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Thu, Jan 16, 2020
The Career Pitch: Authentically Telling Your Story
Build confidence in describing your goals, interests and experiences to potential employers, funding agencies and grad school committees! In this hands-on workshop presented by the Loeb Center’s Charles Hamilton Houston Houston Program, you will learn how to authentically answer the prompt, ‘So tell me about yourself,’ identify themes and pivotal moments in your life to speak to and develop a suite of examples to pull from for interviews, cover letters and more. *Attendance at this event will count towards the fulfillment of the internship preparation workshop requirement for the Charles Hamilton Houston Internship Program.*
Fri, Jan 17, 2020
Ideas Worth Spreading: Using TED Principles to Design Engaging Lectures
This Interterm, Susan Daniels, Associate of Public Speaking, and Jyl Gentzler, Professor of Philosophy, will offer faculty an interactive workshop on dynamic lecturing. By learning the rationale behind five TED principles of public speaking, applying them, and receiving feedback from faculty colleagues, you will transform your lectures into engaging opportunities for student learning.
Space is limited to five participants.
Please register at https://tinyurl.com/s5736jz.
Registration Required
Thu, Jan 23, 2020
Path to Research: Off-Campus STEM Summer Application Workshop
10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Science Center, Kirkpatrick Lecture Hall, A011
The Science, Writing and Loeb Career Centers will present a three-hour workshop to help you move forward on Off-Campus STEM Summer Application.
Register via link by Monday, Jan. 13, to participate!
This workshop is open to all class years. Lunch will be provided.
Bring at least one summer opportunity and your CV/personal statement/app materials to this workshop to get your application prepared for submission.
If you need more information, email jemartin@amherst.edu.
Students Only
Registration Required
Staff Survey Coffee Hour
Please join us for a special Coffee Hour on Thursday, January 23, from 10 to 11 a.m. in Frost Cafe which will focus on the upcoming Staff Survey. Come share your questions and concerns, and enjoy a free coffee and muffin—it’s on us!
Campus Print & Mail Center Open House
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
College Hall, Print & Mail Center
Join us for food, giveaways and raffles at the Campus Print & Mail Center’s Open House!
If you’re not familiar with CPMC, this is the perfect opportunity to stop in to meet our team, see our capabilities and the impressive variety of printing, copying and finishing services available to the campus community.
RSVP by 1/21/20 at the link below.
2020 Fink Symposium: “Science and Medicine: From Amherst to the Laboratory, Medical School, and Beyond”
3:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Converse Hall, Cole Assembly Room
Established in 2009 in honor of Gerald R. Fink ’62, the annual symposium is an opportunity for students who aim to work in health care policy, medicine and bioscience research to interact with Amherst alumni who are leaders in these fields.
The symposium will begin at 3 p.m. with introductory remarks by George Carmany ’62, who founded the gathering with Fink. Their Amherst classmate Marc Pohl ’62 , head of clinical hypertension and nephrology at the Cleveland Clinic, will be among the slate of speakers. For a complete schedule visit amherst.edu/go/bioscience
This year’s keynote presenter is Harvey Lodish, founding member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, and Professor of Biology and of Biological Engineering, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He will deliver his address at 8 p.m.
The symposium includes a dinner with the keynote address; registration is required. Please see the Fink Symposium website for registration, a full list of speakers and schedule: amherst.edu/go/bioscience
Registration Required
Thu, Jan 30, 2020
Open Advising hours with University of St. Andrews- Study Abroad
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Keefe Campus Center, McCaffery Room
Studying at St. Andrews offers you the opportunity to learn at one of the most extraordinary universities in the world. Offering programs at undergraduate, foundation, masters and postgraduate research levels, St. Andrews is global university. Stop by McCaffery Room to talk with Representative Lauren Ness.
Students Only
“Gender/Sex Identity is in the Body”—Lecture by Anne Fausto-Sterling
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Science Center, Lipton Lecture Hall, E110
“The Feminist Thought Group of the Center for Humanistic Inquiry welcomes all to attend a public lecture by Dr. Anne Fausto-Sterling, the Nancy Duke Lewis Professor Emerita of Biology & Gender Studies in the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology & Biochemistry at Brown University & founder of the Science &
Technology Studies Program at Brown University. The author of three books and over 60 scholarly articles, she is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science."