From bogus@does.not.exist.com Thu Oct 18 06:03:31 2012 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:03:31 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: The Gross-Stewart Awards The CUNYAcademy of the Humanities and Sciences, a UFS affiliate= , will again host the competition for the Feliks Gross and the Stewart Trav= el Awards. Here is a list of last year's Stewart winners (http://cunyufs.o= rg/academy/awards/StewartTravel2010.pdf) and a description of the purpose o= f the Gross and Stewart Awards as well as application forms (http://cunyufs= .org/academy/awards/Awards2011.pdf). The Stewart Travel Grants provide travel grants of up to $500 t= o tenure-track assistant professors in their first three years. The deadlin= e for applications is March 15. The Feliks Gross Award is awarded to two un= tenured assistant professors for outstanding research upon recommendation o= f their provost or chair or colleague. The deadline for applications is Mar= ch 31, 2011. -------------------- Eva M. Fern=E1ndez Associate Professor, Linguistics & Communication Disorders | http://qcpag= es.qc.cuny.edu/~efernand=20 Director, Center for Teaching & Learning | http://www.qc.cuny.edu/ctl Queens College, City University of New York ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This communication (including any attachments) is intended solely for the recipient(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or legally protected. Any unauthorized use or dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email message and delete all copies of the original communication. Thank you for your cooperation. --=_alternative 007DB57385257823_= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

Greetings,

Tenure-track faculty are= eligible for two awards that are administered by the CUNY Academy of the H= umanities and Sciences: Stewart Travel Awards (to support travel to a confe= rence) and the Gross Award (in recognition of outstanding research). = The blurb about them copied below is from a recent University Faculty Senat= e email. The links provided have more information. The deadline= to apply is March 31, 2011. Please direct questions to the CUNY Acad= emy President, Susan O'Malley (CUNYAcademy at gmail.com).

Best!

Eva.

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From UFS email dated Monday January 24, 2011

The Gross-Stewart Awards

&nb= sp; The CUNYAcademy of the Humanities a= nd Sciences, a UFS affiliate, will again host the competition for the Felik= s Gross and the Stewart Travel Awards. Here is a list of last year's = Stewart winners (http://cunyufs.org/aca= demy/awards/StewartTravel2010.pdf) and a description of the purp= ose of the Gross and Stewart Awards as well as application forms (http://cunyufs.org/academy/awards/Awards2011.p= df).

&n= bsp; The Stewart Travel Grants provide travel grants of up to $= 500 to tenure-track assistant professors in their first three years. The de= adline for applications is March 15. The Feliks Gross Award is awarded to t= wo untenured assistant professors for outstanding research upon recommendat= ion of their provost or chair or colleague. The deadline for applications i= s March 31, 2011.

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Eva M. Fern=E1ndez
Associate Professor, Linguistics &a= mp; Communication Disorders | http://qcpages.qc.cuny.e= du/~efernand
Director, Center for Teaching & Learni= ng | http://www.qc.cuny.edu/ctl
Queens College, Ci= ty University of New York

Greetings,

Best!

Eva.

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From UFS email dated Monday January 24, 2011

The Gross-Stewart Awards

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The session will highlight a program, sponsored by the Spanish Consulate, on a 9 month paid opportunity for students (in their junior/senior years or recent graduates) to work as classroom assistants in a Spanish city of their choice. Please email the flier to your students or make copies for in class distribution. Thank you for helping us get the word out on this terrific program. - Denise Cetin The blurb for the event on the Provost's Office Experiential Education page: http://www.qc.cuny.edu/about/administration/Provost/Pages/Experiential.aspx reads as follows: Information Session to Teach, Learn, & Travel in Spain Date: November 5, 2012 Time: Free Hour, 12:15-1:30pm Location: Powdermaker 154 Work with classroom teachers in Spain as K-12 classroom assistants. Share your language and culture with Spanish students in Foreign Language Schools from October 2012 through June 2013. Conduct conversation lessons and participate in extracurricular activities such as work- shops, school trips, music and theater events, and sporting events. This program is sponsored by the Spanish Embassy's Education Office. Each grant winner will receive a monthly allowance plus full medical insurance. Open to students from all majors who have successfully completed at least four semesters of college coursework and have at least an intermediate level of Spanish. Recent graduates also are encouraged to apply. There is no fee to apply to this program. Come to the information session on November 5th during free hour in PH 154 to find out more.? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.qc.cuny.edu/pipermail/socrates/attachments/20121026/93ceda4a/attachment.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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