The Harbinger
October 30, 2006
Thursday & Friday: Education that Works
The Second Annual Education that Works Conference: Exploring
the connection between the liberal arts and careers, will be held Thursday,
November 2, and Friday, November 3.
The conference brings to campus nearly two dozen alumni and
friends of the College to discuss with Hiram students how becoming a liberally
educated person can open many employment doors in countless fields.
Hiram College’s
strategic plan shares the title – Education that Works – with the conference.
H. Paul Gilbert ’74, a Worldwide Partner at Mercer Human Resource Consulting
will give the conference keynote speech “Understanding the Odds: Managing Risk
in Your Life” on Thursday at 12:30 p.m.
in the Kennedy Center Ballroom.
Following is the conference schedule and participants. Participants
will be in classes and engaging in conversations with members of the Hiram
community over coffee. Take advantage of this opportunity to meet some of Hiram
College’s success stories.
For a complete program of events, including participants’ biographies, go to: http://www.hiram.edu/athletics/videos/educationworksprogram.pdf.
Events in bold are open to the campus community.
Thursday, November 2
9:40 a.m.: Class visits
ART240, Intermediate Photography /
Professor Linda Bourassa
Frohring
Art 5 or 6
Guest:
Jamie Rose
COMM326,
Persuasion & Attitude Change / Professor Linda Rea
Hinsdale
201
Guest:
Troy Walker ’96
10 a.m.: Conversations over coffee
1st
Floor, Kennedy Center
Political campaign management (for Hillary Rodham Clinton!)
Hosted by: Sarah Chase ’02
Medical School…What’s it really like?
Hosted by: Lauren Wasson ’04
12:30 p.m.
Convocation – “Understanding the Odds:
Managing Risk in Your Life”
H.
Paul Gilbert ’74, Worldwide Partner, Mercer Human Resource
Consulting
Kennedy
Center Ballroom
Gilbert will talk about what risk is and why it is important to understand. He will discuss how risk is a factor in the areas of education, employment, insurance, investments, aging and having fun, too. He will offer some ideas on how to manage risk and ways to determine when to take risk and when not to take risk.
2 p.m.: Class visits
HIST479,
The Nature of History / Professor Donald Fleming
Pendleton
House
Guest:
Matt Lautzenheiser ’99
ART120,
Fundamentals of Photography / Professor Linda Bourassa
Frohring
Art 3 & 6
Guest:
Jamie Rose
3 p.m.: Conversations
over coffee
1st
Floor, Kennedy Center
Writing, communications, and publishing
Hosted by: Tom Bacher ’78, Troy Walker ’96
Political science, policy-making, government relations
Hosted by: Sarah Chase ’02, Ted Daywalt
COMM
243, Photojournalism / Professor R. Stuart Tannehill
Hinsdale
110
Guest:
Jamie Rose
5:30 p.m.: Reception and Dean’s Dinner (by
invitation only)
Alumni
Heritage Room, Teachout-Price
Friday, November 3
9:30 a.m.: Class visits
FRCL121, About Looking / Professor Linda
Bourassa
Frohring
Art 3
Guest:
Jamie Rose
FRCL171, Crossing Cultures in Life & Literature /
Professor Debra Rodriguez
Hinsdale
210
Guests:
Tom Bacher ’78 & Sarah Chase ’02
FRCL152,
History of Anti-Americanism / Professor Adam Cathcart
Hinsdale
203
Guest:
Ted Daywalt
ECON318,
International Trade & Finance / Professor Ugur Aker
Hinsdale
114
Guest:
Shannon Clover ’01
SOAN455,
Sociology Senior Seminar / Professor Mario Renzi
Hinsdale
110
Guest:
Shiela Turner-McCall ’86
11 a.m.: Conversations over coffee
1st
Floor, Kennedy Center
Non-profit management and career options
Hosted by: Christine Henry ’70, Catherine
Timko ’91
Local career opportunities in government
Hosted by: Melinda McIlroy ’91, Shiela Turner-McCall ’86
Careers in art, web development, and information technology
Hosted by: Ted Daywalt, Matthew Snyder ’00
Careers in social work
Hosted by: Valerie Dowery ’92
Elementary Teaching & Administration
Hosted by: Ron Ashley ’67
11 a.m.: Class visits
MGMT218,
Organizational Behavior / Professor Gail Ambuske
Hinsdale
203
Guest:
Troy Walker ’96
12:30 p.m.: All-campus networking luncheon
Kennedy
Center Ballroom
1:15 p.m.: Class visits
ART130, History of Western Art,
Professor Lisa Safford
Frohring
Art 5
Guests: Tom Bacher ’78 & Matt Lautzenheiser ’99
CPSC201,
Data Structures / Professor Ellen Walker
Colton
106
Guest:
Matthew Snyder ’00
2 p.m.: Open
Forum with the Dean (conference speakers only)
Coleman
Room, Gerstacker Hall
3 p.m.: Conference concludes
Wednesday, November 1: Apex Presentations
Come support your fellow classmates and students during
their APEX presentations. The APEX (apprenticeship experience) presentations
are equivalent to senior seminars. Each presentation takes about 15 minutes.
