Dear Dartmouth Community,

Reminder to register for the Big Data in the Life Sciences Symposium - May 23rd & 24th!!

Poster Registration has been extended to 5/19

**Several Prizes Available**

Register Here: http://geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/bds/

More information below:

Please join us for this 2-day event on May 23rd & 24th in Alumni Hall. Register for either day or both!!

May 23rd- Scientific Talks
May 24th- Career Development

Poster Session registration is open to ALL students with research in related fields. Spots are limited.

Keynote Speakers:
Cathy Ball, Chief Scientific Officer, AncestryDNA, LLC
Dave Jensen, Managing Director, CareerTrax, Inc.

Presented by The Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) Big Data Training Program

Contributing Sponsors:
Office of the Provost
School of Graduate & Advanced Studies
Geisel’s Office of the Dean
Quantitative Biology Research Institute (QBRI)
Department of Molecular and Systems Biology
Center for Molecular Epidemiology
Quantitative Biomedical Sciences (QBS)

Questions?? Please contact Shaniqua Jones ([log in to unmask])

3 minute research competition is an elevator pitch format competition for people doing research. This gives you an amazing platform to practice your presentation skills. Each participant gets 3 minutes to present their research to the audience and judges. Use of PowerPoint or similar presentation tools is not allowed. After all the presentations, we will have three prizes for two winners picked by judges and one by audience vote.

Things you can take away from this event:
As Feynman said, "If you can't explain something to a layman then you haven't understood it well enough". This event gives you an opportunity to ask yourself if you understand your research well enough.

If you have fear of interviews, then you get to practice and get an opportunity to overcome that fear.
Good prize money.
Prizes: 1st Prize: $100 gift card; Runner-up: $50 gift card; Crowd favorite: $50 gift card

Really you need one more reason? Okay, how about free sushi? Convinced, right?

So Sign-up today:
Register https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeI4Ts_6ZSYfBWqnYNmb72gAos33xF-OPtbLq-DkYMxug1qYg/viewform

Or just join us to support your friends on Thursday, the 18th May, 2017 at 5 pm at 100 Life Sciences Auditorium.

Come enjoy lunch at the Montgomery House with a new up and coming writer, Edouard Louis.



Biography

Édouard Louis, born Eddy Bellegueule[1] was born and raised in the town of Hallencourt in the North of France, which is the setting of his first novel En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule.

Louis grew-up in a poor family supported by government welfare: his father was an unemployed factory worker and his mother found occasional work bathing the elderly.[3] The poverty, racism and alcoholism which confronted him during his childhood would become the subject of his literary work.[4]

He is the first in his family to attend university, and in 2011 he was admitted to École Normale Supérieure in Paris.[5] In 2013, he officially changed his name to Édouard Louis.[6]

The same year, he edited the collective work, Pierre Bour- dieu. L'insoumission en héritage, which analyses the influ- ence of Pierre Bourdieu on critical thinking and political emancipation.[7]

In 2014 he published En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule, an autobiographical novel. The book was the subject of extensive media attention and was hailed for its literary merit and compelling story. The book also gave rise to de- bate and controversy over the perception of the working class.[8] It was a bestseller in France and has been trans- lated to over 20 languages.[9][10]

In September of 2015, Edouard Louis penned a Man- ifesto for an Intellectual and Political Counteroffensive alongside philosopher Geoffroy de Lagasnerie.[11] In the letter, which ran on the front page of Le Monde, and was later reprinted in English by the Los Angeles Review of Books, Louis and Lagasnerie denounce the legitimization of right-wing agendas in public discourse and establish principals by which leftist intellectuals should reengage in public debate.[12] [13]

In 2016, Louis published his second novel, History of Vio- lence.[14] In recounting the story of his rape and attempted murder on Christmas Eve of 2012, the autobiographical novel centers around the cyclical and self-perpetuating nature of violence in society.[15][16]

2 Style and Influences

The work of Édouard Louis maintains a fine link with sociology: the presence of Pierre Bourdieu pervades his novels which invoke the themes of social exclusion, domination, and poverty.[17] The influence of William Faulkner is also revealed through Louis’ superposition in the same sentence of various levels of language – placing the popular vernacular at the heart of his writing.[18] Fur- thermore, Louis’ novel Histoire de la Violence contains an essay on Faulker’s novel Sanctuary. The author says that by working languages, he wants to use violence as a lit- erary subject, “I want to make violence a literary space, like Marguerite Duras made a literary space of madness or as Claude Simon made war into a literary space.”[19]

The greatest contemporary influence on Louis comes from French sociologist Didier Eribon, whose book “Returning to Reims” Louis says, “marked a turning point for his future as a writer.”[20]

3 Works 3.1 Novels

En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule. Le Seuil. 2014. ISBN 9782021117707.

Histoire de la violence. Le Seuil. 2016. ISBN 2021177785.

Date:
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Time:
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location:
Campus:
Graduate Studies
http://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event/3324721

GWISE Networking Lunch
Join Melody Brown Burkins and Professor Mary Albert as they discuss the importance of women networking and offer helpful tips over lunch. Please note: we are starting at 11:45 am. Lunch provided.

Location: Fahey E122 Fahey First Floor Commons

Mary Albert

http://engineering.dartmouth.edu/people/faculty/mary-albert

Professor of Engineering
Executive Director, U.S. Ice Drilling Program Office

Melody Brown Burkins (GR '98)

http://dickey.dartmouth.edu/people/melody-brown-burkins-0Adjunct Professor of Environmental Studies
Associate Director, Programs & Research, John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding
Chair, US National Committee to the International Union of Geological Sciences
Member, Board on International Scientific Organizations, National Academies

Dr. Melody Brown Burkins (GR '98) is the Associate Director for Programs and Research in the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding and Adjunct Professor in the Environmental Studies Program at Dartmouth College. With over twenty years of experience in both academia and government, she is an advocate for policy-engaged scholarship across disciplines, international education and partnerships, creating new opportunities for academics and professionals in science policy and diplomacy, and the support of global initiatives investing in earth systems sustainability, civic engagement, and gender equality.
Date:
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Time:
11:45am - 1:00pm
Location:
http://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event/3289337