NEST 2020 Fellowships are Now Open
Nature, Environment, Science & Technology (NEST) Studio for the Arts is accepting proposals for the 2020 Graduate Student Summer Fellowships.
Nature, Environment, Science & Technology (NEST) Studio for the Arts is a network of faculty, students, centers, and campus units that combine artistic practice and scientific research to explore our common and disparate ways of observing, recording, experimenting, and knowing.
The central requirements for this NEST Fellowship are (1) creating cross-disciplinary pairs—or small teams—of graduate collaborators to (2) delve into educational traditions, exploring ontology, epistemology, and emerging expertise that (3) result in a broadly-defined media project for public exhibition on campus. Example projects may include: public installations, performances, time-based or moving-image based works, sonic or audio compositions, or any other arts forms that would be within practice-based research.
Thanks, the NEST team
12/18/19
Sketchers:
I wanted to share that we have two terrific jobs open at the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation at UC Berkeley. Please feel free to share these with folks in your networks:
MANAGING DIRECTOR
The Managing Director is responsible for overseeing all administrative operations for the institute, including program budget, staff, and facilities. In addition, the Managing Director provides essential support to the institute’s faculty leadership, and contributes to the development and implementation of the vision for the institute.
jobs.berkeley.edu -> "External Applicants" -> "External Applicants Apply Here" -> Search for job# 3466
DESIGN SPECIALIST
The Jacobs Hall Design Specialist provides professional design, prototyping, and fabrication support to users of Jacobs Hall studios and equipment rooms. Design Specialists offer safety training, supervision, and design and fabrication mentorship to students from across campus, working on a wide range of projects. The Design specialist team is made up of an eclectic group of artists, engineers, and educators. Each specialist has an area of expertise (electronics, 3D printing, carpentry, CAD/CAM, metalworking) but cross-training, and team collaboration are expected.
jobs.berkeley.edu -> "External Applicants" -> "External Applicants Apply Here" -> Search for job# 3619
Happy Holidays!
Bjoern Hartmann
Associate Professor, UC Berkeley EECS
Paul and Judy Gray Alumni Presidential Chair in Engineering Excellence
Faculty Director, Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation
The 2020 Dale Hatfield DC Scholars application is now open for students from your disciplines who are interested in technology policy. I’ve attached the application and you are welcome to forward it to interested students. Students accepted into the program will be required to audit the Maymester Spectrum Management course. Internships extend for 10 weeks from June to August 2019 in Washington, DC.
Students can read about the program here. The application deadline is December 29, 2019 at midnight. Applicants should complete the attached application, and email it with a resume, cover letter, unofficial transcript, and writing sample to me at sara.schnittgrund@colorado.edu. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
Thanks!
Sara
Sara Schnittgrund
Director of Student Programs
University of Colorado
401 UCB - Wolf Law Building
Boulder, Colorado 80309
Office: 303.492.0441 l Sara.Schnittgrund@colorado.edu
Siliconflatirons.org
We have an opportunity for an interesting postdoc opportunity through the I-PERF Program that is available to NSF SBIR Phase II awardees. The I-PERF program (Innovative Postdoctoral Entrepreneurial Research Fellowship) is intended to support members of underrepresented groups in science and engineering. The postdoc is well funded with a salary of up to $78K plus benefits.
We are looking for candidates with a strong background in web development and realtime networking. Candidates will have to apply externally through the I-PERF website where the matching occurs.
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A.C. Randono
CEO and cofounder of Figure
www.figuremath.com
The UMC Student Arts Program will be expanding this year to include the Rec Center, becoming the STUDENT ARTS PROGRAM! This program collects original art created by CU students, which will then be displayed throughout the UMC and the Rec Center.
Please share this with your students – we would love to see a variety of art medias from across campus. If you have students who are even the tiniest bit creative, please encourage them to submit an original piece of artwork! (See attached poster for more information!)
The deadline is January 31, 2020. Visit https://www.colorado.edu/umc/sap for more information and to submit pieces.
Please let me know if you have any questions!
