QC DSA: March 2011

Monday, March 21, 2011

Beberfall Law School Scholarship

From QC Mail:

The Beberfall Scholarship is open to students from all majors who will be attending law school this fall. The scholarship will award $1,000 to a graduating student who shows great promise in pursuing a law career.

To qualify for the scholarship, students must meet the following criteria and submit the required materials no later than April 11.

Students must have already been accepted to, and agreed to attend, an American Bar Association-approved law school, starting this fall.
You must fill out an application form and submit an essay outlining why you are attending law school and what winning the scholarship will mean to your studies.
Application forms are available in the Political Science Department, Powdermaker Hall, Room 200 and the History Department, Powdermaker Hall, Room 352.

Please forward your essay along with your contact information, no later than April 11, to:

Dr. Frank Warren
Chair, History Department
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

QC Website Added a Resource Page for Anti-Bullying

FYI: The Queens College website recently added a page of resources for anyone who believes they have experienced homophobic bullying or bullying of any kind. Please visit the new webpage at: www.qc.cuny.edu/StudentLife/services/Pages/AntiBullying.aspx.

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship

The program aims to reduce the serious under-representation of individuals from certain minority groups in the ranks of higher education faculty, as well as to address the educational consequences of these disparities. Wednesday, March 16, 12:15-1:30 pm, Honors Hall 17. Fellowship application deadline:
Wednesday, April 27th.

Eligibility

Minority students and others with a demonstrated commitment to eradicating racial and ethnic inequalities in the Academy in particular and in society in general, may apply. Students must be sophomores with a minimum GPA of 3.3 and be majoring in a Mellon-designated field.

Students who apply should be seriously considering graduate study toward the Ph.D.

Mellon-designated Fields:
Anthropology • English • Musicology
Area Studies • Ethnomusicology • Philosophy
Art History • Foreign Languages • Physics
Classics • Geology • Political Theory
Computer Science • Demography • History
Religion • Earth Science • Literature
Sociology • Ecology • Mathematics

Check out this site for more info: : http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/qcmellon/

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

8th Annual CUNY Asian American Film Festival

Deadline: April 29th, 2011
For information about this event please visit: http://www.aaari.info/2011aaff.htm

Submission Guidelines

Submission Form
Requires: Adobe Reader

Person submitting must be a currently enrolled CUNY undergraduate or graduate Student, or recently graduated in Spring/Fall 2010. (Copy of CUNY College ID and current semester's class schedule is required.)

Film must satisfy any one of the following criteria:

Production involving at least one Asian personnel
- Director, Producer, Writer
Themes dealing with the Asian American / Asian Diaspora
- Cultural, Familial, Social, Political

Entry must be received no later than 5PM on Friday, April 29, 2011. Anything received afterwards will not be accepted.

Submitter must be available to attend the Festival on Friday, May 20, 2011. All participants will receive a certificate of participation.

All submission must meet the following requirements:

Submission must be in Mini-DV tape and DVD in SP mode.
Film length is limited to: (We reserve the rights to reject the screening of film due to length.)
- 30 minutes for Documentary
- 20 minutes for Fiction
- 10 minutes for Experimental
Submission must include the following title slates:
1) 5 second Black Video
2) "2010 CUNY Asian American Film Festival", title of film, category, and running time
Must include credits of all persons working on the project.
Limit of one entry per person. All entries must be accompanied by the entry form. Missing material will result in disqualification.

CUNY Thomas Tam Scholarship

Deadline is Friday April 15,2011

The scholarship awards annually $1,000 to an individual qualified undergraduate student currently at any of the colleges within CUNY, Asian or non-Asian, who has demonstrated creativity in the communication of the concerns of the Asian American community in areas such as Health,Education and Culture.Please visit for details on this scholarship: http://www.aaari.info/tomtamscholar.htm