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*MCB News, Week of October 28, 2013 (Week 10)* *MCB News* - Important Dates/Events for fall 2013 - MCBcDNA presents Research Night! - Buy some awesome MCBcDNA merchandise! *Other News * - October Career Center Programs for L&S students! - Pre-Health Conference @ UCSF Sponsored by UC Berkeley CHE - UC Davis Medical Center Department of Surgery: Pre-Medical - Apply to the Health Service Internship (HSI) program! - Surgical Internship, Mentorship, & Research Program - L&S Advising Save Your Semester workshop dates - CMDA accepting applications - The Onestart Idea Competition is calling all aspiring life science entrepreneurs - Call for Applications to SMART Program for Summer 2014 - 2 Weeks Left To Apply: Big Ideas@Berkeley Contest - Intern @ SF Health Tech Startup STDTriage ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* *Upcoming Important Dates/Events* - November 1, Grading Option Change Deadline (P/NP Deadline) - November 11, University Holiday - November 12, Tele-BEARS Phase II - November 28-29, University Holiday - December 6, Last day of instruction - December 9-13, RRR Week - December 16-20, Finals Week - January 13, Tele-BEARS Adjustment Period begins - January 21, First day of instruction for Spring 2014 ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* *MCBcDNA presents Research Night!* Date: Thursday, 11/7 Time: 7-9pm Location: 220 Wheeler Interested in doing research as an undergrad? Come to MCBcDNA's Research Night to learn how to join a lab as an undergraduate and how to make the most out of the research opportunities available to you! Hear from a panel of professors, graduate students, and undergraduates who are currently working in labs as they give you the inside scoop on what professors are looking for in their undergraduate applicants. Refreshments will be provided. Sponsored by the ASUC and the MCB Dept. ADA accessible. Questions? Email mcbc...@gmail.com http://bit.ly/MCBcDNA Like us on Facebook for updates: facebook.com/mcbcdna ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* *Buy some awesome MCBcDNA merchandise!* Interested in representing and supporting your MCB department? Buy some awesome new MCB merchandise from MCBcDNA, an MCB department sponsored undergraduate club! Order MCB shot glasses, water bottles, and sweatshirts online at http://mcb.berkeley.edu/groups/mcbcdna/merchandise.html We are also selling a discounted Kaplan MCAT course starting at $1200! Email nikunjdo...@berkeley.edu for more information! ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* * * *Other News* ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* *CAREER LAB FOR L&S*: Getting a job or internship takes planning and dedicated effort! Use your lunch hour to develop important career planning skills to help you choose, find, and successfully land that internship or job. Each session begins with a brief overview of the topic followed by exercises and group interactions to develop your career savvy in a variety of areas: - Launching Your Job or Internship Search: Oct. 31, 12-1pm All majors welcome. RSVP on Callisto<https://career.berkeley.edu/CareerApps/Callisto/CallistoLogin.aspx> ! ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* *UC Berkeley Chicanos/Latinos in Health Education* presents our *21st Annual **Dia De Los Muertos Pre-Health Conference*! * * *Date:* *November 9th, 2013 8:00-5:00PM ** * *Location: UC San Francisco, Parnassus Campus * The DDLM conference provides students an opportunity to explore a diversity of health careers, encourages students to pursue their goals and serves to recruit students into active roles within their respective pre-health organizations. The conference draws in approximately 200 students from local universities, state and community colleges, every year. There are great speakers, medical student panels, and a variety of workshops ranging from a human anatomy lab to one on one mock interviews. * * *REGISTER ONLINE:* *DDLM2013.COM <http://ddlm2013.com/> * * * *Registration fee is $15 which covers food, DDLM T-Shirt, and Admittance to Workshops. ** * * * *Workshops and Panels on:* - Medical School Admissions - Public Health Admissions - Health Disparities - Emergency Medicine - Medical Research - Optometry - Dental - Anatomy Labs - Nursing - Pharmacy - Research Panels - Mock Interviews - Women in Health - and much more! *Hosted by UC Berkeley CHE and UCSF LMSA* *For more information, please contact us at: 2013d...