ASR Scholarship Fair

Adult Student Resources will be holding a Scholarship Fair this Sunday, February 24^th from 2:30-4:30pm at the IMU, State Room East.  We are inviting current and prospective returning adult students to attend this event and learn more about available scholarships and campus resources, with a special focus placed on the scholarships that we offer through ASR.  More details are below. 

 

Current and prospective students, RSVP here to the ASR Scholarship Fair.

Free parking at IMU, refreshments, and lots of valuable information.

Open house on Sunday, February 24th from 2:30 to 4:30 pm.

Event Details
		This event is a great opportunity for all current and prospective adult students to learn more about ASR scholarships, free academic resources, and special events. Additional IUB campus representatives will be available to answer your questions. Stop in anytime between 2:30 and 4:30 pm to learn more about ASR and enjoy the refreshments.
Location & Free Parking Details
	A campus map can be found here. The State Room East is located on the second floor of the IMU. Free parking vouchers will be available for those who park in the IMU parking lot.

Health Programs Fair on March 5!

THE 2013 HEALTH PROGRAMS FAIR

INDIANA UNIVERSITY-BLOOMINGTON

 

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

11:00 am – 3:00 pm

Indiana Memorial Union

 

Co-Sponsored by: Applied Health Science, Biology, Chemistry, Human Biology, Kinesiology, Nursing, Physics, Psychological and Brain Sciences, Sociology, Speech and Hearing Sciences

 

 

Come find out about career choices, educational opportunities, and campus resources related to the healthcare professions.

 

Meet with representatives from medical schools and health professions programs from across the country.

 

Find out about volunteer opportunities and student organizations.

 

 

For information on the fair, and to view a list of schools and programs that were represented at the fair in 2012, please go to http://www.hpplc.indiana.edu/medicine/med-hpf.shtml.

Special opera theatre offer for students in Communication and Culture

OFFERING A “FRIDAY SPECIAL” TO
IU COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE STUDENTS
who plan to attend IU Opera Theater’s
new production of
AKHNATEN
an opera by Philip Glass

 

 

Enjoy the mesmerizing, spectacular IU Opera Theater production of Philip Glass’ groundbreaking opera "Akhnaten" for just $10 (both Friday performances – Feb 22, or Mar 1,) if you’re a student in the Department of Communication and Culture.

 

Through his operas, symphonies, compositions, and his wide-ranging collaborations with artists ranging from Twyla Tharp to Allen Ginsberg, Woody Allen to David Bowie, Philip Glass has had an extraordinary and unprecedented impact upon the musical and intellectual life of his times. This will be IU Opera Theater’s first opera by Glass.

 

"Akhnaten" is based on the life and religious convictions of the Egyptian pharaoh by the same name. According to the composer, the work is the culmination of his two other biographical operas, "Einstein on the Beach" and "Satyagraha," about Mohandas Gandhi. These three people -- Akhnaten, Einstein and Gandhi -- were all driven by an inner vision that altered the age in which they lived, in particular Akhnaten in religion, Einstein in science and Gandhi in politics.

 

The production’s artistic team is made up of internationally recognized artists: Stage Director Candace Evans, Conductor Arthur Fagen, Set Designer Douglas Fitch, and Costume Designer Linda Pisano.

 

In all, this is a show not to be missed!

 

Website: http://music.indiana.edu/operaballet/akhnaten

Videos: Intro by the Artistic Team | Meet some of the performers | Check out the photos!

 

TICKETS
To benefit from the “FIRST FRIDAY SPECIAL,” visit the Musical Arts Center Box Office (M-F, 11:30am-5:30pm), present your student ID and use the code “King Tut!” to buy your tickets.  You’ll be able to buy up to two tickets for any Friday performance (Feb 22 or March 1) for just $10 each!

 

FREE PRE-PRODUCTION PANEL DISCUSSION
Friday, February 22 at 12:00 p.m. in the Musical Arts Center Lobby
An invitation to a Public Discussion on Philip Glass’ opera Akhnaten, led by Egyptologist Steve Vinson, Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. Panelists: Shalom Goldman from Duke University and the production’s internationally recognized artistic team: Stage Director Candace Evans, Music Director Arthur Fagen, Stage Designer Douglas Fitch, and Costume Designer Linda Pisano.

