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Summer fellowships: Cognitive Studies in Context Program (CSICP) Summer 1998 Fellowships, providing up to $3,000 per selected CSICP fellow, will be available on a competitive basis to undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty members to support development of additional modules for the cognitive studies, psychology and computer science laboratory undergraduate course sequence: COGST/PSYCH/COM S 201-301 http://node160.psych.cornell.edu/courses/201/. Modules should employ human-computer interactions to examine in real-life contexts fundamental questions in cognitive science, providing laboratory exercises that will contribute to an understanding of the relevance of cognitive theory and basic research to problems encountered in naturalistic and ecologically relevant settings. Six to eight summer 1998 CSICP fellows will be selected from their written proposals after evaluation by a CSICP faculty committee; review will begin on March 23. Proposals must describe experiments to be done in the Uris Hall CSICP teaching laboratory during two to four weeks, doable with as many as 20 to 30 undergraduates at a time, and should contain detailed information on the design of the module and the needed equipment and resources. Selected proposals should yield a fully complete and functional module by Aug. 14, 1998. Submit proposals to: Cognitive Studies Program, 235 Uris Hall, or cogst@cornell.edu. The full text of the call for proposals, including course and present module descriptions, suggestions for new modules and hardware information, is available at http://www.cogstud.cornell.edu/CSIC/proposals.html.

Community Spirit Awards: In order to recognize students who have made strong public service contributions to local community agencies, the Public Service Center is accepting nominations for the first annual Community Spirit Awards. Up to 30 awards will be given in five categories. Any Cornell student involved in the community work-study program or who volunteers in Ithaca or in Tompkins County is eligible. Nominations will be accepted at the Public Service Center, 255-1148, until March 18.

Today's Dragon Day traffic: The expected appearance of a large dragon on campus this afternoon will create staggered road closings on central campus between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Motorists are advised to avoid driving through central campus on University, East and Central avenues, and Tower, Garden and Campus roads. The Dragon Day parade route has been changed from previous years to avoid its passing by McGraw Tower, where renovations are underway. The dragon, with its attendant crowd, will leave its lair in Rand Hall at approximately 1 p.m. and march down East Avenue to Tower Road (now open), to Garden Avenue, to Campus Road, then up East Avenue to University, and then onto the Arts Quad from Central Avenue. Be warned.

March 12, 1998