CCT News
28 September 2009
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Contents:
Student matters,
CCT community,
CCT events,
alums,
other events,
opportunities,
resources,
food for thought,
humor
Student Matters
Congrats and welcome to new CCT students: M.A. -- Renessa Ciampa, Noreen McGinness
Certificate -- Mary Lou Horn, Cathy Martin, Sandra McCollin, Brooke O'Connor, Emilia Sabatowska, Michael Wedman
CCT Community
Professor Peter Taylor will give the Chancellor's Annual Distinguished Teaching Lecture, co-sponsored by the Friends of Healey Library, on Tuesday, November 3, from 3-4:30 pm in the Alumni Lounge, Campus Center. (Not really a lecture, but an interactive CCT-ish session on "Engaging Colleagues in a Caring University.")
CCT Events
Thursday, October 8, 2009: CCT Network event, "Our Lives and Other Worlds IV" (focus on workplace leadership, innovation, organizational change)
6:30-9:00pm, Wheatley Hall 4th floor lounge (room 4-148)
Please join us for our continuing series where CCT alums will join us and present from their work beyond CCT.
For more information:
http://www.cct.umb.edu/CCTNetwork8Oct09.html
Alum and CCT associates Notes
CCT Graduate Receives Fulbright Award
- Dr. Lori Kent, Critical and Creative Thinking (1992), has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture at Krakow’s Academy of Fine Arts during the 2009-2010 academic year. Dr. Kent will lecture on American contemporary art and visual culture for the Department of History and Theory of Art.
Exhibit by CCT Alum Luanne Witkowski, "Immersion Emersion", at the Kingston Gallery in Boston
September 30 – October 31, 2009
Opening Reception: October 2, 5:30 – 8:00 PM
Kingston Gallery, 450 Harrison Avenue #43, Boston, MA
For more information, check out:
http://www.lewstudio.com/__L.E.Witkowski_~/Press_Release_Immersion_Emersion.html
http://www.lewstudio.com
http://www.kingstongallery.com
Events
Thursday, October 8, 2009: Your Gateway to the World, a program from the Office of International & Transnational Affairs (OITA)
3:00pm-6:00pm, Alumni Room, Campus Center, 2nd Floor
Information session about the activities and programs of OITA, incl. welcoming address by Provost Langley, poetry from Duncan Nelson and Michael Sullivan, and several other opportunities for enlightenment about the program. Refreshments will be served.
For more information: See the
full flyer from OITA
October 16-17, 2009: Grassroots Use of Technology Conference X Workshops/presentations held Friday evening and Saturday all day
Egan Research Center, Northeastern University
For more information:
http://www.GrassrootsTech.org
Sunday, November 15, 2009: Shofar Concert: "Coro Allegro"
3:00pm, Sanders Theater, Cambridge
(Contributed by CCT student, Constance Cook)
Robert Stern’s Shofar, is based on the symbolism of the Shofar in Jewish history and liturgy. Its four sections correspond to the four shofar calls used on the Jewish Day of Atonement, signifying the progression from wholeness to brokenness to shattering and back to wholeness.
For more information:
http://www.coroallegro.org/
Wednesday, February 17, 2010: An Evening with Garrison Keillor
6:00pm-7:00pm, JFK Library on Columbia Point in Dorchester, behind the UMass-Boston campus.
Early registration is recommended.
Famed host of radio program A Prairie Home Companion , Keillor discusses why humor is fundamental to American life.
Graduate Student Fall Orientation Program
See the complete schedule for specific times and locations.
To reserve space in any events, please contact Please RSVP to
Graduate.Studies@umb.edu These events are a great way to meet graduate students from outside your department.
Highlights:
See the complete schedule for specific times and locations.
- Workshops on Using Library Resources: Sept. 10, 16, 21, 29
- Using SPSS and SAS in Research: Sept. 14, 30
- Teaching Assistant Workshops: Sept. 15, 21, Oct. 20, 26
- The Ethical Conduct of Research and the IRB Process: Sept. 30
Opportunities
Request for submissions: Essay Prize from the Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking (AILACT)
$300 prize for the winning essay, where "Papers related to the teaching or theory of informal logic or critical thinking, and papers on argumentation theory, will be considered for the prize".
Deadline October 31, 2009.
http://ailact.mcmaster.ca/Essay_Prize_Call.html
Call for Papers for Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences, the journal of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology &
Life Sciences (Special Issue on Creativity and Nonlinear Dynamics)
Settings and applications could include classrooms, business, science and engineering design, military operations, artistic or literary production.
Deadline: April 30, 2010
View
http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/ndpls/
and
http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/ndpls/CFP-Creativity09.pdf
Lecture Series for High School Biology Teachers/Directors
Life Sciences HHMI Outreach 2009 Fall Program at Harvard University
Five afternoons of faculty lectures, laboratories, tours and related activities. This fall, focus is animal physiology and cell morphology. An
application is required to reserve your spot, but the program is free to participants.
Application Deadline: September 25, 2009
Resources
Food for Thought
Q: If a reasonably intelligent young person today is looking to make as big a contribution to society as possible, is he or she better off making a small impact on something very large (like federal policy) or picking one particular problem and spending a lifetime attacking it (like curing a disease or improving public education in a country or even city)? — Matt
A. There is no obvious theoretical answer, but I would urge you to start small for three reasons. First, your idea of “small” seems to be curing a disease or fixing a city’s schools. Most of us would think this was “large,” so anything that keeps your feet on the ground works for me.
The other two reasons are more universal. One is the idea of impure altruism. Most of us do good deeds, but few of us do them solely out of a cool, calculated project to maximize the utility of humankind. We also do it because it makes us feel good and gives us something impressive to talk about on a night out with someone cute. My guess is that more modest projects give us more tangible progress, make us feel better, and encourage us to keep going. If you aimed too high your altruism might shrivel up pretty quickly.
Finally, smaller projects are easier to evaluate. That’s really important; if you don’t measure what works, you might be doing the wrong thing. It would be great to devote your life to making federal policy better, but without proper impact evaluation, you could easily spend your life making federal policy worse. Many people do; believe me, I’ve lived in Washington, D.C.
drafted by UK and US authors in order to cover the issues of greatest concern to Americans. It clarifies the widespread confusion in the US about the UK's health system
Ukraine at the time of the German invasion, expressed through sand painting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=518XP8prwZo
Humor
You know that you should clean the outside of your computer screen every so often. However, did you know that you're supposed to clean the inside of the screen, too? Not many people know this or how to do it. So, here's a complimentary cleaning.
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