2013-2014 College Senior Scholarship Competition

IU College of Arts and Sciences

is pleased to announce

the 2013-2014

Senior Scholarship

Competition

 

 

To be eligible for this competition, students must:

§  be pursuing a BS, BA or BFA degree in the College of Arts and Sciences

§  be a full-time student with a current minimum College of Arts and Sciences GPA of 3.700

§  plan to graduate in May or August 2014; and

§  enroll as a full-time student (minimum 12 hours of enrollment) on the IUB campus or in an IU administered/IU co-sponsored overseas study program) for the 2013-2014 academic year

 

Application Materials:

§  Application form (available from your academic advisor or online, see below)

§  Two letters of recommendation from faculty members in the College of Arts and Sciences

§  Personal statement (400-500 words)

§  Résumé or CV

 

* Individual award amounts vary *

 

For consideration, all materials (including letters of recommendation) must be received by:

4:00 p.m. on Friday, March 1, 2013

 

Submit all materials to:  coasaado@indiana.edu or Undergraduate

Academic Affairs Office; 012 Kirkwood Hall

    Hours: 8 a.m. – 12 p.m. and 1 – 4 p.m. weekdays

 

Complete information and application materials are available on the College website at:

http://college.indiana.edu/undergrad/scholarships/cri_senior.shtml

2012-2013 Intensive Writing Essay Prize Competition

2012-2013 Intensive Writing Essay Prize Competition

 

Dear Summer and Fall 2012 and Spring 2013 Intensive Writing participants,

 

The College of Arts and Sciences and the Campus Writing Program are currently soliciting submissions for the annual Intensive Writing (IW) Essay Prize for students enrolled in IW courses during the 2012-2013 academic year. A committee of past and current IW instructors will select up to two winning essays (one essay longer than 10 pages and one essay shorter than 10 pages) from each of the three breadth of inquiry areas in which IW courses are taught: Arts and Humanities, Social and Historical Studies, and Natural and Mathematical Sciences. The primary criterion of evaluation is excellence in argument and exposition.  

 

These prizes, valued at $150, are awarded each academic year, and nominations and submissions are accepted in the fall and spring semesters. The deadline for essays to be considered for the Intensive Writing Essay Prize for the 2012-2013 academic year is 4:00 p.m. Friday, March 1, 2013. Please see the CITL website or the College of Arts and Sciences website for specific information on submission procedures for this competition.

 

We encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity to have your best writing recognized by the College of Arts and Sciences and the Campus Writing Program and to help us highlight not only the valuable role that writing plays in the College curriculum, but the excellence of our Intensive Writing program. Please feel free to contact us with any questions you may have.

 

Sincerely,  

 

Terri A. Greenslade, Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Sciences (tgreensl@indiana.edu; 855-1647)

Laura Plummer, Director, CITL Writing Program (lplummer@indiana.edu; 855-4928)

Teaching Abroad through AIESEC

Hello,

AIESEC Indiana is offering you the opportunity to find internships abroad! We offer internships for undergraduate students, recent graduates, and graduate students.

We have an information session called Go Global! coming up, especially if you are interested in teaching abroad this summer.

Details as follow:

Date: Feb 18, 2013 (Monday)

Time: 7.00pm

Venue: BH005

 

The opportunities mostly involve teaching English, but also include:
1) Educating at summer camps
2) Providing companies with cultural knowledge
3) Giving lessons on HIV/AIDS awareness or green movements.

These internships are at least 6 weeks, perfect for Summer break. While being unpaid, room and board and most meals are included. We have partnerships with Brazil, China, Colombia , Czech Republic, and Hungary.

 

For more information, email us at vpogx-indiana@aiesecus.org or visit our website: http://www.aiesecus.org. Also like us on Facebook, http://facebook.com/aiesecINDIANA for other abroad opportunities and future events.

Sincerely,

AIESEC Indiana

Seats open 2nd 8 wks: Stand & Fight: Protest movement theories and techniques

Seats are still available in the following GLLC courses:

·         Stand & Fight: (Or Should We Sit?)!:  Theories and Techniques in Protest Movements

 

ª GLLC-G220 (Course # 30535)  Stand & Fight: (Or Should We Sit?)!:  Theories and Techniques in Protest Movements (3 cr.) (GenEd S&H; CASE S&H) (MW, 5:45-7:45PM, FQ012B)  Brendon Westler

Political protests have seemingly become ubiquitous following the recent economic crisis.  We have seen austerity protests in Greece, demonstrations by Los Indignados in Spain, the Occupy Wall Street movement in the U.S., and the recent “Arab Spring,” amongst others.  The success of such movements remains very much in question.  The fundamental task of this course is to create a conceptual framework within which we may adequately judge contemporaneous protest movements.  In particular, we will engage with texts on political protests written by authors in numerous countries and contexts.  Through such an approach, we will develop an expertise in protest tactics as well as when such tactics succeed and fail.  We will conclude the course by applying our knowledge to contemporary protest movements in order to properly evaluate them.

