As the result of recent gifts supporting our efforts in internationalization, the Lampert Institute for Civic and Global Affairs is now able to support faculty scholarship in areas that relate to the Institute’s broad mission. Please join me in congratulating the following faculty members for having been awarded a Lampert Faculty Scholarship to help support their research over the coming months.

• Beth Parks, Department of Physics and Astronomy, for her project “Measuring Air Quality in Uganda”
• Ryan Solomon, Department of Writing and Rhetoric, for his project “Xenophobia in the Rainbow Nation: Citizenship and Belonging in Post-Apartheid South Africa”
• Emilio Spadola, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, for his project titled “Spiritual Security: Globalization and the Moroccan Sufi Revival”
• Kira Stevens, Department of History, for her project “Migration and the Transformation of Identity: Swiss Colonies in 19th- and 20th-Century Russia”

More details on the availability of these funds can be found here.

Members of the community who wish to learn more about the Faculty Scholars program should contact David McCabe, the current Director, or Jason Kawall, who takes over as Director of the Lampert Institute on July 1st.

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Sohee Ryuk ’15 is one of just 50 students nationwide who was awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship for a year of independent, purposeful exploration and travel outside of the United States.

Ryuk was a Lampert Fellow in summer 2014 when she completed a project titled A Conflicted Narrative: Textbook and Monumental Representations in the Korean War in South Korea.

A native of Seongnam, Republic of Korea, Ryuk’s Watson project is called Unveiling the Layers of Identity: Ethnic Koreans in the Former Soviet Union, and is designed to allow her to explore the complex and multifaceted identities of ethnic Koreans across the former Soviet Union. She plans to travel to Kazakhstan, Russia, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan.

Learn more about Ryuk’s Watson fellowship

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“The Scientific Pursuit of Happiness,”
February 23, 2015, 4:14, 105 Lawrence Hall
David G. Myers, John Dirk Werkman Professor of Psychology, Hope College

“Traditional Roots of Happiness and What Public Policy can do to Enhance it”
March 26, 2015, 4:15, 105 Lawrence Hall
Ronald Inglehart, Research Professor in the Center for Political Studies and a Professor of Political Science from the University of Michigan,

The Myth of Happiness: What Should Make you Happy, but Doesn’t, What Shouldn’t Make you Happy, but Does
April 10, 2015, 4:15,  101 Meyerhoff Auditorium
Sonja Lyubomirsky, Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside. Co-sponsored by the Division of Natural Sciences

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The Lampert Fellowships for Summer Research provide students with a $4,500 stipend, plus funding for travel, room, and board, to enable them to work on topics aligned with the mission of the Institute, which broadly speaking is to engage the liberal arts in the study of civic and global affairs.

The project should culminate in a paper of about 12,000-15,000 words, completed before the start of fall classes. Papers should be of such quality that they might be later published or form an integral part of a senior honors thesis, and they will be printed together in an annual volume of our Lampert Summer Fellows. Fellows will present their work at an on-campus symposium in mid-September. The fellowship also enables the recipient to present the project at a major scholarly conference.

For more information, interested students should contact David McCabe by email, at dmccabe@colgate.edu.

Applying for a Fellowship

All materials listed below should be sent in PDF format to Ms. Jean Getchonis (jgetchonis@colgate.edu)
Deadline: 5:00, Monday, February 16

Applicants will be notified by March 14.

Please include:

1. A cover letter and description of your project (no more than 5 pages) stating:
   • the research question motivating your study and its significance (this should include a brief survey of the literature);
   • how you plan to approach this question, and why you believe you will be able to provide a cogent response;
   • and, a bibliography.
2. Your unofficial transcript.
3. Two letters of recommendation (preferably from members of Colgate faculty).
4. A letter of sponsorship from a Colgate faculty member, confirming that she or he will supervise your research project, assist with its design, and provide on-going advice throughout the process of research and writing up to the point that the final paper is presented. (The sponsor is normally one of the persons writing a letter of recommendation.) For their supervision throughout this process, faculty sponsors of Lampert Fellows have the choice of receiving either a $1,000 stipend or partial SLA credit.
5. Travel Plans: If you believe that travel will significantly advance your research project, you should indicate this in your application. Precise details (dates, modes of travel, etc.) are not needed, but you should provide a clear sense of how this travel would advance your research. The presence or absence of travel plans has no bearing on the success of your application.

