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In this Newsletter:
* STEPS mini-conference
* First Gen Grad Lunch today
* Montgomery Fellow Lunch
* Academic Job Search Series - Crafting your Research Statement
* DCAL's Learning Community
* New England Science Symposium
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* STEPS mini-conference *
STEPS Science Policy Mini-Conference
When: Saturday, October 14th, 10:30am-3pm
Where: Kemeny Hall 007
Registration (free) is Required: [log in to unmask]
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/111438722902254
Description: STEPS is hosting the 2nd Annual Science Policy
Mini-Conference! This partial day conference includes 3 fantastic
speakers and a lunch. Dartmouth PhD Candidate, Jennifer Lai, will
discuss recent advances in vaccine technology. Dartmouth Professor of
Government, Dr. Brendan Nyhan, will discuss communication strategies
around promoting vaccine use. US Senator Jeanne Shaheen's Senior Policy
Advisor, Dr. Ariel Marshall, will discuss what it is like to work in
Congress as a scientist. This event is open to anybody at Dartmouth!
Please email [log in to unmask] to register.
* First Gen Grad Lunch today *
First Gen GRAD Lunch
Date:
Friday, October 6, 2017
Time:
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location:
Campus:
Graduate Studies
http://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event/3474984
First Generation College Grad Students’ Lunch
location: 53 Commons, private dining room, 204 - lunch provided
(First Gen students are those whose parents did not complete
a 4 yr college degree)
Are you the first in your family to go to college? If so, then perhaps
navigating graduate school has its share of joys
and challenges.
Come enjoy lunch and talk to other first-generation college graduate
students about their experiences And join faculty member Jason McLellan
in a discussion on being first-generation.
Bio:
https://geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/mclellan/
* Montgomery Fellow Lunch *
Montgomery Fellow Lunch with Rhodessa Jones
Date:
Thursday, October 12, 2017
Time:
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Location:
Campus:
Graduate Studies
http://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event/3598687
Come enjoy lunch and conversation with the Montgomery Fellow, Rhodessa
Jones.
Where: The Montgomery House, Off Rope Ferry Rd, across from Dick's House.
Lunch provided
RHODESSA JONES is Co-Artistic Director of the San Francisco acclaimed
performance company CULTURAL ODYSSEY. She is an actress, teacher, singer,
and writer. Ms. Jones is also the Director of the award winning Medea
Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women, which is a performance workshop
that is designed to achieve personal and social transformation with
incarcerated women. Ms. Jones has been invited to be a MONTGOMERY FELLOW
at Dartmouth College for the entire Fall 2017 term conducting residency
activities including workshops and lectures. Rhodessa just received THE
THEATRE BAY AREA LEGACY AWARD “for extraordinary contributions to the
Bay Area theatre community.” Rhodessa is presently a contributor to the
just released publication Black Acting Methods: Critical Approaches,
Edited by Sharrell Luckett, Tia M. Shaffer © 2017 – Routledge Publishing
House. Rhodessa’s chapter, “Nudging the memory: creating performance
with the Medea Project: Theatre for Incarcerated Women” anchors the
section on “Methods of social activism”. This ground-breaking collection
is an essential resource for teachers, students, actors and directors
seeking to reclaim, reaffirm or even redefine the role and contributions
of Black culture in theatre arts.” Jones was hired by the University of
California, Berkeley to teach the BLACK THEATER WORKSHOP entitled “Performance:
An African American Perspective” for Spring Semester 2016. Rhodessa
received the Theatre Practitioner Award presented by Theater
Communications Group during July 2015. The award recognizes “a living
individual whose work in the American theatre has evidenced exemplary
achievement over time and who has contributed significantly to the
development of the larger field”. On May 16, 2014 Rhodessa was the
Keynote Speaker for Graduation Commencement, Department of Theater,
Dance, and Performance Studies University of California, Berkeley. Ms.
Jones was just recently the Spring 2014 Interdisciplinary Artist in
Residence for the College of Letters and Science and the School of Human
Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Beginning in 2015
Rhodessa will be a Visiting Professor at St. Mary’s College in Moraga,
California. During 2015 Rhodessa will direct the African American
Theater Company production entitled, Xtigone at the Buriel Clay Theater
in San Francesco. During January 2014 Rhodessa traveled to New York City
to the PUBLIC THEATER to direct BLESSING THE BOATS: THE REMIX, Sekou
Sundiata’s acclaimed solo theater work. Other directing credits include
the upcoming new play Lost in Language by the renowned NTOZAKE SHANGE;
the 2007 production of Lysistrata, produced by the African American
Shakespeare Company; Eve Ensler’s Any One of Us, VDAY: Until the
Violence Stops Festival, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York; and
Will Power's The Gathering. To begin 2013 The Office of Mayor Edwin M.