Seats available 2nd 8 wks: Central European Cinema (SLAV-R353)

SLAV-R 353  Central European Cinema

CASE A&H, CASE GCC

2nd 8 weeks, S2013

Dr. Craig Cravens

 

Central East European Film is a course presenting major achievements of national cinemas in the present-day countries of Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia (the former Czechoslovakia), Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, as well as Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, and other South Slavic countries (the former Yugoslavia).  Special attention will be given to the historical and sociopolitical context in which these cinemas developed, as well as the transformations of themes and aesthetics after the fall of communism in 1989.  Contemporary films will be discussed as part of American and  world cinema today.  There will be two mandatory film screenings (with English subtitles) per week (in the eight-week class format).  No language or coursework prerequisites.

 

*  POLANSKI  * MENZEL  *  KUSTURICA  *  CHYTILOVÁ  *

      *  HOLLAND  *  KIESLOWSKI  *  FORMAN  *

Black History Month film screening: AT THE RIVER I STAND

Black History Month film screening: AT THE RIVER I STAND

Wednesday, February 13, 7:00 PM

at the Black Film Center/Archive, Wells Library, Room 044B

 

Associate Professor of History Alex Lichtenstein will introduce the film and lead a discussion following the screening.

 

Memphis, Spring 1968 marked the dramatic climax of the Civil Rights movement. AT THE RIVER I STAND skillfully reconstructs the two eventful months that transformed a strike by Memphis sanitation workers into a national conflagration, and disentangles the complex historical forces that came together with the inevitability of tragedy at the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

This documentary brings into sharp relief issues that have only become more urgent in the intervening years: the connection between economic and civil rights, debates over strategies for change, the demand for full inclusion of African Americans in American life and the fight for dignity for public employees and all working people.

 

"One of the most clearheaded, evenhanded documentaries about the civil rights movement you'll ever see, and a piece of gripping story-telling as well." -Dallas Observer

Erik Barnouw Award Recipient, Best Documentary, Organization of American Historians

 

This free screening is part of the Black History Month series at the Black Film Center/Archive, co-sponsored by the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, the Department of History, and the Black Law Students Association.

Environmental leadership opportunity

Thanks again for your support of the Greenpeace Semester, Greenpeace’s environmental training program - we're excited to report that the spring term is well underway.

For their orientation the group visited Rockaway, NY, an area hit hard by Hurricane Sandy. They joined Greenpeace staff and local groups providing ongoing relief and through this experience connected climate change and the social impacts of severe weather. Now they are back at our headquarters beginning coursework on the theory of social change and participating in a series of workshops.

Looking forward to our summer and fall terms, we are accepting applications now and want to find the next environmental leaders from your campus and community. We are looking for students who want to:

- Learn the practical skills of environmental activism, effective communication, leadership, and strategic campaigning in a supportive environment
- Travel to witness environmental destruction first hand and put new knowledge to use
- Get necessary experience that can give them a foot in the door to a career in environmental or social change

Will you forward this email to your department or program list or to individual students who are a good fit for the Greenpeace Semester? You can also tell us about great students we should contact at usa-semester@greenpeace.org.

EVENT FOR FACULTY AND ADVISORS: Want to know more about the Greenpeace Semester? We invite you to a brief telephone information session for faculty and advising staff about supporting student development through the Greenpeace Semester. Choose between two sessions offered:
o    Tuesday, March 5th 9 am PST (12pm EST)
o    Wednesday, March 6th 9 am PST (12pm EST)
o    Email usa-semester@greenpeace.org to register for either session
The Greenpeace Semester would not be possible without your support. Thank you for all you do.

Sincerely,

Eli, Mary, Justin, and Myriam - The Greenpeace Semester Team

P.S. Check out this great new video from the fall trip to Portland, OR - we hope it will inspire you as much as it did us.