November+2010

====Thanks for making Stevenson's [|Homecoming + Family Weekend a great success.] Kudos to all the folks who planned, organized, and managed the many events.==== ====Did you know that Stevenson has a time capsule? It was placed in the new gymnasium during Homecoming and will be opened in 2047. Look for the time capsule location in the gym lobby.====
 * November 2010**


 * Check It Out**
 * ====SU WikiBox Home====
 * ====Stevenson's United Way Campaign====
 * ====Ravens Spirit Day====
 * ====What's New in Student Activities?====
 * ====[|Stadium Cam]====
 * ====Battle of the Bulge - Why participate?====
 * ====Stevenson LIVE: Videos of events at Stevenson====
 * ====[|Teaching with Technology]: Using technology to connect with students? Enter to win $1000====
 * ====Student Activities: Find out what's happening in Student Activities right now.====
 * ====Deer ALERT====
 * ====New Traffic Law====
 * ====New - The Rock Fitness Center====
 * ====NEW - Who's Who Nomination Form - December 2010 - print out form here====

**Resources**

 * ====Important Phone Numbers and Links====
 * ====News from the Academic Link====
 * Test Taking Help from the Academic Link- Share with Students
 * ====New Driving and Cell Phone Law====
 * ====Art Effects: See Art in the Valley====
 * ====French and Spanish Informal Conversation: Fluent or a little rusty? Stop by and share your language skills.====

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 $25. Questions? Contact **Carol Zimmerman**, at czimmerman@stevenson.edu

A presentation by **Bonnie Kuncl**, Adjunct Professor of Education.
 * The Use of the SMART Classroom **
 * Date**: Tuesday, November 2
 * Time**: 12:20 p.m. to 1:20 p.m.
 * Place**: Dawson Center, Room 309
 * RSVP**: **Ruth Smith**, 443-334-2689 or rsmith128@stevenson.edu

The Maryland Insurance Administration will be here to answer questions about insurance. No sales. Just info.
 * Got Insurance Questions? **
 * Date:** Wednesday, November 3
 * Time:** 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
 * Place:** Cafeteria, Greenspring

Join the discussion to share teaching approaches and how to measure student outcomes within the Learning for Living initiative. How do you incorporate self-reflection and or globalism into our courses and how do you assess the outcome? Learning for Living initiative
 * Learning for Living: Dialogues for Learning Forum **
 * Next session:** Wednesday, November 3; topic: Self, Societies and the Natural World
 * Time:** Noon, pizza lunch provided
 * Place:** Cuvilly Faculty-Student Exchange
 * RSVP**: A must for lunch, to rkruse@stevenson.edu

Hear artist Carol Miller Frost explain her nuanced and dramatic monumental paintings.
 * Body Work - Art Talk **
 * Date:** Wednesday, November 3
 * Time:** Noon
 * Place:** Gallery

Stay up-to-date about what's new in Faculty Council.
 * Faculty Council Meeting **
 * Date:** Friday, November 5
 * Time:** 12:15 p.m.
 * Place:** Cuvilly Faculty-Student Exchange

For students who are considering graduate school ... a valuable Graduate School Symposium, held in conjunction with the Maryland Career Consortium of Baltimore colleges and universities.
 * Grad School 101 **
 * Date:** Monday, November 8
 * Time:** 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
 * Place:** Rockland Center
 * Register:** Two ways, call 443-352-4121, or click [|here].


 * General Safety and Hazard Communication Training **
 * Date:** Tuesday, November 9
 * Time:** 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
 * Place:** HR conference room
 * RSVP:** HR line, 443-334-2360

Planning to apply for promotion or sabbatical? Receive advice about your promotion portfolio, materials to include, evaluation criteria, sabbatical application and requirements, and more -- from people who have been though the process. **Note that attendance is required for faculty members who are planning to apply for promotion.**
 * Faculty Promotion and Sabbatical Workshop **
 * Date:** Tuesday, November 9
 * Time:** Noon to 1 p.m.
 * Place:** Dawson Center, Room 315
 * RSVP:** rkruse@stevenson.edu

Hear William Anderson, CEO, Oculis Labs, discuss entrepreneurship from his perspective as the founder of Oculis Labs (2007), built to develop a software solution that would protect computer displays from eavesdroppers and electronic threats. With 17 years in the security industry, Anderson holds a bachelor's and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering, specialization: cryptology. This talk is presented through a grant from T. Rowe Price and is co-sponsored by the Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore. Refreshments, too.
 * Entrepreneurship is Not for the Faint of Heart **
 * Date:** Tuesday, November 9
 * Time:** 1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.
 * Place:** Brown School of Business and Leadership, Pugh Courtroom

Hear Jayne Miller, WBAL-TV consumer advocate, during this annual lecture.
 * Third Annual Shapiro/Rouse Lecture in Business Communication **
 * Date:** Tuesday, November 9
 * Time:** 7 p.m.
 * Place:** Rockland Center

