KU EVENTS CALENDAR

February 2013

Sun. Jan 27 12 p SMA Art Cart: Clothing Clues 1 p Envisioning Healthcare 2 p Andrew Tyson 2:30 p KU Opera presents: Tartuffe	Mon. Jan 28 All day Last day to enroll/add online All day Last day for 90% refund 8 a New Staff Orientation 8 a New Staff Orientation 9 a Union Programs Poster Sale 10:30 a SPSS I: Getting Started 12 p Data Privacy Day 3:30 p Molecular Biosciences Seminar: Dr. Jeffrey Toretsky, Georgetown University 3:30 p Gender Seminar: "Musical Experimentalism and Gay/Queer Identity in the 1970s" 6 p Hallmark Design Symposium Series 7 p Public Reading: Grant Jenkins & Louise Krug	Tue. Jan 29 All day Petition for Late Enrollment Begins 9 a Union Programs Poster Sale 9 a Content Mangement System (CMS) - Open work time 10:30 a Back to the Burge Open House 10:30 a Back to the Burge 12 p Brownbag: "The Reception of Adam Mickiewicz in Paris during the July Monarchy" 12:30 p Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Workshop: "'Honour and Fair Fame': Theresa Longworth Yelverton, Respectability, and the Times of London" 3 p Senate Executive Committee 4 p Make Your Resume Stand Out at the University Career Fair 7 p Peace Corps Coffee Chat	Wed. Jan 30 9 a Union Programs Poster Sale 10 a Senior Career Placement Day 10:30 a SPSS II: Building SPSS Skills 12 p Expanding Cooperative Housing in Lawrence 3 p EndNote X6: Building your Library & Cite While You Write 4 p Communication Studies Colloquium Series 4:30 p Art & Architecture Student Open House 5:30 p The Xijing Art Summit 6 p Student Senate Legislative Committees 7 p Women's Basketball vs. Iowa State 7 p SUA Grocery Bingo	Thu. Jan 31 9 a Union Programs Poster Sale 10 a Content Management System (CMS) - Site Administrator Training 12 p Merienda: "Central American Visions: An introduction to the Central American Film Showcase" with Hispano Duron 2 p ETD Word: Formatting for Thesis and Dissertations 3 p Tea at Three 4 p Tea & Talk - The Battle for Art: Modeling the National Exhibition in Republican-era China, 1910-1937 4 p Geology Colloquium Series: "Planetary Geochemistry: Applying thermodynamics and kinetics to constrain geologic processes on Mars" 7:30 p Kansas Conference on Slavery and Human Trafficking	Fri. Feb 01 8:15 a Kansas Conference on Slavery and Human Trafficking 9 a Union Programs Poster Sale 10 a Getting Started: The Nonacademic Job Search 1:30 p Symposium. HBC Science Talks 2013 3 p Advances in Meta-analysis by Terri Pigott of Loyola University - Chicago 3:30 p Peace, War & Global Change Seminar: "Why Nuremberg Matters: War Crimes and the Law" 3:30 p Student Advisory Board Meeting 7:30 p KU School of Music Wind Ensemble and Jazz Ensemble I 7:30 p KU School of Music Bales Artist Series: Christopher Marks	Sat. Feb 02 10 a SMA Art Cart: Empire of Things 10 a SMA Art Cart: Empire of Things 3 p MBB vs. Oklahoma State 7:30 p An Evening with Suzanne Vega and daughter Ruby Froom
Sun. Feb 03 12 p SMA Art Cart: Empire of Things 12 p SMA Art Cart: Empire of Things 1 p KU School of Music Prairie Winds Concert 3 p Behind the Scenes: Botany	Mon. Feb 04 12 p Working Professional MBA Lunch Info Session 12 p Path to Peace: Kosovo-Kansas Web Forum: "Kosovo: Background to a War" 3:30 p Molecular Biosciences Seminar: Dr. Max Heiman, Harvard 3:30 p Early Modern Seminar: "The Roman de Giglan, Rabelais, and Chivalric Romance in the Renaissance" 3:30 p Panel: "No More Deaths: Our View from the Border" 3:30 p No More Deaths: Our View From the Border 4 p Colloquium - Department of Physics & Astronomy 7:30 p KU School of Music Faculty Recital Series: Joyce Castle, mezzo-soprano and Mark Ferrell, piano	Tue. Feb 05 10:30 a SPSS I: Getting Started 11:30 a Ujamaa Brownbag Series: Dressing up - Girls and the Politics of Fashion in Sudan: 1900-1950 12 p Brownbag: Mapping out Islams in Central Adia: From Popular Practices to Official Representations 