Wednesday, March 28, 2018

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.
Today
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.

This year’s theme is “Swiping Right on Media Convergence.”

The conference is free and open to the public. Top communications professionals from around the United States are on program: 

• 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.

As part of SIUE's annual Mass Communications Week, SIUE students will have the chance to trade their First Amendment rights for free food at the “First Amendment Free Food Festival:"

11 a.m.-2p.m.
Today
Dunham Hall patio

In exchange for free lunch, students will trade in their rights to freedom of religion, speech, the press, assembly and the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances when they enter a roped-off zone outside Dunham Hall, where the First Amendment no longer exists. In addition to losing their own First Amendment rights while they eat, students will be treated to interactions with fellow students showing them what the loss of their freedoms might look like.

The Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center concludes its blood drive on campus:

10:30 a.m.–3 p.m.
Today 
Blood Mobile, Quad

To schedule an appointment, please create an account at bloodcenterIMPACT.org and use sponsor code 9828.
Please reference information regarding eligibility requirements and the donation process here.

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. - The Bioeconomy in Your Backyard, presented by John Caupert, executive director of the NCERC at SIUE, and Courtney Breckenridge, project manager, Building Illinois Bioeconomy Consortium

1:15-2:30 p.m. - Study Abroad to China Experience, presented by Carley Ramich, Jenna Sanders, Mya Smith and Jacob Sowa, SIUE students

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.

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

Emotions in the Workplace
Friday, March 30
8 a.m.-noon, SIUE Main Campus - Founders Hall

This session will introduce several concepts associated with emotions in the workplace that can have dramatic impacts on employees, and the way they complete and feel about their jobs.

Specifically, we will discuss how emotions have been demonized in the context of “professional” circles, and how this has contributed to many struggling with how to manage them appropriately. We will discuss, in particular, emotional labor (or the energy and labor people often undergo to manage their own and others’ emotions within the workplace); emotional intelligence – the set of skills and abilities that enable one to manage emotions more effectively; emotional contagion; and emotional climate/culture of organizations. 

For a listing of more, click Professional Development Workshops.

Please join us for:

Sustained Dialogue Community Presentation
1-4 p.m.
Friday, March 30
Morris University Center, Conference Center 

Sustained Dialogue (SD) is a process that addresses issues of community relations including race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, ability status, and other topics that often are not effectively discussed in diverse groups.

In 1999, a set of students at Princeton University began using the process to solve deep-seated issues around race relations. Since then, the Sustained Dialogue Campus Network has grown to include campuses around the world.

High school jazz ensembles throughout the region will swing their way onto the campus of SIUE to participate in the 4th Annual St. Louis Jazz Club Essentially Ellington Festival, a day of performances and workshops.

The concluding concert is free and open to the public, and will feature participating bands and clinicians:
7:30 p.m.
Friday, March 30
Dunham Hall Theater
General admission: $10, SIUE students: free with valid student ID

Co-sponsored by New York’s Jazz at Lincoln Center and The St. Louis Jazz Club, the regional festival is a non-competitive, education-focused festival designed to offer high school jazz bands of all levels the opportunity to perform the music of Duke Ellington and other seminal big band composers and arrangers.

Each band will receive feedback from clinicians in a dress rehearsal, directly followed by written feedback in performance.

For more information, contact Jason Swagler at 650-2355 or jswagle@siue.edu.

The Graduate School will host the 2018 Graduate Student Research Symposium.

2:30-5:30 p.m.
Wednesday, April 4
Morris University Center

This event celebrates and showcases the variety of research and creative activities taking place here at SIUE! Attending the symposium gives our prospective graduate students the opportunity to talk to current graduate students about their projects and experiences at SIUE, as well as allows them to meet with faculty and admissions staff. It also allows us to celebrate the research efforts and accomplishments made by many SIUE faculty over the course of the year.

This year’s symposium will feature three specific points of interest:
•Graduate student presentations – This event allows students to display their research to fellow students and faculty, while receiving constructive evaluations from their peers to help them improve their presentations. The presentations will be from 2:30-4:30 p.m. in the Goshen Lounge.

• Hoppe Awardee presentation - The Hoppe presentation is given by a faculty member who has been a recipient of the Hoppe Research Professor Award. These awards are given in order to recognize faculty members whose research or creative activities have the promise of making significant contributions to their fields of study. This year’s presentation will be given by Jeremy Jewell, PhD, professor of psychology in the SIUE School of Education, Health and Human Behavior. Jewell will speak from 2:30-3:30 p.m. in the Illinois Room.

• The Chancellor’s Reception - Hosted by Chancellor Randy Pembrook, this reception honors the faculty and staff who submitted external grants from March 1, 2017-February 28, 2018? with special recognition for first-time PI's. The Chancellor will also acknowledge the 2018 Vaughnie J. Lindsay New Investigator Award recipient, the 2018 Distinguished Research Professor, and the 2018-20 Hoppe Research Professor recipient. This event is from 4-5:30 pm in the Meridian Ballroom and is for all faculty and the student presenters. Faculty are welcome to invite their Graduate Students to attend.

Please RSVP, here.