Wednesday, March 21, 2018

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

Today
Morris University Center, Hickory-Hackberry Room

10:30-11:45 a.m. - Beer, Wine and Spirits, presented by Laura Fowler, PhD, associate professor and director of museum studies

1:15-2:30 p.m. - Artemisia Gentileschi: Portrait of a Baroque Artist as an Early Feminist, presented by Katherine Poole-Jones, PhD, associate professor of art history

Cost: $5 for general public, $2 for Lifelong Learning members and FREE for alumni and students (with valid student ID)

You don’t want to miss this exhilarating semester jam-packed with presentations that are sure to inform and educate!

To view the brochure or to become a Lifelong Learning member, please visit our website or contact coordinator, Eboni Thompson at 650-3233.

Tickets are now available for the 2018 University Staff Senate Scholarship Banquet:

5 p.m. Social hour begins
6 p.m. Dinner
Tuesday, April 10
Morris University Center, Meridian Ballroom

The cost is $25 per person. Tickets can be purchased online at siue.edu/scholarship-banquet or by filling out the form and returning it to the University Governance Office Rendleman Hall room 0103 or Box 1252. Registration deadline is Thursday, April 5.

You can also purchase tickets in the Morris University Center from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. on March 21, 22, 27, 28, 29, April 2 and 3 at Goshen Table 5, and on April 4 in the Lower Level/Center Court.

The buffet style dinner will include stuffed pork chop and fried chicken with assorted cheesecake for dessert. There will be an open bar throughout the event with wine, beer and soda included.

There will be a silent auction, 50/50 drawing, High Spirits Alcohol Drawing, attendance prizes, and a drawing for a 2018/19 Green Lot parking pass. Green Lot parking pass drawing tickets and 50/50 tickets can also be purchased in advance. You must be present at the event to win the 50/50 drawing. The Green Lot parking pass drawing is open to all.

The banquet is open to all staff, faculty and retirees, as well as the community at large.

All proceeds from the event benefit the Staff Senate Scholarship, awarded during the fall and summer terms for deserving high school graduates or continuing SIUE undergraduate students who are the child, grandchild, spouse or civil union partner of a presently employed or retired civil service or professional staff employee at SIUE.

The Department of Foreign Languages and Literature announces the visit of Midwest Diplomat-in-Residence Melissa Martínez on Thursday, March 22.

11 a.m. – Presentation on careers in the Department of State.
Peck Hall 3417

2 p.m. – Coffee for Cool Women
Peck Hall 3407, Women’s Studies Office

Martínez holds a master’s in international and public affairs from the University of Columbia. She joined the U.S. Department of State in 2002 and was a Diplomat-in-Residence (DIR) at the Luskin School of Public Affairs Department of Public Policy at UCLA. Since August 2017, she has served as the DIR of the Midwest region.

These events are jointly organized by the Departments of Foreign Languages and Literature and International Studies, as well as the Women’s Studies program.

For more information, please contact Carolina Rocha at crocha@siue.edu.

The SIUE School of Business Executive Education program’s project management courses and workshops are open for registration:

Growth Mindset
Friday, March 23
8:30 a.m.- 4 p.m., SIUE Main Campus - Founders Hall

How do you measure success and failure in your business? Do you focus primarily on results or do you reward your staff based on their efforts, ideas and how much they have achieved?

Businesses and organizations that encourage people to believe they can develop, grow and improve, create innovative and forward-thinking workplaces that embrace risk, and use failure to learn - this is described as growth mindset culture. Growth mindset principles allow teams and individuals to continually develop. They also gain awareness of how individual and group attitudes impact the development and ability of others. 

For a listing of more, click Professional DevelopmentWorkshops.

Figure Drawing is a time-honored practice of studying the human form as an artistic subject. It engages a professional collaboration between model and art students, in which dynamic poses are held still for various lengths of time in order to capture movement and expression.

Those who practice figure drawing regularly learn the underlying thought and processes that aid in conveying the human form convincingly.

12:30-2:30 p.m.
Fridays: March 23, and April 13 and 27
Art & Design West, Room 2103

The cost is $6 per session or $30 for all six sessions.

Please register in person or online for Open Figure Drawing. Attendees must be 18 or older.

SIUE will host the regional Science and Engineering Research Challenge, which will showcase projects from students grades 5-12.

8-9:15 a.m. Exhibit set up
8-9:30 a.m. Judges check-in and training
9:30 a.m.-Noon Project judging
Saturday, March 24
SIUE's Morris University Center

To make this event happen, we need people like you to serve as volunteer judges. We will provide training, breakfast and a catered lunch.

For more information and to sign-up, please visit the SERC website.

The SIUE's Mass Communications Week will be Monday-Friday, March 26-30 in the Morris University Center. This year’s theme is “Swiping Right on Media Convergence.”

The four-day conference is free and open to the public. It will feature five top communications professionals from around the United States: 

• Brittany Richter, vice president and head of social media for iProspect in New York City
• Brooke Huntley, director of Cox Analytics for Cox Media Group in Atlanta
• Schron Jackson, SIUE mass communications alumnus and public information manager for the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department
• Chris Kilcullen, vice president and digital director of H&L Partners, and president of the Advertising Club of Greater St. Louis
• Daphne Valerius, filmmaker, producer and journalist from Columbia, Mo.

A full itinerary is available at siue.edu/MassComm/MCW2018.

For more information, visit mehs.org.

Amy Hunter, known for her TEDx Talk “Lucky Zip Codes," will speak at the Diversity Workshop - #metoo: Understanding the Intersectional Identities in Higher Education:

10-11:50 a.m.
Wednesday, March 28
Founders Hall, room 1408

Hunter is the manager of Diversity and Inclusion for St. Louis Children’s Hospital, where she is charged with leading diversity and inclusion strategies and their implementation and measurement. She also owns and operates Lotus Roots Consulting, a diversity and inclusion firm. Previously, she served as the director of Racial Justice for the St. Louis YWCA.

Hunter has more than 20 years of experience in the corporate, education and nonprofit community. She has numerous publications and has been on ABC, CNN, NBC and NPR.