Dworkin died

here's one obit: http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2013/feb/14/ronald-dworkin

(not the cover illustration for justice in robes)

IASH Fellowships

The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH).

IASH offers Faculty Fellowships, Graduate Student Fellowships, Undergraduate Student Fellowships, and Visiting Faculty Fellowships. All IASH fellowships are residential. They involve a commitment on the fellow's part to present his or her work in the Fellows' Seminar, which is open to the public. Seminar meetings are weekly, on Wednesdays, noon to 1:30pm in the IASH Conference Room, LN-1106, and fellows are expected to attend it regularly.

Please visit the IASH website for more information http://www2.binghamton.edu/iash/

Application Deadlines

March 8, 2013 ..............	BU Faculty Fellowships
March 29, 2013 .............	BU Graduate Student Fellowships BU Undergraduate Student Fellowships Visiting Fellowships

Graduate Student Fellowships

IASH offers two types of of Graduate Students Fellowships to Binghamton University Ph.D. students. Up to two stipended Graduate Student Fellowships a semester fund a competitive merit based Dissertation Fellowship (DF). Students applying for the IASH DF will be ABD, their funding from Binghamton University including the IASH DF will not exceed 10 semesters if entered with BA/BS, or 8 semesters if entered with MA/MS, and expect to be working full time on their dissertations in the semester of the fellowship. Up to two unstipended Graduate Students Fellowships are available to students who are released to full time research by a departmental DF or an external grant.

2013-2014 Graduate Fellowship Application Form (.doc, 240kb)

oops forgot.

I didn't post for Job Candidate #2 and Job Candidate #3, but Job Candidate #4 is coming up:

Tues, 14 Feb
5-7pm
UUW 324

w/ grad student meeting time presumably the same as with the previous ones

GAFD and you

the Graduate Application for Degree, Spring 2013 is online --
you should do this right now if you think you might be taking a degree at the end of this semester

link is: here


also, don't forget this:

Confirmation of enrollment by Feb. 1

Financial Aid and Student Records asks all faculty and academic departments to remind their students of the Confirmation of Enrollment requirement. If students do not confirm enrollment via BU BRAIN by 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1, they will be dropped from all spring 2013 courses.

colloquium

colloquium tomorrow! (Thu 31 Jan)

Job Candidate #1

UUW 324
5pm-7pm

happy new semester!

hi everybody, and happy spring (such as it is).

I don't have any Spring-appropriate images, so here is something from the online personnel training compliance system:

Celebrity photo

here is a picture of Aaron Bell with Benedict Cumberbatch

that is all.