Are you a life science or bio-engineering major interested in philosophy, politics, history, and literature? Are you a humanities major who also dabbles in biochemistry, molecular biology, endocrinology, or neuroscience? Are you interested in exploring how the sciences and the humanities are together generating new areas of research?
The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH), with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is looking for undergraduate interns to work with its Bio-humanities research group for the academic year 2017–2018. The IPRH-Mellon Bio-Humanities Research Group is composed of professors, post-doctoral scholars, graduate students, and undergraduates who aim to appropriate findings in the life sciences to re-imagine what humans are and to reconfigure our understanding of society and culture. The research group seeks three undergraduate interns who will work with the group on their seminars, workshops, and programs. Interns will also work with the research group director, Associate Professor Samantha Frost, to develop their own research projects as well as a research symposium for undergraduates at the end of the spring semester.
View full Mellon Undergraduate Internships in Bio-Humanities application guidelines at http://www.iprh.illinois.edu/fellowships/mellon/undergraduate.html. Questions about this internship opportunity may be addressed to IPRH Associate Director Nancy Castro at ncastro@illinois.edu or (217) 244-7913.
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Prizes for Research in the Humanities: Deadline is March 15, 2017 at 5:00 p.m.
IPRH has recognized outstanding humanities research in numerous ways since its inception. The IPRH Prizes for Research in the Humanities allow us to celebrate excellence in humanities scholarship, and they are pleased to solicit submissions and nominations for the 2016–17 academic year. These prizes recognize outstanding humanities research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with awards given at the undergraduate, graduate, and faculty levels. The awards will be presented at a reception on May 1, 2017.
Submissions are invited from scholars in all sectors of the university with focus on the humanities and humanities-inflected research. View full Prizes for Research in the Humanities application/nomination guidelines at http://www.iprh.illinois.edu/programs/iprhprizes.html.
Thanks to the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities listserv for this information item.
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