Due to inclement weather, all classes are canceled and the Stamford Campus will be CLOSED today, Monday March 2nd. Classes will resume tomorrow morning, Tuesday March 3rd, as scheduled.
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March 2009 Grapevine Available
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
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
Library Spring Break Hours
The hours for the Jeremy Richard Library during Spring Break 2009 are as follows:
March 9-13 (Monday-Friday), 2009 -> 8AM – 4PM
March 14 (Saturday), 2009 -> CLOSED
Faculty Colloquium Series – Spring 2009
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
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!
New Books @ Stamford 2009
Newest arrivals. Come by and check out our display table and grab something good to read. Check out our Worldcat.org :New Books@Stamford list!
eBook of the Month
Check out the NetLibrary ebook selection of the Month for February.
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
- 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
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