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With support from the Lampert Institute, students can apply for scholarships to support intensive summer language study. These scholarships are meant to support current Colgate students in one or more of the following ways:

• Students who are interested in an intensive and immersive language study over the summer;
• Students who want to study a language not currently taught at Colgate;
• Students who would like to advance their language study in order to participate on a language-based Colgate study group;
• Advanced students who wish to study beyond the levels currently offered at Colgate or to conduct independent research in a foreign language;
• Students whose language study at Colgate has been interrupted by course conflicts or illness;
• Students who would like to participate in a language and cultural immersion program abroad.

Language programs located both within the U.S. and abroad may be supported. Students should work with Colgate professors to determine a reputable language program, and one that fills an important curricular need for the student. Funds can be made available to cover the program fees and travel costs associated with participating in the program.

Students can request up to $3,000 to support the costs of the intensive language summer program and/or travel to the program. Priority will be given to students on financial aid at Colgate. Requests by students studying languages that are consistent with the mission of the Lampert Institute are especially encouraged; the Lampert Institute promotes language study and travel in the following regions: Africa, East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, or South/Central America. However, students studying languages from other regions will also be considered.

The Language Council at Colgate will review student proposals and make funding decisions. For more information, interested students should contact Nicole Simpson, Associate Dean of the Faculty for International Initiatives, by email (nsimpson@colgate.edu). Applications should be submitted to Professor Simpson by February 7^th.

Applying for a Summer Language Scholarship

Please include:

1. A personal statement describing the program in which you would like to participate and the reasons for doing so. Please provide specific details, including the name and description of the program, dates of participation, the level of language instruction offered at the program, and the estimated costs of the program (including travel costs). Also discuss your goals for participating in the program, and how the program will supplement your academic plan. Please indicate in the statement if you are on financial aid.
2. One letter of recommendation from a Colgate faculty member that provides a rationale for participating in the language program and an assessment of the student’s ability for successfully completing the program. The letter should be emailed directly to Professor Simpson.

If you are considering transferring the credit back to Colgate, you must work with the registrar’s office to get pre-approval for the credit well before the program begins. The transfer credit will follow the transfer credit polices at Colgate. Transfer credit that is not pre-approved by Colgate will not be considered after the program is complete. Upon completion of the intensive summer language program, students will be asked to write a brief report about their experience.

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The Lampert Institute for Civic and Global Affairs announces the creation of the Lampert Faculty Scholars program and invites applications from faculty seeking financial support for research advancing the broad mission of the Lampert Institute, which is to promote greater understanding of important issues relating to civic affairs and public policy.

Lampert Faculty Scholars will be awarded funds up to $10,000 to support international travel and on-site research. Up to three scholarships will be awarded annually. The primary activity supported by the Institute is the funding of travel in the service of research by tenure-stream or tenured faculty at Colgate University.

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On October 9, 2014, Kent Greenawalt of the Columbia Law School delivered a lecture at Colgate titled “Religious Exemptions for Laws Barring Discrimination against Same-Sex Couples and Requiring Insurance for Contraceptives: Should They Exist and Who Should Be Eligible?”

As same-sex marriage is made legal in more and more states across the country, and with a healthcare system in flux, it is not uncommon to find laws at odds with the religious beliefs of many citizens. As Professor Greenawalt observed, this raises vital questions of political philosophy regarding how the law should treat religious and other objectors.

Download the full transcript of Kent Greenawalt’s lecture.

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Marielba Casabona
Living in the Shadows – The Socioemotional Impact of Legal Status on Unauthorized Youth’s Educational Aspirations
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Jimmy S. Juarez
Looking Closely, but Getting Farther Away: A Critical Analysis on the Impacts of the Bolivian Government’s framing strategies in the Indigenous Territory and National Park Isiboro Secure
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Liza Paudel
The Transition of Former Rebel Combatants in the Nepalese Civil War into Civilian Life
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Sohee Ryuk
A Conflicted Narrative: Textbook and Monumental Representations in the Korean War in South Korea
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Kori Strother
The Role of Bridge Programs in the Academic and Social Transition to College of Underrepresented Students
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“Just How Legal Should Marijuana Be?”
September 10, 2014, 4:15 p.m., 105 Lawrence Hall
Mark Kleiman, professor of public policy at UCLA, author of “Marijuana: Costs of Abuse, Costs of Control” among other recent titles, will give a lecture entitled “Just How Legal Should Marijuana Be?” He teaches courses on methods of policy analysis, on imperfectly rational decision-making at the individual and social level, and on drug abuse and crime control policy. His current focus is on reducing crime and incarceration by substituting swiftness and predictability for severity in the criminal justice system generally and in community-corrections institutions specifically. Recent projects include studies of the HOPE probation system and of the relationship between drug policy and violence in Afghanistan and Mexico. — Campus calendar

