Calendar of Events and
Programs 2012-2013
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events.
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Brown Bag Series, Faculty Research, Scholarship and
Creative Work Presentation
Gautam Rao, Visual Arts: "Unblocked"
Monday, April 22, noon-1 p.m., UClub (AU111)
A conversation about inspiration and the creative
process. Led by Gautam Rao.
Click here to view the poster for
this session.
Faculty Food for Thought: "Integrating Media into the
Curriculum: A Dialogue about Resources and Services"
Wednesday, April 10, noon-1 p.m., UClub
(AU111)
VHS to DVD to streaming: which technologies are you using to
integrate video into the curriculum, and with what success? Join
the discussion with panelists Julianne Miranda from the Center for
Academic Technology, Joe Indiano from Information Technology, and
Julie Miller and Josh Petrusa from Butler Libraries. The panel will
provide a brief overview of the current resources and services
available to Butler faculty, followed by an open conversation with
faculty about your needs now and in the future with regard to video
in the classroom (face to face or online). Lunch tickets to The
Market Place will be provided. So that we can best be prepared,
please RSVP by clicking here.
BIRS Workshop: "Building Budgets for Grant
Proposals"
Wednesday, April 10, 3-4 p.m., JH048
At this workshop, you will learn the different components of a
grant budget, and related university policies. Please click here to RSVP to Dana Ohren.
Brown Bag Series, Faculty Research, Scholarship and
Creative Work Presentation
Robin Turner, Political Science:
"Traditional, Modern, Accountable? Navigating Dual
Governance in Rural South Africa"
Monday, April 8, noon-1 p.m., UClub (AU111)
Nearly two decades after South Africa's democratization, questions
of tradition and modernity, representation and accountability
continue to trouble rural localities. Governance remains fragmented
by place and by race despite the extension of the franchise to all
adult citizens as millions of black South Africans remain dually
subject to so-called traditional leaders - kings, queens, chiefs,
and headmen - and to "modern" government officials - municipal
councilors, provincial premiers, and national government officials.
While most citizens experience the formally democratic, supposedly
modern governance system established in the 1996 Constitution, 28%
of South Africans lived in places with traditional leaders in 2011.
In this presentation, Robin Turner will discuss how rural people
have pursued community development and sought effective,
accountable governance in this context. Drawing from extensive
field research in four rural localities, this presentation will
explore the potential and limitations of local initiative by South
African citizen-subjects in the absence of radical reforms to
traditional institutions. Click here
to view the poster for this session. No RSVP required. Light
refreshments will be provided.
Brown Bag Series, Faculty Research, Scholarship and
Creative Work Presentation
ark Rademacher, Strategic Communication:
"Get Rich or Die Buying: The Travails of the Working Class
Auction Bidder"
Wednesday, March 20, noon-1 p.m., UClub
(AU111)
Mark Rademacher, Strategic Communication, will examine A&E
Network's popular reality TV (RTV) program "Storage Wars," and
suggests that its documentation of the market-based social
practices of a group of working class, professional auction bidders
harnesses and celebrates the dramatic and festive aspects of a
modern day treasure hunt to create an engaging and entertaining RTV
program. This mediated depiction of auction culture, however,
generates a contradictory narrative regarding the role of working
class cultural capital and alternative marketing systems, such as
auctions within a consumer culture. He argues "Storage Wars'"
depiction of bidders' cultural capital and consumption practices
illustrates the subtle nature in which consumption creates and
legitimates social distinctions within a neoliberal consumer
culture. Specifically, the narrative constructs working class
cultural capital and consumption practices in an alternative
marketing system as reflective of, and in contrast to, those
present in more commonly experienced marketing systems. Ultimately,
this narrative framing legitimates rather than challenges
capitalist ideology and existing class-based status hierarchies,
consequently contributing to the transformation of society's
understanding of alternative marketing systems within neoliberal
consumer culture. Click here
to view the poster for this session.
