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Miami’s Diversity Symposium next week

The President and Provost invite all members of the Miami community to attend the diversity symposium on the Friday of fall break (Oct. 13). There is no departmental meeting or colloquium on that day to help accommodate this important event in our schedules. Ginger Wickline and Vaishali Raval will be involved as presenters, as well. From the sponsors:

The President, Provost, Office for Institutional Diversity, Center for Teaching Excellence, the Office of Global Initiatives and the College of Arts and Science invite all members of the Miami community to continue the discussion for the 2016-2017 Inclusion Series. This interactive one-day professional development program is designed to provide knowledge, develop skills and engender attitudes necessary to help create a more inclusive Miami. Aligned with Foundation Goal 2 of the Miami 2020 Plan, the Symposium is one step toward creating an even more culturally competent community where members move beyond boundaries to welcome, seek, and understand others from different backgrounds and perspectives.

Please see the website for more information. Note that registration closes this Friday (Oct. 6).

Save the date: CAS recognition football game

From the Dean’s office, a night to support Miami athletics in appreciation of our achievements:

The first one was such a hit that our friends in Intercollegiate Athletics have invited us back for more! We’re now planning the second annual “CAS Football Game,” to be held on Senior Night (the last home game of the year), Wednesday, November 15 against Eastern Michigan; kickoff will be at either 7:00 or 8:00pm.

Note that this is separate from the Faculty & Staff Appreciation Day for the game against Buffalo on October 15, for which you can purchase tickets at special prices, starting at just $10, by using promo code FACSTAFF17.

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship panel

If you are considering the possibility of your graduate students competing for predoctoral fellowships, you may be highly interested in this panel discussion. This has been announced in ProSem and the first-year students have been encouraged to attend in preparation for the grant training they will receive this year. From Anne Schauer, OARS:

The Office for the Advancement for Research & Scholarship will host a panel discussion on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Wednesday, September 27, from 3:00 to 4:30 pm in the ORU space of King Library (First floor- Suite 134).

In addition to covering basic information about applying for the NSF GRFP, the discussion will offer participants an opportunity to ask questions of recent fellows and mentors.

Apollo Astronaut lands at Miami next week

The Astronaut Scholarship is a $10,000 prize awarded annually to Miami students in STEM, awarded this year to Jana Cable (MBI) and Avnika Bali (CHM). Each year, an astronaut visits Miami to present the award and give a public lecture. This year we are honored to host Charles Duke, Jr., Brigadier General, USAF, Retired. He was the lunar module pilot for Apollo 16, and the tenth and youngest person to walk on the moon.

As an aside, dinner with an astronaut is by far the best perk of any committee service (National Fellowships Committee)! Hope to see some of you at the lecture.

Opportunities for your female students

There are two opportunities that might be of interest to your female undergraduates. From Monica Schneider, POL:

I am part of a group of people bringing Elect Her to Miami’s campus on November 11. Elect Her is a training program that trains college women to run for student government on their college or university campuses. Research has shown that women who run for student body elections in college are more likely to run for office as adults. The training addresses the disparity between the high percentage of women in colleges and universities and their low percentage in student governments (and in government more generally).

The daylong Elect Her training teaches college women why more women are needed in student government and provides them with the skills to run successful student body campaigns. Students learn how to create campaign messages and communicate them effectively as well as how to reach out and mobilize voters on campus. They will also meet with student government and an elected official. The organization is geared towards student government elections, but the skills will still be relevant for seniors or those thinking of a political career after Miami.

If you know a student that you believe would benefit from the program, please provide their information in this form. They will receive a personalized invitation to attend the workshop, which is free for students. Research shows that women need to be asked – and asked several times! – before they think they will be good enough to run for any type of office. If you know of an excellent student, please don’t hesitate to contact them directly (in person/by email) in addition to submitting their name.

Thanks for helping me get a great turnout for this exciting event! I’m hoping that everyone I know can invite 4-5 women – especially since I know you know a lot of great students on this campus!

And in case you missed her email, from April:

We are very excited to be starting the second year of the Miami Body Project. The Body Project is a cognitive dissonance-based body-acceptance program designed to help college-age women resist cultural pressures to conform to the thin ideal and reduce their pursuit of unrealistic bodies. The Body Project is well supported by research as an effective prevention program for disordered eating (more details here).

We will be offering multiple Body Project workshops this semester and I could really use your help to get the word out. I created a PowerPoint slide that provides information about upcoming Body Project workshops, and I would be very grateful if you would consider showing this slide in your classes, lab meetings, etc. [See April’s email or contact her for the slide].

Please let me know if you have any questions. Also, please consider “liking” our Facebook page and/or following us on Instagram #MiamiBodyProject.

April is also looking for peer leaders for the Miami Body Project. Peer Leaders will be expected to attend a training (that will take 1.5 days) and run 1-3 Body Project workshops over the course of this semester. The 1.5 day training will take place on Friday, September 29 (9am-5pm) and Saturday, September 30 (9am-1pm). Please have students contact April by Monday, September 25.

 

FSB Entrepreneurship speaker series announced

The Institute for Entrepreneurship at FSB announces the two speakers in their 2017-2018 Miami University Distinguished Entrepreneurship Scholar Lecture Series:

Dr. Tom Lumpkin, C.S. Trosper Chair and Professor of Entrepreneurship and Director of the Division of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development in the Michael J. Price College of Business at the University of Oklahoma. His talk, Social Entrepreneurship Impact: Are We Digging in the Wrong Place?, will be held on Monday, November 6, 1:30-3:00 pm is FSB 2079 and emphasizes his current research on the great challenge of sustainability and the impact of sustainable, ethical, entrepreneurial (SEE) enterprises.

Dr. Saras D. Sarasvathy, Paul M. Hammaker Professor in Business Administration in the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia. Holds cross-appointments at the Indian Institute of Management (Bangalore, India), as the Jamuna Raghavan Chair Professor in Entrepreneurship, at Nankai University (Tianjin, China), as the Chair Professor of Entrepreneurship, and at Chalmers University (Göteborg, Sweden), as the Jubilee Professor.  Her talk will be held on Friday, March 2, 1:30-3:00 pm is FSB 2079. Widely considered a leading scholar on the cognitive basis for high-performance entrepreneurship, Dr. Sarasvathy… is best known for her research examining effectuation, which is a model of entrepreneurial thinking that serves founders in the processes of opportunity identification and new venture creation.

Citizenship and Democracy Week

From John Forren, Department of Justice and Community Studies on the Hamilton campus, about events the week of Sept 11-15, across all Miami campuses and other venues. Contact John for a calendar of events which includes discussions and panels, films, engagement and volunteer opportunities, a naturalization ceremony and an open session of the Ohio Court of Appeals. He also writes:

And of course, anything that you could do to encourage your students (and friends, neighbors, relatives, colleagues, etc.) to take part in the various events would be greatly appreciated as well! (As a side note, we will be keeping track of student attendance at most of the events; thus, if you would like to embed one or more of the programs into your courses as extra credit, etc., we can, in most cases, provide you with a post-event list of student attendees.)

Thanks for your support of this event — and best wishes for a great semester!

CTE seminar calendar posted

The Center for Teaching Excellence has not only retained its name for two years in a row now, but they have updated their calendar to reflect offerings for the CTE as well as some other partners. The calendar can be found here, and includes sessions on funding opportunities, service learning, study abroad, diversity, the new Title IX reporting requirements, and more; specialized topics such as Chinese names, Peer review of writing, or Teaching large classes; and systems and software such as Qualtrics.

I would encourage you all to check it out and think each of you might find something to contribute to your professional development.