International study, Scholarships/Fellowships

Boren Scholarship Session

The University of Illinois National and International Scholarships Program will be hosting an information session on National Security Education Program (NSEP) Boren undergraduate study abroad scholarships on Thursday, November 1 at 3:00 in room 514 at 807 S. Wright Street. We will provide participants with information about the program and tips on filling out competitive applications. The campus application deadline is January 16 for any study between May 2013 and May 2014 (all students are eligible for semester or year-long programs while some students may be eligible for summer intensive language programs as well). Students are encouraged to begin writing application drafts this fall.
The Boren provides study abroad scholarships of $6,000-$20,000 for a full academic year or $4,000-$10,000 for a semester for U.S. citizens to study in Asia, Africa, Central & Eastern Europe, Latin America, or the Middle East on almost any study abroad program. These are merit-based scholarships (approximately 1 in 5 eligible applicants receive awards including multiple University of Illinois students every year). In order to receive the scholarship, award winners must enter into a service agreement requiring that they attempt to work in a paid position for the federal government in an area related to national security—generally the Departments of State, Defense, Homeland Security, or the Intelligence Community within three years of graduation (deferrals possible/encouraged for graduate study). Winners also receive priority-hiring status. Further information is available at http://www.topscholars.illinois.edu/prestigious/nsep.html

Please direct questions to David Schug by email at topscholars@illinois.edu or at the fifth floor, Illini Union Bookstore Building, 807 South Wright Street.
David Schug, Director
National and International Scholarships Program  |  University of Illinois
Illini Union Bookstore, 5th Floor, MC-317  |  807 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820
ph: (217) 333-4710  |  fax: (217) 244-4851  |  topscholars@illinois.edu
International study, Other departments

IBIP 2013 (ACE/BADM 436): Brazil – APPLICATIONS DUE IN ONE WEEK

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS IMMERSION PROGRAM BRAZIL
 
ACE/BADM 436 APPLICATIONS NOW AVAILABLE!
 
 
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Application located here: www.ibip.illinois.edu Click “Apply Online”
 
DEADLINE TO APPLY: NOVEMBER 2, 2012
 
Don’t miss this opportunity to study international agribusiness supply chains by experiencing them first-hand in Brazil!  This program is open to ALL majors!
 
The program has three components: a course in the spring semester of 2013, a two-week study tour to Brazil from May 11-25, 2013 and a final presentation in the fall of 2013.
 
The 2013 IBIP program will be headed to Brazil, May 11-25, 2013. Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors graduating in December 2013 are encouraged to apply. May 2013 graduating Seniors will not be considered.
 
The program is housed in the College of Agriculture, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, and is cross-listed in the College of Business (ACE/BADM 436) and works closely with many of the Title VI Cultural Centers as well as CIBER, Center for International Business Education and Research.
 
The program requires a $1,900 course fee, to be paid in three installments. Students are also responsible for airfare. Students are encouraged to apply for internal IBIP scholarship support after having been admitted to the program. In addition, students should apply for the study abroad funds that the colleges offer.
 
During the spring semester, the course will focus on international business in Brazil. Students will become experts in one particular industry from a comparative perspective, working in teams. During the study tour, we will visit multinational companies, regulators, farmers, and local companies.  The course ends with a 6-week project in the fall of 2013 wherein which students will work in teams to produce a research movie using iMovie technology.  This fall semester short course is taught by a CITES eLearning professional.
 
For more information contact Jessa Barnard at jbecker2@illinois.edu or Lynnea Johnson at lsjohnso@illinois.edu and check  out former student experiences at www.ibip.illinois.edu.
Activities, Seminars

Undergraduate Research Opportunity: SPIN October 24th

NCSA, eDream, and the Illinois Informatics Institute (I3) are looking for Illinois undergraduate students who have big ideas and the creativity, skill, and drive needed to bring them to life. We’re offering up to 15 paid innovation fellowships—selected students will work with NCSA, eDream, and I3 mentors during the Spring 2013 semester.

You and your students are welcome to join us at the NCSA Building (1205 W. Clark St., Urbana) from 4 to 6 pm Oct. 24 for NCSA SPIN(Students Pushing Innovation). Meet NCSA, eDream, and I3 staff and learn more about their research and areas of expertise. Free snacks will be provided courtesy of eDream.

For more information, visit: http://spin.ncsa.illinois.edu

Activities, Seminars

Translation Study Abroad Program

Dear students,

The Center for Translation Studies is pleased to announce that the Translation Study Abroad program (TRST 401-3 undergraduate credits; 4 graduate credits) will take place during Summer 1 2013 (May 13-27, 2013).  Titled “Translation in the European Union” the program will travel to Paris, Strasbourg and Brussels for behind-the-scenes introductions to the work of translation and interpreting in key EU institutions, including the EU Commission, the EU Parliament, the Directorate General of Translation, NATO and UNESCO.  Our students will be exposed to the dynamics of the geo-political environment of the European Union and will receive hands-on experiences with the translator and interpreter’s role as mediator and communicator in today’s European multi-lingual and multi-cultural societies.  The course will be of particular interest to students in foreign languages, cultures, linguistics, political science, global studies,  international studies, EU Studies, law, and business. The course is open to undergraduate and graduate students in any major.  The experience can lead to internships in the EU. A little known fact is that the EU is in desperate need of qualified translators who can work INTO English from EU languages.