@gmail.com * ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* *UC Davis Medical Center Department of Surgery: Pre-Medical Surgical Internship, Mentorship, & Research Program *The UC Davis Pre-Medical Surgical Internship offers a unique set of opportunities for pre-medical students to work with and be mentored by surgeons and physicians at the nationally recognizedUC Davis Medical Center located in Sacramento, California. This is not a mere volunteering position; the program provides an opportunity to interact directly with physicians in the Department of Surgery. You would be working with them every step of the way from seeing patients in the pre-operational consultation to observing procedures performed in the Operating Room, from rounding in the early hours of the day to spending afternoon in the clinics. In addition, you will attend bi-monthly workshops involving talks from medical school professors, hands-on suture and cardiology labs, a presentation from the Director of Admissions of the UC Davis Medical School, and more! Information Session: - Wednesday, October 30, 6-7p in 130 Dwinelle For more information, please visit our website:www.premedsurgery.org ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* *Apply to the Health Service Internship (HSI) program!* * * The Health Service Internship (HSI) program is a 3-unit, P/NP semester-long program that places students in internships with health-related community and non-profit organizations throughout the Bay Area, with emphasis on public health. Past internships have ranged across a variety of interests, including but not limited to internships with youth mentorship programs, resource centers for cancer patients, and refugee health organizations. Intern duties can also vary and are determined by the organizations and their needs, and interns can gain exposure to methods such as direct service provision, health education campaigns and public policy/advocacy, to name a few. Coupled with the internship, students actively learn about major issues in the field of public health in a weekly discussion section. This class offers the intimacy and confidentiality necessary to approach public health from an unbiased, holistic angle. HSI is now accepting applications for interns for Spring 2014. Please email hsicoordina...@gmail.com with any questions you may have. Applications can be found at http://hmap.berkeley.edu/<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhmap.berkeley.edu%2F&h=SAQF6VIFw&s=1> . Applications are due no later than 5 pm on Thursday, October 31st in 112 Hearst Gym, Station 17. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* *L&S Advising Save Your Semester workshop dates* L&S Advising is having three Save Your Semester workshops the week of October 28. These policy driven workshops are open to all L&S students (not just those on probation). They are designed to help L&S students in academic difficulty understand the policy options available to them at this time in the semester and to help students determine their next steps. Resources and support services are also discussed. The policies addressed include grading option changes, exceptional change petitions for those with extenuating circumstances, withdrawals, requesting incomplete grades of instructors, and planning for next semester (repeating courses, requesting reduced study lists, readmission if the student decides to withdraw). The dates are as follows: Tuesday, October 29 3:30pm-4:30pm, 262 Evans Hall Tuesday, October 29 7:30pm-8:30pm, 105 Chavez Wednesday, October 30 6:30pm-7:30pm, Unit 1 All Purpose Room ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* *CMDA accepting applications* Hello Pre-med students! CMDA (Christian Medical Dental Assocation) is accepting applications to go on winter break medical missions until the end of October. To receive an application please email us at cmdaberke...@gmail.com. The winter break trip is heading to Nicaragua from 1/11-1/18. We will be accepting applications at our meetings Wednesday Night in 206 Wheeler, the last day to turn in an application is 10/30. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* *The Onestart Idea Competition is calling all aspiring life science entrepreneurs * Onestart is the largest life science idea competition in the world, with the winning idea awarded $150,000 cash plus free lab space at QB3. The competition is open to anyone under 36 living in the US. Entrants will have the opportunity to form teams across multiple institutions and backgrounds, from academia to business schools. Teams will get to network with leading pharmaceutical companies, venture capitalists, advisory firms and each other; develop key skills in workshops; and be assigned mentors. The winner will be selected by a judging panel of experts. You can learn more at oxbridgebiotech.com/onestart Jointly organized by SR One, the venture capital arm of GlaxoSmithKline, and Oxbridge Biotech Roundtable, the competition is looking for compelling and innovative ideas for medical technology that will meaningfully impact patient lives. Applications are open to anyone under the age of 36 working or studying in the US. