We are pleased to announce that two PSY majors, Hannah Caudill and Johanna Alexander, were each recognized with 2020 President’s Distinguished Service Awards! Congrats to Hannah and Johanna for this major university honor!
In addition, Johanna Alexander also received a Fulbright Award to study in Korean later this year. Because of COVID-19, it’s unclear whether she will be able to use her Fulbright this fall, but receiving a Fulbright is quite a major honor. Congrats!
Each year, the Department of Psychology hosts its Diversity Celebration Week, to celebrate diversity and its important contributions to our understanding of the world. Many events are planned for the week, and we encourage you attend as many as possible (see list below for days, times, rooms, and student groups affiliated with it). Also, please announce these in your classes and encourage your students to attend them as well. The event times are distributed across the week to encourage broad attendance. If you would like to give extra credit for attendance at one or more of these events, we can scan student IDs.
Events include:
Cleveland State University and Lorain County Community College are co-hosting the 34th annual Ohio Undergraduate Psychology Research Conference on April 4, 2020 at Lorain County Community College (near Elyria OH).
The deadline for student project registration is March 27.
The form to submit projects is on the conference website’s main page, and the conference attendance registration is also located there, at the bottom of the page.
Both can be found here: https://ouprc.com/
On Thursday, March 15, the Institute for the Environment and Sustainability (IES) will host the 2020 Drs. Gene & Carol Willeke Frontiers in Environmental Science Distinguished Lecture. This year’s Willeke Lecture will be Peggy Shepard who will be speaking on Climate Justice.
When: Thursday, March 5, 6:00 pm
Where: 152 Shideler Hall
Peggy Shepard is the co-founder and executive director of WE ACT (https://www.weact.org/) for Environmental Justice. She has successfully combined grassroots organizing, environmental advocacy, and environmental health community-based participatory research to become a national leader in advancing environmental policy and environmental justice in urban communities.
Low-income communities and communities of color tend to produce disproportionately lower amounts of emissions contributing to climate change. Despite this, they face the greatest and earliest impacts of climate change while typically having the least political power and financial resources to address the issue.
Climate Justice refers to addressing climate change in a just and equitable manner and ensuring that low-income communities and communities do not bear a disproportionate burden of climate change. Ms Shepard will address how we provide these communities with the resources and power to combat the detrimental effects of climate change.
2020 Multicultural Student Leadership Conference
When: Saturday, February 29, 9am-5pm
Where: Shriver Center, 701 E. Spring Street, Oxford, OH
Description: This annual student-led conference provides students with the opportunity to increase their intercultural awareness, develop leadership skills, and provide resource and information sharing among students to strengthen the presence of diverse students and multicultural organizations on campus.
Diversity in the Classroom: Evidence-Based Strategies for Success
When: Wednesday, March 4, 1:30pm-3pm
Where: Laws Hall, 320, 551 E. High St., Oxford, OH 45056
Description: Diversity in the classroom is both an opportunity and a challenge. This workshop is intended for faculty, student affairs professionals, and university administrators, all of whom have an interest in student success, and is presented by the Center for American and World Cultures and CTE’s Faculty Learning Community on Intergroup Dialogue for Faculty, Staff, and Administrators. Registration for this event is required.
Libraries: The Power of Our Story
When: Thursday, March 12, 12pm-1pm
Where: King Library, 320, 151 S. Campus Ave., Oxford, OH 45056
Description: This free event celebrates Women’s History Month as we welcome Dr. Carolyn Jefferson Jenkins for her lecture on The Power of Our Story, a lecture that addresses the importance of voting. This event is sponsored by Miami University Libraries, Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies, Center for Diversity and Inclusion Women’s Initiatives.
I recently added a new menu item on the PSY Chair’s Blog entitled, “Key Links.” When clicking on this item, visitors will be presented with a menu of “key live links” for frequently-used department functions (e.g., completing a form for an alternative teaching or office hour plan, making a department funding request, signing up one’s classroom for being visitor friendly). These links will be updated periodically as needed. Hopefully this modification will put key functions “one click away” rather than forcing people to search through months of posts or scrolling through many screens of information. If there are “key links” that you’d like to see added to this new menu, please send me an email. Thanks! Allen
On Monday, March 2, and Wednesday, March 4, the ELLWC (English Language Learner Writing Center ) will host the workshop Possible Approaches to the Assessment of International (ESL) Students’ Writing in Courses Across the Disciplines. In this workshop, attendees will explore factors influencing assessment decisions and approaches to grading the writing produced by ESL (English as a Second Language) students in content-area courses. Attendees are asked to bring a writing assignment to assess and grade in light of the discussion.
The workshop is from 10:05am to 11:20am in King 134 (AIS Room). To register, click this link.
For details, please contact Lora Bobrova at the English Language Learner Writing Center (ELLWC)
When Religion Gets It Right: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sunday, February 23rd @ 3pm-4:30pm
Where:The Interfaith Center at Miami University, 16 South Campus Avenue, Oxford (Ohio) 45056
Description:This free event invites you to meet and converse with Rev. Dr. Jack Sullivan, Jr., Executive Director of the Ohio Council of Churches, as he asks the audience to consider the Civil Rights work of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as a sign of love, justice, and hope, and a moment when religion got it right.
Understanding White Nationalism Through Data Science
Monday, February 24th @ 2:50pm-4:10pm
Where:Upham Hall, 351, 100 Bishop Circle, Oxford
Description:This event is led by guest speaker, Emily Gorcenski, one of 2018’s most influential feminists. She mixes data science and social justice issues in order to create a more positive and inclusive environment.
Black History Month Banquet
Thursday, February 27th @ 3pm-9pm
Where:Armstrong Student Center, Donald W. Fritz Pavilion A/B, 550 E. Spring Street, Oxford
Description:This free event features keynote speaker Robert Hendricks III, Miami Alumni and is sponsored by The Black Leadership Coalition and the Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion
Lessons in Drag: An Evening with Lawhore Vagistan
Friday, February 28th @ 6pm
Where:Peabody Hall, Leonard Theater, 701 Western College Dr., Oxford,
Description:This free event brings in Kareem Khubchandani along with his alter ego LaWhore Vagistan with whom he has performed many times to shine the light on drag and its implications.
The Department of Global and International Studies invites applications for the Adrian Gaskins Memorial Scholarship for International Study Abroad. There is a strong preference to select students of historically underrepresented populations, with financial need, who have not previously studied abroad. Spring semester awards will be made for Summer 2020 study abroad programs. GPA will not be a disqualifying factor for awarding the scholarship. The application deadline is March 20, 2020.
Every semester, Miami provides Admissions with a list of courses that prospective students (and sometimes, their parents) can attend. We encourage you to consider whether you’d be willing to allow guests in your courses this spring semester. If you are willing to do so, please complete the Google doc entering the requested courses information. Please make sure that the Google doc is on the CAS tab when entering your information.