Weekly Bulletin

Active bystander class, 'Everyone Matters,' offered by Workplace Education

"Everyone Matters: Changing Hurtful Behavior," a five-session bystander awareness class offered to employees through the Labor/Management Workplace Education Program is scheduled for Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. to noon from March 28 to April 25, in 115 South College.
 
The class that will help employees stop and change hurtful behavior. Instead of being a passive bystander—wondering what to say or do—participants can learn new skills for change and empowerment and become an active bystander. This workshop is taught by Leslie Fraser, Workplace Education coordinator of campus career initiatives.

Career Day seeks to encourage young women to become engineers

More than 300 female high school students, teachers, and guidance counselors from across Massachusetts will travel to campus to attend the annual Women in Engineering and Computing Career Day Conference on Monday, March 4. The conference is being held in the Campus Center Auditorium beginning at 8:30 a.m. The program is intended to excite, inspire and encourage young women to pursue engineering as a career path.
 
Among the districts and schools represented at Career Day are the Greenfield public schools, Springfield public schools, Holyoke public schools, Westfield High School, Easthampton

Science and Mathematics in the Renaissance conference is March 9

A conference on "Science and Mathematics in the Renaissance," chaired by Brian Ogilivie, associate professor of History, is being held Saturday, March 9 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.at the Renaissance Center, 650 East Pleasant St.

Ogilivie will present "Beasts, Birds, and Insects; or, How Renaissance Europeans Thought About Bugs." He will be joined by Surekha Davies, Western Connecticut State University, who will speak on "Making Knowledge About Giants," and Marjorie Senechal of Smith College, who will discuss "The New Math and Why it Mattered." Mark Peterson of Mount Holyoke College will present

Speaker tackles how to avoid 'Drowning in Data'

Scott Long of Indiana University will give a lecture about the workflow of data analysis on Thursday, March 7 at 4 p.m. in 904-08 Campus Center.

“Drowning in Data? The Workflow of Data Analysis” is about the workflow of data analysis, which encompasses the entire process of scientific research: planning, documenting and organizing work; creating, labeling, naming and verifying variables; performing and presenting statistical analyses; preserving work; and (perhaps, most importantly) producing replicable results. Most work in statistics classes focuses on estimating and interpreting models.

Gordon lectures on cult of violence in Western political thought

Daniel Gordon, professor of History and associate dean of Commonwealth Honors College, will speak on "The Fatal Truth: The Cult of Violence in Western Political Thought" on Tuesday, March 5 at 6:30 p.m. in the Student Union Ballroom.

After the Newtown school shooting, the status of violence continues to be widely discussed and examined. Some disavow "an eye for an eye" and all forms of violence completely, while others accept violence as a necessary means to be kept in proportion to its ends. The history of ideas about violence shows a tradition that idealizes violence as a good in itself.

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