Weekly Bulletin

Registration underway for MWPHE spring conference

Now is the time to register for the Massachusetts Women in Public Higher Education (MWPHE) annual spring conference on April 12.

The topic of this year’s workshop is “Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace.” The workshop will provide participants with the tools to understand emotional intelligence, to use it to one's advantage and to discover ways to develop it further.

The guest speaker is Deanna Yameen, dean for humanities and fine arts at Massasoit Community College.

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Performances celebrate women's creativity on International Women's Day

In honor of International Women's Day, the Center for Women & Community is celebrating women's creativity with performances by women on campus on Friday, March 8 from 4-6 p.m. in the Shirley Du Bois Library on the second floor of the New Africa House.

Refreshments will be served.

Director Andrea Segre discusses film work

“Mediterranean Interrupted: Human Rights, Love, Rebellion, Testimony and Filmmaking,” an audiovisual conversation with international award-winning director Andrea Segre, will be presented Tuesday, March 12 at 5:30 p.m. in 301 Herter Hall. The talk will be accompanied by excerpts from his documentaries “The Green Blood,” “Like a Man on Earth” and “Closed Sea.”
 
Segre is a director of fictions and documentaries for cinema and television and also a researcher in sociology of communication.

Visiting Writers Series hosts Lysley Tenorio March 14

The Visiting Writers Series will host author Lysley Tenorio on Thursday, March 14 at 8 p.m. at the University Club.

Tenorio is the author of the short story collection "Monstress." His stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Zoetrope: All-Story, Manoa, and The Best New American Voices and Pushcart Prize anthologies. A Whiting Writer's Award winner and a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, he has received fellowships from the University of Wisconsin, Phillips Exeter Academy and the National Endowment for the Arts.

The event is free and open to the public.

Retired Faculty Association to hear about research libraries in digital age

Jay Schafer, director of Libraries, will discuss “Research Libraries in the Digital Age” as the featured speaker during the Retired Faculty Association meeting on Wednesday, March 13, starting at 10 a.m. in 162-65 Campus Center.
 
The business meeting, with coffee and cookies, will begin at 10 a.m. followed at 10:30 by a presentation by Dennis Swinford, director of Campus Planning, on “Campus construction projects.” Schafer’s talk is at 11.
 
 
 

Dakin Pancake Breakfast set for March 16 at Renaissance Center

The annual Dakin “All You Can Eat” Pancake Breakfast is being held Saturday, March 16, 8 a.m. to noon at the Renaissance Center, 650 East Pleasant St.

Volunteer chefs will provide a palate-pleasing buffet of pancakes, sausage, bacon and beverages with maple syrup tapped from sugar maples on the center’s property and generously donated by local sugarer Richard McIntire and his grandsons.

The suggested donation of $10 for adults and $5 for children.

For information, contact the center at renaissance@english.umass.edu or 577-3600.

Author Charles Mann to lecture March 12 at Renaissance Center

Best-selling author and Amherst resident Charles C. Mann will speak Tuesday, March 12 at 4:30 p.m. at the Renaissance Center as part of its Celebrity Lecture Series

Mann's international bestseller "1491" ripped down the notion that Columbus tamed a continent of scattered, uncivilized natives. His subsequent book, "1493," completes this historical re-envisioning, inviting readers to view the arrival of Europeans in the Americas through a powerful lens—as an interaction that sparked the first truly global exchange system.

New course proposal

The following new course proposal has been submitted to the Faculty Senate Office for review and approval and is listed here for faculty review and comment. Comments on any new course proposal should be submitted to Ernest May, secretary of the Faculty Senate, at senate@senate.umass.edu.

MICROBIO 695, “Applied Molecular Biotechnology Laboratory (AMBL)," credits 5/5/7; Instructor: Jeffrey J. Kane; The Applied Molecular Biotechnology Laboratory (AMBL) is a requisite course for the M.S. concentration in Applied Molecular Biotechnology.

Doctoral oral exams for March 11-15

The graduate dean invites all graduate faculty to attend the final oral examinations for the doctoral candidates scheduled as follows:

Tamara Ohler, Ph.D., Economics. Monday, March 11, 2 p.m., 1028 Thompson Hall. Dissertation: “Essays on the Rising Demand for Convenience in Meal Provisioning in the United States.” Nancy Folbre, chr.

Michael Nilsson, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering. Tuesday, March 12, 9:30 a.m., Gunness Engineering Student Center, Marcus Hall. Dissertation: “Multiphase Flows with Digital and Traditional Microfluidics.” Jonathan Rothstein, chr.

Jiajia Rao, Ph.D., Food Science.

Dining Services celebrates top college cuisine ranked by Princeton Review

Chefs from six of the schools listed in the Best Campus Food rankings in the 2013 edition of The Best 377 Colleges published by The Princeton Review will serve up signature dishes on Tuesday, March 5, from 5-9 p.m. at Berkshire Dining Commons.
 
The event is part of Dining Services’ Visiting College Chef Series. The popular event is expected to draw 4,000 students and guests. Robert Franek, The Princeton Review’s senior vice president/publisher and lead author of The Best 377 Colleges, will be present to talk about the company’s rankings and survey process.
 
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