http://www.umbc.edu/studentlife/mosaic/calendar/ This is the feed of the 10 closest events on the Diversity Awareness Event Calendar en-us Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:42:45 -0500 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:42:45 -0500 McRSSGen 5 http://www.umbc.edu/studentlife/mosaic/calendar/index.php?events=2009-12-2 The discussion for this week is: An Open topic TBD by student submissions. Please feel free to send in your submissions for a topic that interests you! Join us every Wednesday for these facilitated dialogues: discuss various topics, voice your opinions, and hear from your of fellow community members. All students, staff, and faculty are welcome! Bring your lunch! 12-1 PM Every Wednesday The Mosaic: Center for Culture and Diversity (Commons 2B23) Sponsored by the Campus Committee for Culture and Diversity and the Mosaic Center. For more info, contact mosaic@umbc.edu or 410.455.8478 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:42:45 -0500 http://www.umbc.edu/studentlife/mosaic/calendar/index.php?events=2009-11-25 The discussion for this week is: \"Lost in Translation: How to avoid cultural miscommunications\" Join us every Wednesday for these facilitated dialogues: discuss various topics, voice your opinions, and hear from your of fellow community members. All students, staff, and faculty are welcome! Bring your lunch! 12-1 PM Every Wednesday The Mosaic: Center for Culture and Diversity (Commons 2B23) Sponsored by the Campus Committee for Culture and Diversity and the Mosaic Center. For more info, contact mosaic@umbc.edu or 410.455.8478 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:42:45 -0500 http://www.umbc.edu/studentlife/mosaic/calendar/index.php?events=2009-11-18 Join Donald Pope-Davis and Darren Davis, professors at the University of Notre Dame, as they discusses the role of race and culture in emerging communities on Wednesday, November 18, 7 p.m., at the Albin O. Kuhn Library, 7th Floor. Pope-Davis has served the Notre Dame faculty since 2000 and has served in a number of administrative positions including tenures as associate vice president and dean of the Notre Dame Graduate School. His research interests are in the areas of multicultural psychology, counseling and education with specific interests in cultural and racial identity development, cultural competency training, development and assessment. Davis is a leading and internationally recognized scholar in public opinion, elections and voting behavior, political psychology, research methods and statistics, and racial politics. His research has been published in the most prestigious refereed journals in political science and public opinion, such as The American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and Public Opinion Quarterly, and he has also served on the editorial boards of these journals. This lecture is being co-sponsored by the UMBC Departments of Psychology and Africana Studies and the University of Notre Dame Alumni Club of Maryland. The lecture is part of Notre Dame’s Hesburgh Lecture Series, which has brought a taste of Notre Dame’s academic expertise to Notre Dame alumni and their local communities. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:42:45 -0500 http://www.umbc.edu/studentlife/mosaic/calendar/index.php?events=2009-11-18 Hear Jim Greenwood, president and CEO of Biotechnology Industry Organization, discuss how the biotechnology field is rapidly developing and how new breakthroughs will translate into solutions for today’s most pressing issues in healthcare, food supply and alternative sources of energy as well as new career opportunities. The talk, “Healing, Feeding and Fueling the World through Biotechnology,” is on Wednesday, November 18, 6-8:30 p.m., University Center Ballroom, 3rd Floor. This event is part of the UMBC Biotech Forum 2009. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:42:45 -0500 http://www.umbc.edu/studentlife/mosaic/calendar/index.php?events=2009-11-18 The discussion for this week is: \"Facebook: Making it easier or harder to connect with others?\" Join us every Wednesday for these facilitated dialogues: discuss various topics, voice your opinions, and hear from your of fellow community members. All students, staff, and faculty are welcome! Bring your lunch! 12-1 PM Every Wednesday The Mosaic: Center for Culture and Diversity (Commons 2B23) Sponsored by the Campus Committee for Culture and Diversity and the Mosaic Center. For more info, contact mosaic@umbc.edu or 410.455.8478 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:42:45 -0500 http://www.umbc.edu/studentlife/mosaic/calendar/index.php?events=2009-11-11 The 31st Annual W.E.B. DuBois Annual Lecture Immigration and African Diaspora Women Nkiru Nzegwu, Chair of the Department of Africana Studies and Professor of Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture, Binghamton University, New York Professor Nzegwu is an artist and the author of close to a dozen scholarly books, edited books and exhibition catalogues on topics ranging from Gender and African Art History, African Diasporan Art, Feminist Concepts in African Philosophy and Culture, and Issues of African Identity. She is also the founder of Africaresource. com, a content-based educational website and the managing editor of five academic, peer-reviewed online journals devoted to aspects of the study of global Africa. Sponsored by UMBC’s Department of Africana Studies and the Dresher Center for the Humanities. 11/11/09 7:00 p.m. University Center Ballroom For more information, please visit: http://www.umbc.edu/dreshercenter/Fall2009.htm Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:42:45 -0500 http://www.umbc.edu/studentlife/mosaic/calendar/index.php?events=2009-11-11 The discussion for this week is: \"US Foreign Relations: Are they improving?\" Join us every Wednesday for these facilitated dialogues: discuss various topics, voice your opinions, and hear from your of fellow community members. All students, staff, and faculty are welcome! Bring your lunch! 12-1 PM Every Wednesday The Mosaic: Center for Culture and Diversity (Commons 2B23) Sponsored by the Campus Committee for Culture and Diversity and the Mosaic Center. For more info, contact mosaic@umbc.edu or 410.455.8478 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:42:45 -0500 http://www.umbc.edu/studentlife/mosaic/calendar/index.php?events=2009-11-10 Prize-winning journalist and editor David Oliver Relin profiled Greg Mortenson to write Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time, the book selected for the 2009-2010 UMBC New Student Book Discussion. David Relin will discuss the book’s remarkable story of a man who to this day continues to dedicate himself to educating children in some of the poorest communities in Afghanistan and Pakistan. For over two decades Relin has reported on social issues and their effects on children. 7 pm, University Center Ballroom. Admission is free. Sponsored by the Dresher Center for the Humanities, the Honors College, the Office of Undergraduate Education, the Division of Student Affairs and the Shriver Center. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:42:45 -0500 http://www.umbc.edu/studentlife/mosaic/calendar/index.php?events=2009-11-10 Why spend money on lunch today? Eat great (FREE) food and enjoy fun company at the Mosaic! Our food this month will represent flavors of Native American Heritage month. Tuesday, November 10th from 12pm-2pm Mosaic Center Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:42:45 -0500 http://www.umbc.edu/studentlife/mosaic/calendar/index.php?events=2009-11-9 The Two Cultures Today: An Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion on the Connections between the Sciences and the Humanities Susan Dwyer, Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland, College Park Christoph Irmscher, Department of English, Indiana University Manil Suri, Department of Mathematics, UMBC Tim Topoleski, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UMBC 11/9/09 4 p.m. AOK Library 7th Floor For more information, please visit: http://www.umbc.edu/dreshercenter/Fall2009.htm Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:42:45 -0500