Diversity & inclusion events next week

Self-Perception and Academic Achievement
When: Monday 10/8 7-8:30pm
Where: 322 McGuffey
Description: Zehan Guo, a professor in the department of education in Mudanjiang Normal University, will give a talk entitled “Self-Perception and Academic Achievements among Students in US, Vietnam, and China.”

Women’s Baseball Lecture
When: Tuesday 10/9 12-1pm
Where: 320 King
Description: Callie Batts Maddox is an assistant professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Health. She will present a talk about the history of women’s baseball at Western College and Miami University, and “reveal important connections between sport, physical activity, and gender in higher education.”

Hidden Voices: The Right to Grow Old
When: Wednesday 10/10 6:30-7:30pm
Where: Taylor Auditorium, Farmer School of Business
Description: “A decade of violence, corruption and scarcity triggered a vast movement of Hondurans fleeing collapsing communities towards perceived shelter across borders. Tomas Ayuso will render visible the man-made catastrophe of forced migration on a people who refused dispossession, and fight for their right to grow old in Honduras, Mexico and the United States.”

Korean Thanksgiving
When: Wednesday 10/10 8pm
Where: Shideler Hall (contact the Korean American Student Association to inquire about the room number)
Description: The general body members of the Korean American Student Association will learn about traditional Korean Thanksgiving culture.

Humanities Teaching Labs

Pepper Stetler, Associate Director of the Humanities Center, brought to my attention a new initiative of the center called Humanities Teaching Labs. The program would require you to partner with a faculty from the humanities on a specific theme, and provides $2,500 in professional development funds and $5,000 in project expenses. Applications are due November 30. From the call for proposals:

The Miami University Humanities Center invites applications for a new program that integrates faculty research and teaching in innovative ways. Humanities Teaching Labs aim to bring together faculty from the humanities and related disciplines in student-engaged research projects organized around a central theme. Embracing the true sense of laboratory experimentation familiar to the sciences, Humanities Teaching Labs will promote skill-building, hands-on experimentation and outcomes communicable to the Miami community and beyond

 

IRB training in-house Nov. 2

Neal Sullivan will be conducting the in-person (MU Application) training during our regular colloquium time, 3:00 – 4:15, in PSYC 125 on November 2. I arranged this for the first-year graduate students but anybody with an upcoming renewal due date might consider attending as well.

Honors director finalist interviews

From Carolyn Haynes, Associate Provost:

As some of you may know, David Pennock, Director of the University Honors Program, will be retiring at the end of the calendar year. So, we are in the process of searching for a new honors director. The search committee has selected two finalists for interviews. If you are interested in attending the interviews for the following candidates, please let me know.

Zeb Baker
Tuesday, October 2 from 2:30 – 3:00 pm in 202 Roudebush

Ann Elizabeth Armstrong
Thursday, October 4 from 9:30 – 10:00 am in 104 Roudebush

Diversity & inclusion events next week

Russia Abroad: Homesick and Sick of Home
When: Monday 10/1 11:30am-1pm
Where: HRN 202
Description: Leonid Livak, from the University of Toronto, will present a talk on the experiences of Russian and Russian-Jewish writers in France’s long second world war.

Untangling the Web: Indigenous Linguistic and Cultural Knowledge and Americanist Anthropology
When: Monday 10/1 4:30-5:30pm
Where: Heritage Room, Shriver Center
Description: “Through a series of ethnographic vignettes, this talk considers the opportunities and challenges of repatriating intangible cultural property for American Indian communities in the United States. “

Gandhi Lecture
When: Monday 10/1 5-7:30pm
Where: 319 Kreger Hall
Description: Suzanne Klatt is organizing this lecture.

Simchat Torah
When: Monday 10/1 7:30-8:30pm
Where: Armstrong Student Center’s seal
Description: Hillel: Association of Jewish Students will host a traditional event, where attendees will witness the torah scroll be completely unrolled.

Clothesline Project
When: Wednesday 10/3, Thursday 10/4, and Friday 10/5 10am-3pm
Where: HUB (SEAL) behind Roudebush Hall (though if raining, will be in Women*s and LGBTQ* Center, Armstrong 3012)
Description: This event displays t-shirts created by interpersonal violence survivors and their families and friends, or people who want to raise awareness about interpersonal violence.

Cookie Baking and Learning about Israel
When: Wednesday 10/3 6-7:30pm
Where: Hillel Building, 11 E Walnut St, Oxford, OH
Description: Attendees will bake cookies while “learning about the geography, cities, environmentalism, and current environmental terrorism threats in Israel.”

Barbouillage/Blackface à la Française
When: Thursday 10/4 4:30-6:30pm
Where: Irvin Hall 040
Description: Noémi Ndiaye will give a talk where she will “discuss the long-forgotten history of blackface in early modern France and interrogate the cultural work that this set of performance practices effected.”

Psychological Intervention to High School and College Students in China
When: Thursday 10/4 7-8:30pm
Where: McGuffey Hall 322
Description: Cuihong Zhang, the director of and a psychiatrist in the Clinical Psychology Department in Shandong, will present a talk detailing a psychological intervention delivered to high school and college students in China.

Shabbat
When: Friday 10/5 6-8pm
Where: Hillel Building 11 E Walnut St, Oxford, OH
Description: Hillel: Association of Jewish students will host its weekly Shabbat dinner and service.

Nominate students for CAS College Ambassadors

From Ted Peters, Assistant Dean in CAS Advising:

We are writing to ask for your help. The College of Arts and Science is once again looking for CAS students who might be willing to serve as College Ambassadors and represent the division at various events on campus. We think our ambassadors are true assets, especially during our Admission recruitment and yield events- without them much of what we do during the Make It Miami events would be lackluster. Your assistance is essential, though. Without your nominations it is near impossible for us to create a thorough, cognate-balanced, list. If you would please share our request for nominations with your departmental colleagues we would greatly appreciate it.

Please submit nominations before Friday, October 5th using this Ambassador Nomination Form. Also, it is important for you to know that students who accept their nomination to serve as a College Ambassadors will also be given the opportunity to join the Deans Student Advisory Council (DSAC). When thinking of nominees, here are some of the characteristics we are looking for:

  • Articulate/comfortable with public speaking
  • Intellectually engaged
  • Average to strong academic record (we do not want only honors students)
  • Interacts well with peers

After we receive your nominations we will contact each student via email, letting them know they have been nominated for the program and give them more information about what our ambassadors do. In this email we tell the student who nominated them, so if you are sending in one list for your entire department please list the nominating faculty member. Many of the ambassadors from past years expressed how excited they were to be nominated and felt it really was an honor to be singled out.

Thank you for your help. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Ginny Engwall or Mike Loeffelman, as they coordinate the Ambassador Program.

Invite students to meet 18 of the last 9

From Joy Usner, MU Alumni Association:

In October, the Miami University Alumni Association will welcome an outstanding group of recent graduates to campus to be honored as the 2018 cohort of 18 of the Last 9. The 18 of the Last 9 award recognizes 18 alumni who have graduated in the last 9 years and are succeeding in their professional careers and serving their communities. The honorees will be on campus October 25 and 26 to interact with students in classes, student organization meetings, and small group discussions.

We also have the opportunity to invite 10 students to the awards dinner on Friday, October 26. These student will receive complimentary tickets to the dinner and have the chance to interact with the honorees in a more personal setting. If you would like nominate a student to attend the dinner, please send email directly to Joy (usnerjm) with the student’s name, year, major, and a sentence or two on why they should attend or who you would like them to meet.