Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018

Thinking of starting a company to commercialize intellectual property? Come learn best practices from and ask questions of a panel featuring a local faculty entrepreneur, the executive director of the T-REX Innovation Center, and SIU’s technology transfer experts.

Know-How and Regional Resources for a Successful Start-Up Company:  Who Wants to Be a Billionaire
Today
12-1 p.m.
Morris University Center, Missouri Room

Feel free to bring your lunch. Join us late or leave early if needed.

Sponsored by the SIU Office of Technology Transfer and the SIUE Graduate School.

Don’t miss today’s Service Learning Brown Bag Discussion on Exploring Service in STEM.

Noon-1 p.m.
Today
Lovejoy Library, 3rd Floor Conference Room (LB 3021)

Service learning is a High-Impact Community Engagement Practice that has many models and forms. This brown bag will introduce the current “Exploring Service in STEM” Excellence in Undergraduate Education project and preliminary ideas on best practice models emerging from a review of the literature.

We are interested in learning from colleagues across campus and in a variety of disciplines about their models of service learning that have been effective, as well as challenges and pitfalls to avoid.

Please join us if you have experience with service learning to share, or if you are interested in learning more.

For more information, contact Dr. Sharon Locke, executive director of the SIUE Center for STEM Research, Education and Outreach, at slocke@siue.edu. 

SIUE’s Office of Educational Outreach will present: "In Search of Wellness: The Wholeness of Health"

7:30 p.m.
Tuesdays, Today-March 27
Glen Carbon Library
198 S. Main St.
Glen Carbon, IL

The cost is $49. 

Are you living with the vitality and energy you desire in your life? Did you know that there is more to wellness than just exercising and eating well? Though there are a number of different models used to represent wellness or well-being, each model represents wellness as a multi-faceted design and focuses on how each component relates to the other with the emphasis on wholeness. In this class, after gaining an understanding of a comprehensive wellness view in week one, subsequent weeks will explore each dimension in depth, paired with tips and actionable ways to improve your own wellness one dimension at a time.

Instructor Carin Dehmer has worked in the health and wellness field for more than 25 years, from fitness instructor to wellness strategist and worksite wellness. She has a bachelor's in biology/exercise science from Missouri State University and a master’s in health education from the University of Central Arkansas. Dehmer is a certified wellness practitioner, and is worksite wellness certified from the Chapman Institute and the National Wellness Institute. 

To register, visit siue.edu/educationaloutreach/registration. Late registration is open through Tuesday, Feb. 13

For more information, call (618) 650-3210.

The Student Fitness Center is offering Personal Training services to all students and members! 

We currently have spots available to work with a certified trainer! If you have been considering jumpstarting your fitness routine, a trainer is a great way to get you started with your goals. 

With affordable pricing, we are ready to serve you. Check out more about our trainers and training packages. 

In addition to a free fitness assessment to get you started, personal training clients will receive a free initial consultation with a trainer prior to beginning with a session package.

The topic of the next Counseling Services Brown Bag Series is "Micro-Aggressions and Mental Health."
12-1:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 7
Student Success Center, room 1203
Presenter: Courtney Boddie, director of Counseling Services

Students, faculty and staff are invited to bring your lunch and join the Brown Bag Series in discussing the impact of micro-aggressions on mental health.
• What are micro-aggressions?
• How can people become knowledgeable about micro aggressions and their impact on mental health?
• How do I respond and support someone that has experienced micro aggressions?
• Practice navigating difficult dialogues.

For more information, contact Counseling Services at 280-2842.

The SIUE Office of Educational Outreach invites you to attend the spring 2018 Lifelong Learning Speakers Series every Wednesday on the campus of SIUE.

The next presentations:

Avian Influenza, presented by James Waller
10:30-11:45 a.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 7
Morris University Center, Missouri Room

Katherine Dunham: A Life of Dance, Activism and Anthropology, presented by Cory Willmott, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Anthropology
1:15-2:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 7
Morris University Center, Missouri Room

Join us to practice mindfulness and meditation.

12-12:50 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 8
Morris University Center, International Room
No RSVP is required. 

For more information, contact Lisa Thompson-Gibson at lithomp@siue.edu or 650-2842. 

The SIUE Sustainability Advisory Group (SAG) was created Feb. 14, 2008, by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Administration to assess progress on existing initiatives and to vet ideas for future efforts around the topic of sustainability. Since then, and despite budget setbacks, sustainability efforts at SIUE have not slowed. Instead, every day more energy is put into building a more sustainable campus and community.

After a brief hiatus, SAG is being relaunched with a new name – the Sustainability ACTION Group – and with a new structure. The new structure involves a steering committee that is charged with:
• Drafting operating papers
• Creating a sustainability plan
• Developing a communication strategy
• Overseeing STARS
• Mapping sustainability assets
• Identifying potential sources of funding for projects

The SAG will also be made up of working groups initially focusing on energy and food, with plans for water, curriculum, transportation, and waste groups to be added in the future.

The SAG is open to all students, staff and faculty who are interested in or are already working in areas related to sustainability. If you would like to become more involved in the steering committee, or in one or more of the workgroups, please attend one of the kick-off meetings listed below, or email Steering Committee Chair Connie Frey Spurlock at cfrey@siue.edu.
12:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 14
Peck Hall, room 1412
3:30 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 15
Peck Hall, room 0412

Thank you for all you do to make SIUE a terrific place to live, work and study.

10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Morris University Center's Meridian Ballroom

Wednesday, Feb. 28
College of Arts and Sciences, School of Business, and all non-teaching degrees

Thursday, March 1
School of Engineering

Professional attire required. Bring copies of your resume!

Don’t forget your Cougar Card for registration at the door.

A list of attending employers can be found on the Career Development Center's website.

For more information, please call the CDC at 618-650-3708 or visit the website.

The campus community is invited to attend a guest presentation on the important topic of intractable conflicts.

Michael Pratt, PhD, O’Connor Professor in the Carroll School of Management at Boston College, will present “United We Fall and Divided We Stand?: Unconventional Lessons for Addressing Intractable Conflicts.”
2-3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 28
Art & Design Building, Room 1104

Pratt will speak about conflicts between groups that are not only long-lasting, but difficult to move beyond (i.e. political, religious, etc.). He will discuss how such conflicts come about and why groups, at some level, may even be invested in keeping them going. He also draws upon his own research to offer unconventional lessons he has learned about successfully managing these types of conflicts.

Jill Schreiber, PhD, and Jayme Swanke, PhD, assistant professors of social work, are coordinating Pratt’s visit, through CAS’ Targeted Funding Initiative, which is supporting projects of faculty development and innovation. They emphasize the broad appeal of Pratt’s presentation topic, as his background includes experience and expertise of interest to social work, psychology and business, as well as other fields.”

“When people’s identity is tied to “I am not them,” it makes it difficult to mediate and come together to find solutions to issues,” Schreiber said. “Dr. Pratt’s visit will offer a different way of theorizing or framing how to get along and communicate with people who may be different than you, in multiple contexts.”

Contact Schreiber at jischre@siue.edu or Swanke at jswanke@siue.edu with any questions.