INSIDE THIS WEEK’S NEWS@COMCOL (details below)
** Commonwealth College Notices **
+ WWWORKSHOP - OFF THE BEATEN PATH, OCT 5
+ LEE SILVER, DEAN’S BOOK AUTHOR, TO SPEAK, OCT 6
+ DO YOU KNOW AN EXCEPTIONAL PROFESSOR OR TA?
+ CROQUET EQUIPMENT AVAILABLE
** Course & Internship Announcements **
+ WINTER COURSE IN MEXICO - HONORS 397I
$$ Scholarships, Fellowships, & Paid Positions $$
+ OPPORTUNITIES FOR HISTORICAL RESEARCH
+ RESEARCH ASSISTANT SOUGHT
+ BE AN RA SPRING SEMESTER, APPLY BY OCT 6
+ ALANA JOBS/INTERNSHIP AVAILABLE
** Other Announcements & Events **
+ THE ARSENIC CRISIS IN BANGLADESH, SEPT 29
+ DIVERSITY NETWORKING EVENT, OCT 5
+ GEORGE SAUDERS READING, OCT 6
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** Commonwealth College Notices **
WWWORKSHOP -OFF THE BEATEN PATH, OCT 5
Next week’s Weekly Wednesday Workshop will look at Departmental Honors, Interdisciplinary Honors, Double Major, and Double Degree options. Workshops take place 6:00-7:00pm in 504 Goodell, and dinner is served. RSVP to peers@comcol.umass.edu if you plan to attend. For full semester schedule, see the WWW web page.
LEE M. SILVER, DEAN’S BOOK AUTHOR, SPEAKS on OCT 6
Prof. Lee M. Silver will present his new work “Challenging Nature,” a follow-up to “Remaking Eden,” on October 6 at 8:00pm in Bowker Auditorium. A question-and-answer period will follow. The event is free and open to the public.
DO YOU KNOW AN EXCEPTIONAL PROFESSOR OR TEACHING ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE?
Nominate him or her for a Distinguished Teaching Award! The DTA is the highest recognition of teaching awarded to faculty members and teaching assistants/associates. To nominate a professor or teaching assistant/associate, you may use a nomination form available at http://www.umass.edu/provost/award/campus/dta.html or simply write a brief letter describing why your nominee should receive a Distinguished Teaching Award. All nominations must include your name, mailing address, email address and signature.
Please submit nominations by Monday, October 31, to Distinguished Teaching Award Committee, Office of the Provost, 362 Whitmore Administration Building. Or nominations may be submitted via email to dta@provost.umass.edu. Only current and former students may nominate faculty members. Teaching assistants/associates may be nominated by faculty members or current and former students. Check out the monuments on the Campus Center Concourse to see if your favorite instructor has already won a DTA!
CROQUET EQUIPMENT AVAILABLE
ComCol has recently purchased a Croquet Set – tournaments will be set up during weather appropriate times; however, we want to make the set available to anyone interested in learning or practicing their skills! If you would like to reserve the Croquet Set for a few hours, email peers@comcol.umass.edu or call the front desk at 545-2483. The lawn between Goodell and the Old Chapel is a fun and convenient spot to set up and play!
** Course & Internship Announcements **
WINTER COURSE IN MEXICO - HONORS 397I
With Professor John Gerber
This new 4-credit January-term course, "Participatory Leadership: Consensus, Conflict and Community" or less formally known as "Leadership for Social Change," will take place in an Ecovillage called Huehuecoyotl in the Volcano Belt of central Mexico. You will join other students in learning together how to do the important work of healing ourselves, our institutions and maybe the planet. For more information, see http://www.comcol.umass.edu/news/texts/mexico.htm.
$$ Scholarships, Fellowships, & Paid Positions $$
OPPORTUNITIES FOR HISTORICAL RESEARCH
Students needed to contribute to historical research projects. Project topics include Hadley Mother’s Clubs, Valley Women’s History Collaborative, Gender and the Scopes Trial. If you are interested in any of these projects and would like more information, see the Project Flyer and/or contact Laura Lovett in the History Department (Lovett@history.umass.edu or 545-6778).
