October+2010

**Susan Palmer Slattery, Ph.D., Memorial Service**

 * Date:** Tuesday, October 26
 * Time:** 12:30 p.m.
 * Place:** Inscape Theatre, Greenspring campus


 * Scholarship Fund and Ongoing Support: **
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 * Support for the Slattery Family


 * FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1 **
 * ** Founders Day **: Breakfast, picnic lunch, giveaways, exhibits, and a talent show. Click for more details.
 * **Breast Cancer Awareness Run**

Stevenson's United Way campaign runs from October 1 through October 31. Every bit helps and makes a difference in the community. Ask your United Way ambassador for details or contact **Peggy Baldwin**, Director of Professional Development, 443-334-2932
 * United Way of Central Maryland**

Help Stevenson students by donating to The Stevenson Fund. Donate until June 30, 2011 for this year. Learn more and find out who WON the Ravens tickets, too.
 * Stevenson Fund**

The Office of Institutional Research and Assessment has a limited number of openings to sponsor adjunct attendance at the Maryland Consortium for Adjunct Faculty Professional Development (MCAPD) Adjunct Conference in early October. The conference provides new teaching and learning strategies for the adjunct faculty member.
 * Adjunct Faculty: Learn About the Adjunct Faculty Development Conference **
 * Contact:** assessment@stevenson.edu
 * Conference date:** Saturday, October 2
 * Place:** Anne Arundel Community College
 * Info:** []

Sponsored by the Career Services and Learning Beyond, this workshop examines diversity from an individual and collective viewpoint. The outcome is a collaborative piece using poetry and prose. Designed as an opportunity to get to know one another, and discover how people think about the world and people around them. Limited seating.
 * Telling Your Story in a Diverse Way **
 * Date:** Monday, October 4
 * Time:** 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
 * Place**: Wooded Way, Owings Mills
 * RSVP**: Contact **Cheryl Hinton**, Director of Multicultural Affairs, at 443-352-4489.

View a group of nuanced and dramatic monumental paintings representing the interplay of ideas; circle, line, and form motifs; and geometry.
 * Body Work by Carol Miller Frost **
 * Date**: Tuesday, October 5 through Sunday, November 21
 * Place**: Gallery
 * Art Talk**: Wednesday, November 3

Learn about the federal laws about information and students.
 * FERPA **
 * Date:** Wednesday, October 6 and Thursday, October 7
 * Time:** Noon to 1:30 p.m.
 * Place:** Oct. 6 - HR Conference Room; Oct. 7 - Brown School of Business and Leadership, Room 300
 * RSVP:** HR line at 443-334-2360


 * President's Staff Meeting**
 * Date:** Wednesday, October 6
 * Time:** 2:30 p.m. (reception); 3 p.m. (meeting)
 * Place:** St. Paul Companies Pavilion
 * Plan Ahead:** Next meeting is Wednesday, February 9

Exsul van Helden, Professor of Film, Video, and Theatre, documents Circus Flora, a nonprofit theatre company specializing in the one-ring European style circus. Original music by Jared Denhard, Adjunct Instructor of Music.
 * A Circus Like No Other: A Film by Exsul Van Helden **
 * Date**: Wednesday, October 6
 * Time:** Reception, 6 p.m., film premiere screening, 7 p.m.
 * Place**: Inscape Theatre

Join the discussion to share teaching approaches and how to measure student outcomes within the Learning for Living initiative. Time: Noon, pizza lunch provided Place: Cuvilly Faculty-Student Exchange RSVP: A must for lunch, to rkruse@stevenson.edu Learning for Living initiative
 * Learning for Living: Dialogues for Learning Forum **
 * Next session:** Wednesday, October 6; topic: oral communication - **__ session cancelled __**

Stevenson faculty and staff are invited to join colleagues from area institutions to hear presentations and panel discussions about teaching effectiveness. Keynote speaker Cole Camplese, Director of Education Technology at Pennsylvania State University, will discuss how the appropriate integration of emerging technologies into learning spaces can affect teaching effectiveness. Camplese spoke last at the January 2010 Faculty-Staff meeting at Stevenson. []
 * Faculty Development Conference for Colleges and Universities in Central Maryland: Enhancing Effectiveness in the Classroom **
 * Date**: Friday, October 8
 * Time**: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
 * Place**: Rockland Center, Owings Mills
 * RSVP:**
 * Info: Rebecca Kruse**, or call 443-334-2831