Molly Brauer, M.Ed.
Assistant Director for Administration
University Memorial Center
Boulder, Colorado 80309
T: 303-735-2603
12/11/19
I'm teaching a hands-on ethnographic research course next semester and I thought it might be of interest to your grad students, particularly MA students. Would you please forward this email to your grads? (At the undergraduate level it is required for students to be Anthro majors or minors, but I welcome grad students of any background interested in ethnographic methods.)
The course is also part of a broader initiative I am spearheading, called Teaching Ethnography for Social Justice. I'm attaching a brief summary of that in case students are interested.
If students have any questions they are welcome to email me and I can tell them much more detailed information.
Thank you!
Kate Goldfarb
ANTH 4700/ 5700
Practicing Anthropology:
Applying Ethnographic Theory and Methods
Spring 2020 Mon/Wed 3-4:15pm
Instructor: Dr. Kathryn Goldfarb
Email: kathryn.goldfarb@colorado.edu
In this hands-on ethnographic research course, students will learn how to use anthropological methodologies to collaboratively investigate social problems and positively impact society. We will develop a model of ethnographic research oriented not toward understanding “the other,” but rather, facilitating dialogue and understanding between student ethnographers and research interlocutors (community members, policy makers, elected representatives, scientists). Readings will give students background in research methods as well as a theoretical framework for applied, engaged, and activist anthropology and community-based research. Students will disseminate research findings in publicly accessible, appealing, multi-media formats: photography exhibits, podcasts, newspaper op-eds, story maps, videos. These will be published on the course website. This course may be especially of interest to third-year undergraduates considering an honors thesis in their fourth year, and MA students.
Kathryn E. Goldfarb
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
University of Colorado at Boulder
1350 Pleasant St.
Boulder, CO 80309
Hale Science 350 | Campus Box 233 UCB
Office: Hale Science 466
Office phone: 303.492.1589
The application for the annual Research & Innovation Seed Grant program is open through Jan. 21. The goal of the seed grants are to stimulate inter- and multidisciplinary work on research, scholarship and creative projects. They are intended to support projects that take investigators in creative, and sometimes high-risk, high-reward directions, including team development proposals for future large collaborative research projects. They are funded up to $50,000.
In affiliation with the dynamic graphics project and the BMO Lab for Creative Research in the Arts, Performance, Emerging Technologies and AI, I am inviting applications for artists to join our academic research team. I encourage prospective applicants to consider broadly (with respect to medium or methodology) how their proposal harmonizes with the research topics of our group (see for example our recent publications), including digital geometry processing, computational fabrication, film-making, and human-computer interaction. Examples include but not limited to: 3D installation/sculpture or kinematic installation that can be modelled digitally then physically manufactured, or a short film using digital modelling and 3D printing.
Important dates:
- Submission Deadline: 24 January 2020
- Semi-finalist Interviews: January - February 2020
- Proposal Selection: February 2020
- Start Date: Spring 2020
Artist-in-residence will receive a $10,000 CAD stipend and
- be situated within the dgp, one of the top HCI and computer graphics labs in the world,
- be immersed among graduate students and professors conducting top research in human-computer interaction, user interface design, computer graphics, physical simulation, and computational fabrication,
- have access to advanced manufacturing equipment (3D printers, laser cutters, CNC mill) and materials, and
- have direct access to maintainers and contributors to the libigl geometry processing library.
Must reside in Toronto during the residency (remote positions will not be considered).
Send application package:
- Curriculum Vitæ,
- 1 page statement on concept and design of your proposal,
- draft of project timeline (and how you’ll hit the ground running),
- up to 5 photos of prototypes, mock-ups, sketches and
- up to 3 minute video/demo reel
to jacobson@cs.toronto.edu with the subject “Artist in Residence”.
Alec Jacobson, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Are you a procrastinator? Is writing your dissertation leaving you in isolation? Join other graduate students for our four-day winter writing retreat! We provide the time and space to start (or finish) your next writing project before the spring semester begins.
Who?
Open to all graduate students. Spots are limited, so make sure you reserve your place today!
