Mark Your Calendars: Upcoming Events
October 24, 2019
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Coming next week…
Monday, October 28
12:30-2:00 PM, 138 east 26th St., 10 floor, Room 1026
International Business Seminar Series, presenter, Stelios Michalopoulos, Brown University
Prof. Stelios Michalopoulos of Brown University will present at this upcoming International Business Seminar. Prof. Michalopoulos’s primary research interests lie in the intersection of political economy, growth and development. Due to the generosity of the Weissman Center, a light lunch will be served. For more information, contact Prof. Lilac Nachum.
No RSVP required.
Tuesday, October 29
5:00-8:00 PM, Newman Vertical Campus, 2-125
Screening and Discussion of the film, “Get Out!” speakers, Profs. Angie Beeman, Carolle Charles, George Gonzalez, and Marisa Solomon
Join us for a screening of Jordan Peel’s groundbreaking and award-winning film, “Get Out!”, followed by a discussion moderated by the Faculty Caucus of Color, Department of Sociology and Anthropology. For more information, contact Prof. George Gonzalez.
No RSVP required.
Thursday, October 31
12:30 PM-1:30 PM, Newman Library Building, 6th Floor, Room 656
Zotero Workshop with Joseph Hartnett, Newman Library
The Newman Library is offering free Zotero workshops in October, November, and December that are open to all students and faculty. This workshop provides a hands-on introduction to Zotero, a free open-source, bibliographic citation management tool that allows you to collect, store and organize information as you research, and to rapidly generate citations and bibliographies with your word processor in a variety of styles as you write. You will learn to install Zotero, capture items into your personal library, generate in text citation and bibliographies, sync to the cloud and utilize many of the software’s functions.
To Register for this event and others like it, go to https://library.baruch.cuny.edu/students/library-instruction/workshops/.
Friday, November 1
10:30 PM-11:30 PM, Newman Vertical Campus, 14-270
Object-Oriented Metaphorism as a Mechanism for Understanding AI, presenter, Donna Hoffman, The George Washington School of Business
Louis Rosenfeld Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Marketing at The George Washington School of Business in Washington, D.C., Donna Hoffman, will discuss the results of several studies that demonstrate how manipulating the metaphors we use to describe AI can stimulate an object-oriented vs anthropomorphic process of evaluating it that significantly impact perceptions of AI capacities. Anthropomorphism may undermine understandings of what AI can and can’t do. For more information on this event, please contact Lauren Block.
No RSVP required.
12:00 PM-1:00 PM, Newman Vertical Campus, 14-270
Reifying the Possibility Space of IoT Automation Practices: A Machine Learning Approach, presenter, Thomas P. Novak, The George Washington School of Business
Denit Trust Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Marketing at The George Washington School of Business in Washington, DC, Thomas P. Novak, will presents on IoT automation practices. For more information on this event, please contact Lauren Block.
No RSVP required.
Looking ahead…
Tuesday, November 5
10:45 AM-12:00 PM, Newman Vertical Campus, 3-145
Fly-to-Beside, speaker, Dr. Ross Cagan, Icahn School of Medicine
Dr. Ross Cagan, Professor and Director of the Center for Personalized Cancer Therapeutics, will give a seminar entitled “Fly-to-Bedside.” His lab has developed a method to test personalized drug treatment plans using Drosophila with combinations of mutations specific to a patient’s tumor. His talk will describe the path from laboratory experiments to patient treatment. Refreshments will be served. This work has been described on CBS Sunday Morning. For more information on this event, contact Rebecca Spokony.
No RSVP required.
Thursday, November 7
6:00 PM-7:30 PM, Newman Vertical Campus, 14-270
Corporate practice and the elections, speakers, Jason Harris (Mekanism) and Matthew Hutchinson (Forbes)
Jason Harris of Mekanism and Matthew Hutchinson of Forbes discuss the impact of the elections on brands and media outlets. To learn more about this event and others visit corporatecomm.org.
RSVP: to erica@corporatecomm.org
Thursday, November 14
12:30 PM-1:30 PM, Newman Library Building, 6th Floor, Room 656
Zotero Workshop with Joseph Hartnett, Newman Library
The Newman Library is offering free Zotero workshops in October, November, and December that are open to all students and faculty. This workshop provides a hands-on introduction to Zotero, a free open-source, bibliographic citation management tool that allows you to collect, store and organize information as you research, and to rapidly generate citations and bibliographies with your word processor in a variety of styles as you write. You will learn to install Zotero, capture items into your personal library, generate in text citation and bibliographies, sync to the cloud and utilize many of the software’s functions.
To Register for this event and others like it, go to https://library.baruch.cuny.edu/students/library-instruction/workshops/.
To submit an event for the Office of the Associate Provost’s weekly email, please click here. Events must be submitted by noon on Wednesday of the week before the event takes place.
Vanessa Cano
Special Assistant to the Associate Provost
One Bernard Baruch Way
New York, NY 10010
Phone: (646)660-6517 Fax: (646)660-6531