Ryan Lauko (’04) finished a Master of Liberal Arts program at the University of Pennsylvania this past December. He’s currently looking for a job teaching English, and hopes to go back for doctoral studies in religious studies in the not too distant future.
Posted on July 24th, 2008 by Peter Kerry Powers
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The U.S. National Commission for UNESCO is pleased to announce the call for applications for the Fall/Winter 2008 cycle of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO Laura W. Bush Traveling Fellowship. As you may recall, this fellowship will help fund a
proposal designed by the applicant–a U.S. undergraduate or graduate student between the ages of 18-25–to conduct brief work in a foreign country related to the mandate of UNESCO - using education, natural sciences, social and human sciences, culture, and/or communication and information to build strong ties among nations.
For applicants who will conduct their work from the period between September 2008 and December 2008, the application schedule is as follows:
For more information visit the following website:
http://www.state.gov/p/io/unesco/103476.htm
Posted on July 9th, 2008 by Peter Kerry Powers
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YORK LITTLE THEATRE’S 2008 PA Original Playwright Competition
Now seeking plays which meet the following requirements:
The winning play will premiere as part of York Little Theatre’s 2009-2010 Season. The playwright will also receive an Honorarium in the amount of $100.
Deadline for Submissions is Friday, October 17, 2008.
For more information please visit our website at www.ylt.org or call the theatre at 717-854-3894.
Send submissions to Eric Bradley Long, Director of Artistic Development, York Little Theatre, 27 S. Belmont St., York, PA, 17403; or via e-mail to eric@ylt.org. Please include a cover letter which includes a character breakdown and brief synopsis.
York Little Theatre, located at 27 S. Belmont St., York, Pennsylvania, is currently celebrating its 75th Season of providing community theatre dedicated to engaging Central Pennsylvania’s diverse community through a broad range of professionally directed, entertaining, and stimulating performances. York Little Theatre is a member of the Cultural Alliance of York County.
Posted on July 9th, 2008 by Peter Kerry Powers
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Witf welcomes students to submit their statements of personal belief in essays of 500 words or less to witf.org. All submissions will be considered and selected essays will be chosen for broadcasting on the witf radio station. Submissions can be sent to FM@witf.org with the phrase “This I Believe” in the subject line.
For more information go to the “This I Believe” page at WITF.org
Posted on June 10th, 2008 by Peter Kerry Powers
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John Francis (Maher), ‘98, will have a live show on XM Radio on the following dates.
Sunday 6/8 and 6/15 @ 6pm EST
Tuesday 6/10 and 6/17 @ 11pm EST
Thursdays 6/12, and 6/19@ 3am EST
Here”s the link for free listening
http://xmro.xmradio.com/xstream/api/show_trial_form.jsp
Some other news about John. In February a film for which he wrote the original score won a prize, and he’s also been out in Nashville making a record with John Carter Cash. You can keep up with John’s going’s on via his web page.
Posted on June 5th, 2008 by Peter Kerry Powers
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Sarah Ginolfi (’08) will be a NYC teaching fellow this fall. She’s started a new blog, Sarah in the Bronx, where she’ll keep us all informed of her goings on.
Posted on June 3rd, 2008 by Peter Kerry Powers
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Alicia Watkins (’03) been writing an op-ed column for three local papers for the past three months or so. Her columns have been appearing on the New Britain Herald’s Web site at newbritainherald.com, but since the platform doesn’t support archiving, she also has a blog with her work at aliciawatkins.blogspot.com.
Posted on June 3rd, 2008 by Peter Kerry Powers
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Marissa (Brown) Harris ‘04 and her husband have relocated to Pasadena, CA. Starting in August, she will be teaching 9th grade Honors English, 12th grade AP Literature, and Journalism at Pacifica Christian High School in Santa Monica, CA.
Posted on May 27th, 2008 by Peter Kerry Powers
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This in today from the Chronicle of Higher Education:
About Editorial Internships
The Chronicle of Higher Education seeks interns for the fall 2008 session, which will begin in September. The Chronicle is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to maintaining a diverse work force.
The internships are full-time in our Washington, D.C., office and will last through mid-December 2008. In addition to a $500 weekly stipend, academic credit can often be arranged.
The interns’ primary responsibilities are reporting and writing daily news articles for The Chronicle’s Web site (which usually appear subsequently in print), contributing brief features to the “Short Subjects” section, writing news articles for other sections of the newspaper, and doing research for special projects. There is very little grunt work. Interns who prove themselves as reporters and writers are often asked to write full-length features.
The Chronicle places a premium on reporting that is accurate and writing that shines. All writing, including that done by staff reporters, is carefully edited. Interns typically leave with a set of strong, varied clips.
For information on The Chronicle, click here. For comments from former interns, click here.
Requirements: Experience writing for publication, either at a student newspaper or a professional publication, is required. Candidates with previous internships and deadline-reporting experience are preferred. Applications must be received by 4 p.m. on Friday, June 6, 2008. Applications that are late, e-mailed, or faxed will not be considered.
Applicants should send a cover letter, résumé with telephone and e-mail contact information, and a maximum of five varied and impressive clips to:
Don Troop
Internship Coordinator
The Chronicle of Higher Education
1255 23rd Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20037NO TELEPHONE CALLS
Posted on May 9th, 2008 by Peter Kerry Powers
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The following comes from Julie Adams, who just finished her PhD in Microbiology. Julie was an English and Biology double major while at Messiah. She’s currently looking for a job where she can combine her expertise in microbiology and writing. Many congratulations and best wishes to Julie.
After graduating from Messiah, I worked for Biosynexus, Inc. in Gaithersburg, MD. At Biosynexus, I joined the microbiology group where I helped to initiate a project investigating the establishment and eradication of Staphylococcus biofilms on medical implants. We were fortunate to have a publication (Wu JA, Kusuma C, Mond JJ, Kokai-Kun JF. “Lysostaphin disrupts Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilms on artificial surfaces.” Antimicrobial Agents Chemother. 2003; 47:3407-3414) and a patent associated with that work.
I began my graduate education in the fall of 2002 in the Program for Molecular and Cellular Biology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, MD (across the street from the main campus of the National Institutes of Health). USUHS was established as a military medical school (incidentally, the film “Fighting for Life” features three USUHS med students and was filmed at my school) and, in order to be an accredited medical school, started a small civilian graduate program (in the 80s, I believe) of which I am a part.
My thesis work was completed in the Pathology Department, and my research focused on reproductive immunology. During school, I was co-author on a publication (Ha CT, Waterhouse R, Wessells J, Wu JA, Dveksler GS. Binding of pregnancy-specific glycoprotein 17 to CD9 on macrophages induces secretion of IL-10, IL-6, PGE2, and TGF-beta1. J Leukoc Biol. 2005; 77: 948-957) and an abstract (Eddington DO, Cummings DM, Wu JA, Segars JH, Wu TJ. Sexual dimorphic distribution of the Dbl proto-oncogene Brx in the mouse brain and pituitary. Annual Meeting of the Endocrine Society 2003. Philadelphia, PA) and presented at the 2007 meeting for the American Society for Cell Biology. I will also be presenting at the upcoming meeting for the American Society for Reproductive Immunology in Chicago in June. The title of my dissertation is “Induction of pro-angiogenic factors by pregnancy-specific glycoproteins and studies on receptor usage,” which I successfully defended in April. I will be participating in the 2008 USUHS Commencement Ceremony and am this year’s recipient of the Board of Regents Award.
Posted on May 9th, 2008 by Peter Kerry Powers
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