Mark your calendar for these upcoming events, beginning November 13
November 12, 2020
Tomorrow @ Baruch …
Friday, November 13
10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Inclusive Teaching Strategies for Multilingual Students, speakers, D.J. Dolack, Tools for Clear Speech, Diana Hamilton, the Writing Center, and Meechal Hoffman, Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute.
The Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute, Tools for Clear Speech, and The Writing Center invite you to a session on inclusive teaching strategies, with a special focus on multilingual students. The session will have three parts: first, the Schwartz Communication Institute will share a resource and lead an exercise overviewing some fundamentals of inclusive teaching; second, Tools for Clear Speech will share research and suggestions for supporting multilingual students in the classroom by attending to the role and responsibility of the listener; finally, the Writing Center will share research and lead an exercise on responding productively and effectively to multilingual student writing. There will be time for Q&A. We look forward to seeing you there and working together to support Baruch’s students!
ZOOM LINK: https://baruch.zoom.us/j/86163486773
PASSCODE: 111320
1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Connecting Classrooms Around the World, hosts, CUNY COIL Working Group
The CUNY COIL Working Group will host an Information Session to help faculty and staff learn more about Virtual Exchange, or Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL). Join us via Zoom for an orientation about best practices and to learn about projects across campuses and disciplines. If you have any questions, please reach out to COIL@listserv.cuny.edu.
RSVP: https://bit.ly/COIL101
Coming next week…
Thursday, November 19
12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Workshop of American Seapower: Naval Shipbuilding in World War II, speaker, Thomas Heinrich, Baruch College
The History Department at Baruch College is pleased to host an online live presentation of Professor Thomas Heinrich’s new book Warship Builders: An Industrial History of U.S. Naval Shipbuilding, 1922-1945. Heinrich investigates the U.S. naval shipbuilding industry, which produced a colossal fleet that was instrumental in defeating in the Axis powers during World War II. Comprising an elite of warship builders who had supplied the U.S. Navy for decades, the industry employed highly experienced managers, workers, and engineers to construct battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, submarines, and other naval combatants. Heinrich demonstrates that these complex weapons platforms were usually batch- and custom-built, in contrast to the famous Liberty cargo ships, which were constructed in large series based on mass-production technology, raising interpretive questions about the dynamics of American industrial mobilization. For more information, contact Yolanda Cordero.
ZOOM LINK: https://baruch.zoom.us/j/5344480442
PASSCODE: Warships
6:00 PM-7:00 PM
An Evening with Nicolás Guagnini and Jeff Preiss, presented by, The Mishkin Gallery
Mishkin Gallery and ISLA (Baruch’s Initiative for the Study of Latin America) present an evening of art and film featuring the co-authored “Discharge” (2005) by Nicolás Guagnini and Jeff Preiss. “Discharge” came about when Guagnini and Preiss were both shareholders in the Orchard Gallery co-op, an artist-run gallery on Manhattan’s Lower East Side active from 2005 until 2008. In the first year of Orchard, “Discharge” was performed and filmed in the front of the gallery during closed hours, collapsing the gallery as a site of exhibiting and a site of production. At the time, both Guagnini and Preiss were undergoing and studying Reichian therapy; developed by psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, this form of therapy is used to attenuate tension (and therefore, trauma) through very quick breath and eye movements.
Friday, November 20
10:00 AM-11:30 AM
Introduction to US Census Data Workshop, presenter, Frank Donnelly, Newman Library
More than just a ten-year count, the US Census is a vast ecosystem of datasets that can be used for describing places and populations. Understanding how the census is organized and knowing which sources to use are the keys for unlocking these valuable datasets. This remote Zoom session includes a presentation that provides a conceptual overview of the census, so you can learn to choose the best data and sources for answering your specific research questions, and live demonstrations of several publicly available tools for accessing data. Basic sources for looking up stats and getting a broad profile for an area, as well as more advanced tools like data.census.gov for generating detailed comparison tables will be demonstrated. Participants will have the opportunity to ask specific questions related to their research. Advanced registration is required, and seats are limited. For more information or to register visit: https://guides.newman.baruch.cuny.edu/gis/intro_census_remote. Open to Baruch undergrads and CUNY grad students, faculty, and staff.
12:00 PM-1:15 PM
Natural Sciences Faculty Seminar Series, presenter, Dr. Alan Lyons, College of Staten Island
Dr. Alan Lyons will give a seminar entitled “Multi-Functional Superhydrophobic Polymer Surfaces.” Alan Lyons received a B.Sc. in chemistry from Brown University and Ph.D. in polymer chemistry from Polytechnic University (now NYU-Tandon School of Engineering). He was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff with the research division of Bell Laboratories and a founding member of Bell Labs Ireland. He joined the City University of New York, as a Professor in the Department of Chemistry in 2008. His work at CSI has been focused on developing multi-functional materials with novel wetting, thermal and catalytic properties. Based on this work, he has co-founded two companies: ARL Designs LLC, which develops advanced coatings for glass and metal; and SingletO2 Therapeutics LLC, which develops anti-bacterial devices for oral healthcare.
EMAIL: Rebecca Spokony for Zoom information.
Looking forward…
Friday, December 4
12:00 PM-1:15 PM
Natural Sciences Faculty Seminar Series, presenter, Aparna Kesarwala, MD, PhD, Emory University School of Medicine
Aparna Kesarwala, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine, will discuss her work on “The Effect of Radiation Therapy on Cancer Metabolism.” Dr. Kesarwala’s laboratory research focuses on the central hypothesis that altering cancer cell metabolism can increase radiation response. Over half of cancer patients receive radiation therapy during their course of treatment, but radiation therapy volumes and doses are currently largely based on anatomic location, tissue of origin, stage, and/or grade, as opposed to molecular or metabolic characteristics of tumors. Altered metabolic pathways are currently molecular targets of great therapeutic interest, as cancer cells have fundamentally different metabolism from normal cells. Tumors produce increased levels of lactate via aerobic glycolysis, a long-described phenomenon known as the Warburg effect, but significant metabolic heterogeneity among individual tumors also exists.
EMAIL: Rebecca Spokony for Zoom information.
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