2:30 p Final Cut Pro X: The Fundamentals 3 p Faculty Senate Executive Committee 3:30 p Digital Humanities Seminar: "All Quiet on the [Virtual] Front: Traversing the Digital/Physical Divide" 3:30 p All Quiet on the [Virtual] Front: Traversing the Digital/Physical Divide 4 p Engineering Career Center Office Hours 5:30 p Kansas City Career Workshop 7:30 p KU School of Music Student Recital Series: David von Kampen, composition 7:30 p Inspiring MLK: The Mentorship of Benjamin Elijah Mays 7:30 p Science on Tap: Solving the riddle of cancer, now and in the future 9 p Tunes at Night	Wed. Feb 06 8 a Professional Edge: STEM - The Key to Our Future Prosperity 9:30 a Faculty Open House 10 a Dissertation Completion Toolkit 10 a Poster Workshop: Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol 10:30 a Spring Study Abroad Fair 12 p Global Food for Thought (CGIS Lunchtime Lecture Series) "From Microwave Popcorn to Brad Pitt's Carbon Offset Trees in Bhutan: Spatial Scale and Environmental Politics" 1 p FOOTPRINTS IN THE SERTO: My Experience as a Photographer, Teacher & Community leader in Bahia, Brazil, with Charles Exdell 4:30 p KU School of Pharmacy Pre-Game Party 5 p TLC group 5:30 p Mindfulness Group 6:30 p Full Student Senate 7:30 p KU School of Music Student Recital Series: JoAnn Doll, flute	Thu. Feb 07 8:30 a KCART Autism Training Program- IIS Training 9 a Introduction to Supervision 10 a EndNote X6: Building your Library & Cite While You Write 10:30 a SPSS II: Building SPSS Skills 12 p Merienda: "People with Autism Economically Supporting their Families in Peru" with Liliana Mayo 12 p "Representing Teaching" CTE mini-workshop 2:30 p "Complications in the hunt for early life: Extensive Mixing of Carbonaceous Material in the Archaean and Proterozoic" - Astrobiophysics Seminar 3 p Tea at Three 3 p The Ft. Leavenworth Series -- At Home and Abroad: Selected Topics on World War II 3:30 p University / Faculty Senate 4 p Gerontology Faculty Colloquium 4 p Got the interview, now what? 4 p Geology Colloquium Series: "Geomorphic Elements in Modern Sedimentary Basins: Fluvial form that will be preserved into the rock record" 4 p Special Colloquium - Department of Physics & Astronomy 4:30 p Book Signing and Reception: Susan Schneider, Author of "The Science of Consequences" 4:30 p The Science of Consequences - Book Signing & Reception 5:30 p Scholarships Info Session and Guest Presentation 6 p Visiting Artist Lecture: Amze Emmons 6:30 p Myths & Mayhem Film Series: The Birds 7 p Central American Film Festival: Gestacion (film) 7 p Peace Corps General Information Session 7:30 p Guru of Chai - Indian Ink Theatre Co. 7:30 p University Lecture Series: Chronographics 7:30 p The Commons Lecture Series on the Digital Humanities: CHRONOGRAPHICS	Fri. Feb 08 All day William Allen White Day 8:30 a KCART Autism Training Program- IIS Training 11:30 a Architecture Lecture 1 p Camper Trivia 3 p Instructional Sensitivity: What is it? How can we detect it? How can we enhance it? by Neal Kingston 3:30 p Nature & Culture/Early Modern Seminar: "Divine Wrath, Secular Response: Dutch Perception and Adaptation to the Christmas Flood of 1717" 3:30 p Chemistry Seminar: Joseph A. Loo, Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, UCLA 5 p KU School of Music Student Recital Series: Daniel McIntosh, composition 7 p Friday Night at the Kino: True Noon 7:30 p KU School of Music Student Recital Series: Grant Bingham, bassoon 7:30 p Guru of Chai - Indian Ink Theatre Co. 8 p Campus Movie Series: Argo	Sat. Feb 09 All day SWE Weekend of Engineering 8 a MATHCOUNTS Topeka Region Competition 10 a SMA Art Cart: Empire of Things 10 a Graduate Research/Write-In 1 p Introduction to R, by Sunthud Pornprasertmanit & Terry Jorgensen 2 p Women's Basketball vs. West Virginia 3 p Rocket Grant Information Session for Artists 7:30 p Guru of Chai - Indian Ink Theatre Co.
