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WSC Professors Discuss Election on WTAG:
Professor Robert Smith Discusses WTAG Morning News Talks About "Cardboard Village"
Over 250 Students Learn About
Green
Students Experiment with
Environment Friendly Media Coverage & Event Planning Workshop Workshop on Social Host Liability, Underage Drinking... MLK Breakfast Department Raffle
Amaryllis Siniossoglou (Visual and Performing Arts) has been accepted to exhibit her wood engravings at the show Identity at the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles, Calif. Catherine Wilcox-Titus (Visual and Performing Arts) was invited to the Southeastern College Art Conference in New Orleans on October 25-27, to act as a respondent for the panel titled Artistic Rejuvenation. Papers investigated how artists have used their art to chart a new aesthetic direction, assert artistic independence from mentors, or creatively respond to personal trauma or illness. Artists include James McNeill Whistler, Jean-Antoine Gros, Hannah Wilke and Jo Spence.
AROUND CAMPUS
Over 250 Students Learn About
Over 250 students learned about green career opportunities
and practices at the WSC Sustainability Fair last Thursday. The next Bill Gates
is going to be someone who can figure out how to combine green practices with
good business practices, said Anthony Poore, Assistant Dean of the Southern New
Hampshire University School of Community Economic Development.
According to Poore, WSC students are well prepared to enter this emerging
field. Some of the marketable
skills in demand in today's marketplace include:
Project management Two WSC graduates currently working for the Montachusett
Regional Planning Commission said they put skills they learned at WSC into
practice every day on WSC Associate Director of Facilities and Environmental
health and Safety Officer Robert Daniels outlined college
initiatives at WSC designed to reduce the colleges carbon footprint.
He pointed to the renovation of the Administration Building which will be
a LEED certified building when it is complete; installation of photovoltaic
panels on the roof of the LRC and purchase of a biodiesel processor to convert
waste cooking oil into fuel among the projects his office oversees.
I consider myself a green collar worker, he said, If you have an
interest and understanding of these initiatives, the job
Throughout the fair, representatives from New England
Biodiesel Equipment and Sales, the processors supplier, were on hand to discuss
the display in front of the Student Center. The processor allows
Chartwells to convert waste cooking oil into usable biodiesel fuel for some WSC
campus vehicles. Over 250 students visited employers exhibiting throughout
the event to discuss career opportunities.
Upcoming LASC Workshops: The Center for Teaching and Learning and LASC would like to invite you to attend the second part of a two-part workshop series led by Dr. Andrew G. De Rocco. Attendance at the first session is not necessary for participation in session two. Discussion will include examination of a multidisciplinary approach to LASC at the program versus course level and course design for LASC versus the major. Breakout sessions and exercises will be focused on the design and/or redesign of student-centered courses not driven by the needs of the major or course content but focused on alignment of course specific SLOs with the overall learning objectives of LASC as well as the more detailed student learning objectives in one or more of the LASC content areas. DAC:
Diversity Across the Curriculum MAC:
Math Across the Curriculum If you have a specific LASC related topic(s) you would like addressed or are interested in leading or co-leading a workshop on a specific LASC area, please contact Bonnie Orcutt at borcutt@worcester.edu or extension 8750. LASC Team Site: LASC documents and other LASC related information will be available at www.worcester.edu/teamsites/LASC/default.aspx.
Students Experiment with Environment
As he does this, he also ponders an incredibly complex question: How did these nucleosides get together to create DNA? Three billion nucleosides form our genetic code, our DNA. A number of them have become the basis of drugs, AZT, for example, one of the first drugs used in AIDS treatment. Nucleosides are made up of a base and sugar. Goodchild seeks a greener approach to their creation. He uses a substance that acts like sugar but isn't sugar. Sugar needs heavy metals or other toxic materials to create nucleosides during the chemical reaction, he said. The sugar substitutes, which react like sugar, may not. Thus, the nucleoside experiments may offer a greener way of making nucleosides. We've done preliminary studies to see whether the sugar substitutes react with the base, he said. It looks promising. The we includes some 27 undergraduates who have worked with Goodchild either as independent study students or as researcher pairs during the last four weeks of an organic chemistry class lab. Goodchild used his 2007-2008 mini-grant, A New Way of Making Nucleosides, to purchase chemicals and glassware for this research. The nucleosides they are developing may have uses in the creation of new drugs, Goodchild said. That's the promise of this research. The student researchers are getting closer to this as they continue experimenting with sugar substitutes in the equation. Godchild's progress on the more complex question isn't as
promising. He wonders how nucleosides were made before there were any living
things. Scientists trying to figure out how any life started on earth need to grapple with that problem. It'll take more than a mini-grant to solve it.
MEDIA COVERAGE AND EVENT PLANNING WORKSHOP
Media Spotlight on You: A Two Part Workshop on Media
Coverage and Event Planning at Worcester State College Featuring
the Office of Public Relations and Marketing, Conference and Event Services
and College Police. Join us on
Wednesday, October 15, from 2-3p.m., in the Blue Lounge. This workshop is
free and open to the campus community.
FREE WORKSHOP ON SOCIAL HOST LIABILITY,
UNDERAGE DRINKING AND DRUG LAWS AND CONSEQUENCES
CHORALE TRIP TO PORTUGAL ::
MAY 2009 This time our travels take us to Portugal, for 9-days/7 nights. Included are round-trip airfare, accommodations, breakfasts, 3 dinners, sightseeing, a luxury tour-bus, and an English-speaking guide. We will be spending all our evenings in Lisbon(at the same hotel throughout), and fan out from that central locations for daily excursions to such places as Evora, Sintra, Estoril, and Palmela. Portugal is warm and sunny at that time of year, and quite beautiful! The cost of the trip is $2299, excluding mandatory insurance and airline taxes, which will be assessed later. Also not included is the cost of lunches, a few dinners and tips. A payment schedule is available. While we encourage our fellow-travelers to come to our concerts, it is not mandatory. If you would like to see a
preliminary itinerary, please contact
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
WORKSHOP SUPPORT THE MLK BREAKFAST AND ENTER FOR A CHANCE
At the breakfast, theme gift baskets will be raffled off and judged. Each
WSC office has the opportunity to create a basket. The winning basket, as
judged by those at the breakfast, will receive a $100 gift certificate to
Jumpin' Juice and Java, a brand new cafe on Chandler Street that is owned by
two WSC seniors. All proceeds from the basket raffle will go towards the MLK
Youth Breakfast. Each office can be as creative as they'd like with their
basket. Some suggestions: a movie theme, art, camping, snow day basket,
tropical getaway basket, etc.
Baskets can be dropped off on or before Friday, November 14, in the
Diversity Office (Admin Village-Room 107). Please include the departments
name. The winning office will be notified January 20, 2009.
If you have any questions, call
Robyn Marcin at ext. 8117.
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COMING UP Mon., Oct. 13
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Andres Torres presents
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Energy Efficiency Workshop
Faculty Art Exhibition
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the job. Sheri (Dufour) Bean, transportation planner, and
Renée Marion, GIS analyst, worked on a project utilizing GIS
mapping to promote an environmentally friendly program that encouraged students
to walk to school.
opportunities
are endless.
John
Goodchild has spent the past five years working to solve a straightforward
problem in chemistry: How to create a new way to form nucleosides, chemical
compounds that are present in all living cells and are widely used to treat
viruses and cancers. 