By Keith Hautala
The University of Kentucky's Jamie Wheeler and Sebastian Bryson were honored as the recipients of the 18th Ken Freedman Outstanding Advisor Awards at a luncheon held on Friday, Feb. 24.
The award recognizes outstanding service in the field of academic advising. Two awards are presented each year, one to a full-time professional advisor and another to a faculty advisor.
On March 26, the Second Annual Research Conference on Children at Risk will be held in the Alumni Hall Ballroom. From 10:00A.M.-12:00P.M., we are having graduate student poster presentations. From 12:30-2, Mr. Bill Farmer, President of United Way of the Bluegrass, will speak. At 3:30-5, Dr. Jaana Juvonen, expert on bullying from UCLA, will give the keynote address in Kastle Hall 213. The interdisciplinary conference is open to everyone and is free of charge.
On Friday March 30th, the English Graduate Student Organization Conference will be a great opportunity for graduate students to present their papers. It is an all day event hosted at the Commonwealth and Bingham-Davis houses of the Gaines Center. For more information please contact Julie Naviaux.
WHAT: Psychology Department Colloquium - "Narcissism Under Threat: Anger, Envy, and Aggression"
WHO: Dr. Zlatan Krizan, Department of Psychology, Iowa State University
WHEN: Friday, March 2nd, 2:00P.M.
WHERE: Classroom Building Room 102
Biology Seminar TBA
WHERE: Room 116 Thomas Hunt Morgan Building
WHO: Randall S. Prather, Ph.D., University of Missouri
WHEN: Thursday, March 29, 4:00p.m.
Host: Edmund Rucker
WHAT: “Spinal Cord Injury: Molecular Responses Conserved from Lamprey to Human.”
WHO: Ona Bloom, Ph.D., Assistant Investigator, Center for Autoimmune and Musculoskeletal Disease at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at The Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine
WHERE: Room 116 THM
WHEN: Thursday March 22, 4:00p.m.
Host: Jeremiah Smith
WHAT:"Roles of Science Faculty with Education Specialties in Higher Education"
WHO: Michael T. Stevens, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Dept. of Biology Utah Valley University
WHERE:Venue: Room 116 Thomas Hunt Morgan Building
Host: Melody Danley
The Latin American Studies Program at the University of Kentucky presents a conference by Joanne Rappaport, Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Department of Spanish and Portuguese Georgetown University entitled "Challenges to the Production of Indigenous Knowledge"
The talk will take place on Wednesday March 7th at 3:00p.m. in the Niles Gallery in the Fine Arts Library.
Joanne Rappaport received a Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology from the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign in 1982. Her interests include ethnicity, historical anthropology, new social movements, literacy, race, and Andean ethnography and ethnohistory.
The Confucius Institute in Bradley Hall will lead informal Taichi sessions in the Bradley courtyard. Starting on Tuesday February 28th, at 10:00 a.m., Confucius Institute Professor Zhou Yufang, who has won national prizes in Taichi in China, will be leading 10 minutes of Taichi exercises in the courtyard outside OIA, every Tuesday and Thursday. All you need is comfortable shoes for this exercise.
Taichi is a gentle version of Chinese martial arts, and is part of the rich cultural heritage of China. Recent research has proven that Taichi is not only good physical exercise, but that it also combats stress. It will boost the immune system and help with general wellbeing . For this reason, Chinese communities often engage in collective Taichi in the mornings, as they get ready to face the day.
Students, faculty, and staff are invited to participate.
WHAT:Biology Seminar: "Understanding the Relationship Between Genes and Social Behavior: Lessons from the Honey Bee”
WHO: Gene Robinson, Ph.D. Interim Director, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois
WHEN: 4:00 P.M. March 1, 2012
WHERE:116 T. H. Morgan Building, University of Kentucky Department of Biology
Sponsored by:
Department of Biology Ribble Endowment
Host: BGSA
*Refreshments served at 3:45