Aside from the good feeling that comes with helping, all volunteers will receive breakfast, transportation to the worksite, and a T-shirt.
 * Building Community Day on Saturday, October 9**
 * Half-day option from 8 a.m. to noon:** First Fruits to harvest fruits and vegetables for the homeless
 * Full-day option from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.:** Habitat for Humanity to build homes, clear trash, and plant
 * RSVP: Kayla Tufares**, 443-352-4478, or **Tom Romanoff**, 443-352-4479

Sponsored by Stevenson's Q Group, this presentation features sensitive discussion and presentations by group members.
 * Coming Out Monologues **
 * Date:** Monday, October 11
 * Time:** 8 p.m.
 * Place**: Rockland Center

Presented by **Glenn T. Johnston, Ph.D.**, Adjunct Professor of History and Library Archivist
 * J.R. Mitchell Memorial Book Talk **
 * Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Expery **
 * Date:** Wednesday, October 13
 * Time:** Noon
 * Place:** Library, Greenspring

Combined H1N1 and seasonal in one vaccine. Cost is $22. [|Register] (username: Mustang)
 * Flu Shots **
 * Date:** Wednesday, October 13
 * Time**: 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
 * Place:** Rockland

Watch the movie, based on Kate Chopin's //The Awakening//, and participate in a discussion led by Kathleen Brown, Ph.D., Professor of English Language and Literature. The event is part of the "Books into Film" series sponsored by the Maryland Humanities Council. Free copies of //The Awakening// available. Limited quantity so RSVP (a must) now.
 * //Grand Isle// Movie Screening and Discussion **
 * Date:** Thursday, October 14
 * Time:** 4 p.m.
 * Place:** Dawson Center, Room 12
 * RSVP: Maureen Beck**, mbeck@stevenson.edu


 * TIAA-Cref Retirement Planning Session **
 * Date:** Thursday, October 14
 * Time**: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., by appointment
 * Place:** HR Conference Room
 * RSVP:** Call the HR line, 443-334-2360

In Blood Relations, dramatist Sharon Pollock creates a meta-theatrical reenactment of the events surrounding the 1892 murder of Andrew and Abigal Borden, in effect rewriting the legend of American Lizzie Borden. This is a faculty development research grant presentation by Laura Synder, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English.
 * Bloody Relations of Exchange: Sharon Pollock's Revision of Feminine Myth in Blood Relations **
 * Date:** Thursday, October 14
 * Time:** 2 p.m.
 * Place:** Dawson Center, Room 318

**Stevenson Reef Ball Project**
Creating reef balls helps save the Chesapeake Bay. This is the first annual Civic Engagement and Service Project of the School of the Sciences. Food. Music. T-shirt to all participants.
 * Date:** Friday, October 15
 * Time:** Noon to 3 p.m.
 * Place:** Behind Knott Hall, Greenspring

Enter the 10th Annual Chili Cook-Off. Receive a gift, plus great prizes, and potential bragging rights.
 * Chili Cook-Off **
 * Entry deadline:** Monday, October 18
 * Contest:** Thursday, October 21
 * Time:** 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
 * Place:** Manuszak Center, Greenspring
 * Info:** Hope Miller, 443-334-2121

Join the discussion to share teaching approaches and how to measure student outcomes within the Learning for Living initiative. Learning for Living initiative
 * Learning for Living: Dialogues for Learning Forum **
 * Next session:** Wednesday, October 20; communication
 * Time:** Noon, pizza lunch provided
 * Place:** Cuvilly Faculty-Student Exchange
 * RSVP**: A must for lunch, to rkruse@stevenson.edu

Yes, Stevenson, we can donate one ton of canned goods. Bring canned goods each day to the **von Paris truck**. All donations go to the Maryland Food Bank. Don't have canned goods? Bring quarters and buy a can (or two, or three) for a quarter apiece, provided by Sodexo. **We Can Thank You:** Donate just $2 to the Stuff-the-Truck Homecoming Food Drive and receive a FREE ticket to the We Can Thank You BBQ, sponsored by Sodexo on Friday, October 22, from noon to 2 p.m. at Pandini's. Enjoy pit beef, funnel cake, and music.
 * Stuff-A-Bus: Stevenson Food Drive **
 * Date:** October 21 through October 24
 * Place:** Owings Mill campus parking lot

