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Tuesday, April 8
What: Fourth Annual KU Energy Conference
When: 9 a.m. to 3:15 p.m.
Where: Kansas Union, Ballroom
About: An annual energy usage conference. This year's theme is U.S. energy independence. Admittance is free, and students can register for free using the code kuec123.
What: Bold Aspirations Visitor and Lecture Series; Mariam Thalos
When: 3 p.m.
Where: Spooner Hall, The Commons About: Mariam Thalos, philosophy professor from the University of Utah, presents a lecture titled "The gulf between practical and theoretical reasoning." Admission is free.
Wednesday, April 9
What: Understanding the Crisis in Crimea and Ukraine: Perspectives from Four Disciplines When: 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Where: Kansas Union, Malott room About: Representatives of four different disciplines will discuss current events in Ukraine and the recent Russian annexation of Crimea. Admittance is free.
What: Faculty Staff Wellness Fair
When: 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Where: Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center, Watkins Health Center, Robinson Gymnasium
About: Recreation Services presents a wellness fair for all University faculty and staff members. Free for all.
Thursday, April 10
What: Africa World Documentary Film Festivat
When: 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Where: Wescoe Hall, 3139
About: Also taking place Friday, April
11, from 12 to 9 p.m. in the Spencer
Museum auditorium and Saturday,
April 12, from 2 to 9 p.m. in the
Kansas Union Alderson Auditorium.
Admittance is free. A full schedule of
films is available at kasc.ku.edu.
What: Cafe Castellano
When: 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Where: Henry's Upstairs, 11 E 8th St.
About: An opportunity to converse in Spanish in a comfortable environment. Admittance is free.
Friday, April 11
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What: Replant Mount Oread on the Stauffer-Flint Lawn
When: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Where: Stauffer-Flint Hall, Front Lawn
About: The 2014 Replant Mount Oread project will add between 10 to 15 new trees to the Stauffer-Flint lawn.
Student earns prestigious national scholarship
IKATE MILLER
news@kansan.com
When sophomore Joe Lilik discovered he had won a national scholarship,he originally thought it might have been a joke.
"I was notified on April Fool's Day, actually, which made me think a little bit about it," he said, "but I figured they wouldn't be that mean." Lilik, an atmospheric science major from Bethesda, Md., was selected as a recipient of a national scholarship from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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Joe Lilik, a sophomore from Bethesda, Md., recieved a scholarship from NOAA, which is a two-year tuition and internship scholarship.
experience.
NOAAs' Ernest F. Hollins Scholarship is a two-year tuition and internship scholarship. Lilik explained that, out of approximately 900 applicants across the nation, about 100 are chosen to receive the scholarship.
Recipients receive $8,000 a year towards tuition, as well as a 10-week internship position at a NOAA facility, for which recipients are paid $650 a week. The scholarship also includes travel funds for a mandatory NOAA scholarship orientation in May and conferences where students present a paper or poster, as well as a housing subsidy for recipients who will not live at home during their internship
The first notification Lilik received that he was a scholarship finalist on March 18. After sending his official transcript to NOAA, Lilik had to wait until April to receive the decision that he had been selected as a scholarship winner. "I immediately called home. I was ecstatic," he said. "It's really one of the biggest things I've ever been accepted to, ever done — I mean, it's a national scholarship."
A NOAA mentor will be assigned to Lilik between August and September of this year. This mentor will help him design an internship opportunity for the summer of 2015. Lilik said that, because NOAA has facilities all over the country, he has not yet decided where he would like to have his internship.
The application for the NOAA scholarship was a standard application. Lilik said that it was very similar to the Common Application that many universities use. For him, the most difficult part
"I've got a lot of different interests," he said. "I know the earth science research laboratory is in Boulder, Colorado, and I'm really interested in that one. But [NOAA] has laboratories all over the country that work on different things, so it could be anywhere."
was crafting a personal statement.
"It was a big essay to write," he said. "You try to pack yourself into 1,200 words and get the message you want to get out about yourself. There was a minimum length too, and sometimes I felt like 1 kind of rambled. You want every sentence to be really effective in advocating for yourself."
Dr. Michael Vitevitch, Lilik's Honors advisor, helped him in writing his personal statement. Vitevitch, who is the Senior Associate Director and Honors Faculty Fellow for Research, also wrote a letter of recommendation for Lilik.
“[Lilik] is really laid-back and unassuming,” Vitevitch described. “When you start to talk to him, you see that he has a really quick wit. You get very quickly that he's very sharp. He's got self-confidence and he was willing to take the chance and apply. That willingness to take a risk paid off. This could open up a lot of doors for him.” Dr. David Rahm, an assistant professor of geography, was another faculty member who wrote a letter of recommendation for Lilik. Lilik was a student in two of Rahn's classes.
"He is very inquisitive, so there's a lot of stuff he's very interested in," Rahn said. "He's not afraid to ask the right questions. He's done a lot of
good work in class. He has a worldly view already—he has an open mind."
Climate change is what drew Lilik to an atmospheric science major in the first place. "I've always just had a fascination with weather and climate. Climate change is a really interesting thing to me. It's something that really needs to be addressed. The field's only going to be growing as time goes by."
Lilik is also minoring in theater, which he hopes will continue to play a role in his future. "["Theater] is a big part of my interests," he said. "I'm somebody who wants to use theater in a way that can improve the messaging of science, specifically around climate change. And something
I'm doing on that is approaching the end of the semester, I'm directing a reading of a play that deals with climate change."
As a recipient of the NOAA scholarship, Lilik said that he will continue to explore his career options. "I'm hoping that through the scholarship, I can find a more specific career interest," he explained. "But atmospheric science includes people that study climate change, that predict weather, study air pollution. I don't want to be a weatherman--that's about as much as I know."
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