What?
A quiet time and space dedicated to writing. Students work on their dissertations, theses, or publications. We will be joined by a writing consultant from the Writing Center. You can sign up for a one-on-one appointment with them to go over issues you are having from style to content. We will also pair you up with a writing partner to keep each other accountable with peer review. Due to the popularity of our retreats in the past, we are now adding a morning and an afternoon session (you choose one). Breakfast is served for the morning and lunch is served for the afternoon. Coffee and hot tea are provided at both.
Where?
In the CASE building rooms W313, W311 and E313 on CU Boulder's Main Campus.
When?
From Monday, January 6th to Thursday, January 9th. The morning session is from 8 am to 12 pm and the afternoon session is from 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm.
Why?
Winter break is a great time to dedicate your energy to your writing goals, but writing in isolation when your adviser and colleagues are out of town can be difficult. Having a community of support to encourage you through your writing, as well as a space to get out of your house and write has helped hundreds of other graduate students accomplish their goals.
How?
Make a commitment to show up on all four days. Show up at CASE on January 6th and get your work done! Keep your commitment and show up even when you don't feel like it. It's free food, after all!
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Sarah Tynen, PhD | Graduate Program Manager
Pronouns: she/her/hers | Why are pronouns important?
The Graduate School | University of Colorado Boulder
P: 303-735-8435
11/13/19
Hi! I'm hiring a new senior role for my team at Accenture Labs in SF:
"The primary purpose of our applied research is to address important business problems by transforming the way people interact with technology in various facets of their lives including: the way connected workers team with machines on the job; the way retail customers experience a digitally-enhanced buying experience; and the way smart products can improve the way consumers live. In these contexts, we explore the impact of extended reality, crowdsourcing, physical and virtual robots and more."
We are looking for someone with experience leading small teams of people with a variety of skills to explore the impact of new technologies by clearly articulating new ideas (i.e. explaining why a new technology will make a positive change in the world) and developing functional examples of such technologies (to show how the technology will work).
Ideally I'm looking for PhD-level researchers, but I'm open to working with people with other backgrounds, especially recognizing that not everyone can, or wants to, get a PhD to do awesome work.
Please pass this along to whoever you think would be interested and have them ping me at michael.kuniavsky@accenture.com with any questions.
-- Mike Kuniavsky mikek@thingm.com _______________________________________________ Sketching mailing list Sketching@lists.thingm.com http://lists.thingm.com/listinfo.cgi/sketching-thingm.com
Assistant Arts Professor
The ITP (Interactive Telecommunications Program) Master’s program and the new IMA (Interactive Media Arts) undergraduate program of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts invites applications for an Assistant Arts Professor starting Fall 2020. This position is a multiyear, renewable non-tenure track appointment.
The Astrophysics Division of LASP is seeking masters-level research assistants to serve as either communications director or graphic media lead for the program. These jobs require a creative interest in the sciences (especially astronomy), familiarity with web and graphic design tools, and an interest in visual communication and media.
The successful applicants will work with LASP and APS Professors Brian Fleming and Kevin France to develop a public profile for the research group, including (but not limited to) social and web media, project logos, presentation graphics, video animations (with professional assistance) and other visual tools for enhancing outreach.
The director of communication should be a person with strong initiative who will independently propose activities that better showcase research in action, such as organizing media in the public areas of LASP or identifying creative means of capturing notable research activities (e.g. overhead drone video of outdoor tests). The graphic media lead will develop graphics and posters showcasing research activities and providing visualizations for some of the most cutting edge topics in astrophysics. The communications director and graphic media lead will work together as a team.
The students will be credited on all official media. The expected weekly commitment is approximately 10 hours per week during the school year, with the possibility of full time employment during summer. Hours are flexible. Compensation ranges from $14 to $20 per hour, depending on experience. The LASP astrophysics group consists of more than 30 PhDs, students, and engineers. Please contact Brian.fleming@lasp.colorado.edu for more information
We have a new position posted now for an Asst Dean for Digital Strategy
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