“The Limits of Freedom”
September 23, 2014, 4:15 p.m., 105 Lawrence Hall
The Lampert Institute of Civic and Global Affairs, as part of the Arts and Humanities Division Colloquium, present Sarah Conly, Associate Professor of Philosophy from Bowdoin College who will speak about “The Limits of Freedom.” She has written books such as “Against Autonomy: Justifying Coercive Paternalism,” Cambridge University Press, 2013;” and “Three Cheers for the Nanny State,” Op-ed, New York Times, March 25, 2013, “Coercive Paternalism in Health Care: Against Freedom of Choice,” in Public Health Ethics. Please join us. — Campus calendar

“Beyond the Gross National Product: What the New “Science” of Happiness can Contribute to Economics and to Policy”
September 25, 2014, 4:15 p.m., Persson Auditorium
Professor Carol Graham is the Leo Pasvolsky Senior fellow and a research fellow in the study of labor (IZA) at the Brookings Institute. She has written a book titled “The Pursuit of Happiness: An Economy of Well-Being” and will discuss some of her research issues such as poverty, inequality, public health, and novel measures of well-being. — Campus calendar

“Religious Convictions and Public Policy”
October 9, 2014, 4:15 p.m., 207 Lathrop
Kent Greenawalt, university professor of the Columbia Law School, interests include constitutional law and jurisprudence, with special emphasis on church and state, freedom of speech, legal interpretation, and criminal responsibility will come to Colgate to lecture about religious conviction and public policy. Editor-in-chief, Columbia Law Review, before joining the Columbia faculty in 1965, he was law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice John M. Harlan and subsequently spent part of a summer as an attorney with the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights in Jackson, Mississippi. From 1966 to 1969, he served on the Civil Rights Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
— Campus calendar — Read transcript

“Snoop Dreams: The Expression of Personality in Everyday Contexts”
October 27, 2014, 4:15 p.m., 27 Perrson Hall
Samuel D. Gosling is a personality/social psychologist who has three main areas of interest: Connections between people and the physical spaces in which they live, personality in nonhuman animals, and new methods for obtaining data useful for research in the social sciences. More information will follow. — Campus calendar

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The Lampert Fellowships for Summer Research provide students with a $4,500 stipend, plus funding for travel, room, and board, to enable them to work on topics aligned with the mission of the Institute, which broadly speaking is to engage the liberal arts in the study of civic and global affairs.

The project should culminate in a paper of about 12,000-15,000 words, completed before the start of fall classes. Papers should be of such quality that they might be later published or form an integral part of a senior honors thesis, and they will be printed together in an annual volume of our Lampert Summer Fellows. Fellows will present their work at an on-campus symposium in mid-September. The fellowship also enables the recipient to present the project at a major scholarly conference.

For more information, interested students should contact David McCabe by email, at dmccabe@colgate.edu.

Applying for a Fellowship

All materials listed below should be sent in PDF format to Ms. Jean Getchonis (jgetchonis@colgate.edu)
Deadline: 5:00, Friday, February 28th

Applicants will be notified by March 14.

Please include:

1. A cover letter and description of your project (no more than 5 pages) stating:
   • the research question motivating your study and its significance (this should include a brief survey of the literature);
   • how you plan to approach this question, and why you believe you will be able to provide a cogent response;
   • and, a bibliography.
2. Your unofficial transcript.
3. Two letters of recommendation (preferably from members of Colgate faculty).
4. A letter of sponsorship from a Colgate faculty member, confirming that she or he will supervise your research project, assist with its design, and provide on-going advice throughout the process of research and writing up to the point that the final paper is presented. (The sponsor is normally one of the persons writing a letter of recommendation.) For their supervision throughout this process, faculty sponsors of Lampert Fellows have the choice of receiving either a $1,000 stipend or partial SLA credit.
5. Travel Plans: If you believe that travel will significantly advance your research project, you should indicate this in your application. Precise details (dates, modes of travel, etc.) are not needed, but you should provide a clear sense of how this travel would advance your research. The presence or absence of travel plans has no bearing on the success of your application.

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