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| The STEM Chateaubriand Fellowship targets outstanding PhD students enrolled in an American university who wish to conduct part of their doctoral research in a French laboratory for a 4 to 9 month period. The Office of Science and Technology provide a stipend of up to 1,400 €/month (depending on other sources of funding) and cover the cost of travel and student health insurance.STEM Chateaubriand fellows are selected through a merit-based competition. Priority is given to candidates working toward a “double degree” (cotutelle) with their host institution. All Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) and Health disciplines are eligible. The required level of French remains at the discretion of the host laboratory.
The application deadline is January 31, 2014, for a stay which can begin from September 1, 2014 to April 1, 2015. More information and registration: http://www.chateaubriand-fellowship.org Please visit the OST’s website to see other open calls for proposals : http://www.france-science.org/-Career-opportunities-.html
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| The STEM Chateaubriand Fellowship targets outstanding PhD students enrolled in an American university who wish to conduct part of their doctoral research in a French laboratory for a 4 to 9 month period. The Office of Science and Technology provide a stipend of up to 1,400 €/month (depending on other sources of funding) and cover the cost of travel and student health insurance.STEM Chateaubriand fellows are selected through a merit-based competition. Priority is given to candidates working toward a “double degree” (cotutelle) with their host institution. All Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) and Health disciplines are eligible. The required level of French remains at the discretion of the host laboratory.
The application deadline is January 31, 2014, for a stay which can begin from September 1, 2014 to April 1, 2015. More information and registration: http://www.chateaubriand-fellowship.org Please visit the OST’s website to see other open calls for proposals : http://www.france-science.org/-Career-opportunities-.html
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The government shutdown is creating pain nationwide for small businesses that depend on federal agencies to operate or that were in the middle of securing government-backed loans.
Jeremy Shafer, owner of EnDepth Solutions LLC, a cybersecurity firm in Baltimore, said he might have to lay off some of his 12 full-time workers if the shutdown persists.
The company's customers are all federal agencies, including the Department of Defense. The government's fiscal year starts Oct. 1, and new projects meant to kick off this week are now on hold. "A lot of employees are just sitting around with nothing to do," Mr. Shafer said. "We're losing revenue."
Read more at http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052702303492504579111590750304108-lMyQjAxMTAzMDAwMzEwNDMyWj.html?mod=wsj_valettop_email
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All UMBC Students, Faculty, Staff, and RAC Members:
PLEASE PARDON OUR PROGRESS WHILE WE RENOVATE THE RAC WEIGHT ROOM!
The
UMBC NCAA Division-I Athletics Program is allowing
students/faculty/staff and patrons of the RAC to utilize the Michael S.
Knapp Training Center on the RAC Arena Track level for the following
hours while renovations are completed in the Recreation Weight Room in
October:
Monday 9/30
8am-10am
2pm-3pm
8pm-10pm
Tuesday 10/1
8am-10:30am
11am-12pm
1pm-2pm
3pm-4pm
8pm-10pm
Wednesday 10/2
9am-10am
2pm-3pm
8pm-10pm
Thursday 10/3
8am-10:30am
11am-12pm
1pm-3pm
8pm-10pm
Friday 10/4
9am-10am
1pm-9pm
Saturday 10/5
1pm-7pm
Sunday 10/6
12pm-7pm
Thank you for your patience,
RAC Staff
W3C published today the final report of the Workshop on the Publishing and the Open Web Platform that was held 16-17 September 2013 in Paris. W3C thanks IRI for hosting the event, Intel and Adobe for their sponsorship, and INRIA for their support.
The W3C Workshop in Paris was the third in a series of industry consultation events held by W3C. The goal of this Workshop was first to identify difficulties faced by existing professional publishing organizations in using tools based on the Open Web platform, including the production of printed books, and second to find ways to work on eliminating or ameliorating those difficulties. We received approximately fifty statements of interest and position papers for the two-day event, and approximately sixty people attended the Workshop. Part of the workshop were panels around a selected subset of the submissions, part was organized as open discussions.
Many of the issues raised during the discussions will provide additional input to the work started by the W3C Digital Publishing Interest Group, collecting specific technical requirements of the publishing industry for the technologies of the Open Web Platform. Furthermore, it was felt that an additional activity on education and outreach may be necessary; indeed, one of the challenges of the Publishing Industry overall is to improve technical expertise in-house, also covering the new possibilities offered by the Open Web Platform (e.g., advanced CSS control for complex typography, or interactivity of electronic books provided by scripting), as well as the missing contacts the industry may have with Web Designers and Web Application Developers. It was also felt that W3C should continue to establish liaisons with various industry organizations in the area, and also to reach out to librarians and archivists to collaborate on, for example, the metadata issues of the publishing industry. We anticipate new actions in those areas in the months to come.
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