Brown Bag Series, Faculty Research, Scholarship and
Creative Work Presentation
Elizabeth Mix, Art History, "Bio Art and the Cabinet of
Curiosities in The Netherlands"
Monday, March 4, noon-1 p.m., UClub (AU111)
Contemporary Dutch artist Dolf Veenvliet is the creator of
Entoforms(future fossils based on insect forms). There are two
iterations of the work - digital video captures the generative
process of creation using two specifically Dutch computer programs:
the open-source software Blender (for 3-D modeling) and Python (a
flexible scripting language). Select Entoformspecimens are printed
as small sculptures via stereo-lithography (a process originally
developed for industrial design prototyping), and then are pinned
and placed in museum-quality archival boxes. Veenvliet's work
bridges disciplines: science and art; art and technology; art and
design; design and popular culture. Join Elizabeth Mix (Art
History) as she explains how Veenvliet's work can be categorized as
New Media, Bio Art, and Generative Art, and identifies significant
connections between Veenvliet's work and the tradition of the
Cabinet of Curiosities in The Netherlands as exemplified by the
17th-century collections of Rembrandt van Rijn, Levin
Vincent, Albertus Seba, and Haarlem's Teylers Museum. Click here
to view the poster for this session.
BIRS Workshop: "Developing Proposals for Grants and
Fellowships"
Thursday, February 28, 10-11 a.m., JH048
or
Friday, March 8, 3-4 p.m., JH048
At this workshop, you'll learn about best practices for composing
the narrative portions of grant proposals, including the project
summary, goals and objectives, methodology, assessment and more.
Special attention will be paid to the differences between research
and programmatic proposals. The same material will be covered at
each session. Please click here to RSVP to Dana Ohren,
indicating which session you plan to attend.
Faculty Food for Thought: "Sabbatical Teaching
Opportunity in the UK"
Tuesday, February 26, noon-1 p.m., UClub
(AU111)
Harlaxton College, the British Campus of the University of
Evansville, is now accepting nominations for visiting faculty for
the 2014-15 academic year. Since 1971, Harlaxton College has served
as a study abroad site offering a core curriculum in British
Studies, supplemented by courses from visiting U.S. faculty, all in
an historic English manor house in the East Midlands. As an
official Harlaxton partner, Butler may nominate a professor for a
one-semester teaching appointment. Earl Kirk, Director of Study
Abroad at the University of Evansville will join us for this
Faculty Food for Thought session to explain the application
process. Lunch tickets to The Market Place will be provided. So
that we can best be prepared, please send your RSVP to Rebecca
DeGrazia by clicking here.
New Faculty Orientation: "Shared Governance: what it is
and how you can be involved"
Thursday, February 21, noon-1 p.m., JH186 (please note the
change in location)
Join representatives from Faculty Senate for a conversation about
how governance works at Butler. We'll go over committee structure,
talk about how decisions get made, discuss how the election or
appointment process works, and suggest ways for you to get
involved. Lunch will be provided.
Brown Bag Series, Faculty Research, Scholarship and
Creative Work Presentation
Ulf Goebel, Honors Program: "Into That Good Night: Notes
to the Enigma of Origin"
Wednesday, February 13, noon-1 p.m., UClub
(AU111)
Ulf Goebel, Honors Program, will read from "Into That Good Night:
Notes to the Enigma of Origin" (a work in progress) documenting his
experiences as a young boy who experienced the devastating bombings
in Dresden. In addition, he will recite a poem he wrote in response
to 2009-10's Sunset Project - "a celebration of the beauties of a
firestorm mimicking a spectacular sunset." Click here to view the poster
and abstract for this session. No RSVP required. Light refreshments
will be provided.
BIRS Workshop: "Applying for External
Grants"
Tuesday, February 5, 3-4 p.m., JH048
or
Friday, February 15, 2-3 p.m., JH048
Come learn about the process of applying for external grants from
start to finish. Topics covered will include how to choose
appropriate funding sources, how to put together the application
components, what to expect of the review process, and the
University guidelines for seeking external funding. The same
material will be covered at each session. Please click here to RSVP to Dana Ohren,
indicating which session you'd like to attend.
New Faculty Orientation: "Getting Involved with
Interdisciplinary Programs and Honors"
Thursday, February 7, noon-1 p.m., UClub
(AU111)
Join us for a conversation with the Interdisciplinary Program
Directors and Amy Elson, Program Coordinator for the Honors
Program. Meet in the UClub (south of The Market Place in Atherton
Union) - lunch coupons to The Market Place will be provided.