Learn what it means to be a vegetarian and vegan and how healthy eating benefits the Earth and the body. Free food, free recipes, great info.
 * Healthy Body, Healthy Earth**
 * Date:** Wednesday, November 10
 * Time:** 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
 * Place:** Manuszak Center

Yes or no to public prayer? The question is a mighty one and an interdisciplinary panel will weigh in with perspectives. Join the School of Humanities and Social Sciences to help shape a collective understanding of the role of prayer in public. Panelists include **Ebenezer Afful, M.Div.**, Associate Professor of Religion; **Cheryl Hinton**, Director of Multicultural Affairs; **Joseph Marshall, Ph.D**., Assistant Professor of English; **Justin Poe**, student; and **Melanie Snyder, J.D.**, Associate Professor of Law. Refreshments, too.(click on the link for the complete flier)
 * Sect and Secularity: The Propriety of Public Prayer **
 * Date:** Wednesday, November 10
 * Time:** 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
 * Place:** St. Paul Companies Pavilion

It's vampires in the valley as Stevenson welcomes the fall production, "Dracula: A New Stage Version." This close adaptation of Bram Stoker's original novel offers thrills, chills, and a classic plot. Not-to-be-missed.
 * DRACULA: A New Stage Version **
 * Date:** November 11 - 13, 17 - 20 at 8 p.m.; November 14 at 2 p.m.
 * Place:** Inscape Theatre
 * Cost:** $10, general admission; $6, students and seniors; $5, SU students with ID

See how a pile of blocks can become something so much more during this annual freshman challenge.
 * Lego Challenge **
 * Date**: Friday, November 12
 * Time**: 10 a.m. to Noon
 * Place:** Greenspring gymnasium


 * __Spectrum Literary and Arts Magazine__**
 * Submissions due:** Monday, November 15
 * Send to**: achandler@stevenson.edu


 * Financial Planning: Individual Sessions with TIAA-Cref **
 * Date:** Tuesday, November 16
 * Time:** Schedule your session between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.
 * Place:** HR conference room
 * RSVP**: Call the HR line, 443-334-2360

For students considering an in-demand accelerated bachelor's degree or master's degree, the evening includes a chance to talk with faculty, current students, and admissions advisors.
 * Networking for Knowledge **
 * Date:** Tuesday, November 16
 * Time:** 6 p.m., reception
 * Place:** Rockland Center
 * RSVP:** Register online at [|accelerate.stevenson.edu]

Commit to quit for one day, one week, one month, for life. Smokers: Pick up an X-pack and goodies to help you quit for the day. Information about tobacco use prevention, including free smoking cessation materials, will be available.
 * Great American Smoke Out, sponsored by the Wellness Center **
 * Date:** Wednesday, November 17
 * Time:** 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
 * Place:** Manuszak Center

** Learning for Living: Dialogues for Learning Forum - __Postponed__ **
Join the discussion to share teaching approaches and how to measure student outcomes within the Learning for Living initiative. How do you incorporate self-reflection and or globalism into our courses and how do you assess the outcome? Learning for Living initiative
 * Date:** Wednesday, November 17; topic: Lifelong learning/Career Readiness
 * Time:** Noon, pizza lunch provided
 * Place:** Cuvilly Faculty-Student Exchange
 * RSVP**: A must for lunch, to rkruse@stevenson.edu

Internationally renowned astrophysicist and author Mario Livio, Ph.D., will discuss his work in mathematics, including his recent book, "Is God A Mathematician?" and offer a lively perspective about whether mathematics was invented or discovered. The talk was initially planned by the late Susan Palmer Slattery, Ph.D., and is now being held as the first of what will be an annual lecture.
 * Susan Palmer Slattery Inaugural Lecture **
 * Date:** Wednesday, November 17
 * Time:** 4 p.m., reception; 4:30 p.m., program
 * Place:** Rockland Center

Try it out. Learn more. Enjoy light refreshments.
 * Menning Meditation Center Open House **
 * Date:** Thursday, November 18
 * Time:** 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
 * Place:** Menning Meditation Center


 * Faculty Interactive Series: Idea Exchange for Grading Class Presentations **
 * Date:** Friday, November 19
 * Time:** 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
 * Place:** Cuvilly Faculty-Student Exchange
 * RSVP:** HR line, 443-334-2360


 * Faculty Role in Student Success: Helping High Risk (Distressed or Disruptive) Students **
 * Date:** Friday, November 19
 * Time:** 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
 * Place:** Cuvilly Faculty-Student Exchange
 * RSVP:** HR line, 443-334-2360


 * Developing Your Creativity **
 * Date:** Tuesday, November 23
 * Time:** 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
 * Place:** HR Conference Room
 * RSVP:** HR line, 443-334-2360

**New York City, Here We Come** Annual trip to see the sights, explore the city, and take a bite out of the Big Apple.
 * Date:** Friday, December 3
 * Time**: Leave 7:45 a.m.; return 11 p.m.
 * Place:** Leave and return from Rockland Center
 * Info:** Student Activities, 443-352-4302