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FW: Nobel Science Challenge (competition for CUNY undergraduates)
by Eva Fernandez 11 Nov '12

11 Nov '12

Greetings! Please distribute this announcement broadly, and encourage your students to participate. Essays by undergraduates describing Nobel-winning science to lay persons are due December 3. Best wishes, Eva. Eva M. Fernández Assistant Vice Provost Director, Center for Teaching & Learning Queens College, City University of New York http://people.qc.cuny.edu/faculty/efernandez | http://www.qc.cuny.edu/ctl From: CUNY UFS Announcement-only list [mailto:UFS-NEWS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU] On Behalf Of William Phipps Sent: Friday, November 09, 2012 12:13 PM To: UFS-NEWS(a)LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU Subject: Nobel Science Challenge FYI: The 2012 CUNY Nobel Science Challenge: The Science Behind the Prize A Competition for CUNY Undergraduate Students The Nobel Prizes in physiology or medicine, physics, chemistry, and economics were recently announced. CUNY undergraduate students are invited to describe in 1000-1500 words, the scientific concepts behind the work for which one of the 2012 Nobel winners received their respective prize and the present and future significance of the research to humanity. The essays must make the science accessible to the lay person. The essays will be read and judged by a distinguished CUNY faculty committee. Three prizes will be awarded in each category (physiology or medicine, physics, chemistry, and economics) and one additional prize will be awarded to the best essay submitted. Prizes First Prize: Apple iMac Computer Second Prize: Apple iPad III Third Prize: Amazon Kindle wireless reading device First Prize winners from each category will be forwarded to a second faculty committee that will select the Grand Prize winner for the best essay submitted overall. The Grand Prize winner will receive $3,000. Essays must be submitted by 11:59pm on December 3, 2012. They should be in Microsoft Word or PDF format and submitted by email with subject heading “CUNY Nobel Science Challenge –your essay category” to: cuny.nobel(a)mail.cuny.edu<mailto:cuny.nobel@mail.cuny.edu> Questions may also be submitted to the email address above. Please note: • Essays that exceed the word limit will be rejected. (Bibliographies, charts, etc. do not count in the limit). • Essays will be judged on accuracy and clarity. • No portion of your essay may be copied from other sources without appropriate citation of the sources. Essays will be checked for original content using source-verification software. You must cite your sources within the text and as a list at the end of the document. • When you submit your essay, include the following in the body of the email: your college, major, class standing (freshman, sophomore, junior or senior) and a phone number where you can be contacted. • Previous first prize winners are not eligible for this year's competition. • All first degree undergraduate students currently registered in a degree program at CUNY are eligible. Winners will be announced in February, 2013. For more information, visit http://www.cuny.edu/research/sr/nobel-science-challenge.html -- William E. Phipps Executive Director University Faculty Senate (UFS) City University of New York 535 E. 80th St. New York, NY 10075 212 794 5538 ***************** CUNY Faculty Senate http://www.cunyufs.org/ 535 E. 80th St. New York, NY 10075 212 794-5538 <> If you wish to unsubscribe from the UFS-NEWS List, please send an E-mail to: "listserv(a)listserv.cuny.edu"<mailto:>. Within the body of the text, only write the following: "SIGNOFF UFS-NEWS".

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Roger Sansi (Universitat de Barcelona): "Sorcery in the Black Atlantic, " in Kissena 307 on 11/13 at 9:25AM
by ramona.perez＠qc.cuny.edu 09 Nov '12

09 Nov '12

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Sean Mitchell (Rutgers) on Afro-Brazilian Politics, 11/8 at 9:25 in LALS
by ramona.perez＠qc.cuny.edu 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

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Part-time Position Available
by anahi.viladrich＠qc.cuny.edu 06 Nov '12

06 Nov '12

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ePortfolio and Campus Life seminar at LaGCC, Nov 9 (Friday) 9am-1pm
by QC CTL 06 Nov '12