Brown Bag Series, Faculty Research, Scholarship and
Creative Work Presentation
Chad Bauman, Philosophy and Religion: "Conversion and
Hindu-Christian Conflict"
Wednesday, February 6, noon-1 p.m., UClub
(AU111)
Chad Bauman (Religious Studies) will present his research on
Hindu-Christian conflict and violence in contemporary India. Though
Christians have lived in India since at least the 4th
century, they have been accused by some Hindus, since the late
colonial period, of adhering to a foreign and anti-national faith,
peddled unscrupulously through the evangelical use of "force,
fraud, and allurement." The accusations fuel and are informed by a
number of intriguing and prominent public debates about the limits
and desirability (for India) of western-style governance, about
what "freedom of religion" should entail, about whether
"intolerant" (read: evangelical) religions can be tolerated, and
even about the nature of religion itself. These debates take place
not only in the press and among intellectuals and politicians, but
also increasingly, through the medium of interreligious riots.
Click here
to view the poster. No RSVP required. Light refreshments will be
provided.
Brown Bag Series, Faculty Research, Scholarship and
Creative Work Presentation
Liliana Torres-Goens, MLLC: "Using Panopto to Strengthen
Student Confidence in Oral Language Classes"
Thursday, January 24, noon-1 p.m., UClub
(AU111)
Join us for a conversation with Liliana Torres-Goens, where she
will share her success stories using Panopto in the classroom and
beyond. Liliana has successfully been using Panopto in her Spanish
Conversation class, and has found it to be a valuable tool,
providing her students with a sense of self-confidence in the use
of their oral skills. Students are creators and viewers of their
own work. Oral presentations are done using this instructional
method which allows them to critique their own work, as well as the
work of their peers. A lot of class time is saved from doing
oral activities online and the communication process is more
productive. Self-evaluations on their performances are encouraged.
Click here
to view the poster; no RSVP required. Light refreshments will be
provided.
New Faculty Orientation: "Advising: What
works!"
Thursday, January 17, noon-1 p.m., UClub
(AU111)
Colleagues will share strategies on how to be an effective
advisor, and ways you can be involved in the early registration
process for incoming students. Meet in the UClub (south of The
Market Place in Atherton Union) - lunch coupons to The Market Place
will be provided.
Moodle-Palooza!
Wednesday, January 9 - various times, starting at 9 a.m.
and ending at 4 p.m.
JH041, JH043, JH048
Celebrate the start of a new year and Butler University's new
Learning Management System (LMS), Moodle. The comprehensive
faculty development program and the Center for Academic Technology
invite you to join us for workshops throughout the day.
Refreshments and lunch will be provided. Click here to learn more and to
RSVP for any of the sessions.
"BIRS Coffee Hour": Stop by to talk about grants -
coffee is on us!
Thursday, December 6, 10-11 a.m., Starbucks
Click here
for more information.
Brown Bag Series, Faculty Research, Scholarship and
Creative Work Presentation
Matt Pivec, Music, along with the Butler University Jazz
Ensemble: "The Radiohead Jazz Project"
Wednesday, December 5, 12:15-1:15 p.m.,
LH112
The English rock band Radiohead, which formed in 1985, has the
rare distinction of obtaining both significant commercial success
and critical acclaim. The band's sound has continually evolved
throughout the years, including at various points, folk,
electronic, minimalist, and many other influences. Consequently,
Radiohead's expressive pallet far exceeds most bands with that
degree of commercial success. In 2011, a coalition of jazz
arrangers who, like Radiohead, are recognized for their ability to
incorporate new musical styles into their voice, created the
Radiohead Jazz Project. This Brown Bag session focuses on the
realization of their efforts through four Radiohead works for jazz
ensemble. Matt Pivec will lead a discussion of the relevant
influences and features of each piece, followed by a full
performance by the Butler University Jazz Ensemble 1.
Click here
to view a poster for this session.
New Faculty Orientation: "Faculty Activity
Reports"
Thursday, November 29, noon-1 p.m., AU111
An important way to document achievements each year is the Faculty
Activity Report (FAR). This session introduces the FAR, and
provides suggestions on how to best complete it. Meet in the UClub
(south of The Market Place in Atherton Union) - lunch coupons to
The Market Place will be provided beginning at 11:45 a.m.