Estimated program cost is $2500, exclusive of air fare and personal expenses. Financial aid is available.  Apply through the Study Abroad office for LAS Study Abroad Scholarships.  The Center for Translation Studies will offer a limited number of travel grants. For information on those grants, please contact Prof. Elizabeth Lowe (elowe@illinois.edu).

The application deadline is March 1, 2013.

Translation Study Abroad 2013

Seminars

GSLIS Lightning Talks – learn more about LIS

This is a great opportunity for undergrads to learn about the diverse, broad and exciting field of Library and Information Science from the #1 LIS program in the country.

What do the Fab Lab, an online collection of Japanese woodblock prints, and CU Wiki.net have in common? Your students can learn about these projects and other topics of interest to library and information science this Friday, October 19 at GSLIS in a Flash! Come join us as current GSLIS students present a series of Pecha Kucha style talks starting at 5:30 in LIS 126. For a full list of students presenting and an abstract of their talks, visit: http://www.lis.illinois.edu/events/2012/10/19/gslis-flash.

Department of Statistics, Seminars

Department of Statistics Weekly Seminar

Wei Sun (University of North Carolina): Statistical methods for RNA-seq data
Date            Oct 18, 2012
Time            4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Location     156 Henry
Sponsor      Statistics Department
Event type   Seminar
 
RNA-seq is replacing gene expression microarrays as the most commonly used technique to assess genome-wide transcription abundance. RNA-seq delivers two novel features. First, it provides information on allele-specific expression (ASE), which is not available from gene expression microarrays. Second, it generates unprecedentedly rich data to study RNA-isoform expression. I will present statistical methods for joint study of allele-specific expression and total expression of a gene, transcriptome reconstruction, isoform abundance estimation, and Differential isOform usage Testing (DOT).
Seminars

Study Abroad Info Session-Costa Rica

Dear Students,

Please drop by our Costa Rica Info Session with on-site Resident Director Henry Soto, who is visiting our campus! Learn about coursework, hear from returnees, and of course ask questions! For more information about this wonderful program, visit its online brochure page. 


Sincerely,

 
 
The Study Abroad Office
Student International Academic Affairs
910 S. Fifth St., 112 ISB, MC-480
Champaign, IL  61820
Phone: (217) 333-6322
www.studyabroad.illinois.edu
Department of Statistics, Seminars

Department of Statistics weekly seminar

Yuan Ji, Ph.D. (NorthShore University HealthSystem): Bayesian Models for Next-Generation Sequencing Data on Histone Modifications
Speaker         Yuan Ji, Ph.D. (NorthShore University HealthSystem )
Date                Oct 11, 2012
Time               4:00 pm – 4:50 pm
Location         156 Henry
Sponsor         Statistics Department
Event type     Seminar
 
In this talk, I will describe how Bayesian models are successfully applied to the field of epigenetics, which is concerned about regulatory mechanism of gene expression. Epigenetics, one of the most heavily researched and challenging field in biology, increasingly draws attention from statisticians due to breakthroughs in bioengineer and biotechnology that allow large-scale and high-throughput experiments to be routinely conducted with affordable cost. A central topic of epigenetics is to understand the chromatin state — modifications to histones and other proteins that package the DNA. A complex mechanism called “histone code” is believed to dictate the dynamics of DNA expression. As a step towards deciphering the histone code, we develop Bayesian models based on genome-wide mapping of histone modifications. Such models are only initial attempts to decipher the complex histone code but highlight the need of Bayesian inference in the research of gene regulations, receiving relatively small amount of attention from statisticians. I will summarize our recent work and results using a comprehensive ChIP-Seq data set.
Activities, Student organizations

MATRIX Altgeld Bell Tower Tour TODAY!

Just a reminder that MATRIX is taking a tour of the Altgeld Bell Tower TODAY!

If you haven’t been to the Altgeld bell tower, or you want to hang out with the math club (MATRIX), or both, please go to the meeting TONIGHT at 5pm!  This is a pretty neat experience, and I can’t guarantee that our wonderful, very long-serving chimesmaster will still be doing this next year, so do this while you can!!

Details:
When: Today, 10/2 at 5pm
Where: Meet outside room 323 Altgeld Hall (near the big lecture hall and the advising office)
Also, MATRIX has a brand new facebook page so make sure to like it: http://www.facebook.com/UiucMatrixMathClub
Hope to see you there!

Michelle

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Michelle Klein
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mathematics, Statistics, Business minor | 2013

Project Manager | Illinois Business Consulting
President | MATRIX Math Club
Department of Statistics, Seminars

Department of Statistics Weekly Seminar

Heike Hofmann, Ph.D. (Iowa State University)
Speaker           Heike Hofmann, Ph.D. (Iowa State University)
Date                Oct 4, 2012
Time                4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Location          156 Henry
Sponsor           Statistics Department
 
A Discussion of Graphical Inference 
 
How do you know if something that you see in a data plot is really there? 
Statistical inference for exploratory data analysis allows us to quantitatively assess the strength of a visual finding, and places statistical graphics in the context of classical inference. New work builds on the lineup protocol, which puts graphics into an inference framework, that examines the data plot in relation to null plots. This talk describes various aspects of the development of graphics inference: definitions of terminology and concepts, experiments conducted to validate the lineup protocol, how to compute p-values and power. Applications of visual inference in practice will be discussed. This includes how to choose the best display and also includes scenarios where no classical test exists, because critical assumptions are violated.