Alfred University's Daily Announcements - AURA

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Monday, October 5, 2015

In This Issue

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Official News

· Open Enrollment for Non-Statutory and University Wide Benefits

· Updated McLane Fitness Center User Policies

· Pool Closing for Mid-Term Break

· 2016-17 Tuition Exchange Application Deadline is Oct. 15, 2015 General Announcements

· Stop the Flu, Before the Flu Stops You!

· Course/Travel Opportunity to Italy, Germany Information Session

· Mevlana Dervishes Performance

· Bergren Forum 'Putin's Russia'

· Student Senate Minutes 09.30.2015

· Lecture: What Style Is My House?

· Diabetes Prevention Program

· Chi Peng and Yao Lu Visiting Artist Lectures

· Sherlock Holmes Sampler - Basil Rathbone: 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'

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TODAY

4:00 JV Football Home vs.

Brockport 4:30 Florence

TOMORROW 12:20 Smart Social Media 5:30 Course/Travel

Opportunity to Italy and Germany Information Session 6:00 Chi Peng and Yao Lu

Visiting Artist Lectures 7:00 Women's Soccer

Home vs. Nazareth Men's Soccer @ Fredonia

8:30 International Folk Dancing

WEDNESDAY 10:00 O Pioneers! Women

Ceramic Artists, 1925- 1960

Walk-In Hours - Career Development Center 12:20 Becoming a Leader in

the Workplace 5:15 Renewable Energy

Engineering Society Meeting

Open Enrollment for Non-Statutory and University Wide Benefits

Open enrollment for all non-statutory health benefits and for all University-wide benefits (Life, Accident and Vision) will be held from Monday, Oct. 19, 2015 through Friday, Nov. 6, 2015 for changes to take effect Jan. 1, 2016.

In order to comply with the Affordable Care Act you must complete an enrollment form or provide an affirmative waiver, providing a reason, if you do not wish to participate in a health plan. We will not be able to automatically enroll you in your current plan if you do not fill out and return a form and you may be subject to tax penalties for failure to maintain insurance.

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All flexible spending accounts must also be re-enrolled to continue that benefit for 2016.

Enrollment Materials will be emailed to all eligible employees with an AU email address or will receive a hard copy for those without University email as soon as the materials are available.

Please do not hesitate to contact the Human Resources Office if you have any questions or if we can assist in any manner.

Submitted by: Mark Guinan

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Updated McLane Fitness Center User Policies

Please see attached Fitness Center Policies which will be effective starting Wednesday, 10/14 Attachment: Fitness_Center_User_Policies.pdf

Submitted by: Tony Aquilina

Pool Closing for Mid-Term Break

The pool will be closed for mid-term break following the 11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m .swim on Friday, Oct. 9 and will resume regular hours on Wednesday, Oct. 14.

Submitted by: Brian Striker

2016-17 Tuition Exchange Application Deadline is Oct. 15, 2015

Faculty and Staff - the Tuition Exchange Export Application deadline is Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015. If your child is planning to begin college (or transfer to another college) next year, 2016-17, you may wish to explore the schools participating in the Tuition Exchange (TE) Program. RENEWAL TE Export

applications are also subject to the deadline of 10/15/15.

Please read the attached TE Information Memo for application procedures and details on the program.

Two application forms are required; specifically, the AU TE Export Application and the AU Human Resource (HR) TR/TE form (links and attachments, herewith).

Link: AU HR TR/TE Application

Attachment: TE Information Memo for Campus Community Attachment: AU 2016-17 TE Export Application

Submitted by: Catherine Schnurle

Stop the Flu, Before the Flu Stops You!

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Don't let the Flu get you down this school year.

The Wellness Center is holding Flu Clinics for students on the following days:

10/6: 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. in 305 Powell Campus Center 10/8: 3-5 p.m. in McLane near training room

10/15: 3-5 p.m. in McLane near training room 10/20: 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. in Ade Dining Hall

Submitted by: Amanda Khodorkovskaya

Course/Travel Opportunity to Italy, Germany Information Session

For students and faculty who may be interested in spring courses including a 13-day visit to Italy and Germany there will be an information session:

When: Tuesday, Oct. 6, at 5:30 P.M.

