Calendar
All Topics (March 29 through March 29)
Friday, March 29
- All Day Alternative Visions/Sustainable Futures
- All Day Passover
- All Day Last Day to DROP Standard Courses (with a W grade)
- All Day Application Deadline: Broadridge Financial Solutions
- All Day Ben & Jerry's #PintProject Contest
- 9:00 AM The American Civil War: Treasures from the Vault
- 9:30 AM Workshop: Learning from the Iraqi Refugee Experience in Syria
- 10:00 AM Exhibition: Teaching the Body
- 12:00 PM History of Art & Architecture Dissertation Defense of Carrie Anderson
- DOM Grand Rounds - Potassium RX: Where are the Guidelines?
- Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar
- Good Friday Service
- PhD Dissertation Seminar, Program of Molecular Medicine
- Learning to Labor in an Era of Neo-Liberalism: Branding the Worker’s Soul in the Popular Business Press
- 12:15 PM EAAF Talk 3/29/2013: Traces of Japanese colonial landscapes: Historical archaeology along the Pattonkan Trail in central Taiwan
- 1:00 PM Literary Translation Lecture Series
- Networking 101: Make the Most of Your Connections
- Court Documents Certification Class
- Networking 101 Workshop
- 1:30 PM American & New England Studies Dissertation Defense of John Stuart Gordon
- 2:00 PM Administrative Law Certification Class
- SED Silent Auction
- 3:00 PM Women's Tennis vs. UMass
- CISE Seminar: Satish Narayanasamy, University of Michigan
- Mathematics and Statistics Dissertation Defense of Chan-Ho Kim
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- $2.5 Million Gift Creates Maria Stata ProfessorshipThe culture of ancient Greece is alive and well and living conspicuously, for those who pay attention, in the sciences, arts, architecture, politics, and philosophy of our everyday world. Now, thanks to a gift from Maria Stata (CAS’62), that enduring influence will be even more greatly appreciated by students and scholars in the College of […]
- Vanishing from an Archive Near You: History?Arrested in 2010 for a minuscule possession of pot, Connecticut nurse Lorraine Martin had her bust expunged from the court record after agreeing to drug classes. To her chagrin, however, she found employers rejecting her for jobs, for a reason she discovered after googling herself: archived news stories of her arrest, online for all to […]
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- SPH Convocation Speaker: Become “Dauntless Doers”Julie Gerberding inhabits a world of long-winded conference calls and consensus-building meetings. “Ladies and gentlemen,” the former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been known to interject, “people are dying. Let’s step up. Let’s get the decision made. Let’s move on.” But in offering advice to School of Public Health […]
- Chinese Students Adjust to American EducationLili Gu recalls his initial trepidation at the flood of white faces in his Massachusetts high school when he came to America for 10th grade. There was the hulking football player who noticed that Gu was lost one day and said—here, Gu speaks in a guttural half-grunt—“‘Hey, you want to go to the gym?’ And […]