RESEARCH ASSISTANT SOUGHT
Faculty member in the department of Afro-American Studies seeks highly computer-literate student to do searches relating to American poetry in the Chadwyck-Healey Database of 20th Century American Poetry. This database can be accessed from the library at Smith College, so the work must be done at the Smith campus library. I will provide a list of keywords to be searched in the database, and the assistant will search these terms and provide an accounting of where the words occurred in twentieth century American poetry included in the database. Searches outside this particular database may be possible or necessary as well. Knowledge of American literature a strong plus, as is a familiarity with blues music. Contact Professor Steven C. Tracy at 5-3275 or via e-mail at sctracy@afroam.umass.edu.
BE AN RA SPRING SEMESTER, APPLY BY OCT 6
The Resident Assistant position involves community development, peer counseling and referral, sensitivity to issues of diversity, crisis intervention, social and educational programming, role modeling, administrative tasks, and a team spirit. Applications due October 6, 2005 @ the residence life resource center, 101 Moore house. Minimum qualifications: 1)GPA 2.4 or higher, 2)be free of University judicial sanction, 3)have lived in a residence hall for one semester. Information Sessions to be held Wed 9/28 8:00PM Washington 5th Floor Classroom (SW/S); Thurs 9/29 8:00PM McNamara Main Lounge (NE/S); Sun 10/2 8:00PM Pierpont (SW/S); Mon 10/3 6:30PM Melville Main Lounge (SW/N); Mon 10/3 8:00PM Field Classroom (OH/C); Tues 10/4 7:00PM Kennedy 5th Floor Classroom (SW/N).
ALANA JOBS/INTERNSHIP AVAILABLE
The Office of ALANA Affairs is seeking dedicated students for paid and internship positions within the office. We have are two paid positions within the Community Development & Outreach Team and three credit-based internships. We also have a position for Web Site & Graphic Design and another within the Leadership Team. If you are interested and for an application, stop by the Office of ALANA Affairs for room 302, Student Union Building. If you have any questions you can call us at 545-2517. See Alana Jobs flyer for full info.
** Other Announcements & Events **
THE ARSENIC CRISIS IN BANGLADESH, SEPT 29
3:30 P.M. in the Bernie Dallas Room – Goodell Building
The World Health Organization refers to it as the largest mass poisoning of a population in history. Dr. Charles Harvey,Doherty Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT, will discuss the arsenic crisis in Bangladesh and his research on the mobility and transport of arsenic in groundwater, the impact of irrigation wells, and the overall effect on public health.
This lecture, part of the University Environmental Lecture Series, is free and open to all. A reception follows. For more information on the complete Fall Lecture Series: http://www.umass.edu/tei/TEI_2003/lecturefall.html.
DIVERSITY NETWORKING EVENT, OCT 5
Diversity Networking Event sponsored by the Pepsi Bottling Group will be held on Wednesday, October 5, at 5:00 p.m. in the Isenberg School of Management Room 112. An RSVP is requested, please see the attached flyer.
GEORGE SAUDERS READING, OCT 6
The Visiting Writers Series is pleased to announce a fiction reading by George Saunders on Thursday, October 6, at 8 PM in Memorial Hall. A Q&A session with the author will be held the following day, October 7, at 10:30 AM at the Jones Library in Amherst. George Sauders is the acclaimed author of Pastoralia (2000) and CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, both of which were New York Times Notable Books, and The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil (Riverhead, 2005). His work, which has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, and Story, has received two National Magazine Awards and three times been included in O.Henry Awards collections. He has explored for oil in Sumatra, played guitar in a Texas bar band, and worked in a slaughterhouse. He teaches at Syracuse University. A reception and book-signing will follow each reading. All events are free and open to the public.