Greetings everyone,
The ALL has expanded its services to include the calculus-based physics course (PHYS 2325/2425). An updated schedule reflecting these changes is posted below. The new schedule has been posted on the JBWS 267 door for reference.
For any questions regarding the ALL and its hours of operation, please contact Richard Kopec at kopec@stedwards.edu or Weston Wilson at wwilson2@stedwards.edu.
Thanks to all who are keeping the ALL staffed and ready!
Butterfly Project Installation in JBWS last Spring.
Those of you who wandered through JBWS last Spring might have noted the multiple iterations of paper “butterflies” suspended from our staircase in the lobby. That project, led by SEU Assoc. Prof. of Art Alex Robinson, was a pilot for the “Butterfly Project” art installation at the Bullock Museum as part of the exhibit, “State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda.” I encourage you to visit the exhibition if you are able — you may even recognize some of the butterflies in the exhibit from last spring.
Here’s more info:
The Butterfly Project
Between 1942-1944, more than 15,000 children passed through the Terezin Concentration Camp. The vast majority of these children did not survive the Holocaust. Brave teachers in the camp taught art lessons to the children as a form of therapy. Some of their poetry and art, saved in suitcases and later discovered, have been published in a book titled I Never Saw Another Butterfly. The poems and pictures drawn by the young inmates of Terezin illustrate the intense emotions of these displaced children, ranging from fear, sorrow, hope, and courage.
The “Butterfly Project” at the Bob Bullock Museum consists of large fabric panels covered with thousands of uniquely colored butterflies, which will be suspended over the museum’s Grand Lobby. The butterflies were created and sent from every corner of Texas by children who were inspired by the poem The Butterfly written in 1942 by a young man imprisoned at Terezin. The butterflies represent endurance, change, hope, and life. By contributing a butterfly these youngest Texans committed to take a stand against intolerance.
Additional information about the exhibit is available at: https://www.thestoryoftexas.com/visit/exhibits/state-of-deception
The exhibit is on loan from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
See the new story on the US News rankings. In addition to our #14 ranking in the West Regional Universities, SEU has been recognized for its strong commitment to undergraduate teaching, “the foreign student factor,” “A+ Schools for B Students,” and “Best Colleges for Veterans.”
Congrats faculty, staff, and students!
Check out the new NASA “GLOBE Observer” app, available in the Apple App Store and on Google Play for Android devices. I just downloaded and will try myself. You can learn more about NASA’s GLOBE program here.
Below is an excerpt from Dr. Trena Ferrell’s email advertising a talk at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on 20 Sept. 2016 by Holli Riebeek Kohl, a NASA education and communication specialist in the Earth Science Division at NASA Goddard since 2003.
With the new GLOBE Observer app, everyone around the world can contribute meaningfully to NASA Earth Science missions…The inaugural “GLOBE Clouds” content allows users to collect data that helps scientists interpret satellite observations of clouds—a critical observation for understanding climate and climate change…Upcoming projects will have citizen scientists assisting with the monitoring of land cover and mosquito populations, and the GLOBE Observer team is looking for science advisors to provide input.
If you download the app and use it, perhaps you can add a comment in response to this post describing your experience.
The era of citizen science is arriving!
GM
The National Science Foundation has awarded St. Edward’s University a supplemental award to the Community for Achievement in Science, Academics, and Research (CASAR) grant of $9,346. This brings the total CASAR award up to $599,867 through the life of the grant, which ends on July 31, 2017.
This supplemental award aims to support additional assessment activities for CASAR, which is under the direction of Drs. Richard Kopec, Lisa Goering, Charles Hauser, Michael Saclolo, Mary Kopecki-Fjetland and Michael Kart. For more information on this award, as well as other awards issued to SEU, please visit http://think.stedwards.edu/sponsoredprograms/grants.
Please join the Kozmetsky Center for our semester opening event on Monday, September 12 at 12:00 noon in the Mabee Ballroom A welcoming Dr. Volodymyr Dubovyk, Visiting Senior Fulbright Scholar at St. Edward’s University for the 2016-2017 academic year. Please encourage your students and your classes to attend. For additional details, please see:
http://think.stedwards.edu/kozmetsky/upcoming-events-and-projects-2016
Dr. Dubovyk is Associate Professor of International Relations and Director of the Center for International Studies at Odessa National University in Odessa Ukraine. Dr. Dubovyk will be offering a senior seminar course for Global Studies and Political Science in Spring 2017, and the Kozmetsky
Center is honored to feature Professor Dubovyk’s first lecture event in Austin on Monday September 12 in Mabee Ballroom A at 12:00 noon-1:00 PM entitled “Ukraine’s Political & Economic Challenges: National and International Prospects.” Please join us in welcoming Professor Dubovyk to St. Edward’s University!