"Teaching in the Era of Coursera"
Wednesday, November 28, noon-1 p.m., AU111
(UClub)
Help, the MOOCs are coming! Actually, Massive Open Online Courses
(MOOCs) are already here. Harvard MIT, and UC-Berkeley sponsor edX.
Sixteen universities (including Stanford, Johns Hopkins, and
Georgia Tech) contribute to Coursera. Sebastian Thrun of Stanford
University founded Udacityand, last fall, 160,000 people from 190
countries signed up for his artificial intelligence course.
Squeezed from below by for-profit schools and from above by the
elite universities, we risk becoming the baloney in a baloney
sandwich. Bob Dale, psychology, will discuss our options. Lunch
tickets to The Market Place will be provided. Please RSVP by
clicking here.
"BIRS Coffee Hour": Stop by to talk about grants -
coffee is on us!
Tuesday, November 27, 9-10 a.m., Starbucks
Click here
for more information.
Brown Bag Series, Faculty Research, Scholarship and
Creative Work Presentations
Tuesday, November 27, noon-1 p.m., AU111
(UClub)
Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh, Journalism: "Media, Politics
and Polygamy in South Africa"
In South Africa, polygamy is legal for cultural groups who have
traditionally practiced this form of marriage. It entered the
public discourse primarily through the marriages of Jacob Zuma,
president of South Africa and leader of the African National
Congress, and has drawn much attention from the local (and
international) news media since he became deputy president in June
1999. Potential contradictions between the traditional and the
modern in Zuma's life present rich material for a case study on
media, culture, politics and gender in South Africa. Margaretha
Geertsema-Sligh will examine the reaction of the South African news
media to Jacob Zuma's polygamy and the implications for gender
equality.
Click
here to view a poster for this session.
Online Faculty Activity Report (FAR) Information
Sessions
Monday, November 19, 1:30-2:30, PB150
Thursday, November 29, 2:30-3:30, LH141
Wednesday, December 12, 3-4 p.m., GH105
Tuesday, December 18, 11-noon, JH238
Interested in having the option to complete your Faculty Activity
Report online? Would you like to fill in drop-down menus for each
section and be able to save the document and have it stored in the
cloud? Come to one of the information sessions to learn how you can
complete your FAR online this year. Bring a laptop/tablet with you
and you can log in and be part of the focus group for the online
FAR.
To accommodate busy schedules, we will offer four sessions - each
covering the same information.
"Building Budgets for Grant Proposals"
Thursday, November 15, 2-3 p.m., JH048
Click here
for more information. Please RSVP by clicking here.
"Seeing Cuba with Our Own
Eyes" reception
Tuesday, November 13, 4-5:30 p.m., Collaborative Learning
Space of the Irwin Library
Set to coincide with international week activities, all members of
the Butler community are invited to this photo exhibit reception to
meet students and faculty who traveled to Cuba last summer as part
of specialized GHS and faculty development programs. Light
refreshments will be provided.
The photo exhibit runs through
November 23 in the Collaborative Learning Space of the Irwin
Library.
"BU's Global Initiatives: Funding
Opportunities/Outcomes,"
Tuesday, November 13, noon-1 p.m., AU111
(UClub)
Butler's Global Initiative Grants program enables several faculty
members each year to undertake activities to enhance their foreign
language skills, deepen their knowledge about other world regions
or countries, internationalize specific courses, and make scouting
trips to foreign destinations where they plan to lead short-term
study programs for Butler students. In this panel discussion,
faculty members and Global Initiative Grant recipients Bob Bennett,
Ann Savage, Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh, and Jeff Gillespie will
describe their projects and assess the impact their experiences
will have on their teaching and scholarship. Lunch tickets to The
Market Place will be provided. Please RSVP by clicking here.
New Faculty Orientation: "Course
Evaluations,"
Thursday, November 8, noon-1 p.m., AU111
(UClub)
As the end of the semester approaches, join us to talk about how
course evaluations are administered at Butler and how you can best
evaluate your classes. Meet in the University Club (south of The
Market Place in Atherton Union). Lunch tickets to The Market Place
will be provided.
Brown Bag Series, Faculty Research, Scholarship and
Creative Work Presentations
Wednesday, November 7, noon-1 p.m., AU111
(UClub)
Stacy O'Reilly, Chemistry: "And Remind Me Again Why We
Make Them Do Lab?"
