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Date: Thu Oct 21 2010 - 03:37:22 MDT
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 03:37:22 -0600 (MDT) From: Student Buff Bulletin <memofrom@Colorado.EDU> Subject: Student Buff Bulletin 10/21/2010
SUBJECT: Student Buff Bulletin 10/21/2010
Student Buff Bulletin
21 October 2010, Thursday
A Boulder Campus digest of current events
In this issue:
--- Free Printer with the Purchase of any Apple Computer
--- Soundbite Presents: Halloween Costume Contest
--- Study Music in Ghana this summer!
--- Study Abroad! The Cradle of European Jewish Culture in Venice
--- The Women's Resource Center is Hiring!
--- Queer Women n Community: Find Your Community!
--- Genealogy Book Release Oct. 21: Shaking the Family Tree
--- Fun Research Projects for Kids!
--- CU Biodiesel 101 Workshop
--- Tolstoy and Shakespeare: Centennial Comments on a Very Famous Feud
--- Brothers Karamazov the Opera: Turning a Polyphonic Novel into
Redemptive Religious Art
--- Awesome Work/Study Job for Computer Nerds
--- Finding US Data for Research or Grant Writing: Wednesday, Oct. 27 at
12:30 pm or Thursday, Oct. 28 at 12 pm in Norlin Commons E113
FREE PRINTER WITH THE PURCHASE OF ANY APPLE COMPUTER
Receive a free HP printer, a $150 value with the purchase of any Apple
Computer from the CU Book Store in the UMC. Unbeatable prices on Apple
computers.Check it out today, while supplies last. Restrictions apply, see
store for details.
Contact: CU Book Store
Additional information: http://www.cubookstore.com
SOUNDBITE PRESENTS: HALLOWEEN COSTUME CONTEST
Get more than just candy this Halloween! SoundBite presents the Seventh
Annual UMC Costume Contest. Strut your stuff and win great prizes for 1st,
2nd and3rd place contestants. This competition will have a faculty/staff
category and student category. Show off your costume in UMC dining room
on Friday, Oct. 29 from 12-1 pm. Sign up in advance at umc
events@colorado.edu or call 303-492-7109. Join us for a hauntingly good
time!
Contact: Student Involvement 303-492-7109 or umc-events@colorado.edu
Additional information: http://umc.colorado.edu/fun/talent.html
STUDY MUSIC IN GHNA THIS SUMMER!
Spend your summer in Kumasi, Ghana on this Global Seminar led by
Professor Kwasi Ampene. Earn 3 credits in 3 weeks learning about the music,
dance and culture of Ghana. Enjoy daily instruction in drumming and dance
with local musicians and dancers and meet the Chief of the Akan Court.
Participate in excursions to kente weaving, adinkra cloth making and wood
carving villages. Open to all majors. Interest meeting: Tuesday, Oct. 26 4-5
pm, Imig Music C113.
Contact: Cloud Baffour (Baffour@Colorado.EDU)
Additional information: http://studyabroad.colorado.edu
STUDY ABROAD! THE CRADLE OF EUROPEAN JEWISH CULTURE IN VENICE
Spend three weeks exploring Venice and nearby regions of Italy! This 3-
week, 3-credit program covers the development of Jewish culture in Venice
from the middle ages to the present day with CU-Boulder Professor Robert
Adler Peckerar. Explore this citta degli ebrei (the city of the Jews) and venture
outside of Venice with overnight excursions to Piedmont and Trieste. For
more information, attend an interest meeting on Oct. 28 from 3:30-4:30 pm
in Hellems 245.
Contact: Kirstin Bebell (Kirstin.Bebell@Colorado.EDU)
Additional information: http://studyabroad.colorado.edu
THE WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER IS HIRING!
The WRC is hiring for a Co-Marketing Coordinator, a paid student staff
position. Work in a fun, women-centered environment, develop leadership
skills and work towards social justice and gender equity! Applicants should
have some design background, marketing experience and proficiency in
Photoshop or Illustrator. Must be enrolled at CU for 3 semesters starting
Spring 2010. The application and job description are available on our website
Due Monday, Oct. 25 in the WRC!
Contact: Becky Jewell (becky.jewell@gmail.com)
Additional information:
http://www.colorado.edu/womensresourcecenter/getinvolved/getinvolved.ht
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QUEER WOMEN IN COMMUNITY: FIND YOUR COMMUNITY!