06 Nov '12

Dear Colleagues, LaGuardia Community College is hosting an ePortfolio seminar as part of the Making Transfer Connections project among five CUNY Colleges: Queens, Lehman, Queenborough, Bronx, and LaGuardia. If you are interested to attend the event, please register directly with the organizer via the link below. Thank you, Fei-Wen Pirovolikos Center for Teaching and Learning http://www.qc.cuny.edu/qportfolio ___Forwarded Message___ ePortfolio and Campus Life, Co-Curricular Preparation for Transitions November 9, 2012 LaGuardia CC – BA 11 9:00 am—1:00 pm Breakfast is served at 8:30 am Themes: ePortfolio for Student Clubs and Organizations ePortfolio and Study Abroad ePortfolio and Visiting Exchange Program ePortfolio and Student Leadership Opportunities ePortfolio and College Preparation ePortfolio and Community Engagement Please complete the RSVP form in the following link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFlsaWFQSEozRXo1TXVpLT… For more info, email us at : connections(a)lagcc.cuny.edu

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Alyshia Galvez campus visit POSTPONED to 11/27
by ramona.perez＠qc.cuny.edu 05 Nov '12

05 Nov '12

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ePortfolio and Campus Life seminar at LaGCC, Nov 9 (Friday) 9am-1pm
by Fei-Wen Pirovolikos 05 Nov '12

05 Nov '12

Dear Colleagues, LaGuardia Community College is hosting an ePortfolio seminar as part of the Making Transfer Connections project among five CUNY Colleges: Queens, Lehman, Queenborough, Bronx, and LaGuardia. If you are interested to attend the event, please register directly with the organizer via the link below. Thank you, Fei-Wen Pirovolikos Center for Teaching and Learning http://www.qc.cuny.edu/qportfolio ___Forwarded Message___ ePortfolio and Campus Life, Co-Curricular Preparation for Transitions November 9, 2012 LaGuardia CC – BA 11 9:00 am—1:00 pm Breakfast is served at 8:30 am Themes: ePortfolio for Student Clubs and Organizations ePortfolio and Study Abroad ePortfolio and Visiting Exchange Program ePortfolio and Student Leadership Opportunities ePortfolio and College Preparation ePortfolio and Community Engagement Please complete the RSVP form in the following link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFlsaWFQSEozRXo1TXVpLT… For more info, email us at : connections(a)lagcc.cuny.edu

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Workshop on Helping Your Students Write to Learn
by Kevin L. Ferguson 05 Nov '12

05 Nov '12

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FW: CUNY Academy Events; Awards for Assistant Professors
by Eva Fernandez 04 Nov '12

