Enrichment Opportunities
Jefferson Fellows Symposium
The Jefferson Fellows Symposium, now a hallmark of the Jefferson Fellows Selection Weekend in February, gives Jefferson Fellow candidates and members of the University community a chance to engage with second year Jefferson Fellows who have been asked to present their research. The presentations, held in the new Fellows Center, are intimate discussions aimed at giving second and third year Jefferson Fellows the unique opportunity of giving academic talks early in their careers.
The 2011 Jefferson Fellows Symposium
Friday, February 18, 2011
1:00 to 1:45 P.M.
Clark Herndon, “Do Good; Make Money: The Theory of Social Entrepreneurship”
- Foundation Hall
Alex Forrest, “Executive Compensation—Facts and Fables”
- Middendorf Seminar Room
Corlett Wolfe Wood, “Exploring Mosaic Patterns of Selection in the Wild”
- Conference Room C102
Gabrielle Miller, “In Defense of Motherhood: Depression and the Maternal Role in Mercé Rodoreda’s La Plaza del Diamante”
- Conference Room C201
Benjamin Brady, “Illusions of a Benevolent Statesman: Elihu Root & Latin America”
- Kellogg Reading Room
2:00 to 2:45 P.M.
Andrew John Kennedy, “Anticancer Drug Development: A Case Study and Perspective”
- Foundation Hall
Carolyn Beans, “Climate & Human Influences Combined Predict Range Expansion of Invasive Horticultural Plant”
- Middendorf Seminar Room
Elizabeth Peckham, “Paradise Lost: Childhood in Istrian Narratives of Esodo”
- Conference Room C102
Caroline Davis, “Merit-Based Pay Systems—A Way to Ameliorate Problems in Education?”
- Conference Room C201
Forum for Interdisciplinary Dialogue
In the fall of 2008, the Jefferson Fellows Program added a new series, the Forum for Interdisciplinary Dialogue, to its yearly round of activities. The Forum was the idea of a former Jefferson Fellow, who envisioned an annual cross-disciplinary conference that would make it possible for Jefferson Fellows to engage with the larger University community. His plan was for the Fellows to convene a gathering of diverse scholars and citizens to address a topic of broad social or cultural significance. The interplay of their perspectives would illuminate the subject in novel ways, while highlighting both the differences and commonalities of their ways of looking at the world. The inaugural conference, entitled “The Art of Science: the Science of Art,” incorporated contributions from more than a dozen faculty members including a keynote address from Professor Bernie Frischer, the executive director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. This year’s conference is entitled “Icons & Iconoclasm.”
Faculty Interaction
Each Fellow may identify one or more of the University’s most distinguished faculty members outside of the Fellow’s home department whose work relates in some way to his or her own for introduction by a member of the Foundation’s Faculty Advisory Committee. This introduction is intended to allow each Fellow to solicit feedback on his or her research from alternate perspectives and to broaden his or her intellectual resources at the University.
The Foundation also hosts an annual Fellow-Faculty dinner to facilitate Fellow’s interaction with a diverse group of faculty members. Held each fall, this dinner occurs in an intimate yet informal setting that allows Fellows to form relationships both with professors from within and outside of their own disciplines.
Jefferson Journal of Science and Culture
Founded in the wake of the successful 2010 Forum for Interdisciplinary Dialogue, “The Jefferson Journal of Science and Culture” offers Fellows the opportunity to design, edit, and manage an academic journal. The journal publishes articles that address topics of broad interdisciplinary interest, accepting submissions from a wide array of fields and perspectives. Several University of Virginia faculty members serve on the editorial board and approve each issue before publication. The journal has an independent website which can be accessed at www.jeffersonjournal.org.