Are you a queer woman looking for community on campus? QWIC is a casual
social gathering for all ages that meets in the Women's Resource Center. Join
us every Monday from 6-8 pm in UMC 416 for food, games, conversation,
movies and fun! We hope to see you there!!
Contact: Michelle Barry (barrymb@colorado.edu)
Additional information:
http://www.colorado.edu/womensresourcecenter/events/peergroups.htm
GENEALOGY BOOK RELEASE OCT. 21: SHAKING THE FAMILY TREE
CU's Center of the American West will celebrate the release of Buzzy
Jackson's newest book "Shaking the Family Tree: Blue Bloods, Black Sheep,
and Other Obsessions of an Accidental Genealogist," on Thursday, Oct. 21, at
7:00 pm in Benson 180. The program is free and open to the public.
Jackson's book chronicles her adventures as she learns more about her
family's history, taking her from Boulder to Salt Lake City to the Caribbean
and beyond.
Contact: Amanda Hardman
Additional information: http://www.centerwest.org
FUN RESEARCH PROJECTS FOR KIDS!
The Cognitive Development Center in the Department of Psychology and
Neuroscience has on-going projects on memory and language development!
We welcome all children from birth to age 10. A visit, scheduled at your
convenience, lasts about 30 minutes. Parking is free and babysitting is
available for siblings. Parents are compensated for travel and kids receive a
fun prize and a certificate!
Contact: Eden Davis, cogdevctr@grey.colorado.edu 303-492-6389,
http://psych.colorado.edu/~cdc/
Contact: Eden Davis
Additional information: http://psych.colorado.edu/~cdc/
CU BIODIESEL 101 WORKSHOP
LEARN TO MAKE BIODIESEL
Want to learn more about renewable energies that can be used now? Join us
on campus this Sunday, Oct. 24, at 1 pm. We'll give the low down on what
biodiesel is, where it can be used and how it's made. Join us in making
biodiesel from restaurant waste vegetable oil! Free to all students, email
Sawchak@cubiodiesel.org for
reservations. Space limited.
Contact: Brett Sawchak
Additional information: http://cubiodiesel.org
TOLSTOY AND SHAKESPEARE: CENTENNIAL COMMENTS ON A VERY FAMOUS
FEUD
A lecture by Caryl Emerson, A. Watson Armour III University Professor of
Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University.
November 1., HUMN 250. 4-5:30 pm.
Tolstoy and Shakespeare:Centennial comments on a very famous feud
This illustrated lecture surveys Tolstoy's life-long animosity toward
Shakespeare, and the role played in this saga by Bernard Shaw. Reception to
follow.
Contact: Mark Leiderman, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages &
Literatures, Mark.Leiderman@colorado.edu
BROTHERS KARAMAZOV THE OPERA: TURNING A POLYPHONIC NOVEL INTO
REDEMPTIVE RELIGIOUS ART
A LECTURE by CARYL EMERSON,
A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
at Princeton University
November 2. Visual Arts Complex 1B90, 4-5:30 pm.
Brothers Karamazov the Opera: Turning a polyphonic novel into
redemptive religious art.
Beginning with a discussion of Mikhail Bakhtin's curious musical metaphor of
polyphony, this talk introduces two operas built off Dostoevsky's great
final work.
Contact: Mark Leiderman, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages &
Literatures, Mark.Leiderman@colorado.edu
AWESOME WORK/STUDY JOB FOR COMPUTER NERDS
Do you love computers? Ever built one from spare parts? Reinstalled Windows
for fun? Configured your home network? Do friends call you for tech
support? If so, you could be the technophile we're looking for. The Registrar's
Office needs student desktop support technicians with work/study award,
Windows computer knowledge, good customer service skills, love of
technology and eagerness to learn. We offer $12-14/DOE, training and
flexible hours. Email resume, class schedule and expected graduation date.
Contact: Susan Dorsey
Additional information: http://registrar.colorado.edu/jobs/desktop.html
FINDING US DATA FOR RESEARCH OR GRANT WRITING: WEDNESDAY, OCT. 27
AT 12:30 pm OR THURSDAY, OCT. 28 AT 12 pm IN NORLIN COMMONS E113
Lies, More Lies and Statistics
Needs some statistics for your research? Or maybe for a grant application?
This session will cover the basics of searching for statistics and determining
where to find data on the United States. University Libraries Learner's Lunch
series.
Contact: Caroline.Sinkinson@colorado.edu
Additional information:
http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/services/Instruction/dropin/index.htm
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