Monday Memo
Alternative Spring Break: Volunteers in the Dominican Republic
Campus to host a week of guest speakers. The Lester W. Strock Lecture launches a week of talks by noted authors and experts.
Saratoga Reads to host talk on translation
Stephen Snyder of Middlebury College to speak; collection to be taken for earthquake relief.
April is Autism Awareness Month
Students in PS 212B are sponsoring a number of events to increase awareness.
Homerathon! 2011 scheduled for April 5
The annual Classics Department celebration is open to the campus community.
Faculty-Staff Achievements
Adams a winner at Y fund raiser, Morser and Stern are interviewed, Rogoff gives several readings, Domozych an invited lecturer.
Thoroughbred Sports Update
Men's, women's lacrosse celebrate weekend victories.
Daily Events
Monday 4/4
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Lester W. Strock Lecture: "Seeing the forest and the trees"
Location: Palamountain Hall - Davis Auditorium "Seeing the forest and the trees: wood in streams of the Colorado Front Range" |
Tuesday 4/5
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Gallery Talk: "Unstable Ground"
Location: Tang Teaching Museum Join them as they discuss their decisions juxtaposing early twentieth-century images of the Saratoga Lake watershed with contemporary views they photographed during a 2010 summer collaborative research project. |
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When speculation becomes truth: Forced fabrication and false eyewitness memories
Location: Palamountain Hall - Davis Auditorium |
Wednesday 4/6
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Admissions Open House for HS Juniors and Sophomores
Location: Palamountain Hall The Admissions Office encourages high school juniors and sophomores to attend one of our six open house programs this spring: Introduction to Skidmore: Beginning the College Search Process. The program includes remarks from the directors of Admissions and the First-Year Experience, a student panel, application information, and general campus tours as well as tours of science and arts facilities. All the Spring 2011 open house dates are listed below:Wednesday, February 23 Wednesday, March 23 Wednesday, March 30 Wednesday, April 6 Tuesday, April 12 Thursday, April 21 |
YMCA Glens Falls Internships (Open to campus community only.)
Location: Case Center - 2nd Floor Case Desk area The Glens Falls YMCA currently has two internship opportunities, Development Intern and Marketing Intern. These are both flexible and can be completed during the school year or over the summer.The Glens Falls YMCA has opened a second branch and is implementing a new national brand image. Another highlight of the opportunities is that some of the assignments may be completed remotely as long as the student has access to a computer lab or the necessary software. |
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Curator's Tour: "Environment and Object in Recent African Art"
Location: Tang Teaching Museum |
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"American Freakout: Christian Nationalism and the Tea Party"
Location: Palamountain Hall - Emerson Auditorium Michelle Goldberg is a journalist and author based in Brooklyn. Her first book, the New York Times bestseller "Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism," explored the ascendant politico-religious fundamentalism dominating the Republican Party and, at the time, the Bush administration.In a starred review, Publishers Weekly called it ?an impressive piece of lucid journalism?carefully researched and riveting.? After "Kingdom Coming" came out, Goldberg spent two years traveling the world to research "The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World," a book about the globalization of battles over women's rights. Goldberg is a columnist for The Daily Beast and for Tablet, and her work has appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, Glamour, Newsweek, The Guardian (UK) and many other publications. Her third book, about the world-traveling adventuress, actress and yoga evangelist Indra Devi, will be published by Knopf in 2013. |
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Carr Residency Lecture: "The Business of Conservation: A Conversation with Carter Roberts"
Location: Palamountain Hall - Gannett Auditorium Carr Residency Lecture: "The Business of Conservation: A Conversation with Carter Roberts, President and CEO of WWF-US" |
Thursday 4/7
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Softball vs. Green Mountain (Doubleheader)
Location: Softball Diamond |
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Baseball vs. Hamilton
Location: Castle Diamond |
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The View from Pakistan: A discussion with Mr. Faqir S. Asif Hussain, Consul General for the Consulate of Pakistan in New York
Location: Palamountain Hall - Davis Auditorium A discussion and question-and-answer session moderated by Sumita Pahwa, Department of Government at Skidmore CollegeThursday April 7 at 4 p.m. in Davis Auditorium at Skidmore College Refreshments will be served afterwards. Sponsored by the Government Department |
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Lecture by Cornel West
Location: Arthur Zankel Music Center Dr. Cornel West, the Class of 1943 University Professor in the Center for African American Studies at Princeton, comes to Skidmore as the result of a collaboration among the divisions of Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, and Human Resources in support of Goal Two of the College's Strategic Plan: intercultural and global understanding. Dr. West will lend his voice to an ongoing campuswide discussion of race, gender, class, religion and nation. |
Friday 4/8
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Admissions Accepted Candidates Day (Class of 2015)
Location: Arthur Zankel Music Center - Filene Recital Hall Accepted Candidates Days (April 8, 15, and 18) are for prospective students (and families) who have been accepted by Skidmore's Admissions Office for the Class of 2015. It makes great sense especially for those who are undecided about their final selection of a college or university. |
"In the Money: 20 Savvy Financial Moves to Help You Get on Track, Stay on Track & Build for the Future After Graduation" Luncheon and Workshop (Open to campus community only.)