Sharyl Cross, PhD
Director, Kozmetsky Center &
Global Policy Fellow, Kennan Institute Wilson Center
You might have noticed the bright gold box between Andre Hall and the Munday Library. That box is a Shared Studios portal — a technologically decked-out space that can transport you to meet with someone or a group of people in countries around the world. “Take On Your World” St. Edward’s University.
You can read more about the Portal in my prior post here.
To make a reservation for your journey, visit the Shared Studies Reservation WebSite for St. Edward’s University.
The “Book a Time” link will take you to a calendar view where you can click on a posted time and RSVP. The times currently on the calendar are just the beginning and more times will be added as the schedule gets built out.
Here are some links to stories to learn more about the Portal:
Tweet about your experience in the portal: @sharedstudios, @stedwardsu and use the hash tag: #SEUPortal.
The Portal has been brought to you by the Office of Information Technology (OIT), Instructional Technology, the Global Engagement Office (GEO), the School of Humanities, the School of Natural Sciences, Facilities Management, St. Edward’s University, and Shared Studios.
Dear colleagues and students,
A reminder to students that if you did research ANYWHERE this past summer and would like to present a poster on that work as part of the student poster session following this year’s Lucian Symposium (Friday, 23 September), here are the deadlines:
If you have not already done so, submit title, author list, and abstract to NSCIdean@stedwards.edu by 5 pm on Friday, 09 Sept.
This year, we are using Spoonflower to print fabric posters for each student so we will need extra time to allow for the print process. Submit your poster print request in .PDF format ASAP but absolutely no later than 10 am on Monday, 12 September. Submit your requests to nscidean@stedwards.edu.
Each student may have ONE poster printed by the School of Natural Sciences each academic year. Additional poster printing should be paid for by research grant accounts as appropriate. Students should use the poster they print for all appropriate conference presentations during the 2016 – 2017 academic year.
NOTE: posters submitted after 10 am on Monday, 12 Sept. will not be printed by the School of Natural Sciences. I recommend that if you need to print your poster after that date, please look for poster printing services at local area businesses (e.g., FedEx/Kinkos).
We are asking students to hang their posters by 1 pm on Thursday, 22 Sept. That afternoon, the School of Natural Sciences Advisory Board will meet. Members of the board often enjoy reading through student posters. They will have time to do so after their meeting concludes around 4:30 pm that afternoon.
We ask students to take their posters down by 5 pm on Friday, 23 Sept.
We ask students to plan to be at their posters for some portion of the time period 1:00 – 3:00 pm on Friday, 23 September. It is not necessary to stand at your poster for the entire period of time, but do commit to spending some portion of that period of time at your poster if at all possible.
Last year’s event was a tremendous success, and with our prestigious visitors on campus (both for the Advisory Board meeting and for the Lucian Symposium), we have a great opportunity to share what our students have been doing in the area of research and the successes you all are having in advancing the frontiers of science.
Remember, it is not essential that the research occurred at St. Edward’s— any REU or other university research program at which you did research this summer is eligible for a printing of one poster.
Finally – if you were a recipient of a Brother Romard research grant this past summer, the expectation is that you will print out and present a poster at this event.
If you have any questions, please contact NSCIdean@stedwards.edu.
Looking forward to another great student research poster session.
Downtown Camera view of sunset, 24 August 2016.
Enjoy the sunset captured by our St. Edward’s University downtown and sky cameras! Click on each image to watch the movies!
View the live shots: downtown and all sky, or visit the archive of images and make your own movies.
View of 24 August 2016 sunset in Austin from the St. Edward’s Skycam. North is to the lower left in the picture.
The Tropospheric Ozone Pollution Project (TOPP) team conducted its third successful balloon flight from campus on Wed., 24 August 2016. The flight lifted off around 1:40 pm CDT from in front of the Mary Moody Northen Theatre.
Funding for this research comes from the Capital Area Council of Governments (CAPCOG) with additional support from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ).
Below is a plot of the ozone profile data. You can see the ozone layer near 25 km altitude. Also is a Google Map of the balloon flight trajectory. Finders receive a $30 reward for returning instruments to us at St. Edward’s. Contact us for details.
Ozone (blue) and temperature (red) profiles for weather balloon flight on Wed., 24 August 2016.
Google Earth image of flight path for AT003 — a weather balloon launched from St. Edward’s on Wed., 24 August 2016.