This form, along with the documents listed below, constitute the formal application to participate in the School of Ice advanced professional development program for science faculty at Minority-Serving Institutions. The workshop is being conducted by COLDEX in partnership with the US Ice Drilling Program, July 21-25, 2024 (travel 21st-arrive Corvallis by 4:30 PM- and depart anytime 26th) at Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR. Travel costs to OSU are covered by the grant and funded by the National Science Foundation.
**Priority will be given to completed applications received on or before February 9, 2024 and on a rolling basis thereafter**
For your application to be considered, please also send the following to Louise Huffman <
louise.t.huffman@dartmouth.edu>
•
your
CV (no more than 2 pages)
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a
paragraph describing what your goals for taking this workshop would be, and how you see it benefitting
your teaching and your students (this is especially important if you teach outside the science field)
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a brief
letter of support from your Department Head/Chair or Dean.
Participants will be selected based on factors including the date-of-receipt of application materials and on the applicant’s potential for fulfilling the
program requirements of:
(a) writing a
summary of how you have professionally benefitted from participation in this workshop (submitted within two weeks of workshop completion--due by August 9, 2024);
(b) writing a
plan of action to begin or expand paleo-climate study and research opportunities for your undergraduate students (due by August 23, 2024);
(c) demonstrating how you will integrate workshop information about climate change data from ice cores into curriculum within new or existing science courses by creating
two written curriculum pieces dealing with the topic, accompanied by an explanation of how the curriculum will be used (within one semester of workshop completion--due by December 1, 2024); and
(d) participating in program evaluation activities.
For information about the School of Ice Workshop, visit
icedrill-education.org