CCT News

23 October 2010

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Contents: Student matters, CCT community, CCT events, alums, other events, opportunities, resources, food for thought, humor

Student Matters

CCT Community

CCT Events

CCT Deep Exploration event:
CCT Community Open House
Storytelling and the Personal Journey
Monday, November 1, 2010; 6:30- 9:00pm
Wheatley 4th floor lounge, W-4-0148. Email cct@umb.edu to RSVP and for additional details.
Join this interactive workshop, led by CCT alum Jane LaChance, who will introduce us to her story and the activities that lead us to develop our own stories and support our own critical and creative thinking.
See http://www.cct.umb.edu/CCTNetwork1Nov10.html for additional details.

Alum and CCT associates Notes

Peter Taylor was a visiting fellow at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Altenberg, Austria, during the first half of October, where he did research and gave a talk on “Troubled by Heterogeneity? Opportunities for Fresh Views on Long-standing and Recent Issues in Biology and Biomedicine."

On October 20, 2010, CCT alum. Luanne E Witkowski was recognized for a lifetime of artistic and commercial achievement by State Representative Jeffrey Sanchez at a reception in her honor at the State House, at her art exhibition in the House Offices of the State Representative. See the commendation here.

4 Mile Run/2 Mile Walk, Sunday, October 24, 2010, 8:00am, Hull High School
All proceeds will be directly donated to: http://www.racemenu.com/teamelizabeth
TEAM ELIZABETH was named for Elizabeth Hamblin Naylor (a CCT alum) who battled with non-Hodgkins Lymphoma this past year (and is doing better and better every day!). Our mission is to bring people together - patients, families, health care professionals, and friends - to create a community with a voice and a purpose. As members of TEAM ELIZABETH, we stand and fight against blood cancers.

Events

Forum on Plagiarism in Digital Age, Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 2:15-3:45 PM, W-6-047

Community Engagement Research Cluster, presents Dr. Gillian Squirrell, "Some Faces and Facets of Public Engagement : Reflections on Engagement in the UK,"
Wednesday, November 3, 12noon–1:30 pm, 11th Floor Healey Library

The Race Debate in Public Health Genomics , Friday, November 12th, 2010
Barristers Hall, Law School, 765 Commonwealth Ave.

Graduate Studies Showcase
November 17, 2010, 4-7:30pm, Campus Center Ballroom

• If you know someone who might be looking at starting graduate study, please refer them to the UMass-Boston Graduate Studies Showcase, a great way for prospective students to meet faculty, staff, and students from a wide variety of graduate programs at the university.

Opportunities

Resources

Food for Thought

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist." -- Hélder Pessoa Câmara

On the possibility that we may be losing our sense of empathy

If you need any mail-order uranium...

Check out this amazing art on the tip of a pencil

Eric Fischer mapped the racial segregation within 40 major cities and created these astounding color images.

Humor