Attention UConn Stamford Campus Students:

Buyback has begun at the UConn Co-op and will be running through Friday May 15.  50% of the current new price will be paid for any books that have orders for to be used either during the summer or fall semesters.  They also offer wholesale prices on other books that aren’t being used at Stamford the next couple of semesters.

Stop by today, sell your books back and you will receive a coupon for 15% off UConn imprinted clothing and gifts, including previously marked down merchandise.

Congratulations to the Class of 2009! They also have diploma frames and great graduation gifts to remember your days at UConn with.

Have a great summer!

The Stamford Campus Shuttle Bus service will be ending for the Summer and will resume in the Fall. The LAST day of service was Thursday, May 7, 2009.

The second guest writer of the How I Write series is Dr. Katherine Pancak, Professor of Finance and Real Estate, the author of Connecticut Real Estate: Practice and Law, and the Consulting Editor of Real Estate Fundamentals. This event in the series will focus on effective day-to-day writing in the workplace, focusing on how to write in a style that is easy to read and understand. The flier (http://www.stamford.uconn.edu/HowIWrite2.pdf) provides more info. I hope you can attend this event on Tuesday, March 24, from 1-2 p.m. in room 134. Lunch will be provided. How I Write: Conversations with Writers is a new interdisciplinary series we launched at our campus this semester. The series will include guest writers from all disciplines. Through this series, we hope to foster an open dialogue between teachers of writing, experienced writers, and students about writing and research. The series is funded by the Aetna Chair in Writing in Storrs.

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 21^st 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.

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!