04 Nov '12

Hello everyone, The message below includes information about upcoming CUNY Academy events (beginning Monday Nov 5) and two solicitation notices for awards for assistant professors. The first, the William Stewart Travel Awards, offers modest grants for travel to conferences: http://cunyufs.org/academy/award.html The second, the Felix Gross Endowment Award, is awarded in recognition of outstanding research or potential for research in the humanities or sciences: http://cunyufs.org/academy/endowment.html Best wishes, Eva. Eva M. Fernández Assistant Vice Provost Director, Center for Teaching & Learning http://people.qc.cuny.edu/faculty/efernandez | http://www.qc.cuny.edu/ctl Queens College, City University of New York From: cuny.academy(a)gmail.com [mailto:cuny.academy@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 11:48 PM To: Eva Fernandez Subject: CUNY Academy Events; Awards for Assistant Professors Dear Colleague, The members of the CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences hope that you and your friends, family, and colleagues have weathered the storm without loss or damage. Our sympathies go to those who are suffering for lack of power, transportation, and housing and all the other things that have been interrupted or are in short supply. Because our program continues on Monday with a speaker flying in from outside the country, we must now announce this and the other events for November. The first of these is next Monday, November 5. In addition to these events, the Academy is pleased to announce the award solicitations for the William Stewart Travel Awards for new Assistant Professors and the Feliks Gross Award competition for Assistant Professors . Please see http://cunyufs.org/academy/ for details about both of these programs. 1.. Cosponsored by the GC Program in History and the Center for the Humanities, the Academy presents Jan-Philipp Reemtsma of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, who will speak on his new book, Trust and Violence. This is on Monday, November 5, 2012 at 6:00 PM, in the Graduate Center's Segal Theatre. Prof. Richard Wolin will host this event. Please see http://centerforthehumanities.org/events/Trust-and-Violence for details. 2. At the Academy's Feliks Gross Seminar on Urban Ethnography, Judith N. Desena, St. John's University, and Timothy Shortell, Brooklyn College , will present their anthology "Brooklyn Studies: Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City" Jerome Krase, Brooklyn College will speak on his book "Seeing Cities Change: Local Culture and Class ". Prof. Krase will host this event. This will be on Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 6 PM in the Graduate Center's Room 9205 3. With the Society for the Study of Renaissance Women, the Academy will co-sponsor a talk by Caroline Bicks, English, Boston University, on "Stages of Girlhood in Early Modern England" in the Graduate Center's Room 9207 on Thursday, November 15 at 6 PM. Prof. Susan O'Malley will host this event. Our complete program is available at http://cunyufs.org/academy/events.html best regards, Manfred Philipp President, the CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences NB: Please note that since I am Nepal for the semester, you will not see me at these events, something I very much regret. CUNY Academy First Vice President Nora Glickman is handliing the affairs of the Academy in my absence. You can ask to be removed from our mailings by sending a message to cunyacademy(a)gmail.com with the word remove in the subject line. Because the Baruch, BMCC, and Kingsborough email servers have been reported to be off-line, please let your colleagues at those campuses know about these events.

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Project Donate
by Alexandra Crisafi 04 Nov '12

04 Nov '12

Dear QC Professors, As you know, on October 29th, Hurricane Sandy devastated New York City. This storm has tragically left dozens of people dead, and thousands without power or homes to return to. Queens College is currently acting as a shelter (1 of 16 in the county of Queens) for over 500 people who were forced to evacuate their homes. Many of these people, along with countless other New Yorkers, no longer have anything to go back to. Given the magnitude of this storm, recovery will be long and difficult. However, it will become much easier if we band together, opening our hearts and our minds to help those in need. *Project* *Donate* is a campus - wide initiative started by Queens College students, which currently aims to help hurricane victims by collecting donations of all sorts for people of all ages in need. The original goal of Project Donate, set in August of this year, was to collect winter coats and jackets for the LGBTQ homeless population of New York City. We previously had set up boxes during the semester in all major QC buildings to collect these donations. However, since the storm struck, we have seen an increased need for common household items in addition to clothes and coats. A recent trip to Staten Island by Project Donate volunteers revealed the magnitude of this need, as over 300 items that had been collected were all distributed to people within a matter of hours. *How can you help? *We humbly request your help in making our project efforts as efficient as possible. On Monday, November 5th, during free hour, we will hold a meeting in Jefferson 306 (the Jewish Studies Library) to initiate a roundtable discussion on what we can do to help alleviate the suffering of those affected by the storm, as well as create committees and put words into action. We have advertised throughout the campus by flyers and extensive Facebook campaigning, and we would like to reach as many students as possible. Please see our link for more information: www.facebook.com/qcprojectdonate. By informing students about this meeting and about our project and its mission, we essentially come together as a community of student activists and volunteers, enabling positivity onto one another. Donation collections would also grow exponentially by spreading the word about Project Donate to other staff members and departmental heads. Your voice is crucial in making our project a success. We thank you in advance for all of your support. - Alexandra Ninfa Crisafi Director at Project Donate <http://www.facebook.com/qcprojectdonate> Queens College, City University of New York Graduate Student

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