Hands-on laboratory work has long been incorporated into the
chemistry curriculum. These labs are often characterized by a
"cookbook" approach. Students go through the specific motions of
the laboratory procedure with little understanding of the process.
In 2008, faculty members John Esteb, LuAnne McNulty, Stacy
O'Reilly, and Anne Wilson, department of chemistry, were awarded a
grant from the National Science Foundation to explore how giving
meaning to the physical processes of the laboratory would impact
student learning and retention of material.
Click here
to view a poster for this session.
No RSVP required. Light refreshments and beverages will be
provided.
Cuba: A Student and Faculty Photo
Exhibition
October 15-November 23, Collaborative Learning Space in
Irwin Library
This engaging photo exhibition will showcase images taken by
Butler students and faculty who traveled to Cuba in spring
2012.
Be sure to also mark your calendar for an upcoming reception,
being held on the afternoon of Tuesday, November 13, from 4:00-5:30
p.m. in the Irwin Library to coincide with International Education
Week.
BIRS Grant Workshop
"Demystifying the Grant Review Process"
Tuesday, November 6, 12-1:30 p.m., AU326 - lunch
provided
At this panel discussion, Butler faculty members who have served
as reviewers for external grant programs, including several federal
and local agencies, will give the insider's perspective on the
grant review process. Topics will include common criteria used to
evaluate applications, review panel dynamics, and the relationship
between the program officer and review panel. Lunch will be
provided. So that we can best be prepared, please RSVP to Dana
Ohren by clicking here.
BIRS Grant Workshop
"Developing Proposals for Grants and
Fellowships"
Wednesday, October 31, 1-2 p.m., JH048
Learn about best practices for composing the narrative portions of
grant and fellowship proposals, including the project summary,
goals and objectives, methodology, assessment and more. Special
attention will be given to the differences between research and
programmatic proposals. Light refreshments provided. Please RSVP to
Dana Ohren by clicking here.
Brown Bag Series, Faculty Research, Scholarship, and
Creative Work Presentation
Tiberiu Popa, Philosophy: "Scientific Method and the Dawn of
Medicine"
Wednesday, October 31, noon-1 p.m., AU111
(UClub)
Hippocrates and his followers are remembered today mostly for the
famous oath and for their compassionate attitude towards the
fragility of human condition. Yet, the writings that constitute the
Hippocratic Corpus are perhaps even more remarkable for their
contribution to the emergence of science. A few wildly fanciful
assumptions notwithstanding, many of those works look surprisingly
modern in their rational approach, emphasizing careful observation
of the patients' condition, of the evolution of diseases, and the
environments that seemed to cause epidemics. The Hippocratics also
attempted to build a theoretical framework for their practice, by
relying on casual explanations and quasi-laws governing human
physiology. In this presentation, Tiberiu Popa will share a number
of passages that give the measure of those physicians'
extraordinary originality.
Click
here to view a poster for this presentation.
No RSVP required. Beverages and snacks provided; please feel
free to bring your lunch.
Brown Bag Series, Faculty Research, Scholarship, and
Creative Work Presentation
Su-Mei Ooi, Political Science: "The Transnational
Protection Regime and Democratization in Taiwan and
Singapore"
Monday, October 22, noon-1 p.m., AU111
(UClub)
The Pacific Asian region has been a constant source of fascination
for political scientists. Rising from the ashes of postwar
devastation and uncertainty, the "little dragon" economies of
Taiwan and Singapore transformed themselves into economic
powerhouses within 3 decades. Until the spirit of democracy swept
through Asia in the latter part of the 1980s, promising to
transform the political landscape of the region, democratic
prospects in Taiwan and Singapore seemed uncertain however. In this
Brown Bag presentation, Su-Mei Ooi will explain the complexities of
democratic development in Taiwan and Singapore, the importance of
comprehending its international dimensions, and the significance of
these two case studies for our understanding of
democratization.
Click here
to view a poster, and to read the full abstract, for this
presentation.
No RSVP required. Beverages and snacks provided; please feel
free to bring your lunch.
