An abstract helps orient your reader to your Division III. Here are a few helpful resources for writing an abstract.
From the Commonwealth Honors Program at UMass: https://www.honors.umass.edu/capstone-experience-guidelines-abstract-writing
From the University of Wisconsin-Madison, examples of abstracts from different fields (including the arts): http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/presentations_abstracts_examples.html
From OWL Purdue: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/656/01/
Month: February 2015
Every Div III Paper Deserves a Title Page
Make sure your Div III has a title page! It is helpful to your faculty, but is especially important if you are sharing your work beyond the committee. You can download a Word document that can act as a template here: DIVIII_TitlePage
Fulbright Info Session
Did you know that in 2014, four Hampshire students won Fulbright awards to spend nine months either teaching English or conducting research in Bulgaria, Mexico, South Korea, and Thailand?
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program is the largest U.S. exchange program offering opportunities for students and young professionals to undertake international graduate study, advanced research, university teaching, and primary and secondary school teaching worldwide. The program currently awards approximately 1,900 grants annually in all fields of study, and operates in more than 140 countries worldwide. Read more on the CORC website!
The application cycle for a 2016-17 grant begins this spring and culminates with deadlines in the fall of 2015. Come explore this amazing opportunity at the upcoming Information Session at CORC. Carin and Jena, Hampshire’s Fulbright Program Advisers, will review grant types as well as application requirements and timelines–and, of course, answer your individual questions.
DATE: Monday, March 2
TIME: 5:00-6:00pm
WHERE: CORC Office, 3rd floor of the library
Digital Humanities Student Workshop
Come for a workshop with Professor Sonya Donaldson
Friday, February 20th, 9:30am-12:00pm
This workshop for students will provide an introduction to digital humanities tools and discourses. Professor Donaldson will give an overview of the digital platform, Omeka, and discuss possibilities for working with other social media tools to represent student work. This workshop is appropriate for students interested in discussing digital humanities as praxis, for students with emerging knowledge of these discourses and tools, as well as students who are new to digital humanities tools and discourses. Interested students should contact Jackie Jeffery at jmjDO@hampshire.edu to register.
Using Styles in Word
You are likely in writ
ing-like-crazy mode. Save yourself some time and help yourself stay organized by using “styles” in Word. These will help you with formatting, with navigation through your document, and with creating a table of contents! Watch this video to learn more!
Global Connections Event
Postponed to Monday February 16th 3:30 – 5:00
The Global Education Office’s second annual Global Connections event in the Prescott Tavern. This event brings returning study abroad students and international students together to share their intercultural personal experiences and perspectives. There will be a series of large and small group activities that encourage reflection, foster connections, and give attendees a space through which they can begin to translate what they have learned.
Finalist photographs from the 2014 GEO See(n) Photo Contest will also be on display. Light refreshments and snacks will be provided.