H&SS eNews, October 2007

Greetings from H&SS.

The eNews is compiled and edited by Kelli McElhinny, director of media relations for H&SS. She can be reached at 412-268-6094 or kellim@andrew.cmu.edu. Contact Kelli to submit news about yourself and your fellow alumni, and to sign up for our newsletters. We always appreciate news from our alumni.

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Alumni News

--All alumni and their guests are invited to attend this year's H&SS Homecoming events. At 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26, we will be holding a symposium in honor of the 25th anniversary of the H&SS Senior Honors Program. The event will take place in the Erwin R. Steinberg Auditorium (Baker Hall A53). Marsha Lovett, associate director of the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence, will deliver the keynote address, titled "Sharing Our Fun: Involving Undergraduates In Research."

Following the symposium, from 3:30 to 5 p.m., the college will hold its annual Homecoming reception in the H&SS Coffee Lounge on the ground floor of Baker Hall. In recognition of the honors program, a library of honors theses will be available for viewing, as well as posters reflecting a sampling of current honors students' projects.

Also during Homecoming, the Center for the Arts in Society will offer a "campus art crawl", a tour of campus art. It will be led by faculty member and CFA alumnus Douglas Cooper. The tour begins in Hoch Commons on the second floor of the University Center and will be followed by a reception and discussion. It all takes place on Friday, Oct 26. The tour is from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., and the reception/discussion runs from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.

Check out http://alumni.cmu.edu/homecoming/index.html for Homecoming details and updates.

Student News

--Nine H&SS students have been selected this year as Andrew Carnegie Society Scholars, an honor given to students who demonstrate academic excellence, leadership skills and community involvement. Students receive a $2,000 award, and as a group, they decide how a donation of $250 per scholar will be used to benefit Carnegie Mellon.

This year's H&SS scholars and their majors are: Andrew Althouse, statistics; Daniel Giesy, ethics, history and public policy, and German; Dorothy Holland-Minkley, physics and Japanese; Lauren Hudock, policy and management, and philosophy; Brittany McCandless, professional writing and creative writing; Olivia Ostrand, economics; Amy Patterson, social and cultural history; Gabriel Smith, psychology; and Namek Zu'bi, information systems.

College/Faculty News

--The Information Systems Program will now be available to students at Carnegie Mellon's campus in Doha, Qatar. The bachelor of science degree in information systems is the third degree program offered by Carnegie Mellon Qatar, in addition to computer science and business administration. Carnegie Mellon Qatar, which opened in 2004, is the first university in Doha's Education City to add an additional major to its course offerings. For more information go to http://www.cmu.edu/news/archive/2007/September/sept18_qatar.shtml.

--Jim Daniels, the director of the Creative Writing Program, has authored a new short story collection, "Mr. Pleasant", published by the Michigan State University Press, and a new poetry collection, "In Line for the Exterminator," published by Wayne State University Press. Daniels, the Thomas Stockham Baker Professor of English, has published more than 20 volumes of poetry and prose.

--Scott Sandage, an associate professor of history, has been named a Top Young Historian by the History News Network. For more information go to http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/41984.html.

--Traci E. Sebastian has been named the associate director of the International Relations Program in H&SS. Her duties include being the principal advisor to International Relations students. Sebastian previously served as associate director of the Office of International Education at Bucknell University. She holds a master's degree from the International Education Program at George Washington University, and a bachelor's degree in international politics from Georgetown University.

Events

--On Tuesday, Oct. 2, the Center for the Arts in Society Research Forum will feature College of Fine Arts Dean Hilary Robinson, who will discuss feminist theorist Luce Irigaray and her influential work in philosophy, gender, linguistics and psychoanalysis. The event takes place at 4:30 p.m. in the Fine and Rare Book Room, Hunt Library, 4th floor. For more information go to http://www.hss.cmu.edu/cas/content/Research_Forum.htm

--The Balafon West African Dance & Drumming Ensemble will perform on Friday, Oct. 5 at 6:00 p.m. in the Kresge Recital Hall in CFA. The event is co-sponsored by the Center for the Arts in Society and the School of Music.

--The Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy will launch its 2007-08 speaker series on Friday, Oct. 12, with a talk by Laurence Glasco, an associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh. Glasco's talk, "K. Leroy Irvis and Barack Obama: The Sources of Success", will take place at 5 p.m. in the Steinberg Auditorium (Baker Hall A53). Refreshments will be served at 4:30 p.m.

--UCLA History Professor Norton Wise will talk at noon Monday, Oct. 15 in Rangos 1 in the University Center as part of the Humanities Center's Mechanization lecture series. Wise's talk is titled "Why Were Victorian Automata Female?" For more information about Wise, go to http://www.history.ucla.edu/people/faculty?lid=747.

----The university's annual Network Nights series will open Oct. 18 with Network New York, at the 3 West Club across from Rockefeller Center in Midtown. Network Nights are regional receptions, held over Carnegie Mellon breaks, which give Carnegie Mellon students direct contact with employers and alumni. The complete schedule is available at http://alumni.cmu.edu/networknights/index.htm.

--On Wednesday, Oct. 24, the Center for the Arts in Society BYOBrain Brown Bag Series presents Associate Professor of Art Andrew Johnson, whose talk "PED.Rio" addresses the sixth incarnation of interactive, community-responsive projects developed by PED, a collective founded by Johnson with artists Millie Chen and Paul Vanouse in 2001. PED.Rio used tandem bicycles in pedal-activated guided tours that engaged riders in the historical, material and cultural connections between the two hemispheres of North and South America. The talk takes place from noon to 1 p.m. in CFA 303. For more information on the BYOB Series go to http://www.hss.cmu.edu/cas/content/Byob.htm.

--On Tuesday, Oct. 30 the Center for the Arts in Society Research Forum presents Elaine A. King, Professor of Art History, Theory and Museum Studies, CFA, who will discuss her newly published anthology, co-edited with Gail Levin, "Ethics and the Visual Arts" The event takes place at 4:30 p.m. in the Fine and Rare Book Room on the fourth floor of Hunt Library. For more information go to http://www.hss.cmu.edu/cas/content/Research_Forum.htm

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