Center for Academic Technology: "Fall Break Intro to
Moodle Training Sessions"
Thursday, October 11, 10 a.m.-noon, JH048
or Friday, October 12, 2 p.m.-4 p.m., JH048
Sticking around for fall break and interested in learning about
Moodle? Intro to Moodle is a 2-hour workshop that introduces you to
Moodle, Butler's new Learning Management System. This session will
guide users through Moodle's basic features for both courses and
organizations. In this session, you will 1) learn how to manually
move files from Blackboard to Moodle; 2) navigate, customize, and
add content to courses and organizations; 3) be introduced to the
course activities available in Moodle.
To register for this session, and other sessions offered by the
Center for Academic Technology, please visit: http://bucat.eventbrite.com.
BIRS Coffee Hour
Wednesday, October 10, 4-5 p.m., Starbucks
Do you have questions about grants, intellectual property issues
or compliance regulations? BIRS is hosting monthly coffee hours at
Starbucks in Atherton Union. Come let them know what is on your
mind and have a cup of coffee on BIRS. Visit http://www.butler.edu/research-scholarship/calendar/
for information on other upcoming BIRS workshops and
opportunities.
Faculty Food for Thought: "Inspiring Innovation and the
Entrepreneurial Mindset Across the Curriculum"
Tuesday, October 9, noon-1 p.m., AU111
(UClub)
Each of our Butler colleges take creative and innovative paths to
developing some of the best future leaders, citizens, change
agents, and contributors to society in both non-profit and profit
ventures - whether in the arts, engineering, life sciences, or
business. We invite you to share your innovative and
entrepreneurially natured projects…from farms to art, from medicine
to machines…from education to commercial products and services.What
are your best practices on motivating students using the power and
drive of the entrepreneurial mindset and including creativity and
innovation in the classroom? What are some of the trends of
innovation and entrepreneurial development in your areas? What
about applying entrepreneurial decision-making skills to a specific
discipline, such as preparing pharmacy students to run their
practice, or helping music students develop a vibrant and
successful freelance career?Are their opportunities for diverse
students across disciplines to work together and build their
innovation capacity? Join us for lunch and conversation led
byStephanie Fernhaber(Management) andDenise Williams(Management)
and share your best practices on innovation and the entrepreneurial
mindset across the curriculum. Resources and examples will be
shared. Lunch coupons to The Market Place will be
provided.
Brown Bag Series, Faculty Research, Scholarship, and
Creative Work Presentations
Doug Spaniol, Music: "Bassooner or Later: 'New' Nineteenth
Century Bassoon Music"
Tuesday, October 2, noon-1 p.m., AU111
(UClub)
Julius Weissenborn served as principal bassoon of the Gewandhaus
Orchestra and was the first bassoon instructor at the conservatoire
in Leipzig. He also enjoyed a multi-faceted career as a composer,
conductor and copyist. To this day, his pedagogical works are among
the most widely used by bassoon students and teachers. However, his
grand plan for a complete curriculum of study never materialized as
he intended, and several works are now lost.
Doug Spaniol will discuss his recent work restoring
Weissenborn's music in a way that will on the one hand retain his
original content and intent, and on the other hand meet the demands
of today's bassoonists (and publishers). Included in the discussion
will be how this work related to Doug's application for a Fulbright
Teaching/Research Award and how the Fulbright helped enable much of
the research. Click here
to view the poster for this session.
No RSVP required. Beverages and snacks provided; please feel
free to bring your lunch.
BIRS Workshops:
"Applying for External Grants": Tuesday, September
25, 3-4 p.m., JH048
"Research and Compliance Information Session": Wednesday,
September 26, 1-2:30 p.m., JH048
"Searching for Funding on the SPIN Database": Friday,
September 28, 3-4 p.m., JH048
"Internal Grants (Butler Awards and Holcomb Awards)
Informational Session": Thursday, October 4, AU111
(UClub)
Visit http://www.butler.edu/research-scholarship/calendar/
for detailed descriptions on these and other upcoming BIRS
workshops and opportunities. RSVP to Dana Ohren by clicking here.
New Faculty Orientation: "Working with Diverse Learners
and Learning Styles"
Thursday, September 27, noon-1 p.m., AU111 (UClub)
How can faculty best work with the variety of students who come
into classes who may have different knowledge levels and skills?
What are ways to capitalize on and support the diverse experiences
students bring to class? How might assignments be structured to
allow students to do their best work, or how can class time be
managed, particularly when differences of opinion or experience
surface? Meet in the University Club (south of The Market Place in
Atherton Union) - lunch coupons will be available beginning at
11:45 a.m.
