Panel Discussion Nov. 14th: “Preparing for Natural Disasters”

On Monday, November 14th, UConn Stamford, the Stamford Chamber of
Commerce, and The Advocate newspaper are sponsoring a panel to discuss:
“Preparing for Natural Disasters: The City of Stamford in Emergency”.

The program will be held at UConn Stamford in the General Re Auditorium
from 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm.

The panelists will include City of Stamford public officials responsible
for security and public health as well as Walter Young, Commander of the
UConn Stamford Police. Professor Joel Blatt will moderate the
discussion.

All faculty, staff, students and community members are welcome to
attend.

Workshop Nov.30th: Writing as Re-Writing: Making Revision Matter for Students

On Wednesday, November 30th, Professor Tom Deans, the new director of the University Writing Center, will be visiting from Storrs.  He will give an interactive workshop entitled “Writing as Re-Writing: Making Revision Matter for Students.” This workshop is part of a series of programs Professor Deans has been presenting as part of the new General Education curriculum. 

The event will be held in MPR Room from 12:00-1:30.  Lunch will be provided. 

Please RSVP to celeste.baran@uconn.edu no later than November 18th.

Thanksgiving Potluck Dinner-Nov. 15th

TUESDAY, November 15th at 6:00 PM, we will be holding our annual Thanksgiving Potluck Dinner in the A1 auditorium.  All students, faculty, and members of the community are encouraged to attend.  If you are able, please contact SGA about bringing a dish that will serve about 8 to 10 people.  Entertainment will consist of karaoke open to all in attendance.  A 50 DOLLAR Prize will be awarded for best entrée and best dessert.

New Limits added to HOMER

The Libraries now have working “EBook” and “EJournal” limits in the “Limit To:” box on the Simple Search screen in HOMER, the library catalogue.

Using these limits may provide you the majority of our commercial e-journals and e-books. Please note that these limits only work with *keyword* searches.

Search Engine: RedLightGreen

RLG has a search engine called redlightgreen (www.redlightgreen.com) which claims to have access to 120 million books.

RedLightGreen helps you locate the most important books and other research materials in your area of interest, and find out whether what you need is available at your favorite library.

You can log in with your e-mail address (password is optional), conduct a search, look for holdings at a library and also have your citation instantly formatted into one of the popular formats (APA, MLA, etc.) and it’s all free and available directly on the internet.

More information about this is available at: http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3560121

This week at UConn-Stamford: Creative Sustenance with Tim Parrish, Pit Pinegar, Ira Joe Fisher

November 2
Creative Sustenance, Stamford :

A reading by Ira Joe Fisher, Tim Parrish & Pit Menousek Pinegar
7:00 pm, Schreiber Reading Room, UConn Stamford

**Audience members are asked to make a donation or bring canned goods to this benefit event.**

Ira Joe Fisher’s poetry has appeared in Poetry New York, The Alembic, The New York Quarterly, Entelechy International, Diner, Ridgefield Magazine and the anthology Confrontation.

His book-length collection, Some Holy Weight in the Village Air, will be published by Athanata Press in 2006. Fisher appears weekly on the CBS Television Network’s Saturday Early Show, and has won two Emmys for television writing.

Tim Parrish is the author of the story collection, Red Stick Men.
Director of the Creative Writing Program at Southern Connecticut State University, his awards include a 2001 Walter E. Dakin Fellowship at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and a 2001 Connecticut Arts Fellowship.
Parrish was nominated by Tim O’Brien as one of the Best New American Voices 2002.

Pit Menousek Pinegar is the author of three collections of poetry: Nine Years between Two Poems, The Possibilities of Empty Space, and The Physics of Transmigration, published by Antrim House and nominated for a
2006 Pulitzer Prize. She has received an artist fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on The Arts and the Governor’s Distinguished Advocate of the Arts Award.