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Are you passionate, curious and self-motivated?  Interested in
traveling and living abroad? Not sure what path you want to take after
graduation? A Fulbright Program may be right for you!

Established in 1946, the Fulbright Program aims to increase mutual
understanding between the peoples of the United States and other
countries through the exchange of persons, knowledge and skills.

Fulbright offers opportunities for US students to travel overseas: to
study, do research on a self-designed project, or teach English. Grants
are available to over 130 countries. Creative/performing arts projects
are welcome.

Applicants must be US citizens in good health and hold a BA/BS by the
time the grant period begins (for this cycle, that would be Fall 2010).
Language requirements vary by country.

WKU students have been successful in receiving Fulbrights in the past
few years, including English/German major Brooke Shafar, who is
currently teaching in Germany.

To learn how you can apply, attend the Fulbright Information Session:

Wed., April 15, 2009
DUC 308
3:00-4:30

For more information, contact WKU’s Fulbright Application Coordinator,
Jeanne Sokolowski, at jeanne.sokolowski@wku.edu

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  • If I am looking for information about a hot technology topic, Twitter is the best place to find up-to-the-second information. Technorati and Google Blog search are just a little too slow.

    This is why Google wants Twitter. Twitter has enticed people to share news, events, and nothing short of their consciousness with the rest of the world. At the same time it is able to harvest that information into a valuable product to consumers. Google can’t make this. They must buy it (either wholesale or as a service).

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From Jeanne Sokolowski,

I’m currently serving as the WKU Fulbright Application
Coordinator, and have scheduled an information session for interested
students on Wed., April 15, in DUC 308 from 3:00-4:30.

Jeanne promises more later so this is just a tease. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xovLpim_1s&NR=1

Billy Collins: mouse catastrophe, chaos theory in practice.

• Modern Poetry — Open Yale Courses

• Modern Poetry with Professor Langdon Hammer

  About the Course This course covers the body of modern poetry, its characteristic techniques, concerns, and major practitioners. The authors discussed range from Yeats, Eliot, and Pound, to Stevens, Moore, Bishop, and Frost with additional lectures on the poetry of World War One, Imagism, and the Harlem Renaissance. Diverse methods of literary criticism are employed, such as historical, biographical, and gender criticism. view class sessions >> Course Structure: This Yale College course, taught on campus twice per week for 50 minutes, was recorded for Open Yale Courses in Spring 2007.

  About Professor Langdon Hammer Langdon Hammer, chairman of the Department of English at Yale, earned his B.A. and Ph.D. from Yale. He is the author of Hart Crane and Allen Tate: Janus-Faced Modernism and editor of O My Land, My Friends: The Selected Letters of Hart Crane and the Library of America’s, Hart Crane: Complete Poems and Selected Letters. A Guggenheim Fellow, he is currently at work on a biography of the poet James Merrill. His reviews of new poetry and literary criticism regularly appear in The New York Times Book Review and other magazines, and he is poetry editor of The American Scholar.

• Open Culture

• An FYI for art and poetry lovers: “Each month, TATE ETC. publishes new poetry by leading poets such as John Burnside, Moniza Alvi, Adam Thorpe, Alice Oswald and David Harsent who respond to works from the Tate Collection. (Subscribe to the Poem of the Month RSS feed.) This March Roger McGough presents his poem, Cadeau, based on Man Ray’s work of the same name.” Find the art and poem here.

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