3/4/13
UWG Daily Report
Headlines
• 32nd Annual Media Day
• Counseling and Career Development Center Outreach Opportunities
• Dress Down Days to Benefit Relay For Life
• UWG Department of Art Hosts Visiting Artist and Printmaker
• Updated Travel Policies
• Geosciences Professor Receives National Grant
• UWC is Here to Help!
• Center for Student Involvement Announces Spring Concert
Announcements:
• The 32nd Annual Media Day, on Wednesday, March 6, is the Department of Mass Communications’ premiere annual event to connect successful communications professionals with current UWG students. Media Day celebrates professional and academic success in various forms of media. The event includes a panel discussion, networking session and honors luncheon. Check the UWG Events Calendar for further information.
• This spring, Counseling & Career Development Center (CCD) is focused on UWG students having resilience through developing the following areas of strength in their lives:
Family Support
Positive Friends
Mentors
Healthy Activities
Generosity
Spirituality
Medical Access
Mental Health
Last month, CCD outreach focused on the areas of positive friends/relationships, generosity and honoring mentors. In March, CCD will have outreach events focused on the area of healthy activities, in particular stress and anxiety management activities. Event details are below:
“Put the Squeeze on Stress to Maximize Success”
When: March 4, 11 am-1 pm
Where: Outside UCC
(Students make stress balls with sand and balloons)
“Biofeedback on the Brain” (biofeedback demonstration in collaboration with UWG Health and Safety Week)
When: March 12, 11 am-1 pm
Where: Outside UCC/Library by Starbucks if inclement weather
“Mid-Day Yoga” (in collaboration with UWG Health and Safety Week)
When: March 13, 12-1pm
Where: Campus Center
Please encourage students to attend these events. For additional information on CCD spring activities, see our outreach event webpage.
• UWG will be hosting three dress-down days to benefit the UWG Relay for Life and the American Cancer Society. These dates are:
Tuesday, March 12
Wednesday, March 27
Friday, April 5
To participate in this event, we are asking you to donate at least one dollar for each day to receive a sticker. If you donate $12.00 for dress down day, you will receive “Cancer…Tackled by a pack of Wolves” T-shirt. The money raised will go to the UWG Relay for Life, the primary fundraiser for the American Cancer Society. This year our goal is $2,000. Please help us meet our goal by contributing and “dressing down.” No donation is too small.
Checks should be made payable to the “Wonder Walkers Relay for Life Team.” We will send your stickers after we receive your donation. T-shirts will be sent when the order is received.
Please send donations and t-shirt orders to Vicki Rogers, ITS – Cobb Hall, or Alexandra Young, Computer Science - TLC
Thanks for all your help.
• The UWG Department of Art will host Visiting Artist and Printmaker Melissa Harshman. Ms. Harshman will be on campus March 6 & 7 to create a limited edition screenprint with students as well as lecture about her work and creative research on Wednesday March 6, at 3:30 pm, in Humanities room 203.
Harshman is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Printmaking department at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at University of Georgia. Much of her research has been focused on combining digital technologies with traditional printmaking techniques and she will share her process with students while working with them to create an edition of screenprints. Students will be working with Harshman on Wednesday and Thursday in the Visual Arts Building printshop. Harshman is donating several impressions of the print she will create which will be for sale to benefit students through the Visiting Artist’s Fund.
• UWG travel policies have been updated for recent institutional changes affecting travel authorizations, candidate, non-employee and employee travel. The updated versions are available on the Office of the Controller’s website under institutional guidelines and procedures.
For travel beginning March 11, if a traveler is unable to participate in a conference meal, the traveler must submit a paid meal receipt(s) and provide an explanation of the circumstances which prevented participation in the meal(s). In the recent review of travel policy, it was noted that UWG was out of compliance with the Board of Regent’s BPM 4.4.1. If you have any questions, please contact Rick Sears at 678.839.5353.
• Dr. Bradley Deline, an assistant professor of geosciences at the University of West Georgia, was recently granted a $25,000 Research Opportunity Award from the National Science Foundation, to participate in the Assembling the Echinoderm Tree of Life Project. This is Deline's third year receiving this grant, which has allowed him to travel to natural history museums across the country with UWG student research assistants in order to collect data.
Read the full story here.
• Do you have students in your classes currently working on a writing assignment? Do you want to make sure their papers are the best quality possible? Encourage your students to make an appointment with one of our tutors in the University Writing Center (UWC) and/or stop by one of our UWC Writing Workshops.
Also, remember that the UWC is willing to visit your class/classes to speak about our services. To schedule a class visit, contact Duane Theobald, Manager of the UWC, or call 9-5312.
For more information about the UWC, visit our website.
We look forward to seeing your students soon!
Events:
• The Center for Student Involvement is happy to announce that UWG’s next concert will be on Friday, April 19, in the Coliseum, featuring Neon Trees, Phillip Phillips, and Twenty-One Pilots. Doors will open at 7 pm and the show will start at 8 pm. Tickets go on sale this Friday, March 1, for UWG Students/Staff/Faculty and are $15 plus tax in advance, and $20 plus tax on the day of the show. Tickets go on sale for the public on Friday, March 8, and are $25 plus tax in advance, and $30 plus tax on the day of the show. Tickets can be purchased online, by phone at 678-839-4722, or at the Townsend Center Box Office from 10 am-4 pm M-F. Any questions contact Emily Teitelbaum or call 678-839-6526.