UNC Student Organization for Undergraduate Literature

We want to tell you about the small grants that one undergraduate in your department received during the 2006-07 academic year and ask you to inform other undergraduates in your department of these opportunities. The Office for Undergraduate Research (OUR) offers small grants as partial funding to support undergraduates who are presenting their research at professional conferences (Undergraduate Travel Awards), or who need essential supplies to go forward with a feasible research project (Undergraduate Research Support). Following is the name of the student in your department who received funding, their faculty mentor, the title of their project, and the nature of the award:

Student: Madeline Walter
Faculty mentor: McKay Coble, Dramatic Art
Project title: Exploring Character and the Creative Process through the Intersection of Performance and Fiction
Type of funding received: Research supplies - Printing of short story for distribution to play audience members for online comparative survey

Please encourage the undergraduates in your department who are engaged in their own research to be aware of these Undergraduate Travel Awards and Undergraduate Research Support grants. For more information and an application for these grants, please visit http://www.unc.edu/depts/our/undergrad_travel.html for the Travel Awards and/or http://www.unc.edu/depts/our/undergrad_research.html for the Research Support grants. Applications received by the 15th of the month are reviewed by the end of that month. Thank you

Dear English Majors, I have created a new page with information about advising. There are several options for getting advice, including some online sessions on Thursday nights before registration and some times to meet with faculty. There are still plenty of opportunities to pitch in and offer your wisdom as well, so if you can help with peer advising, let me know. Some of the information is still under development, but you can begin at

The Spring 2008 Registration Advising Page.

Some might be interested in these fellowships:

http://oisss.unc.edu/services_programs/1938/

Good luck if you apply

Dear SOUL members, we need to recruit some English majors with some experience in the program to serve as peer advisors for the upcoming spring registration. The plan is to have online advising chats on the SOUL Web site during the weeks before advising, so we need people who can be online in the evening on Oct 4 & 5, 11 & 12, and 25 & 26. I'm thinking of 9-12pm, but we could make adjustments.

If you would be willing to chat with other majors on any or all of these evenings, please leave a comment here with dates and times you would be available or write to to iamdan@unc.edu and let me know. Thanks,

Dan

I just thought I'd post this to help get out the word:

The Office for Undergraduate Research (OUR) gave Undergraduate Travel Awards and Undergraduate Research Support Awards to 22 majors in 10 departments during 2006-07. OUR offers these small grants as partial funding to support undergraduates who are presenting their research at professional conferences (Undergraduate Travel Awards), or who need essential supplies to go forward with a feasible research project (Undergraduate Research Support).

For more information and an application for these grants, please visit http://www.unc.edu/depts/our/undergrad_travel.html for the Travel Awards and/or http://www.unc.edu/depts/our/undergrad_research.html for the Research Support Awards. Applications received by the 15th of the month are reviewed by the end of that month.

Just a quick link to the piece about our first SOUL event of the year. Great to get some more publicity for the group.

Just thought I'd post a link about the recent study reporting that only 1 in 4 Americans read a book last year. The thoughts on this Web site suggest that people do still read, but that literacy is changing. That seems pretty straightforward. Still as English majors it seems worth asking what we lose (or gain) when we switch to reading graphic novels, Web sites, etc. instead of books.

There will be an organizational meeting on Wednesday the 29th at 4:00pm in Donovan Lounge. If you can't make it to the meeting or if you have ideas that we might take up regarding the organization, feel free to add a comment and pass them along.

Wow, I really enjoyed the meeting today. I'm still thinking about the possibilities for the group. My sense of our discussion was that people are interested in giving the group a broad appeal--opening it to anyone interested in literature, trying to break down barriers between faculty, students, grad students, etc.

My memory is that people are interested in bringing in authors/ speakers and setting up other events. Things like trips to local plays or movies sound great. People also seemed eager to help with advising for other English majors, publicity for events, etc.

I forgot to mention that I've got some nice podcasting equipment and PAs and such that we can use to put on some regular events. It can be a lot of fun.

I'm sure I'm forgetting something, so toss out other ideas I missed or new possibilities we might focus on.

We will hold our the first meeting of the year on the opening day of the semester, Tuesday the 21st. We will meet in Donovan lounge on the second floor in Greenlaw at 4:00. Hope to see you there.