Where: Kanakadea Hall Rm 105

The trip, from May 30 to June 11, 2016, is a short course, part of two separate courses to be offered next semester. The courses: a History of Fascism (2 credits) to be taught by Prof. Chris Churchill, and a History of World War II (2 credits) taught by Prof. Gary Ostrower.

The trip will include visits to Rome, Florence, Bologna, and Munich. It will also include visits to Regensberg, Berchtesgaden (site of Hitler's mountain headquarters), and Dachau and Flossenberg concentration camps.

Students and faculty can travel even if they do not register for the course(s).

Submitted by: Deborah Clark

Mevlana Dervishes Performance

Please come and enjoy a genuine first for Alfred: the music, dance, and ceremony of the Mevlevi Order whirling dervishes from Konya, Turkey.

They will share their culture with us on Sunday, Oct. 18 at 7 p.m. in the Miller Performing Arts Center, thanks to the support of the Division of Performing Arts.

Free and open to the public.

Submitted by: Jeff Sluyter-Beltrao

Bergren Forum 'Putin's Russia'

The Bergren Forum sponsored by the Division of Human Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the Provost's Office will be meeting at 12:10 P.M. on Thursday, Oct. 8 in the Nevins Theater, Powell Campus Center.

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Bring a brown bag lunch; coffee and tea will be provided.

Speaker: Charley Edmondson Topic: "Putin's Russia"

Submitted by: Marilyn Saxton

Student Senate Minutes 09.30.2015

Here are the minutes from the last meeting! Have a great week, everyone.

Attachment: Minutes_9.30.2015.pdf Submitted by: Student Senate

Lecture: What Style Is My House?

Speaker: Craig Braack, Allegany County Historian Tuesday, Oct. 6 at 7 p.m.

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

Our area has a multitude of homes, dating from simple pioneer lodgings to elegant European stylings.

Craig will present this architectural identification program tracing the history of the many styles of homes in our area.

Homework: As you travel around our community, pay attention to the wide variety of housing in the area.

This library-sponsored lecture is free and open to the general public.

Diabetes Prevention Program Cuba Cultural Center

38 E. Main St., Cuba

Tuesday's: Oct 13, 2015 - Feb. 16, 2016 6-7 p.m.

FREE

Ardent Solutions, in conjunction with the Cuba Cultural Center is sponsoring a Diabetes Prevention Program for anyone 18 years of age or older, at-risk or diagnosed with pre-diabetes.

The free program will begin Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015. The sessions will run from 6-7 p.m. and continue for 16 weeks, on Tuesday's through Feb. 16, 2016, at the Cuba Cultural Center, 38 E. Main St., Cuba.

To register, please call Melissa Biddle, Community Health Program Manager with Ardent Solutions, Inc.

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at 585.593.5223, ext. 15, prior to Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015.

Chi Peng and Yao Lu Visiting Artist Lectures Two Contemporary Chinese Digital Print/Photographers Date: Tuesday, Oct. 6

Time: 6 p.m.

Location: Nevins Theater, Powell Campus Center Cost to Attend Event: free

Sponsored by: Division of Expanded Media, The Institute for Electronic Arts, and The Fosdick Nelson Gallery

Two of China's most important contemporary digital print/photographers, Chi Peng and Yao Lu, will be visiting the Institute for Electronic Arts at the School of Art and Design over the week of Oct. 5.

International exhibiting artist Chi Peng's work is currently part of Typology/Morphology exhibit that is on display in the Fosdick Nelson Gallery. Professor Yao Lu is the Chair of the Department of

Photography at the Central Academy of Art in Beijing and is regarded as one of the most important photographers in China today.

Support for the IEA has come from the School of Art and Design, donations from individuals, private industry and grants from foundations and government art funding agencies, including the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Submitted by: Shelly Grant

Sherlock Holmes Sampler - Basil Rathbone: 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' Monday, Oct. 5 at 6:45 p.m.

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

Join us for a series of three Sherlock Holmes films - all with different actors portraying the sleuth! The first will be Basil Rathbone in his first appearance as Holmes. Unexplained murders take place at a mysterious mansion on the moors in this film based closely to the novel by Arthur Conan Doyle. Other actors in this film include Nigel Bruce, Richard Greene, Wendy Barrie, and John Carradine.

We'll see Sherlock Holmes films starring Robert Downey Jr. and Benedict Cumberbatch later in October and early November. Join us for ALL of them!

This library-sponsored film is free and open to the general public.

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