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.

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.

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.

GRAD Alum Visit - Molly Croteau
Date:
Friday, October 20, 2017
Time:
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location:
Campus:
Graduate Studies
http://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event/3472101



Come have lunch with GRAD alum, Molly Croteau.

41 Haldemen with lunch provided

See bio below:



Molly Croteau, Ph.D. in Chemistry

Scientist, Bioassays at Avitide, Inc.

Lebanon, New Hampshire

Molly obtained her Ph.D. in Bioinorganic Chemistry from the Dartmouth Chemistry Department in February of 2016. Her thesis work was developing new methods to understand chemical reduction and oxidation reactions in metalloproteins (proteins that contain metals); specifically a brilliant-blue colored protein called Azurin. In simple terms, she studied how the smallest unit of energy (an electron) changes how the metal interacts or binds with the protein, and how you can detect this electron change in a new way that would help scientists with more complex proteins and metals. While her work would never go on to cure cancer or fight crime, it does lay the foundation to help future researchers develop alternative energy fuels using the simple electron and natural proteins as the workhorse. Molly then applied her fundamental knowledge about binding interactions and obtained a job with Avitide, Inc. right in Lebanon, New Hampshire in February 2016.

About Avitide:

Avitide has been around since 2013 and was started at one lab bench in Adimab (another Upper Valley biotech company) with roughly 3 employees. We have grown to currently have about 35 employees in Merck’s old space in the Dartmouth Regional Technology Center (DRTC), with a foreseeable expansion in the future. In the biotech world, growing and purifying biological drugs (like insulin) is a long, tedious, and expensive process. Here at Avitide, we design and build unique molecules to help purify biologics for large biopharmaceutical companies, so they can bring the drugs to market directly, or be accepted into clinical trials. We perform these tasks in 3 months, and offer more robust solutions to the current industry. In simple terms, let’s say a company has made a fruit smoothie, but they really only want the banana part of that smoothie from the mixture. Typically, they would pass the smoothie mixture through six to eight different filters, and eventually they would get just the banana part (the pure drug substance). At Avitide, we design and build one filter that separates the banana from the smoothie in one shot, with minimal banana clean up afterwards. Of course, we don’t actually work with smoothies and bananas, but with cell mixtures that contain the expressed drug of choice.

Molly is a Bioassay Scientist at Avitide, which entails determining how our molecules interact with the biological drug substances we receive from clients. She uses ForteBio Octet (BLI) technology, along with other binding technologies (ELISA, etc.) to select the best molecules from over 5,000 to 1 or 2 lead candidates. She also is the lead manager for a large and complex multi- year project, which entails data organization and task delegation throughout the entire workforce.

Other Info:

Molly knew that she wanted to pursue a career in the science industry, opposed to academia, and set her tasks in graduate school to meet this goal. She can offer advice about what techniques most industrial science companies are looking for in an employee, and how you can obtain those techniques during graduate school. She can also answer questions about large companies vs. small companies, postdoc vs. no postdoc, and other general advice.