BIRS Workshop: "Applying for External
Grants"
Wednesday, September 19, 10-11 a.m., JH048
This workshop will help you learn about the process of applying
for external grants from start to finish. Topics covered include
how to choose appropriate funding sources, how to put together
application components, what to expect in the review process, and
University guidelines for seeking external funding. The same
material is covered in each session. RSVP to Dana Ohren by clicking
here.
Visit http://www.butler.edu/research-scholarship/calendar/
for information on other upcoming BIRS workshops and
opportunities.
Brown Bag Series, Faculty Research, Scholarship, and
Creative Work Presentations
Kate Boyd, Music: "John Cage: Sonatas and Interludes, for Prepared
Piano"
Tuesday, September 18, noon-1 p.m., backstage of Eidson-Duckwall
Recital Hall
To commemorate the 2012 centenary of American composer, John Cage,
Kate Boyd has been performing hisSonatas and Interludes, a
65-minute work for prepared piano. "Prepared piano" involves
placing objects between the strings of the piano, thereby
transforming its sound into one resembling a percussion orchestra.
Kate will discuss Cage's "invention" of the prepared piano, and
will describe the 2-hour preparation process required forSonatas
and Interludes, in addition to demonstrating the piece and piano
preparation techniques.
Beverages and snacks provided; please feel free to bring your
lunch.
New Faculty Orientation: Guiding Class Discussions and
Getting Students Engaged
Thursday, September 13, noon-1 p.m., AU201
New faculty academic-year orientation session on guiding class
discussions, engaging students in classes, and employing active
learning techniques in your classes. Meet in AU201 (south of The
Market Place in Atherton Union) - lunch coupons will be available
beginning at 11:45 a.m.
BIRS Coffee Hour
Friday, September 7, 10-11 a.m., Starbucks
Do you have questions on grants, intellectual property issues or
compliance regulations? BIRS is hosting monthly coffee hours at
Starbucks in Atherton Union. Come let them know what is on your
mind and enjoy a free cup of coffee, compliments of BIRS.
Click here
for information on other upcoming BIRS workshops and
opportunities.
Student Learning Gains - They're Impressive! Lunch
Conversations
Wednesday, September 5, Tuesday, September 11, or Tuesday,
September 25
Over the past four years, the various assessments of student
learning at Butler in which Butler participates are showing
significant learning gains in our students. Join us for lunch
during one of these three sessions to learn about where our
students are succeeding and talk with each other about what you are
doing that is contributing to student learning. All lunches will be
held from noon-1 p.m. in the Johnson Room in Robertson Hall. To
help us be best prepared for catering needs, please RSVP to Laura
Cobb by clicking here.
New Faculty Orientation: Academic Year Orientation
Thursday, August 30, noon-1 p.m., AU201
All new faculty are invited to this first academic-year
orientation session - this is a time to reconnect, look at the
semester ahead, and ask and get answers to questions that may have
arisen from the start of classes. Meet in AU201 (south of The
Market Place in Atherton Union) - lunch coupons will be available
beginning at 11:45 a.m.
Fall Faculty Workshop, "Blueprint for the Future"
Wednesday, August 15, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m.
Please join your colleagues for the annual Fall
Faculty Workshop, focused this year on celebrating our successes as
an institution. Hear from faculty and staff who have been working
on the self-study about what they've learned about the many ways
Butler is succeeding and building for the future. And then - back
by popular demand - learn from colleagues who will share their best
teaching practices in enhancing student learning. Click here to
RSVP.
New Faculty Orientation
Monday, August 13-Tuesday, August 14
All faculty new to Butler in Fall 2012, full- and part-time, are
expected to attend in order to assist in their transition to
Butler. Ongoing orientation sessions occur throughout the academic
year. Contact Rebecca DeGrazia for more information by
clicking here.
Summer Faculty Development Workshop: "Widening the
View"
Tuesday, July 31-Wednesday, August
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A summer workshop on
culturally-focused learning and asset-based thinking. Asset-based
thinking highlights assets of all students and then uses these
diverse assets to enhance student learning by focusing on issues of
equity and social justice as they apply to pedagogy, learning
styles, curriculum, and assessment. Click
here for more information.