Sun. Feb 10 All day SWE Weekend of Engineering 12 p SMA Art Cart: Empire of Things 2 p Campus Movie Series: Argo 2:30 p KU School of Music Visiting Artist Series: Brian Gnojek, clarinet 4 p 2013 Presidential Lecture Series - In the Beginning: Three Men Who Made America 7:30 p KU School of Music Faculty Virtuosi Series	Mon. Feb 11 All day Last Day to Cancel a Class 8 a New Staff Orientation 8 a New Staff Orientation 11 a Resume Review Day 12 p Path to Peace: Kosovo-Kansas Web Forum: "Kosovo Today: Part 1" 1 p Content Management System (CMS) - Editor/Contributor 3:30 p Molecular Biosciences Seminar: Dr. Barbara Sherry, North Carolina State U. 4 p Colloquium - Department of Physics & Astronomy 5:30 p OASIS - Informal Performance Showing 6 p Hallmark Design Symposium Series 8 p MBB vs. Kansas State	Tue. Feb 12 9 a Content Management System (CMS) - Open work time 11 a Mardi Gras Open House 12 p Brownbag: "U.S. Russia Relations: Reseting the Reset" 3 p Senate Executive Committee 3 p Biodiversity Institute Laboratory Open House and Reception 4 p FAFSA Seminar for Students 7 p U.S. Department of State information session 7:30 p 2013 Presidential Lecture Series - In the Beginning: Three Men Who Made America	Wed. Feb 13 11:30 a UC Forum: The KU Core, a Renewed Beginning for all KU Undergraduates 12 p Unclassified Senate - Full Senate Meeting 2 p University Career Fair 2:30 p Final Cut Pro X: The Fundamentals 4 p Spring 2013 Study Group: U.S. Engagement: Political-Military Affairs 4 p Communication Studies Colloquium Series 5 p TLC group 5:30 p Mindfulness Group 6 p Trivia Game Night 2013 6 p Student Senate Legislative Committees 6:30 p Faith Forum: Ash Wednesday Service 7 p Global Pride: LGBT Issues from Around the World 7:30 p KU Brass Enembles	Thu. Feb 14 8:30 a KCART Autism Training Program- IIS Training 9 a WGSS Advisory Board Meeting 10 a Content Management System (CMS) - Editor/Contributor 11 a Thursday Research Topics: "NIH Salary Cap - What It is and How to Manage It" 12 p Merienda: "Rethinking Research in Latin American Studies: How to Approach Interdisciplinarity?," A roundtable discussion with Santa Arias, Span & Port; Gregory T. Cushman, History; Mike Wuthrich, CGIS; and Ruben Flores, AMS 12 p "Beyond Emissions: Preserving the Habitability of the Earth" 12 p Spring Engineering and Computing Career Fair 1 p Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace 3 p Tea at Three 4 p Tea & Talk: "Salsa Dancing with Chinese Characteristics" 4 p Geology Colloquium Series: "A New Depositional Model and New Sequence Stratigraphic Architecture for the Lisburne Wahoo Reservoir (Early Pennsylvanian) North Slope Alaska, USA"" 4 p Special Colloquium - Department of Physics & Astronomy 5 p Film Screening: "Queer China" 7 p Central American Film Showcase: Las Cruces (film) 7 p "Las Cruces...Next Village" 7:30 p Undergraduate Projects: Black Box	Fri. Feb 15 8:30 a KCART Autism Training Program- IIS Training 10 a The Big Share 1 p "A Next-Generation Solution for Funding Retirement: A Case Study in Design and Implementation of Financial Innovation" 1 p Undergraduate Research/Write-In 1:30 p 16th Annual KU Film and Media Studies Graduate Symposium 1:30 p Workshop: "Surveying the Research in your Field" 2:30 p Workshop: "Get Organized!: Strategies for Completing a Larger Research Project" 3 p Higher order and bifactor models: Issues in model identification, equivalence, and interpretation by David Flora 3:30 p Workshop: "Writing a Literature Review" 3:30 p Proseminar: Jason Hirst 4 p TGIF 5 p Lunar