Lee and the San Francisco Art Commission presented the 2013 Mayor's Art
Award to Rhodessa Jones, for her “lifetime of artistic achievement and
enduring commitment to the role of the arts in civic life”. In June 2012
The U.S. Department of State, Educational and Cultural Affairs Bureau
selected Rhodessa as an “ARTS ENVOY”! As one of San Francisco’s most
revered artists she received grant support to journey to South Africa to
continue her work in collaboration with Urban Voices Festival inside the
Naturena Women's Prison in Johannesburg, South Africa and then journey
on to participate in the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, South
Africa. In March 2012 Ms. Jones conducted residency activities at Brown
University for the Arts in the One World Conference. During December of
2007 Ms. Jones received a United States Artist Fellowship to support her
work. In 2004 she was honored with an Honorary Doctorate from California
College of the Arts. Other awards include a San Francisco Bay Guardian
Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003, a San Francisco Community Leadership
Award “in recognition of outstanding contributions to improving the
quality of life in the Bay Area” in 2000. In May 2003 Ms. Jones was
awarded a Non-Profit Arts Excellence Award by the San Francisco Business
Arts Council, and in June 2003 she received an Otto Rene Castillo Award
for Political Theater. Rhodessa’s published works include: A Beginner’s
Guide to Community - Based Arts, New Village Press; Imagining Medea:
Rhodessa Jones and Theater for Incarcerated Women, The University of
North Carolina Press; and Colored Contradictions An Anthology of
Contemporary African – American Plays (“Big Butt Girls, Hard-Headed
Women”), Penguin Group.
* Academic Job Search Series - Crafting your Research Statement
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Academic Job Search Series - Crafting your Research Statement
Date:
Monday, October 9, 2017
Time:
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location:
DCAL, 102 Baker Library
Campus:
Graduate Studies
Categories:
postdoctoral scholars
#4. Creating your Research Statement
Our own Jibran Khokhar will share his insights into crafting an
effective research statement as part of the academic job search packet.
Bring your questions!
Monday October 9
Noon-1:30pm
Baker Lib. DCAL - room 102
http://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event/3643995
* DCAL's Learning Community *
DCAL's Learning Community for Future Faculty
Date:
Monday, October 16, 2017
Time:
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location:
DCAL, 102 Baker Library
Campus:
DCAL
Categories:
DCAL
http://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event/3411556
In order to cultivate a community focused on teaching and learning
amongst graduate students and postdocs, DCAL has established a Learning
Community for Future Faculty (LCFF). The focus of this group is to share
the rewards and challenges of college teaching, while digging a bit
deeper into best practices and techniques for teaching. The LCFF meets
monthly on the 2nd Monday of the month.
* New England Science Symposium *
Dear Colleague:
Re: New England Science Symposium
The Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School
Sunday, April 8, 2018
On behalf of the Harvard Medical School Office for Diversity Inclusion
and Community Partnership and the Biomedical Science Careers Program (BSCP),
we are asking for your help in identifying fellows/students (particularly
African-American, Hispanic/Latino and American Indian/Alaska Native
individuals) involved in biomedical or health-related scientific
research who would benefit from presenting their research projects at
the seventeenth annual New England Science Symposium (NESS) to be held
on Sunday, April 8, 2018 from 7:45 AM to 4:15 PM at Harvard Medical
School in Boston, Massachusetts.
Please share this information with colleagues who may have access to
fellows/students who meet the criteria.
The deadline to submit abstracts: January 4, 2018.
There is no registration fee for this symposium, but pre-registration is
required.
To submit abstracts or to register: http://www.NewEnglandScienceSymposium.org
For more information, please contact Rodolfo Ramos at [log in to unmask]
or 617.432.5580.
-Rodolfo and the NESS Team
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Rodolfo Ramos
Program Coordinator
New England Science Symposium
Office for Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership
Harvard Medical School
164 Longwood Avenue, Room 218
Boston, MA 02115
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P: 617.432.5580
www.NewEnglandScienceSymposium.org
www.HMS.Harvard.edu/dcp
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