November 1, 2006
Colton 120
Starting at 6:00 p.m.
Refreshments will be served.
The order of the presentations and their topics are as
follows:
- Daniel Factor – Phospholipase D1 Mediated Signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana
- Razan Yasin – Presence and Localization of Surfactant Protein-A in Relation to Menstrual Cycle
- Lucas Tomko – The SUN locus of Lycopersicum – What does it do and where does it act?
- Dawn Sechler – Manatee Field Research
- Erin Sams – The Effects of Green Frog (Rana clamitans) Presence on American Toads (Bufo americanus)
- Stephanie Larrick – Genitalia Dissection and Redescription of Prionapteryx nebulifera
- Lindsey Wilson – Functional Genomics: Characterizing Bio film Mutants
Wednesday, November 1: Environmental Studies AOC presentations
This Wednesday, nine environmental studies students will
deliver brief presentations on the areas of concentration in which they are
focusing their studies. The presentations will begin at 7 p.m. in Hinsdale 215 and will be
approximately five minutes long each. Light refreshments will be served. Please
attend.
The presenters and their topics are:
- David Monro: “Politics of the Environment”
- Jess Houmard: “Wildlife Management”
- Melanie Baugh: “Conservation Biology: Focus On Forests”
- Ally Talbott: “The Evolution of Human Perspective of Nature”
- Marie Wentzlaff: “Conservation”
- Troy Bussinger: “Nature Interpretation”
- Erin Carver: “Wildlife Conservation”
- Katie Moore: “Environmental Approach to Urban Land Planning”
- Peggy Painley: “Environmental Stewardship”
Forested Landscape: Final Opening
The final opening of the Forested Landscape gallery show will take
place on Friday, November 3, at the Meyers
Center of the Geauga Park District
in Chardon, Ohio.
The show will open at 7 p.m.
Forested Landscape was coordinated by Professor of Art and Environmental Studies Marty Huehner as part of Hiram’s Creative Field Studies program. The program encourages interdisciplinary study of regional and global environmental issues.
The show opened at Hiram College in January of 2006 and has been on display at several other galleries in Ohio. Artists whose work is featured in the exhibit include, Professor of Art Linda Bourassa; installation artist Chris Drury; Professor of Sociology Kim King; and former visiting artists Lee Renninger and Jeff Schmuki, among others.
Sunday: Experience Irish traditional music
There will be an informal “session” of Irish traditional
music in Frohring Recital Hall, Dean Street,
Hiram College
on Sunday, November 5 starting at 2:30 p.m.
Players, dancers, and listeners are welcome.
Refreshments will be served.
VERB Ballets performing at Hiram on November 8
On Wednesday,
November 8, 2006, VERB Ballets will present the contemporary dance,
Luis. The performance will begin at 8 p.m.
in Hayden Auditorium. A dessert reception will follow.
Luis is a contemporary ballet based on a short story by Louis
Selzer, M.D. and adapted to dance by Mark Tomasic of VERB Ballets. The story,
adapted by award-winning playwright Eric Coble, takes place in a city in Brazil
and explores the intersecting lives of a wealthy radiologist and a young man
who survives by scavenging at the city dump.
Read the story and attend an open discussion on Monday, November 6, 2006, at 6:30 p.m. in the Kennedy Center. Copies of Luis are on reserve in the Hiram College Library.
Performed by: VERB Ballets
Choreography: Mark Tomasic
Narrative adaptation: Eric Coble
Music: Uakti with Philip Glass
Costumes: Edgar Day Stanton
Dancers
Luis: Jason Ignacio
Dr. Cherubini: Mark Tomasic
Joana: Erin Conway
With: Marcella Alvarez, Danielle Brickman, Katie Gnagy, Sydney Ignacio, Catherine Meredith and Anna Roberts
Luis was commissioned by the Hiram College Center for Literature, Medicine, and the Biomedical Humanities; Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care; and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Department of Bioethics for the national Global Health Care Justice symposium hosted at Hiram College in June 2006.