New Year Party 5 p Baroque Song Project 5 p School of Music Faculty Recital Series: Sunho Kim, violin 5:30 p Exhibition Opening: "Rhythm and Meaning: Jazz at KU" 7 p Friday Night at the Kino: Aleksandrinke (The Alexandrians) 7:30 p THE PIPES AND DRUMS OF THE BLACK WATCH 3RD BATTALION THE ROYAL REGIMENTS OF SCOTLAND AND THE BAND OF THE SCOTS GUARDS 7:30 p KU School of Music Faculty Recital Series: Stephanie Zelnick, clarinet 7:30 p Undergraduate Projects: Black Box 8 p SUA's Late Night Price is Right 10 p Late Night Price is Right	Sat. Feb 16 All day APhA-ASP Pharmacy Professionalism & Advocacy Conference: A Campus Convention 8:30 a 16th Annual KU Film and Media Studies Graduate Symposium 9 a ESPN College Gameday covered by State Farm 10 a SMA Art Cart: Empire of Things 1 p Science Saturday: Nanoscience 1 p Regression and ANOVA Analyses in R, by Sunthud Pornprasertmanit & Terry Jorgensen 7:30 p it gets better 7:30 p Undergraduate Projects: Black Box 8 p Screening: "Destination Planet Negro"
Sun. Feb 17 12 p SMA Art Cart: Empire of Things 1:30 p Women's Basketball vs. Oklahoma 2 p '30 for 30' Screening with Josh Swade 2 p 30 for 30 Screening with Josh Swade 2:30 p Undergraduate Projects: Black Box	Mon. Feb 18 All day Last day to add All day Last day for a partial tuition refund (50%) 12 p Working Professional MBA Lunch Info Session 12 p Path to Peace: Kosovo-Kansas Web Forum: "Kosovo Today: Part 2" 1 p Content Management System (CMS) - Site Administrator Training 3:30 p Bold Aspirations Visitor and Lecture Series: H. George Frederickson 3:30 p Byron T. Shutz Award Lecture: Donna Ginther 3:30 p Molecular Biosciences Seminar: Dr. Shrikant Anant, KUMC 4 p Colloquium - Department of Physics & Astronomy 4 p Linguistics - Major/Minor Declaration Information Meeting 5 p KU School of Music Visiting Artist Series: Todd Graber, tenor 6:30 p "First Generation" Screening and Panel Discussion 7 p Student Lecture Series: Peter Sagal 7 p SUA's Student Lecture Series: Peter Sagal 7:30 p KU School of Music Symphony Orchestra 7:30 p 2013 Presidential Lecture Series - In the Beginning: Three Men Who Made America	Tue. Feb 19 12 a Credit/no credit registration 11:30 a Ujamaa Brownbag: G-Youth: An Alternative Space for Social Action in Northern Kenya 12 p Brownbag: Estonian Citizenship Policy 12:30 p Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Workshop: "Anthropological Perspective on Prehistoric Pipe Ceremonies on the Southern Plains" 3 p Faculty Senate Executive Committee 7:30 p West Side Story 7:30 p Undergraduate Projects: Black Box 7:30 p Dole Institute of Politics: Presidential Lecture Series	Wed. Feb 20 12 a Credit/no credit registration 11 a Campus Master Plan Open Forum 11:30 a UC Forum: Common Sense Climate Change 12 p Unclassified Senate - Executive Council Meeting 2:30 p Panel: Syria: New Voices and Paths Forward 4 p Spring 2013 Study Group: U.S. Engagement: Political-Military Affairs 5 p Lawrence community Master Plan Open Forum 5 p TLC group 5:30 p Mindfulness Group 6:30 p Full Student Senate 6:30 p Faith Forum: Orthodox Christianity--An Introduction 7:30 p Undergraduate Projects: Black Box 7:30 p Data & Democracy: Our Technology, Our Future 8 p Step Afrika	Thu. Feb 21 12 a Credit/no credit registration 8:30 a KCART Autism Training Program- AS Training 8:30 a KCART Autism Training Program- IIS Training 9 a Engineering Expo 12 p Merienda: "Administrative Morality in Colombia," with Angela Paez 3 p Tea at Three 3:30 p University / Faculty Senate 4 p Geology Colloquium Series: "Biogeochemistry