More March/April Events!!

March 29th 4:00

Department of Biological Sciences Guest Speaker

Texas Tech alumnus Clinton Kenneth Murray, Chief and Fellowship Director of Infectious Disease at Brooke Army Medical Center and Director of Multiple-drug Resistant Bacterial Molecular Epidemiology Referral Laboratory at Fort Sam Houston will speak at 4:00 pm, March 29, in the Experimental Sciences Building, Room 120.  For more information contact The Center for the Integration of Science Education & Research (CISER).

March 30th

Lunch Discussion

This week’s discussion will be led by Honors College student, and regular LD attendee and facilitator, Neil Hester, and Thomas Reynolds, FYE Coordinator and Honors advisor. Neil has decided to be cryptic with the topic, simply saying that the topic is “very much relevant to everyone.” So make room in your schedule to attend Lunch Discussion this week!

Lunch Discussion is held every Friday from 12:00-1:00 pm in the Horn/Knapp Residence Hall southwest lobby lounge. Enter the building through the west-facing central doors (facing the band practice parking lot) and turn right to find the lounge. Food and great discussion are always provided!

It’s not too late to join the Honors Book Club!

The Honors Book Club continues through April!  If you would like to join us in reading our final book of the semester, The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde, plan to attend our meetings on Wednesday, April 4^th and 18^th from 4:00-5:00pm.  Please email sarah.timmons@ttu.edu to join or for more information.

April 10th 12-1 pm (you can count this as an Honors Event if you need to)

Engaged and Integrated Scholar Series

The Office of Community Engagement invites the Honors College staff and students to attend the upcoming Engaged and Integrated Scholar series on Tuesday, April 10, 2012 from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. in the TLPDC, Room 153.

This is a lunch event which spotlights Texas Tech University faculty who participate in engaged scholarship while integrating their methodologies and findings into their professional work, pedagogy, and classroom performance expectation. The series is designed to increase faculty, student, and staff understanding of what engaged and integrated scholarship is, expound on different methodologies utilized in such scholarship, examine differing theoretical perspectives of engaged scholarship, and encourage cross-institutional discussion and collaboration of engaged and integrated research. Lunch will be provided to all registered attendees.

Please refer to the attached flyer or contact Sarah.Shiver@ttu.edu for more information.

March Prompt

Here is the prompt for this month's reflection papers:

Choose one of the events that you attended this month and connect it to a theory or the coursework in one or more of your classes.

Remember: You are still responsible for the hours for the month of April, even though this is your last reflection paper. If you do not complete the hours for April, you will not have completed the program, and you will not be eligible for a scholarship!!

March events

Academic:

Department of Biological Sciences Guest Speaker

Texas Tech alumnus Clinton Kenneth Murray, Chief and Fellowship Director of Infectious Disease at Brooke Army Medical Center and Director of Multiple-drug Resistant Bacterial Molecular Epidemiology Referral Laboratory at Fort Sam Houston will speak at 4:00 pm, March 29, in the Experimental Sciences Building, Room 120.  For more information contact The Center for the Integration of Science Education & Research (CISER).

Honors College Events (remember there is no limit for hours on these):

 

HON Pizza with a Prof:

PWP will be held March 22nd in CHEM 25 at 6pm. Remember that pizza is free for members and $3 for non-members. Drinks are $.75 for everybody. Please RSVP to pizzawithaprof@yahoo.com by March 20th at 10pm. Dr. Wong, from the TTU History Department, will be presenting on history and popular culture, the hallowed halls of education and the steaminess of daytime/nighttime/anytime internet/cellphone/televise/cinematic enterprise, and the ways in which we begin to bridge what we learn with what we see, what we do, and what we live. For more information contact paige.randle@ttu.edu

It’s not too late to join the Honors Book Club!

The Honors Book Club continues through April! If you would like to join us in reading our final book of the semester, The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde, plan to attend our meetings on Wednesday, April 4^th and 18^th from 4:00-5:00pm.  And you can still make this week’s discussion for The Phantom of the Opera this Wednesday, March 21^st at 4:00-5:00pm in the Southwest Lounge of Knapp Hall! Please email sarah.timmons@ttu.edu to join or for more information.

Llano Estacado Winery Tour

Join SAB as we tour a Lubbock winery. We will learn all about how the wine is made and distributed. We will even get to taste a few of the wines afterwards! The winery tour is Saturday, March 24th at 12pm. We will meet at McClellan Hall at 11:15am. To attend this event you must RSVP to lindzi.shanks@ttu.edu by March 22nd. All ages are allowed to attend this event; however, you must be 21 or older to participate in the wine tasting portion.

Lunch Discussion

This week’s discussion will be led by Professor Brian Shannon from the TTU School of Law. Professor Shannon serves as the Faculty Athletics Representative to the NCAA/Big 12 for Texas Tech and his topic relates to his role. Here is what he has to say:

The NCAA Board of Directors (on which President Bailey serves) recently adopted academic reforms that will likely have a substantial impact in future years. I will provide a few highlights and address how they might impact future championships such as the NCAA’s March Madness tournaments in men’s and women’s basketball.

For some background information:

·         http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/public/NCAA/Resources/Latest+News/2011/October/DI+Board+of+Directors+adopt+changes+to+academic+and+student-athlete+welfare

·         http://www.ed.gov/blog/2012/03/duncan-praises-ncaa-for-raising-academic-bar-for-athletes/

In addition, although we are of course in the midst of NCAA basketball’s March Madness, there has been significant discussion in the last few months about a possible playoff system for major college football. Academic issues pertaining to these topics are often not discussed or raised, but should they have relevance?

Consider:

·         http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/andy_staples/03/08/college-presidents-playoff-views/index.html

·         http://www.oneafar.org/Statement_football_Post_Season.html

This latter document is a statement by the 1A FAR association, which is an organization of faculty athletics representatives at NCAA Division I institutions in the Football Bowl Subdivision, formerly known as Division 1A. The mission of the 1A Faculty Athletics Representatives is to advocate for effective interaction and academic and fiscal balance between an institution's academic mission and its intercollegiate program. I serve as the Big 12 Conference’s representative to the national board.

Lunch Discussion is held every Friday from 12:00-1:00 pm in the Horn/Knapp Residence Hall southwest lobby lounge. Enter the building through the west-facing central doors (facing the band practice parking lot) and turn right to find the lounge. Food and great discussion are always provided!

March Events

 March 20th:

• 5:00-6:00 pm HOLI
•  http://techannounce.ttu.edu/Client/ViewMessage.aspx?MsgId=136863

March 21st:

• 3:30- 5:00 pm Wind Lecture by Dr. Partha Sarkar
• http://techannounce.ttu.edu/Client/ViewMessage.aspx?MsgId=136686

March 26th:

• 5:30-7:30 pm OLLI: "Julia Child's Favorites" 
•  http://techannounce.ttu.edu/Client/ViewMessage.aspx?MsgId=136722

March 28th:

• 12:00-1:00 pm Special Edition Global Health Lecture
• http://techannounce.ttu.edu/Client/ViewMessage.aspx?MsgId=136860

April 3rd:

• 5:30- 7:00 pm OLLI: "Post-Saddam Hussein-Historical Preservation"
• http://techannounce.ttu.edu/Client/ViewMessage.aspx?MsgId=136721

Emails

Hey everyone,

I've been getting some important emails sent to my junk folder lately, so if you have emailed me and I didn't answer, that is probably why! I apologize, and it should be fixed now.

-Clara