KIZ and the Innovation Transfer Network offer Webinar on “The New Virtuous Cycle: University Research and Commercialization” – Free and open to all faculty and students, the one-hour webinar will be held Tuesday, April 19 at 12:30 p.m. Presented by Jill Edwards, executive director of the Innovation Transfer Network, the webinar will look at the use of research for the development of the common good and where commercialization fits in the academic gift economy. Follow this link for a registration form – http://www.innovationtransfernetwork.org/images/stories/Virtuous_Cycle_Registration_Form.pdf
Deadline for registration is April 15. Please email your completed registration to Jill Edwards at jilledwards@psu.edu.
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The Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center at Kutztown University hosts the annual Easter on the Farm event Saturday, Apr. 16, 10 a.m.—4 p.m. Events include an Easter Egg Hunt at 11:30 a.m. and at 2:30 p.m. for children 12 and under, egg-dying, and an egg-eating contest. Homemade soups and desserts are available for purchase from the Old Time Plow Boy’s kitchen as well as a demonstration from the Reading-Berks Guild of Craftsmen. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Amanda Lynn Richardson, PGCHC public relations coordinator, at 610-683-1589, 484-646-4166 or arichard@kutztown.edu. Be sure to check out this week's Weather Balloon with Monsoon Mike. Our own Mike Regensburger talks about Spring weather which includes interesting facts about rain, thunderstorms and tornadoes and he will get you up to speed on the weather forecast for the rest of this week! This show is produced weekly by Prof. Cara Cotellese’s Video Post-Production class in the Electronic Media department. See it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hatT5kpeZ-k Shoofly Literary Magazine Launch - The 2011 issue of Shoofly Literary Magazine has arrived. Join us at the launch as Kutztown University students read original works of fiction, poetry, and drama published in this year’s issue. The launch will take place on Wednesday, Apr. 20, at 7 p.m. in MSU 250 (the Presidents’ Room). Copies of the magazine will be available free of charge and refreshments will be served. Jeffrey Voccola, assistant professor, English 99.9 The Hawk will be raffling off tickets to KU’s afternoon performance of Steve Allen’s Meeting of Minds. Be sure to listen to the Michaels and Layne Morning Show on 99.9 The Hawk for more details and your chance to win. Did you ever wonder what it would be like if Attila the Hun met Emily Dickinson? Steve Allen’s “Meeting of Minds” will be on campus Friday, April 22. Come see historical characters interact onstage, portrayed by some of your favorite actors. There will be a dress rehearsal held in Schaeffer Auditorium at 1 p.m. and the main performance (including a reception with the actors) will begin at 7 p.m. Tickets for the rehearsal are available at the MSU Info Desk. For tickets to the main performance, please contact Dr. Jim Ogden, Room 226 deFrancesco, x3-4596 or at docogden@ptd.net. Faculty and Staff members: Are you interested in becoming an advisor to a social sorority at KU? - Delta Zeta, a women’s organization, will be searching for a faculty or staff advisor to begin in Fall 2011. The chapter currently has 48 members and has the highest GPA of all of KU’s Greek organizations. Through Delta Zeta's philanthropy of speech and hearing, Delta Zeta has national partnerships with The Starkey Hearing Foundation, Gallaudet University and the House Ear Institute. For more information, including the president’s contact information, please visit: http://www.kutztown.edu/divisions/studentservices/departments/sis/greeklife/organizations/panhellenic/dz/index.aspx If you have other questions, please contact Jenni Rach at rach@kutztown.edu. Jenni Rach, assistant director for Greek Life, Student Union and Involvement Services Sign-ups are now available for student organizations to register for the summer Connections Involvement Fairs, Freshman Move-In Day volunteering, and the Fall Involvement Fair. This is an excellent opportunity for your students to recruit new members as well as display their organization. Please remind your student groups to register. Registration and information may be found by clicking on this link http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/InvolvementFairMovein2011. Hard copies are also available in the Student Involvement Office (MSU 153). Kristen Snyder Gallagher, assistant director, Student Union & Involvement Services GLBTQ Resource Center is hosting movie nights in OM 4 as part of a series of Staff Pick Movie Nights for GLBTQ Awareness month. These events are open to students, faculty, staff, alumni and the public. For more information, please contact the GLBTQ Resource Center at x6-4111. •April 19 - The Birdcage at 7 p.m. •April 20 - To Wong Foo at 7 p.m. Need an end of the year fundraising opportunity for your department, club, organization, or business? Want a study break? If so, then come to the Off Campus Advisory Council's CommUnity Block Party on Sunday, May 1 from 12 - 4 p.m. on the 200 Block of Main Street. For more information, please visit http://communityblockparty.blogspot.com. The cost to participate is $10 and the registration deadline is Apr. 19. Support KUBoK by running or walking in this year's 1st-ever 5K for KUBoK on Sunday, May 1 at 10 a.m. Registration is $15 for students and $25 for faculty, staff, and community members. Please visit http://communityblockparty.blogspot.com for more information. The deadline to register and receive a T-shirt is Apr. 22. •April 1 – 15, Come to RL 24 to have your picture taken with your favorite book. We will use your picture to create an 11x17 READ poster that will be on display during the month of April. To see some examples of celebrity READ posters, please go to www.alastore.ala.org/SearchResult.aspx?CategoryID=158. •April 10-15, “Like” us on our Facebook page (Rohrbach Library) for a chance at winning a prize for answering the daily trivia question. Karen J. Wanamaker, Outreach Librarian “Absence is Presence: Matthew Daub’s Kempton” -- Nationally renowned watercolor artist and professor of Fine Arts, Matthew Daub will deliver an illustrated Chambliss Faculty Research Awards lecture on Monday, April 18, at 4:30 p.m. in the McFarland Student Union’s Alumni Auditorium. Admission is free, and the public is invited to attend this fascinating presentation. The title of the lecture, “Absence is Presence: Matthew Daub’s Kempton,” is taken from an essay by Carl Little on Daub’s work. Daub has been a professor of Fine Arts at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania since 1987. His watercolor paintings and drawings have been widely exhibited for over three decades, with more than 20 one-person exhibitions at galleries and museums throughout the United States including the Reading Public Museum in Pennsylvania, and the Evansville Museum in Indiana. Daub’s works have been included in numerous invitational exhibitions at prestigious institutions such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, and in 2010, the 185th Invitational Exhibition of American Art at the National Academy of Design in New York City. For more information, please visit http://www.kutztown.edu/admin/urelations/mediarelations/1104/daub-chambliss.shtml Friday, Apr. 15 from 2 - 3:30 p.m. in Schaeffer Auditorium, Kutztown University students, staff, faculty and administrators are invited to the hear Jerry Pinkney, winner of the 2010 Caldecott Award and many other awards for his outstanding illustrations in children's books. Also, Pat Mora, poet and author of books for children and adults, will be presenting. Pat is the founder of El Dia de los libros, celebrated in communities around the United States. Many of her books are bilingual (Spanish and English). This event is offered at no charge to the KU community. The presenters will autograph books immediately after in MSU. Books are available for purchase at a 20% discount in the KU Bookstore. |
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