March 2007 Newsletter Contents

1. From the Director (Renate Holub)

Dear ISF community and friends,
The Spring Semester has been fabulous thus far. I am running into many ISF students in the cafes around campus who are telling me read more ...

2. ISF Advice (Dawn Strough)

The deadline for changing your grading option from a letter grade to P/NP is just around the corner, and this is one of those decisions students tend to agonize over. So, if you are facing this decision read more ...

3. Opportunities & Events

• Opportunities
  Want to make a competitive application to one of the following programs?
  Here are some hints from Leah Carroll, Program Coordinator of the Haas Scholars Program read more ...
  
• Events
  Thursday, March 15: "The Peacekeepers"
  "The Peacekeepers" is a brilliant documentary film that provides an intimate and dramatic portrait of the international, political struggle to save a "failed" state. read more ...
  

4. Student Research

• Shawna Cooper: I will be double majoring in ISF and Public Health in May of 2007. One of the hardest decisions of my life was to return to school after having had a successful career of over eight years in project management. I was barely read more ...
• Yoram Savion-Royant: I am a Senior in the ISF major, and my area of concentration is "New Media, Art and Social Change." In the Spring of 2006, I was awarded a scholarship to study in Senegal, West Africa. Being born in France read more ...

5. Senior Thesis and Faculty Profiles

• Natalie Hayden & Allison Lackey: Natalie Hayden and Allison Lackey are 3rd years in the ISF Major. While Natalie's concentration includes technology, society, and culture, Allison is focusing on read more ...
• Professor Renate Holub is the thesis advisor to both Allison and Natalie, thus providing them with guidance and substantive input. read more ...

6. Alumn Profiles

• James Bryant: Choosing the right major is a daunting task. The most disappointing feeling one can imagine upon graduating from college is to reflect back and feel that one has learned nothing read more ...
• Brooke Tone Boswell: As an undergraduate at UC Berkeley, I created an Interdisciplinary Studies Field (ISF) Major in Comparative Conceptions of Nature, because from a young age I had been deeply interested in culture and nature and how the two intersect. read more ...