of groundwater and remediation in mining environments" 4 p Special Colloquium - Department of Physics & Astronomy 6 p Film & Speaker: Codebreaker 6 p CodeBreaker (a docudrama) 7 p "Anita, the Insect Hunter"- Cancelled due to inclement weather 7:30 p Russian National Orchestra - Patrick Summers, conductor & Daniil Trifinov, pianist	Fri. Feb 22 12 a Credit/no credit registration 8:30 a KCART Autism Training Program- AS Training 8:30 a KCART Autism Training Program- IIS Training 8:30 a KCART Autism Training Program- AS Training 9 a Engineering Expo 9 a Master Editing Workshop - Cancelled due to inclement weather 9:15 a CANCELED: Who is 'We the People?' Perspectives on Immigration Policy and Reform 11:30 a POSTPONED-TBA-Architecture lecture 1:30 p Latin American Seminar: "Amber Warburton and the Discovery of Hispanic Child Labor in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas" 2 p EndNote X6: Building your Library & Cite While You Write 3 p Baseball vs. Northwestern 3:30 p Chemistry Seminar: Xiaodong Michael Shi, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, West Virgina University 3:30 p Katey Schmidt Naylor 4 p Gender Seminar: "Writing Gendered Bodies" 5 p KU School of Music Student Recital Series: Laura Hrvinak, piano 6 p Progulka (The Stroll) 7 p Friday Night at the Kino: Aksuat 7:30 p University Dance Company - Spring Concert at Lawrence Arts Center 8 p Campus Movie Series: Wreck-it Ralph	Sat. Feb 23 8:30 a Kansas City Metro Afterschool Alliance Conference 9 a Engineering Expo 9 a Master Editing Workshop 9 a Gender Seminar Symposium: "Writing Gendered Bodies" 10 a SMA Art Cart: Empire of Things 10 a KU Writing Center Graduate Write-In 10 a Baseball vs. Northwestern 10:30 a Family Activity: Secret Symbols 3 p MBB vs. TCU 5 p KU School of Music Student Recital Series: Peter Walker, oboe 7:30 p University Dance Company - Spring Concert at Lawrence Arts Center 7:30 p KU School of Music Student Recital Series: Anna Scott, saxophone 8 p Campus Movie Series: Wreck-it Ralph
Sun. Feb 24 9 a Master Editing Workshop 11 a Baseball vs. Northwestern 12 p Women's Basketball vs. Texas Tech 12 p SMA Art Cart: Empire of Things 12:30 p "Make It Count: The Life and Times of Basketball Great JoJo White" 2 p Campus Movie Series: Wreck-it Ralph 4 p Kansas' New Tax Policy: Boon or Bust?	Mon. Feb 25 12 a Credit/no credit registration 8 a New Staff Orientation 8 a New Staff Orientation 12 p Path to Peace: Kosovo-Kansas Web Forum: "The International Role in Kosovo" 1 p Workshop: Getting Started in Undergraduate Research 3:30 p Molecular Biosciences: Newmark Award Nominee Talks by Graduate Students 4 p Colloquium - Department of Physics & Astronomy 6 p Hallmark Design Symposium Series 7 p Performing Arts Variety Showcase 7 p SUA's Performing Arts Variety Showcase 7:30 p POSTPONED: From Resistance to Revolution: The Role of Rock, Metal and Hip Hop Music in the Arab Uprisings	Tue. Feb 26 12 a Credit/no credit registration 10 a Content Management System (CMS) - Site Administrator Training 12 p "Teaching Critical Thinking Using Controversy" CTE mini-workshop 3 p Senate Executive Committee 3 p Baseball vs. Missouri State 3:45 p BIO3 Seminar Series: Dr. Anne Bronikowski, Iowa State University	Wed. Feb 27 12 a Credit/no credit registration 9 a Bold Goals: Winning Teams 9:30 a Final Cut Pro X: The Fundamentals 11:30 a UC Forum: Saving College Football and Basketball--14 Reforms 3:30 p Business Career Services Center Office Hours 4 p Geology Colloquium Series " Dissecting the Geological Time