Friday, April 6, 2018

The 41st Annual Fritz Marti Lecture will be held:
3 p.m. reception
4 p.m. lecture
Today
Morris University Center, Mississippi-Illinois Room

Dr. Richard Kearney, the Charles B. Seelig chair of philosophy at Boston College, will present the 41st Fritz Marti Lecture on “Recovering our Senses.”

Kearney has written nearly two dozen philosophy and literature books, and hosted several television series focusing on culture and philosophy in England and Ireland. He is also the international director of the Guestbook Project, a digital storytelling effort that promotes peace by presenting personal stories in opposing sides of conflicts.

Kearney's talk “Recovering our Senses” will “look at the primacy of touch in our way of knowing and navigating our world.”

For more information, visit Fritz Marti Lecture.

All are invited to attend the final business pitch presentations for The Other 40 business plan competition.

12:30-3 p.m.
Monday, April 9
Morris University Center, Hickory/Hackberry Room

The Other 40 is a business plan competition open to all SIUE students and gives students the opportunity to showcase their business ideas. The objective is to provide students with the resources, skills and incentives to launch their businesses. More than $10,000 in cash and in-kind support will be awarded to the top three students or student teams.

This final phase of the competition is the business pitch, which is a Shark Tank-like presentation of the entrants’ business plans to our judges, who will choose the top three based on each student's/student team's presentation and business plan.

We look forward to seeing you at the event!

If you have any questions, please contact Kristine Jarden, faculty advisor for the Entrepreneurs Club, at kjarden@siue.edu or 650-2668.

The School of Dental Medicine invites the SIUE campus community to attend its 2018 SDM Research Day. The day's events will feature a keynote address, a student table clinic competition and a vendor fair.

1:15 p.m.
Tuesday, April 10
Auditorium of the Center for Professional Advancement, Building 280
School of Dental Medicine, Alton 

This year's keynote speaker is University of Southern California's (USC) Parish P. Sedghizadeh, DDS, MS, QME. Sedghizadeh is an associate professor of Clinical Dentistry, the director of the USC Center for Biofilms, the section chair for Diagnostic Sciences, and the program director for the Advanced Education Program in Oral Pathology and Radiology.  

An opportunity to review outstanding student research will be available in Roller Hall, Building 263, immediately following the lecture presentation.

All guests are welcome.

Don't miss the next sessions of Kindermusik!

“Sing & Play” 4-Week Class for 1- and 2-year-olds

Get ready to sing, play and move with your little one in this high-energy music class designed to be just right for children under two years of age. This new Kindermusik curriculum focuses on your child's beginning movement, helping to build the muscles your baby needs to walk, and vocal development, helping to nurture your child’s speaking and singing voice. With a mix of both parent-child joint activities and child-focused activities, you’ll be able to join right in on all the singing and dancing while also getting the chance to observe how your older baby or toddler learns on her own. 

May theme: Zoom!
Cars go, trains go, and toddlers are always on the go! Whether they’re taking their first cautious steps or zooming off to explore something new, one thing is for certain – toddlers always seem to be moving. In this unit, they will get to move like trains in a tunnel, bounce in a bumpy car ride, and soar on the wings of airplanes in activities designed to help them to get wherever it is they choose to go!

10 a.m.
Thursday, April 19, 26 and May 3, 10

“Laugh & Learn” 4-Week Class for 3- and 4-year-olds

Each week in class we combine your preschooler’s natural love of music, storytelling, and imaginative play with age-appropriate activities that introduce early music concepts and foster independence, social and emotional skills, language growth, and self-control. 

May theme: In My Garden
In My Garden is dedicated to the great outdoors, growing plants, the green environment, and our many animal friends in the garden. The children do lots of different activities, from investigating a garden, to growing cabbages, to crawling around slowly like a snail and then jumping up quickly like a grasshopper. They take an imaginative walk around a garden to clean it up, while singing and picking up trash for the trashcan or recyclable items for the recycling bin. 

11 a.m.
Thursday, April 19, 26 and May 3, 10

Tuition for each class is $75 and is due by Tuesday, April 10.

For more information, visit Kindermusik.

Explore the possibilities during SIUE’s Graduate Admissions Open House:

10 a.m.-1 p.m.
Wednesday, April 11
Morris University Center, 2nd floor, Meeting Room A
Please indicate if you need parking on your registration form

Find out more about:
o SIUE’s 100+ graduate programs
o Graduate admission requirements
o Financial support
o Graduate assistantships

Apply during the open house, and the $40 application fee will be waived!

Register for the Graduate Admissions Open House.

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

Leading Virtual Teams
8 a.m.-noon
Friday, April 13
SIUE Main Campus - Founders Hall

This workshop will discuss leading and managing virtual teams effectively. You will learn about various tools, techniques, resources and how to utilize them, and how to involve everyone in the process. We will discuss on-site versus off-site participation and involvement. 

Examples will be provided from a management perspective and an employee perspective. You also will learn about the ground rules and assumptions in virtual teams and what works best – co-locating, global sourcing, etc., as well as historical references to what has worked best and what has not (best practices).

For a listing of more, click Professional Development Workshops.

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: 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.

Biweekly dialogues to support critical conversations and understanding around issues of campus climate for black students, faculty and staff; social justice; and our collective responsibility to build a sustainable campus environment for all will continue:

Please join us
Noon-1:30 p.m.
Friday, April 13
Peck Hall, Room 2405

The SIUE STEM Center is in the process of moving into its new space in Science East!

Please note that its resource center services will be temporarily suspended during the transition, which is set to be complete by Monday, April 16.

Until then, if you need assistance, please contact Colin Wilson at colwils@siue.edu.

Thank you for your understanding. We look forward to working with you in Science East Room 1276!

The Kimmel Student Involvement Center, in partnership with the Edwardsville Rotary, is pleased to accept nominations for an SIUE Student of the Month.

Individuals selected for this award will be recognized at an upcoming Rotary meeting and at the annual Kimmel Leadership Awards Ceremony in April.

SIUE students can be nominated by students, faculty or staff. No self-nominations will be considered. Applications are accepted on an on-going basis, and should be received by the 16th of the month to be considered for that month's award. Any nominees not selected for one month, will be considered for the following months. Awards will be given for September through April each academic year.

Candidates will be selected based on the following criteria:

· High academic standards
· Campus involvement and activities
· Service to others on and off campus
· Leadership within their academic area or within an organization
· Demonstrated ability to promote spirit and pride at SIUE

To obtain a form, visit SIUE Rotary Student Leader of the Month.

For more information, please contact the Kimmel Student Involvement Center at 650-2686.