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February Newsletter
Here's what's on tap this week, plus some upcoming dates and deadlines. If you're interested in current research on student perceptions of faculty responsibility; if you need a productivity pep talk; or if you're struggling with students distracted by their phones, keep on scrolling to the bottom!No Tuesday Soup this week
Watch for its return next week, after pre-enrollment fever has broken. In the meantime, do try to carve out some time for . . .This Thursday:
Lunch and Learn from CIL: Supporting DACA/Undocumented, Immigrant and Refugee Students at Knox 12 - 1 pm, Ferris Lounge Tanya Cabrera is currently the Associate Director for Equity and Inclusion in the Office of Diversity at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She will present information regarding the needs and challenges that DACA/undocumented, immigrant and refugee students experience in their personal and academic lives. Feel free to bring your lunch.Upcoming Fridays at Four
A venerated Knox tradition: come have refreshments and hear your colleagues talk about their work. The talks are non-technical; the atmosphere is relaxed. In all cases, refreshments start at 4; the talk starts at 4:15.- Friday, March 2: Beauty in the Brain: Visual Mate Choice in Songbirds (Jennifer Templeton and Jim Mountjoy, Biology): SMC E117.
Mate choice plays an important role in driving the evolution of beautiful plumage in birds as well as many other elaborate traits, and it has been studied extensively for many years. But what are the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying such mate assessment and choice? Jim Mountjoy and Jennifer Templeton address this question in an informal presentation of their collaborative research on visual mate choice lateralization in some beautiful birds, and their efforts to determine what regions of the brain are used for this complex task.
- Friday, April 6: Recherche/исследование/Nanda-gikende: Language Study as an Aid to Research (Toni Prado, Spanish; Emre Sencer, History; Cate Denial, History). Old Main 100 (Alumni Room).
- Friday April 20: Lynette Lombard and Tony Gant, Art
CoFR deadlines
- Funding proposals for research and creative work for the rest of the academic year should ideally have been submitted by February 2 in order to be considered this term, but your colleagues on CoFR are benevolent. Nonetheless, sooner is better. More information, and the application, here.
- Funding proposals for research and creative work for Summer 2018 should be submitted by April 13 to be given full consideration. More information, and the application, here.Don't hesitate to contact Mary at facultydevelopment@knox.edu with questions about what might be fundable--especially if you haven't requested money before. It doesn't hurt to ask!
- Requests for Mellon Faculty Career Enhancement grants are considered on a rolling basis, but should be submitted as far in advance as possible, and preferably no later than April 13. Information on the various types of grants and how to apply can be found here. Don't hesitate to contact Mary at facultydevelopment@knox.edu with questions about what might be fundable.
- Conference travel through June 30 (first conference of the fiscal year): Find more information and an application form here; please apply no later than March 1.
- Supplemental allocation for conference travel through June 30: Please use the CTA form linked above (ignore the automatic award amount) or email Mary at facultydevelopment@knox.edu with the information about the second conference. CoFR will make decisions about supplemental CTAs by mid to late March.
- Conference travel after June 30: Use this year's CTA form (linked above) for now. A new form will be rolling out this spring.
ACM FaCE pre-proposals due February 23
Please see the attached call for pre-proposals for more information. Faculty interested in submitting a pre-proposal should do so by responding to the prompts included in the Call through the ACM’s online project portal (which should now be working!) at projects.acm.edu. If you have questions or would like to discuss an idea you are considering, please contact Brian Williams bwilliams@ACM.edu) or Ed Finn (efinn@ACM.edu).Food for thought from around the Web
- From Stanford University's excellent newsletter Tomorrow's Professor:
- Student's Definitions of the College Classroom (research on student perceptions of student and faculty responsibilities in the classroom)
- What's Holding You Back (in Your Research and Writing)? (a pep talk from Kerry Ann Rockquemore, president of the National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity)
- From the Chronicle last summer: James Lang on The Distracted Classroom: Transparency, Autonomy, and Pedagogy