Scale with 40Ar/39Ar geochronology: Synchronizing nature's clock" 4 p Spring 2013 Study Group: U.S. Engagement: Political-Military Affairs 5 p KU School of Music: Student Recital Series Lam Kai Yin Crystal, piano 5 p TLC group 5:30 p Screening of the Journey of the Universe at Liberty Hall 5:30 p Mindfulness Group 6 p Student Senate Legislative Committees 7 p 5 Broken Cameras film screening 7:30 p KU School of Music Graduate Honor Recital	Thu. Feb 28 12 a Credit/no credit registration All day Alums Come Home VI All day Events with Mary Evelyn Tucker 9 a Dealing with Stress 10 a Career Mindendness: The Story of Changing Career Pathways..... 11:30 a Chili Recipe Contest 11:30 a HASTAC Scholars Brown Bag 11:30 a SUA's Chili Recipe Contest 11:45 a Employment Topic Workshop for International Students - F-1 Curricular Practical Training (CPT) 12 p Merienda: "Miskitu: A Study Abroad Experience," with Laura Herlihy 12 p Resident Fellows Seminar: "Electing Abraham Lincoln: The Revolution of 1860" 12 p Lunch & Learn: Hybrid Delivery with Adult Learners NOTE DATE CHANGE 12:15 p Employment Topic Workshop for International Students: F-1 Optional Practical Training (OPT) 3 p Tea at Three 3:30 p Modernities Seminar: "'Selling' Dreams in Millennial Japan, the 'Society Stratified by Hope'" 4 p Tea & Talk: Prof. Crispin Williams, EALC 4 p Geology Colloquium Series: "Peering into the black box: Quantifying "anomalous" solute transport with electrical geophysics" 5:30 p Philosophy Lecture: Aristotle on Belief and Knowledge 7 p Central American Film Showcase: La Yuma (film) 7 p "La Yuma" 7 p Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Panel 7 p CANCELLED: Allegro Community Children's Choir Concert 7:30 p "Elegies for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens," a poetry and song cycle with book and lyrics by Bill Russell, music by Janet Hood 7:30 p Cory Doctorow on "The Coming War on General Purpose Computing: Every single political issue will end up rehashing the stupid Internet copyright fight."	Fri. Mar 01 12 a Credit/no credit registration All day Application for Graduation deadline (Undergraduate and Law) All day Alums Come Home VI 8 a 17th Annual Tribal Law & Government Conference 8 a China Emerged - Rethinking Your Global Strategy 8 a China Emerged: Rethinking Your Global Strategy 9 a Electronic Communication at Work 3 p Baseball vs. Iowa 3:30 p Peace, War & Global Change Seminar: "Point Four and Mutual Security: The Intersection of International and Domestic Racial Tensions" 4 p 50 International Fellows from 43 Countries 4 p Beyond the Long Hot Summer: The Future of Water in Kansas 4 p Employment Topic Workshop for International Students: Academic Training (AT) for J-1 Students 6 p 72 meters 7 p Friday Night at the Kino: Night of the Polish Children's Animation 7:30 p KU School of Music Jazz Festival concerts 7:30 p Cirque de Legume by Jamie Carswell 8 p Campus Movie Series: Skyfall	Sat. Mar 02 All day Alums Come Home VI All day Schulerkongress 2013 10 a SMA Art Cart: It's a Wrap 10 a SMA Art Cart: It's a Wrap 1 p MBB vs. West Virginia 1 p Scholarship & BFA Audition - Dance Dept 4 p Baseball vs. Eastern Michigan 6 p Spring Opening at the Spencer Museum 6 p Conversation with the Artists 7:30 p KU School of Music Jazz Festival concerts 7:30 p "Elegies for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens," a poetry and song cycle with book and lyrics by Bill Russell, music by Janet Hood 8 p Campus Movie Series: Skyfall

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