Meeting of QC team working on ePortfolios models with Dean Bret Eynon of LaGuardia Community College

The annual 2008 Queens College faculty and staff assembly will take place on Thursday, October 16. It will be followed by a reception.

Place: LeFrak Concert Hall and Atrium
Time: 3:30 p.m.

Speaker: Hilary Chute

A lecture sponsored by the English Department and Writing Across the Curriculum

Hillary Chute is a Junior Fellow in literature in the Harvard Society of Fellows. She earned her Ph.D at Rutgers University, where she developed the university's first courses in studying contemporary graphic narrative. She is currently writing a book about nonfiction graphic narratives by women. She is also working with Art Spiegelman as Associate Editor of his book project MetaMaus (about his Pulitzer-Prize winning graphic narrative Maus), which will be published by Pantheon in 2009. Her essays have appeared in Mfs: Modern Fiction Studies (where she also co-edited a 2006 special issue on "Graphic Narrative"), Twentieth-Century
Literature, American Periodicals, Women's Studies Quarterly, Literature and Medicine, Postmodern Culture, and PMLA. For many years she has also been a freelance journalist, writing about books and music for venues such as the Village Voice, Time Out New York, and The Believer.

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Location: President's Conference Rooms, Rosenthal Library
Time: 3-5 PM (including a reception)

The 3rd Annual Educational Technology day will be held from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm in the Patio Room, Dining Hall. Topics include the state of technology at Queens, the new version of Blackboard coming in Spring 2009, and more.

Be sure to attend the presentation on ePortfolios. Time TBA.

Breakfast and lunch are included with free registration. Click here to register.

Time: 8:30 am - 4:00 pm
Location: Patio Room, Dining Hall

Speaker: Martin Braun

Marty Braun -- Director, Freshman Year Initiative and instructor, Math Department -- will be presenting on Good teaching practices: "John von Neuman meets Henry VIII."

We'll also discuss what folks would like to discuss / hear about next semester.

Time: 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Location: Razran 318

Light refreshments will be served.

If you plan to attend, please RSVP by e-mailing cecilia.britez@qc.cuny.edu

CTL is pleased to help spread the news about a presentation being given by the Seniors in the School of Earth and Environmental Science Capstone class in Environmental Problem Solving (ENSCI 373), taught by George Hendrey.

Location: Science Building (across from the Library) C207
Time: 11am - 12noon

Refreshments and reception to follow.

Download the flyer here.

Contact george.hendrey@qc.cuny.edu with questions or if you are interested in a copy of the student report.

The annual 2009 Queens College faculty and staff assembly will take place on Wednesday, October 21. It will be followed by a reception.

Place: Lefrak Concert Hall and Atrium (Music Building)
Time: 3:30 p.m.

You are invited to a free screening of a documentary on copyright issues in the 21st century.

Location: Razran 318
Time: Free hour (12:15-1:30pm)

The English Department and Writing Across the Curriculum are co-sponsoring this event.

Can you own a sound? As hip-hop rose from the streets of New York to become a multibillion-dollar industry, artists such as Public Enemy and De La Soul began reusing parts of previously recorded music for their songs. But when record company lawyers got involved everything changed. Years before people started downloading and remixing music, hip-hop sampling sparked a debate about copyright, creativity and technological change that still rages today.

All are welcome. However, please note that space is limited.

The 4th Annual Educational Technology day will be held from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm in the Patio Room, Dining Hall.

Breakfast and lunch are included with free registration. Click here to register.

Time: 8:30 am - 4:00 pm
Location: Patio Room, Dining Hall