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University of North Dakota UND Scholarly Commons Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special University Letter Archive Collections 2-24-2010 Volume 47, Number 27: February 24, 2010 University of North Dakota Follow this and additional works at: https://commons.und.edu/u-letter Recommended Citation University of North Dakota, "Volume 47, Number 27: February 24, 2010" (2010). University Letter Archive. 3. https://commons.und.edu/u-letter/3 This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections at UND Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in University Letter Archive by an authorized administrator of UND Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The University of North Dakota | University Letter Main Navigation SEARCH UND Print this Issue ISSUE: Volume 47, Number 27: February 24, 2010 A to Z Index Map Contents ABOUT U LETTER Top Stories University Letter is published electronically weekly on Plans take shape for Bismarck Center for Family Medicine Tuesday afternoons. Submissions are due at 10 a.m. Events to Note Tuesday. U LETTER On Teaching seminar to focus on diversity U Letter Home Student Success Center offers Study Skills Help sessions Submit a Story Annual Elwyn B. Robinson Lecture set for Wednesday Upcoming Culinary Corner classes listed IPPL to show "American Splendor" Weight Watchers begins new session on campus "Regular" and "Special" Denim Days announced Doctoral examination set for Jinu Philip John River restoration expert to give lecture Feb. 26 Marquette engineering student will speak at engineering awards luncheon Friday Pharmacology, Physiology and Therapeutics seminar is Feb. 26 Physics and Astrophysics colloquium is Feb. 26 Grand Forks Master Chorale performance set for Feb. 26 Night Life @ UND lists weekend events Career Services hosts professional etiquette luncheon Feb. 27 Art and Design will present artist Dan Attoe's work March 1 CIO faculty forum is March 2 Robert Wilkins lecture set for March 5 You can help shape the future of technology at UND; free box lunch is March 2 Theatre Arts to present "Tick, Tick...BOOM!" Women's Center Meet, Eat and Learn is March 3 Online teaching showcase is March 3 University Senate meeting is March 4 MAC presents Dan Savage March 4 Graduate School Dean's Lecture Series is March 9-10 "St. Bette's" continues through March 20 Doctoral examination set for Rule Hiuallah-Messiah Institutional Review Board meeting set for March 5 Center for Community Engagement offers "Stone Soup" and faculty support Scholarly Forum schedule is online 41st Annual Writers Conference kicks off March 23 https://apps.und.edu/uletterarchive/uletter.php?backID=2[7/10/2019 4:07:25 PM] The University of North Dakota | University Letter ArtWise seeks volunteers for annual Elementary Art Show 30th annual Frank Low Research Day is April 22 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology to hold remembrance celebration CRC offers family mediation training in May Announcements Annual staff employee performance evaluations due March 1 Founders Day Feb. 25 recognizes faculty, staff for service and academic achievements Nearly 62 percent of UND's student-athletes achieve 3.0 GPA Anthropology offers archeological field school TRIO award winners named Funds available for community-based teaching, research projects CoBPA, NDTO recognize inaugural export course View books honoring Black History Month at Merrifield Hall Schedule an SGID in your classroom Photos of N.D. veterans and service members sought University Within the University (U2) lists new classes 2009 Writers Conference books on sale Bookstore seeks cashier coordinator Bookstore's Tower Cafe has before-game, morning, and evening specials Donate used jewelry for children's benefit Carlos Runcie-Tanaka exhibition on display at Museum Sign up for art classes at the Museum Museum Cafe lists weekly menu (Feb 24-March 2) RecycleMania results announced Internal job openings listed Research NSF announces submission requirements for CI-TEAM In the News Colleen Berry receives Study Abroad Champion Award Plans take shape for Bismarck Center for Family Medicine In 2009, the North Dakota Legislature appropriated $5.4 million to the School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) to construct a new facility for its Bismarck Center for Family Medicine and Southwest Campus offices. The SMHS has selected Ritterbush-Ellig-Hulsing of Bismarck as the architects and planners for the project. The SMHS solicited advice on a potential building site from the community, the City of Bismarck, Medcenter One and St. Alexius Medical Center. The SMHS appreciates the helpful and positive community contributions that will lead to a favorable location for the facility. The center will benefit the medical student and residency training programs of the SMHS and ultimately the citizens of Bismarck and the surrounding area. In the near future, the SMHS will choose the site for the building, which it hopes to complete and occupy by July 2011. -- Denis