Monthly Archives: February 2009

March 2009 Grapevine Available

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To see the newest issue of the Grapevine campus newsletter please
visit:
http://stamfordstudentlife.uconn.edu/grapevine.pdf

In this issue of the Grapevine you will find:
* Spring Career Fair Informaiton
* Red Cross Blood Drive
* Campus Change Information
* Center for Women’s Studies Events
* Upcoming CITI Seminar
* Faculty/Staff Art Show information
* SGA Events
* Year of Science Events
* Save the Date – Senior Reception & Awards Ceremony
* Vagina Monologues Information
* Multicultural Scholars Program
* Center for Judaic/Middle Eastern Studies Programs
* Scholarship Information
* Center for Continuing Studies Information Sessions
* The Source for Active Learning Hours
* Writing Center Writing upcoming workshops
* Fall Registration Information
* Library Announcements

Campus Shuttle Unavailable Feb. 24th, Tuesday

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The Stamford Campus Shuttle Bus will NOT be available on MONDAY February 23rd TUESDAY, February 24th.
We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. Please check the UConn Stamford website (http://stamford.uconn.edu) for updates of its availability for Tuesday February 24th  Wednesday, February 25th. For alternative transportation methods please go to: http://stamford.uconn.edu/shuttle_info.html

Faculty Colloquium Series – Spring 2009

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The next presentation in the Spring 2009 Faculty Colloquium Series will be Monday, February 23,  from Noon – 1:00 pm.  Jerome Sehulster, Professor of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will deliver the colloquium on the following research project:

Memory and Personality

The colloquium will be presented in the GE Global Learning Center (A2).

The remaining colloquium presentations:

Faculty Colloquium Series

Spring 2009

  

-> Family-Centered Care: Ideals and Realities in Human Services and Education

Monday, March 2, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m., GE Global Classroom

Anne Farrell, Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

-> A Critical Examination of Brokerage Minimum Service Laws

Thursday, March 5, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m., GE Global Classroom                                        

Katherine Pancak, Professor in Residence, Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics, School of Business            

-> The Sources of Oman’s Foreign Policy in the 21st Century

Tuesday, March 17, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m., GE Global Classroom                                        

Jeffrey Lefebvre, Associate Professor of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

-> Mathematical Logic,  Postmodernism, and Common Sense

Tuesday, March 24, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m., GE Global Classroom                                        

Richard Watnick, Associate Professor of Mathematics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

-> Autism and Language:  How Enactment and Gesture Contribute to Narrative Coherence

Wednesday, April 1, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m., GE Global Classroom

Elena Levy, Associate Professor of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences                                                               

-> New Tools for Data Driven Marketing    

Wednesday, April 8, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m., GE Global Classroom                                        

Wynd Harris, Assistant Professor in Residence of Marketing, School of Business

-> Terminal Illness:  The Failing Economics of Health Care in the United States

Thursday, April 16, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m., GE Global Classroom

Walter Dolde, Associate Professor of Finance, School of Business

-> Women and Peace:  Israeli Female Writers and the Geopolitical Conflict

Thursday, April 23, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m., GE Global Classroom                                        

Nehama Aschkenasy, Professor of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies And Director of the Center for Judaic and Middle Eastern Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

All Colloquia are open to community members.  Parking is available on the second level of parking garage on Washington Blvd.

Computer Lab Spring Break Hours

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The Academic Lab (Room 3.05) will be closed during Spring Break from March 6, 2009 at 2 pm until March 16, 2009 at 9 am.  The library will be open during that week – please check the information board for our hours.  Enjoy the break!

eBook of the Month

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Check out the  NetLibrary ebook selection of the Month for February.

Raising Freedom’s Child Black Children and Visions of the Future after Slavery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From the 1850s and the Civil War to emancipation and the official end of Reconstruction in 1877, Raising Freedom’s Child examines slave emancipation and opposition to it as a far-reaching, national event with profound social, political, and cultural consequences. Mary Niall Mitchell analyzes multiple views of the black child—in letters, photographs, newspapers, novels, and court cases—to demonstrate how Americans contested and defended slavery and its abolition.

With each chapter, Mitchell narrates an episode in the lives of freedom’s children, from debates over their education and labor to the future of racial classification and American citizenship. Raising Freedom’s Child illustrates how intensely the image of the black child captured the imaginations of many Americans during the upheavals of the Civil War era. Through public struggles over the black child, Mitchell argues, Americans by turns challenged and reinforced the racial inequality fostered under slavery in the United States. Only with the triumph of segregation in public schools in 1877 did the black child lose her central role in the national debate over civil rights, a role she would not play again until the 1950s. 

Writing Center Spring 2009 Writing Workshops

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  • Plagerism & Academic Integrity:  Feb. 2nd& 4th
  • Brainstorming & Thesis Development:  Feb 16& 18
  • Organization & The Craft of Revision:  Mar. 2nd& 4th
  • Grammer & Sentence Mechanics:  Mar. 16& 18
  • Using and Quoting Sources: MLA:  Mar.30& Apr. 1st
  • Using and Quoting Sources:APA:  Apr. 13th& 15th
  • Written Test Taking Strategies:  Apr. 29th only

Workshops are Held:

Mondays 2-3pm   AND    Wednesdays 4-5pm

For More Info, contact: Melissa Mullins, Assistant Coordinator of Writing melissa.mullins@uconn.edu

Writing Center New Series…How I Write

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How I Write CONVERSATIONS

With special guest Professor Pam Brown

author of: “Better A Shrew than a Sheep”

when: Monday FEBRUARY 9th 12pm-1pm

where: Room 253 (Schreiber Reading Room)

REFRESHMENTS WILL BE PROVIDED!

COME…meet with experienced writers

TALK…about your own writing

ASK…questions about the joys and difficulties of writing

MEET…other writers, form a collegial environment

“How I Write Conversations” is a series of

conversations with UCONN faculty who are

experienced in academic writing in their relative

disciplines. All types of writing, however, are open

topics for discussion. The goal of the series is to

bring together these writers, UCONN students,

and the Stamford community members to discuss

research and writing process, and learn about how

writing is done differently and/or similarly in

different areas of study.

FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

Funded by AETNA

Co-sponsored by the Freshman English Program, the Writing Center, and the Write Club