Location: Murray-Aikins Dining Hall - Upstairs Banquet Room We would like to invite you to join us for an enjoyable luncheon and workshop with Susan L. S. Schell.Susan is a Certified Financial Planner? practitioner who is offering a program based on her easy to understand activity book (which will be distributed at the luncheon), ?In the Money: 20 Savvy Financial Moves to Help You ? Get on Track, Stay on Track & Build for the Future After Graduation.? This educational program teaches basic money management skills and will provide valuable information on ways you too can achieve financial success for the future. |
Upstate New York Biocareer Connection
Location: Ithaca College, Emerson Suites, Ithaca, NY Wondering what Upstate NY has to offer in the field of bioscience?Biocareer Connection This is a chance for job seekers and bioscience related companies in New York to connect with one another, share their expectations and opportunities, network and form business relationships, and increase awareness of what type of bioscience careers exist in this area. |
Distinguished Scientist Lecture Series: Reducing Gender Bias in Teaching Evaluations (Open to campus community only.)
Location: Murray-Aikins Dining Hall - 2nd floor Rooms 1 and 2 Dr. Joey Sprague, professor of sociology and director of undergraduate students at the Univesity of Kansas, will give a lecture and conduct a workshop titled "Reducing Gender Bias in Teaching Evaluations."Abstracts of workshop presentations: ?Student Ratings: Evaluating Teaching or Evaluating Gender?? Institutions are placing increasing weight on the use of student rating scales to evaluate teaching. Are these scales evaluating teaching or something else? Decades of research in social cognition and in the sociology of gender demonstrate that we all see one another through gendered lenses. This lecture offers an overview of the main findings in these research traditions and describes studies that directly test the question of whether or not students are holding their teachers to gendered standards. ?Gender & the Evaluation of Teaching: What Can We Do?? In this workshop, we evaluate and work to improve the reliability and validity of student rating scales now in use. We also think through more generally the implications of evaluation methodology for how to evaluate teaching at this institution. |
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Punctuation II: Punctuation's Here to Stay (Open to students only)
Location: Bolton Hall - 103 This Grammar Clinic will focus on usage of colons, apostrophes, dashes, hyphens, quotation marks, and capitalization. |
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Kuroda Symposium - Guest Speaker Virginia Scharff
Location: Palamountain Hall - Davis Auditorium |
Dance Department Senior Capstone Concert
Location: Dance Center - Dance Theater Selected dance majors present their choreography performed by Skidmore student dancers. |
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Jazz Trumpet Recital by Daniel Papson
Location: Arthur Zankel Music Center - Helen Filene Ladd Concert Hall |
Saturday 4/9
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Filene Scholarship Competition
Location: Arthur Zankel Music Center Auditions throughout the day by talented high school seniors |
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Dance Department Senior Capstone Concert
Location: Dance Center - Dance Theater Selected dance majors present their choreography performed by Skidmore student dancers. |
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Tang Family Saturdays
Location: Tang Teaching Museum |
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Performance by Spoken Word Artist Andrea Gibson
Location: Palamountain Hall - Gannett Auditorium Spoken word artist Andrea Gibson will be performing in Gannett Auditorium on Saturday, April 9th at 5:30pm.Gibson is a highly-acclaimed slam poet who speaks to issues of gender, sexuality, racism, classism, prison systems, war and love. She is coming as the guest of the American Studies department, on behalf of Professor Beck Krefting's Disorderly Women class with co-sponsorship from: The Speaker's Bureau, Skidmore Pride Alliance, Hip Hop Alliance, EAC, The Center, Feminist Action Network, the Sociology Department, and the Gender Studies Department. Check her out at: http://www.andreagibson.org/ Gibson's performance will be part of a day-long event called (Dis)orderly Voices, featuring events and programming that give voice to different identities at Skidmore and beyond. More information will follow in the coming weeks. |
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Dance Department Senior Capstone Concert
Location: Dance Center - Dance Theater Selected dance majors present their choreography performed by Skidmore student dancers. |
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Senior Composition Recital - Works by Peri Strongwater
Location: Arthur Zankel Music Center - Helen Filene Ladd Concert Hall |
Sunday 4/10
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Men's Tennis vs. TCNJ
Location: Williamson Sports and Recreation Center |
Ongoing Events
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[7/17 - 4/17] Opener 20: Paula Hayes: Understory
Time: 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM Location:
Tang Teaching Museum
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[2/1 - 5/3] Weekly Meditation and Movement
Time: 5:10 PM - 5:55 PM Location: Wilson Memorial Chapel A mixture of chanting, silent meditation and yoga-type movements, each session focused on cultivating a particular quality or attribute of life. All welcome; come whenever your schedule permits, we meet every Tuesday. Wear loose comfortable clothing and bring a yoga mat or blanket. |
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[2/5 - 7/31] "Environment and Object in Recent African Art"
Location:
Tang Teaching Museum
- Malloy Wing Curated by Lisa Aronson, associate professor of Art History at Skidmore, and John Weber, Dayton Director of the Tang.
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[3/26 - 7/31] Tang Museum Exhibit: "Alumni Invitational 3"
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Tang Teaching Museum
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