F. MacLeod, Communications Coordinator, Center for Rural Health, dmacleod@medicine,nodak.edu, 777-3300 BACK TO TOP https://apps.und.edu/uletterarchive/uletter.php?backID=2[7/10/2019 4:07:25 PM] The University of North Dakota | University Letter On Teaching seminar to focus on diversity An On Teaching Seminar, titled “Thinking about Diversity in the Classroom,” is from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 10, in the River Valley Room. Handling cultural issues -- such as race, gender, ethnicity or religion -- in our classrooms can present a tremendous challenge. The topic itself is complicated, dynamic and often confusing and, for many, fraught with uneasiness and discomfort. It requires us as teachers to be very aware of both our own cultural perspectives and assumptions, and those of our students. So how do we think about it and prepare ourselves for those challenges before wading into controversial territory? While we can’t offer a universal solution or specific rules, we can offer some good practices and a forum for conversation. We’ll draw on the expertise of several faculty who think about and deal with these matters every day as part of their work teaching students to understand and uphold professional standards regarding diversity. So we hope you can join us, and help us think about good ways to handle tough conversations. Please register by noon Monday, March 8, to attend and reserve a lunch. Visit the Office of Instructional Development online (oid.und.edu ) to register. For more information contact, Jana Hollands at 777-4998 or [email protected]. -- Anne Kelsch, Director, Office of Instructional Development, [email protected], 777-4233 BACK TO TOP Student Success Center offers Study Skills Help sessions The Student Success Center will be holding Study Skills Help Sessions to answer many of the questions students have about studying. The sessions are informal and participants are invited to bring their lunch, relax and join in the conversation. All sessions will take place from noon to 12:50 p.m. in Swanson Hall, room 16-18 of the Memorial Union (near the Terrace Dining Center) and are open to the entire campus community, with no reservation required. Sessions include, Reading a Textbook, February 24 and 25, April 14; Studying for and Taking Tests, March 3 and 4, April 29; Time Management, March 24; Notetaking, April 1. -- Shari Nelson, Assistant Director of Learning Services, Student Success Center, [email protected], 777-0562 BACK TO TOP Annual Elwyn B. Robinson Lecture set for Wednesday The Chester Fritz Library invites all members of the UND community to attend the Nineteenth Annual Elwyn B. Robinson Lecture at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24, in the East Asian Room of the Chester Fritz Library (fourth floor). The event will spotlight William Caraher's archaeological research projects using computer technology and will also feature musical selections from the UND Women's Chorus. A reception follows the presentation. Digital Archaeology, like its counterparts Digital History and Digital Humanities, represents a rapidly developing corner of the academic universe. Over the last 25 years, scholars have recognized the potential to deploy digital technology in the trenches and landscapes of the Mediterranean, as well as in the analysis and dissemination of archaeological data back in the cozy confines of their home institutions. Over this time, it has become clear existing technologies not only offer robust platforms for synergistic collaboration but also require it. This presentation will describe how technology has provided archaeologists with better ways of being archaeologists while creating spaces that expose the fundamental nature of our disciplinary commitment. As a result, the same digital technologies that facilitate transdisciplinary collaboration also undermine the longstanding disciplinary https://apps.und.edu/uletterarchive/uletter.php?backID=2[7/10/2019 4:07:25 PM] The University of North Dakota | University Letter assumptions that are necessary for interdisciplinary dialogue. In many ways, the most exciting challenge of technology for archaeology is not in harnessing the rapidly expanding computing power, but rather in understanding how the growing array of digital tools can destabilize both how we conduct research and what constitutes research on the most basic level. William "Bill" Caraher is an assistant professor of History at UND. His research has focused on the landscape and material culture of Late Antique and Byzantine Cyprus and Greece. Since 1997 he has been active in Greece, where he currently works as part of a number of collaborative research projects, including the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey, the Ohio State Excavations at Isthmia and the Ohio Boeotia Project. Since 2003, he has been the co-director of the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project in Cyprus. He has published articles and given papers on topics ranging from the Classical to the Modern period in Greek and Cypriot history.