Top North Korea analyst to speak at Hiram College
Bruce Cumings, professor of history at the University of Chicago and one of the world’s top experts on North Korea, will speak at Hiram College on Tuesday, November 7, at 4 p.m. in the Pritchard Room of the library. His lecture is titled “Decoupled from History: North Korea in the ‘Axis of Evil.’” Cumings’ talk will outline North Korea’s historical relationship with the United States, clarify the nuclear motivations of Kim Jong Il, and analyze the effectiveness of the Bush administration efforts to change North Korean behavior.
When the CIA was forecasting a North Korean collapse in the
late 1990s, Cumings counseled otherwise. His unrivaled command of historical
documents and his pungent writing style have won him acclaim as well as
controversy.
Cumings grew up in Hiram, attended Denison
University, joined the Peace Corps
in the mid-1960s, and received his Ph.D. from Columbia
University. Cumings has extensive
experience traveling in both North and South
Korea.
His books include Origins of the Korean War (two volumes), Korea’s
Place in the Sun, and North Korea:
Another Country. His essays on Korea
appear in major newspapers and periodicals around the world, including the New
York Times and Le Monde. Cumings’ presentation is sponsored by the Hiram
College history department.
Professor Ellen Walker mentors women computer scientists
Professor of Computer Science Ellen Walker was recently chosen
as one of 15 CRA-W Distinguished Professors to participate in the 2006-07 National
Science Foundation sponsored Cohort of Associate Professors Program (CAPP). CRA-W
is the Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research of the Computing
Research Association.
The goal of the project is to increase the percentage of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) women faculty with the rank of full professor by forming and mentoring a cohort of women from the associate professor ranks.
As a Distinguished Professor, Dr. Walker spoke at the two-day intensive CAPP Professional Development Workshop October 20-21 at Sanibel Harbor Resort in Fort Meyers, Florida, where she was also involved in more informal interactions such as CV reviews with the attending associate professors.
(Currently 10% of full professors in computer science are women. Hiram College has two full professors in computer science: Ellen Walker and Oberta Slotterbeck.)
Leonid meteors are falling from the sky!
If the skies are clear on Saturday, November 18, bring your
chairs to the James H. Barrow Field Station, sit down, and look up. That evening should be
a great night for viewing the Leonid Meteor Shower.
This celestial event may be one of the last good viewings of the Leonids for many years to come. On the evening of the 18th, Earth will be in close proximity to the 1932 dust trail left by parent comet Tempel-Tuttle. The meteor show should be best just before midnight.
In addition to viewing the meteors, a telescope will be on site to view planets and other distant objects in the night sky. Light refreshments and a bonfire will be available. Restroom facilities and a warm-up room also will be accessible.
This event is sponsored by the Stephens Memorial Observatory and the James H. Barrow Field Station. Viewing will begin at 7 p.m. and end at 1 a.m. This event is open to the public. The only thing that will cancer the party is cloudy skies!
For more information, go to www.stephensobservatory.org.
Welcome to Hiram College!!
Linda Simpson – Front Desk Clerk, Hiram Inn
Teal Young – Administrative Assistant, Special Events Office
This Week at Hiram
Monday, October 30
- Trick-or-Treat in the Residence Halls
6 p.m., Meet under the Hinsdale Arch
Tuesday, October 31
Wednesday, November 1
- Biology APEX presentations
6 p.m., Colton 120
- Environmental Studies AOC presentations
7 p.m., Hinsdale 215
Thursday, November 2
- Education that Works conversations over coffee
10 a.m., Kennedy Center, first floor
- political campaign management
- medical
school
- Education that Works Convocation Speaker: H. Paul Gilbert
’74
12:30 p.m., Kennedy Center Ballroom
- Education that Works conversations over coffee
3 p.m., Kennedy Center, first floor
- writing, communications, and publishing
- political science, policy-making, government relations
Friday, November 3
WEEKEND COLLEGE
CLASSES MEET
- Education that Works conversations over coffee
11 a.m., Kennedy Center, first floor
- non-profit management and career options
- local career opportunities in government
- careers in art, web development, and information technology
- careers in social work
- elementary
teaching and administration
- Education that Works all-campus networking luncheon
12:30 p.m., Kennedy Center
- Forested Landscape
7 p.m., Meyers Center, Geauga Park District
- Volleyball @ NCAC Semi-finals v. Denison
8 p.m., Springfield, Ohio
Saturday, November 4
WEEKEND COLLEGE & MASTER’S CLASSES MEET
- Football @ Ohio Wesleyan
1 p.m., Delaware, Ohio
- Volleyball @ NCAC Finals
2 p.m., Springfield, Ohio
Sunday, November 5
WEEKEND COLLEGE
CLASSES MEET
- Irish Music Session: Informal traditional playing (dancers
& listeners welcome!)
2:30 p.m., Frohring Recital Hall
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