering or mathematics students who have received or will receive their Ph.D. between May 1, 2019, and June 30, 2020, and who wish to do a postdoc in a different field. The nominations for this fellowship must be submitted by the university from the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS); fill out the preliminary application here. More.

July 23: Hedgebrook Writers in Residence
Hedgebrook’s mission is to support visionary women writers whose stories and ideas shape our culture now and for generations to come. The Writers in Residence (WIR) program is Hedgebrook’s core program that for more than 30 years has supported fully-funded residencies for writers representing diversity.  More.

Aug 1: National Churchill Library and Center Graduate Research Fellowships
$7,500 grants will enable recipients to travel to special collections and archives around the globe in support of their research. For those researchers wishing to work in DC, study space is available at the NCLC. Preference will be given to projects that emphasize the relevance of Churchill’s leadership to current affairs. A review committee will award grants based on the merits and significance of the project and its relevance to the mission of the NCLC. More.

Aug 2: William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fellowship
The fellowship, which is based on academic excellence and need, is open to both undergraduate and graduate students of color. The Hearst Fellow serves as an intern with Philanthropy and Social Innovation (PSI) in the Washington, DC office of the Aspen Institute. Through this fellowship, PSI seeks to introduce a diverse group of students to issues and challenges affecting philanthropy, social enterprise, nonprofit organizations, and other actors in the social sector.  More.

Aug 12: Simons Society of Fellows
$83,585 stipend up to three years
Founded in 2014, the Simons Society of Fellows is a community of scholars that encourages intellectual interactions across disciplines and across research centers in the New York City area. STEM senior grad students considering doing a postdoc in New York City, if you're interested and eligible please fill out this nomination application form. Only one Rice student can be nominated for this fellowship by GPS.

2019 Rice Data Science Conference
Abstracts due by August 3
The Ken Kennedy Institute at Rice University invites prospective speakers to submit extended abstracts and presentation proposals that highlight technology, use-cases, and solutions that support data-driven discovery and decision making. More information.

K2I Data Science Boot Camp
August 12-16
Want to learn more about Data Science? Want to get the skills needed to jump-start a career in Data Science? This summer, start leveraging the latest data analytics tools & get skilled in the area of Data Science in just one week! More information.

5th Annual Smalley-Curl Institute Summer Research Colloquium
August 9, all day, Duncan Hall
Featuring presentations by Rice students and postdocs on their latest discoveries.  Subjects include advances in photonics and optics, condensed matter physics, nanoscience, nanoengineering, nano- and quantum materials, bioengineering, solar energy, ultracold atoms, plasmonics, and more. Free, registration required. Prizes to top presenters! More information.

RocDocs
August 5, 2019
This Post-Doctoral Career Advancement Program at the University of Rochester is a two-day program that serves as a career advancement opportunity for graduate students nearing the completion of their studies and early career postdoctoral scholars—particularly scholars from underrepresented groups in STEM. More.

The Data Incubator
July 15, 2019
The Data Incubator is an intensive 8 week fellowship that prepares masters students, PhDs, and postdocs in STEM and social science fields seeking industry careers as data scientists. The program is free for Fellows and supported by sponsorships from hundreds of employers across multiple industries. In response to the overwhelming interest in our earlier sessions, we will be holding another fellowship. More.

Fall Student Activities Fair Club Registration
Registration deadline: August 22
The Fall Student Activities Fair will be on August 29th from 12-3 PM in the RMC & Central Quad. Register your club by August 22 and join over 200 student clubs and campus departments with information and giveaways will be present.

FREECycle
August 26, 2019
Rice’s popular FREE-cycling swap of unused and unneeded office supplies is set for Aug. 26 in the Grand Hall, Rice Memorial Center. “Shopping” hours for students are from noon to 1 p.m.

Yoga in the Gallery with The Atrium Yoga Studio
July 16, noon, Moody Center
Join yoga instructors Madonna McManus and Jen Yuhas of Atrium Yoga Studio as they lead a class in the Central Gallery. Please bring your own yoga mat. More.

Two from Halas lab named Beckman Scholars - a Rice first
They collaborated in the same laboratory, shared an office for years and competed for the same honor. Now, Hossein Robatjazi and Dayne Swearer, who worked together as members of Naomi Halas’ research group, have each won 2019 Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowships in Chemical Sciences. They are the first Rice graduate students to win the prestigious fellowships while pursuing their Ph.D.s. Read more.

Construction near West Lot 4
On Monday July 1st through August 31st, a portion of West Lot 4, and the nearby road will be fenced off so construction can begin for Phase 1 of the new Loop Road Project. Questions: jwbuch@rice.edu.