New! Early Alert: Help Your Students Succeed
Participate in Academic Early Alert!
If you have not already done so, please take time to participate in the Spring 2008 Early Alert process to identify students who are struggling in your courses, either academically or behaviorally. The Early Alert period ends on March 10, so please take a few moments to participate and get students who need help the support they need. (login information)
New! Women Writing War Symposium
Thursday, Mar. 20
English Professor Cate Wiley will lead the Women Writing War symposium from 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, Mar. 20 in the Tivoli Student Union, room 640. Free and open to the public, this event will explore how four writers' lives as women influences why, how, and what they have written about war.
Presenters:
Dunya Mikhail, Iraqi Poet, Author of The War Works Hard
Chimananda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian Novelist, Author of Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun
SGT. Sharon D. Allen, US Army Veteran whose writing appears in Operation Homecoming
Professor Jane Marcus, editor of Virginia Woolf's 3 Guineas
New! Silver & Gold Survey
Silver & Gold Record is conducting a readership survey online during the month of March. Participants may enter a drawing to win an iPod Shuffle or their choice of S&GR prizes: a one-year subscription, three fee classified ads or a framed photo from the newspaper's archives. The survey takes about 15 minutes. You may also reach the survey from the S&GR Web site. For a paper copy, contact 303-492-8556.
New! Call for Proposals for Academic Honors and Leadership Tracks
The University of Colorado Denver University Honors and Leadership (UHL) program is inviting proposals for development of interdisciplinary, pedagogically innovative undergraduate courses for the academic honors and leadership tracks.
UC Denver faculty with outstanding teaching records and innovative ideas are invited to propose interdisciplinary courses intended to address the special educational needs of talented, motivated, and curious undergraduates. (more information)
ACT Grant (Advancing Curricula and Teaching): Offered by CLAS
Application Deadline: Apr. 18
The Dean and Associate Deans of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) at the University of Colorado Denver are pleased to announce the 2008-09 CLAS Advancing Curricula and Teaching (ACT) grant. CLAS ACT funding is designated to further develop a campus environment which supports and encourages approaches to teaching and learning that advance goals of the college’s strategic plan.
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REMINDERS: Important Due Dates
Mar. 14: Electronic copies of the Faculty Report of Professional Activities are due to both your department chair and Tammy Stone
Mar. 15: Complete dossier for Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award to Tammy Stone
Apr. 1: Graduate student nominations for the Alumni Association Graduate Scholarship are due to Jill Hutchison. The award is $2000 per academic year to each scholarship winner ($1000 each semester upon verification of their continuing eligibility).
Apr. 15: Deadline for submitting original copies of complete, signed Classified Staff performance evaluations to the Human Resources Office. Evaluations should be sent to Campus Box 130, Attn: Evaluations. (additional information)
Events
Copper Nickel, Issue 9 Release Reception
Friday, Mar. 7
7:00 pm
Matter Studio
2134 Market Street, Denver
free and open to the public
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Stan Payne, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences
Monday, Mar. 10
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
CU Building, Room 656
Seminar Title: "Automorphisms of Finite Abelian Groups"
Medical Narrative: Critical Perspectives on Storytelling
Health and Humanities Colloquia, sponsored by the Colorado Center for the Public Humanities
Wednesday, Mar. 12
2:30 - 4:00 pm
Tivoli 640, UCD Downtown Denver Campus
**lunch provided**
Contact Dr. Amy Vidali to RSVP, receive copies of the readings, and reserve your lunch! (303-556-4765)
See Colorado Center for Public Humanities Web site for more information.
Biology Spring Seminar Series
Rob Guralnick, CU Boulder
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Friday, Mar. 14
Noon - 1:30 pm
NC 1539
Seminar Title: "Integrating phylogenetic and ecological niche modeling approaches in historical biogeography research"
Operations Research Seminar
George Corliss, Marquette University
Tuesday, Mar. 18
Noon - 1:00 pm
CU Building, Room 626
Seminar Title: "Validated Methods for IVPs for ODEs"
Biology Spring Seminar Series
Mary Coussons-Read, Dept. of Psychology
Friday, Mar. 21
Noon - 1:30 pm
NC 1539
Seminar Title: "Neural-Immune Interactions in Human Pregnancy "
Research and Creative Activities Symposium
Friday, Apr. 11, 2008
10:00am - 3:00pm
North Classroom Atrium
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IN THIS ISSUE:
Academic Early Alert
Women Writing War
Silver & Gold Survey
ACT Grant
Reminders
Events
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EDITOR:
Katy Brown
303.556.6663
Katy.Brown @cudenver.edu