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Around CampusCLAS mourns the passing of Bill Davies, Professor and Chair of Linguistics UI to host two solar eclipse viewing stations on campus Aug. 21 Curt Tofteland, founder of Shakespeare Behind Bars, will visit campus for Oakdale speaker series CSD grad student Kevin Kock's "HawkEars" to debut at Fry Fest Research NewsReport your significant research news Nicholas Kelly and Loren Glass win HathiTrust Research Center award for IWW workset Computer Science Prof Zubair Shafiq wins NSF SaTC grant New Creative Matches grant program accepting proposals until Oct. 22 Arts and Humanities Initiative (AHI) proposals are due September 26 Engagement and Outreach NewsReport your engagement/outreach activities The Green Room, a community-wide educational experiment, opens Monday Aug. 28 |
Arts NewsMusic Prof Jeffrey Agrell publishes "Horn Technique" Inara Verzemnieks' memoir garners great review in Washington Post Violin Professor Katie Wolfe to perform complete Beethoven Sonatas in three concerts Awards, Achievements, and Media MentionsReport your awards and media mentions Lang and Spangler comment on eclipse Landon Storrs publishes Princeton blog piece on "what McCarthyism can teach us about Trumpism" Research by Political Science Prof Caroline Tolbert referenced in FiveThirtyEight articles Ana Merino publishes opinion piece in El Pais (in Spanish) Russ Ciochon quoted in Science article about early modern human teeth discovery Chemistry Prof Hien Nguyen awarded by American Chemical Society |
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Lectures/Conferences/Informational Meetings
Solar Eclipse Viewing Event August 21
Performance, Culture, and the Book: A Conference Honoring the Work of Claire Sponsler August 25
Hawkeye Lunch & Learn: Invisible Hawkeyes September 7
Arts
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Film Screening: La Strada August 22
Delbert Disselhorst, Emeritus Faculty Recital August 27
A Real College Play September 1
Tony and Friends Chamber Music Recital September 3
Yun-Ting Lee, violin (Cleveland Orchestra) and Younjung Cha, piano September 6
Beethoven's Complete Violin Sonatas September 7, 9, 12
Machiavelli & Me September 8
Exhibitions
Sciences
DNA Interest Group Meeting: Family History Revealed - Part 1, Searching August 22
Johna Leddy - "Magnetic Effects on Electron Transfer- Fundamentals and Applications" August 25
Renee Cole - "Developing a better understanding of teaching and learning in Chemistry" September 1