Deans' Lecture Series
November 13, 2008 at 1:00 p.m. CMU 101
One programs tapestry of teaching, scholarship, service and student/teacher growth: weaving a unifying approach
Shawn Ginther - School of Social Work
This presentation will use active learning to demonstrate one model of unifying teaching, scholarship, service, and professional and student growth to benefit students, university stakeholders, and faculty themselves. Program-wide implementation and evaluation strategies and challenges will be explored.
December 4, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. CB 111
From McEnergy to EcoEnergy: A discussion of the world's transition to sustainability
Dennis Jacobs - Corrick Center for General Education
The discussion will include the amount of various types of energy remaining in the world and the various technologies that will be required to transition to a sustainable energy economy. We will examine the energies and technologies available and changes needed through international, national, state, local, and personal perspectives.
January 23, 2009 at 2:30 p.m. Location to be announced
Change Your Perspective on Life: Taking a Microbe-Centric View of the World
Kathryn M. Wise - Biosciences Department
Microbes form the foundation of the biosphere. These tiny creatures display incredible diversity, living everywhere from arctic ice caves to deep sea thermal vents. They live on surfaces of other living organisms and within them as well. Largely underappreciated, they help shape our world and our history.
February 9, 2009 at 3:00 p.m. Library 208
Online identity and privacy
Jean Kramer - Instructional Resources
A growing amount of data about living persons are available online. This lecture reviews several biographical search tools, examines the users' dilemma between online disclosure and privacy invasions, and suggest a multi-faceted approach to online identity management.
March 26, 2009 at 4:00 p.m. Location to be announced
In Living Color: How Reading American Literatures Together enriches the Literary Feast
Hazel Retzlaff - English Department
T.S. Elliot maintains that whenever a truly new literary work appears, all of the established classics are changed. Similarly, when we consider classics of American Literature in the context of works by American writers of various ethnicities, we gain significant insight into both those classics and the "new" works.