Mark your calendar for these upcoming events, starting February 19

February 18, 2021

Tomorrow @ Baruch…

Friday, February 19

9:00 AM-10:00 AM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING

Student Engagement Ideas with Zoom, hosted by Catherine Kawalek, CTL

This workshop will cover the topics of polling, breakout rooms and more! For more about this event and others, visit: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ctl/events/.

Kindly register in advance HERE.

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Natural Sciences Virtual Seminar Series, speaker, Dr. Eric Folker, Boston College

Prof. Folker will give a Globus Seminar entitled “Myonuclei: Socially distancing since before it was cool.” He will be discussing his work on muscle development. To understand how and why nuclei move, he utilizes the model system Drosophila melanogaster. Drosophila muscle cells are remarkably similar to those of humans, but offer superior genetic, optical, and physiological tractability. His group capitalizes on these advantages to perform genetic screens, advanced imaging in the developing organism, and functional output assays to define the mechanisms of nuclear movement and to determine how nuclear movement impacts muscle architecture and function.

12:00 PM-1:00 PM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING

Distance Learning: Weekly Check-in, hosted by Tamara Gubernat, CTL

This informal check-in session is an opportunity to connect with colleagues: to celebrate successes and collectively work through any challenges that may arise. For more about this event and others, visit: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ctl/events/.

Kindly register in advance HERE.

Next week…

Tuesday, February 23

12:30 PM-1:30 PM

Zotero Workshop, speaker, Joseph Hartnett, Newman Library

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.

5:00 PM-7:00 PM

What Investors Need to Know about Audits, moderator, Thomas Ray, CPA, Distinguished Lecturer, Baruch College

Investors rely upon financial statements to analyze their current and proposed investments. Investors also rely upon the audit process to verify the reliability of these statements. Auditors are professionals trained to verify financial statements, but as we all know, unreliable financial statements have been a recurring problem. We will have a series of experts explaining the state of today’s audit process, how it has and continues to changes over time, and what signals investors should look out for in evaluating financial statements to help identify possibly inaccurate statements. Baruch College Students, Faculty and Staff use code “BARUCH” for your free registration. Please also note you will need to create a CFA Institute account to participate. For more information click here.

Wednesday, February 24

12:30 PM-1:45 PM

Public Interest and Profit: Big Pharma and the COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout, speakers, Kenneth Abbott, Zicklin School of Business, Jonathan Engel, Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, and Eric J. Rubin, New England Journal of Medicine

Join the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity on as we welcome a panel of business, public health, and policy experts to discuss the creation of COVID-19 vaccines and their subsequent distribution. Speakers will examine the roll Big Pharma played in developing the various vaccines and their decision-making to determine how the vaccine is delivered and who will receive it. For more information click here.

12:30 PM-2:00 PM

Information System and Statistics Research Seminar Series, speaker, Ted Westling, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Abstract: In this talk, we provide an introduction to the field of nonparametric inference on a monotone function. We start with an overview of classical results in this area, including Grenander’s famous nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator of a monotone density function and the least-squares estimator of a monotone regression function. We then introduce a general class of monotone estimators, which we call the “generalized Grenander-type” estimators, and show that this class both contains many existing estimators in specific problems and suggests novel estimators in modern problems involving observational data. We then explain one of the central benefits of this general representation: unified theoretical results regarding the finite-sample and asymptotic behavior of these estimators. We demonstrate in particular how unified results for pointwise convergence in distribution of generalized Grenander-type estimators can be used to recover classical results. For more information, contact Prof. Zeda Li.

Zoom link: https://baruch.zoom.us/j/3601957288

Passcode: spring2021

Thursday, February 25

1:00 PM-2:30 PM

A Conversation with Jessica Marie Johnson

Please join us for the first seminar in the Globus Seminar Series on Racism and Empire, co-sponsored by the Department of English and the Department of Black and Latino Studies: A Conversation with Jessica Marie Johnson. Dr. Johnson is an Assistant Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University and author of Wicked Flesh: Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World. For more information on this event and others, visit: https://weissman.baruch.cuny.edu/weissman-academic-departments/english/events/.

3:00 PM-4:30 PM

Weissman Center for International Business Seminar, presenter, Leonard Wantchekon, Princeton University

Wantchekon has made substantive and methodological contributions to the fields of Political Economy, Economic History, and Development Economics, as well as to the literatures on state capture, resource curse, and democratization. For more information on the speaker’s impressive background, visit https://spia.princeton.edu/faculty/lwantche. For more information or a copy of the seminar paper, contact Prof. Lilac Nachum.

Zoom Link: https://baruch.zoom.us/j/83230566656

Passcode: 960422

Friday, February 26

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Natural Sciences Virtual Globus Seminar, speakers, Dr. Jessica Ware, Assistant Curator, American Museum of Natural History, and Assistant Professor, Richard Gilder Graduate School, Sackler Institute of Comparative Genomics

Dr. Ware will give a seminar entitled “Studying diversity in insects and in entomology.” She will focus on the evolution of dragonflies, termites, and cockroaches, as well as her efforts to diversify entomology as a discipline.

12:00 PM-1:00 PM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING

Distance Learning: Weekly Check-in, hosted by Tamara Gubernat, CTL

Kindly register in advance HERE.

Events for the Office of the Associate Provost’s weekly email must be submitted by noon on Wednesday of the week before the event takes place. To submit an event, please click here.