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* *Call for Applications to SMART Program for Summer 2014 * To expand the successes of a two-year pilot, doctoral students and undergraduate students from all departments and schools are invited to apply for the SMART (Student Mentoring and Research Teams) Program for summer 2014. The Graduate Division’s innovative SMART Program enables doctoral students to provide mentored research opportunities to undergraduate students. It is designed to broaden the professional development of doctoral students and to foster research skills and forge paths to advanced studies for undergraduates at UC Berkeley. The 2014 SMART Program will run from May 30 to August 8. Each undergraduate mentee will receive funding of $3,500 for 200 hours of work as a student assistant. Each project will receive up to $1,500 for research expenses. Undergraduate Mentee Application Deadline: Friday, February 28, 2014, by 4 p.m. Information on the program and links to application forms are at http://grad.berkeley.edu/smart/. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* *2 Weeks Left To Apply: Big Ideas@Berkeley Contest * *Pre-proposal Deadline 11/5, 5pm (PST)* **Big Ideas@Berkeley is annual innovation contest on the UC Berkeley campus that provides funding, support and inspiration to interdisciplinary teams of undergraduate and graduate students who have creative solutions to address pressing social challenges. Its mission is to support students’ ingenious first attempts at social change and mentor students as their ideas take flight. By seeking out and supporting innovative proposals, Big Ideas has helped contest winners make an impact all over the world. Each year the Contest awards up to $300,000 to students with Big Ideas! ** **This year’s competition features 9 categories that UC Berkeley students are eligible to apply to: ** · Creative Expression for Social Justice<http://bigideas.berkeley.edu/contest/creative/> **** · Clean & Sustainable Energy Alternatives<http://bigideas.berkeley.edu/contest/energy/> **** · Financial Capability<http://bigideas.berkeley.edu/contest/financial/> **** · Global Poverty Alleviation<http://bigideas.berkeley.edu/contest/poverty/> **** · <http://bigideas.berkeley.edu/contest/students/>Improving Student Life <http://bigideas.berkeley.edu/contest/students/>**** · Information Technology for Society<http://bigideas.berkeley.edu/contest/tech/> **** · Open Data <http://bigideas.berkeley.edu/contest/opendata/>**** · Promoting Human Rights <http://bigideas.berkeley.edu/contest/rights/> **** · <http://bigideas.berkeley.edu/contest/up/>Scaling Up Big Ideas<http://bigideas.berkeley.edu/contest/up/> **** ** ** *Pre-proposal submissions are due by November 5th, 2013.***** *For further information on rules, eligibility, guidelines and events, please visit the Big Ideas website: http://bigideas.berkeley.edu. ***** We look forward to hearing your Big Ideas!**** Follow Big Ideas @ Berkeley:**** Facebook <http://on.fb.me/neomAl> I Twitter<http://twitter.com/#!/BigIdeasCAL> ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* *Intern @ SF Health Tech Startup **STD**Triage* ** Are you interested in working for a health tech startup? Have an interest in marketing, business development, tech or public health? Want to change the way people think about STDs? ** We’re looking for part-time interns to join our team.To apply, send us a resume and your weekly availabilities (days and times) to n...@idoc24.com by *November 2nd*. ** For more information, check out www.stdtriage.com ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* -- James S. Depelteau, M.A. Academic Advisor, MCB Undergraduate Affairs University of California, Berkeley Molecular and Cell Biology Office: 3060 Valley Life Sciences Building Mailing: 3040 Valley Life Sciences Building, #3140 Berkeley, CA 94720-3140 P: 510-643-8895 F: 510-643-0365 MCB Undergraduate Website <http://mcb.berkeley.edu/undergrad> Follow MCB on Facebook to learn about upcoming events! <http://www.facebook.com/pages/UC-Berkeley-MCB/10583692563>
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