The SU CalendarPLUS will be down on Thursday, October 21, from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. for maintenance.
 * SU Calendar Down **


 * Management Fundamentals: Interviewing and Selection **
 * Date:** Thursday, October 21
 * Time:** 8:30 a.m. to Noon
 * Place:** HR Conference Room
 * RSVP:** HR line at 443-334-2360

Professor Leroy Panek, Professor of English, McDaniel College Who Cares Who Done It? How Edgar Allan Poe Changed the Way We Look at Crime, Criminals, and Detectives
 * Brooke and Carol Peirce Visiting Scholar Series **
 * Date:** Thursday, October 21
 * Time**: Reception, 6 p.m., followed by lecture
 * Place:** St. Paul Companies Pavilion


 * Dealing with Conflict **
 * Date:** Friday, October 22
 * Time:** 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
 * Place**: Brown School of Business and Leadership, Room 300
 * RSVP**: HR line at 443-334-2360

**[|Homecoming and Family Weekend]**
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 * Date:** October 22 and 23

Invite students to learn more about careers in this field.
 * Career Exploration in Criminal Justice **
 * Date:** Tuesday, October 26
 * Time:** Noon to 2 p.m.
 * Place:** St. Paul Companies Pavilion

A faculty development research grant presentation by **Ora Freedman, Ph.D.**, Professor of Economics
 * Combatting Global Warming: Carbon Tax vs. Carbon Trading **
 * Date:** Wednesday, October 27
 * Time:** 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
 * Place:** Brown School of Business and Leadership, Room 301

A presentation by Nickolay Omelchenko, Ph.D., Dean, Philosophy Department, Volgograd State University, Volgograd, Russia. Sponsored by Sigma Theta Tau-Rho Epsilon, the nursing honor society.
 * Philosophy as Therapy for the Human Mind **
 * Date:** Wednesday, October 27
 * Time:** 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
 * Place:** St. Paul Companies Pavilion


 * Faculty Interactive Series: Idea Exchange for Incorporating Diversity Awareness in the Classroom **
 * Date:** Friday, October 29
 * Time:** 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
 * Place:** Cuvilly Faculty-Student Exchange
 * RSVP:** HR line at 443-334-2360


 * Faculty Role in Student Success: Asperger's Syndrome and Other Challenges **
 * Date:** Friday, October 29
 * Time:** 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
 * Place:** Cuvilly Faculty-Student Exchange
 * RSVP:** HR line at 443-334-2360

Open to faculty, staff, and students. Prizes for crowd favorite, best overall, scariest, best group.
 * Third Annual Halloween Costume Extravaganza **
 * Date:** Friday, October 29
 * Time:** 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
 * Place:** Quad, Greenspring
 * Info: Danna Thomas**, dthomas4971@stevenson.edu

Hey, Stevenson faculty and staff, bring your children ages 10 and under to the Owings Mills campus for Halloween fun. The free event includes a costume contest with prizes, pumpkin painting, caramel apples, games and lots of fun.
 * Community Halloween Trick-or-Treating **
 * Date:** Sunday, October 31
 * Time:** 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
 * Place:** Rockland

Student photography and art from the spring 2010 Learning Beyond trip to Italy
 * Undici Giorni **
 * Date:** Through November 20
 * Place**: St. Paul Companies Pavilion, Greenspring
 * Reception:** Wednesday, October 20, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., St. Paul Companies Pavilion

Elaborate, colorful birdhouses invite birds and fine-feathered friends ... Can you find the more than 50 birdhouses at Greenspring?
 * Home in the Valley: Functional Sculpture by Churchill Davenport **
 * Date:** August through May
 * Place:** Grounds of the Cuvilly Faculty-Student Exchange, Greenspring

**Skiers and Snowboarders** Purchase your Night Club card good at Liberty Mountain, Roundtop or Whitetail. Pick up registration forms at the Owings Mills campus athletic office or the Student Activities office. Discounted cards available until November 2 (lift is $169; lift/lesson is $214; and lift/lesson/rental is $249). After that date, cost of each increases increases $25. Questions? Contact **Carol Zimmerman**, at czimmerman@stevenson.edu