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Friday, February 8, 2013

In This Issue

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Official News

· Alfred Fire Dept. Drill on Campus Sunday General Announcements

· Lyceum Meeting Today at 4 in Kanakadea

· Fact of the Day

· One Swipe Cafe is Back!

· Singing Valentines

· AU Faculty Research Mentor Award

· Studio Visits: James Voohies

· Relay for Life in Need of Help

· Blood Drive Results

· Classic Movie - Suspense Series: 'Vertigo' (1958)

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TODAY

9:00 3-D Ceramic Printing Workshop

3:00 ICU Friday: A History fo Diversity at Alfred 4:30 ’New Morphologies’

Curators' Gallery Talk 6:00 2/8/13 - M/W Basketball

HOME vs. Nazareth - 6

& 8pm

One Swipe Cafe:

That's Amore Dinner and Dance

8:00 Film: Twilight: ’Breaking Dawn Part 2’

TOMORROW 9:00 3-D Ceramic Printing

Workshop Yoga Workshop 10:00 Visit us on a Saturday 2:00 2/9/13 M/W Basketball

AWAY @ Houghton - 2

& 4pm

5:00 Chinese New Year Celebration-- Best Wishes

10:00 Hip Hop Double Feature: Flatbush Zombies with Ratking Music: Flatbush Zombies

SUNDAY 8:00 Club Volleyball

Alfred Fire Dept. Drill on Campus Sunday

Please be aware that this Sunday, Feb. 10, the Alfred Fire Department will be conducting a "search and rescues, mass casualty" drill in one of the lower Pine Hill suites on campus. Activity will begin about 1:30 p.m. You should plan to stay away from this area during this training drill and until you see the activity cleared away. Thank you for your support.

Submitted by: Deborah Clark

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Lyceum Meeting Today at 4 in Kanakadea Come join our discussion! New Members always welcome!

Today's topic is: How necessary is human population control and is there an ethical way to accomplish it?

Submitted by: Jennifer Futterman

Fact of the Day

Use "to-do" lists to help you focus on your most important tasks, and approach big tasks one step at a time to help fight stress.

Submitted by: Kimberly O'Rourke

One Swipe Cafe is Back!

Enjoy a night of dinner and dancing in the Knight Club on Friday, Feb. 8 from 6-8:30 p.m. during the

"That's Amore" dinner. Note: Powell will close at 4:30 p.m. on Friday and meal swipes will be accepted for this dinner.

Submitted by: John Dietrich

Singing Valentines

Imagine a vocal quartet serenading your sweetie with the words "When I fall in love, it will be

forever..." The AU Chamber Singers will sing to your sweetheart this Valentine's Day. Valentines can be purchased from a member of the group at Ade Hall and Powell between the hours of 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. right up until THE day! Or you can contact Abby Schmeichel [email protected] or Jacki Tomisman [email protected].

Singing Valentines are $10 live, $5 pre-recorded and sent over the phone, or $15 for a live performance with a single red rose!

Treat that someone special to a unique message of love!

Submitted by: Luanne Crosby

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AU Faculty Research Mentor Award

Provost Bill Hall is pleased to announce the establishment of the Alfred University Faculty Research Mentor Award.

The University intends to acknowledge and reward faculty who are outstanding undergraduate research and scholarly activity mentors across the campus, i.e., those individuals who are outstanding mentors to students engaged in research or scholarly activity and are actively engaged in being research/visual-performing artists themselves.

One award each year in the following categories: physical and life sciences, undergraduate engineering, social sciences, humanities, visual and performing arts, and professional studies.

The award in the amount of $500 of faculty development money will be presented at the Honors Convocation on April 26, 2013. The nomination period for this award is Feb. 1 through Feb. 22, 2013;

nominations are to be sent to the Awards Committee at [email protected]. The attached document explains in detail the process and selection of the award.

Attachment: Descrption Faculty Research Mentor Award Submitted by: Cheryl Monroe

Studio Visits: James Voohies STUDIO VISITS - James Voorhies Date: Wednesday, Feb. 13 Time: 9 - 11 A.M.

Location: Nevins Theater Cost to Attend: Free Sponsored By: Foundations

Please join us Wednesday, Feb. 13 at 9 a.m. for STUDIO Visits. This week our guest will be James Voorhies. He is an American curator, art historian and educator, currently based in Berlin.

He holds a Ph.D. in modern and contemporary art history and is founder of Bureau for Open Culture, an itinerant curatorial and artistic initiative that utilizes exhibition, education, design, communication and publishing to position the art institution as an overall form of critical practice.

Check out his website here: http://bureauforopencultu...

Studio Visits is a live lecture and talk show at Alfred University that brings artists and thinkers to the Nevins stage Wednesdays at 9 am. First, the guest presents their work in a lecture format and then intermission! When the audience returns, the stage is transformed into a talk show set.

Studio Visits is recorded live and the segments are available the blog at http://austudiovisits.wor...

Studio Visits is a project of the Foundation and Sculpture Graduate Programs of the School of Art and Design at Alfred University. It's headed by professors M. Michelle Illuminato and Brett Hunter.

Submitted by: Shelly Grant

Relay for Life in Need of Help

This is Rick, the president of the Relay for Life committee and we're having lots of trouble with membership to the point that there may not be a relay this year.

To attempt to combat this, we're having meetings Thursdays at 7 p.m. at the SOS suite. Unfortunately,

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we planned on having pizza, but we couldn't get the funding for it because we have no treasurer at the moment. Please come and help save the Relay for Life club.

Submitted by: Richard Lopez

Blood Drive Results

Our most recent blood drive had 96 donations, and 11 of them were double reds! Of all donors surveyed, 81% took an hour or less to donate, and all surveyed said they would donate again!

Thank you for taking the time to make a difference!

Submitted by: Leanne Combs

Classic Movie - Suspense Series: 'Vertigo' (1958) Monday, Feb. 11 at 6:45 p.m.

Nancy Howe Auditorium David A. Howe Public Library 155 N. Main St., Wellsville 585-593-3410

A retired police detective, who has a fear of heights, is hired by a friend to keep an eye on his wife.

This Hitchcock film is considered by many one of the best films ever made. Stars include James Stewart and Kim Novak.

This is the second in a series of three suspense films presented at the Howe Auditorium in February.

The third film, "The Sixth Sense," will be shown on Monday, Feb. 25 at 6:45 p.m.

The library-sponsored movie is free and open to the general public.

Submitted by: Deborah Clark