14-18 – Final Examinations
22 – Term Final Grades Due (5 p.m., 4 p.m. if through KSOL)
5 – Deadline to submit course and curriculum changes to be considered at February 4 Arts & Sciences Faculty meeting
15 – New Student Orientation & Enrollment
19 – Classes begin
25 – Last day to add a course without instructor permission
It’s not always easy to catch everything that’s happening in our college on K-State Today. Here are a collection of stories of things that made headlines in our college over the last few weeks:
Anthropology student receives Marshall Scholarship to study food systems, social sustainability
19 ArtSci Faculty Receive Development Awards and University Small Research Grants
Choir students perform in Carnegie Hall
ArtSci alumnae one of two selected to receive 2016 Distinguished Young Alumni award
Dorhout named Kansas State University’s interim vice president for research
Provost names search committee for interim dean of College of Arts & Sciences
Ohno family donates famed glassblower’s journals to K-State Libraries
Bryan Pinkall nominated for two Grammys
Five ArtSci students learn from summer opportunities with Chapman Scholarships
Psychological sciences department among best according to SuccessfulStudent
The goal of this eNewsletter is to be helpful and relevant to you, our ArtSci faculty and staff. If there is something we missed or should include in future issues, email your suggestions and feedback to Tom Roesler at troz@k-state.edu.
Colleagues,
Thanksgiving break is soon upon us. How remarkably fast the semester has gone! Each year for the past three years, I have shared a note about giving thanks for the talented people around us. Thanksgiving 2015 will be my fourth here in Manhattan. For our family, we have seen a number of changes in four years – changes in who is sitting around the dinner table. Nieces have been married and now have children of their own (I’m a great uncle five times now – emphasis on great). My daughters have graduated university and gone on to graduate schools. Carolyn and I lost one father and nearly lost another.
Our K-State family has also seen new arrivals and departures. I have seen changes in leadership in our College for nearly all our departments – I am excited about the new people and thankful for those who have served before them. We have also hired over 100 faculty since I started who are phenomenal additions to our K-State family, and we have said “good bye” to many others who built a foundation of great teaching, scholarship, and service for the College. We have seen changes in our outstanding support staff, and I am thankful for everyone who has made the College so productive. I am thankful for all of them – new, established, and past, alike.
I suppose that this Thanksgiving message lacks my regular epigrammatic tone, being far more reflective this year than others. Perhaps it’s because Thanksgiving is part of my favorite season: autumn. The long green days of summer yield to the cool darkness of afternoon sunsets, turning the forests and prairies golden hues before they become dusted with frost and snow. I am thoughtful about how lucky I am to be here.
So I’ll share a few lines from one of my favorite Pushkin poems and bid you a peaceful holiday:
“The fading autumn almost none admires,
Yet, reader, I am fond of her, I own,
Fond of her muted glow of half-banked fires.
Like a poor child unloved among her own
She calls to me. If anyone enquires,
Her of all seasons I hold dear alone.
There is much good in her. A frugal wooer,
My whim finds some appeal quite special to her.”
Sincerely,
Peter
Internal search for interim associate provost for diversity
November offers music, theatre and more at Kansas State University
Celebrate Geography Awareness Week, view maps in the K-State Libraries Special Collections
Register for Celebration of Women in Bioscience
Fellowships for female international students, postdocs deadline Dec. 1
Nominations for Provost’s Lecture on Excellence in Scholarship due Dec. 1
K-State Book Network announces student, faculty/staff awards
November
18 – New Transfer Student Orientation and Enrollment
23-27 – Fall Break
December
18 – New Transfer Student Orientation and Enrollment
11 – Last day of Fall 2015 semester
11 – Graduate Commencement, 1:00 p.m., Bramlage Coliseum
12 – Undergraduate Commencement, 8:30 a.m., Bramlage Coliseum
14-18 – Final Examinations
22 – Term Final Grades Due (5 p.m., 4 p.m. if through KSOL)
It’s not always easy to catch everything that’s happening in our college on K-State Today. Here are a collection of stories of things that made headlines in our college over the last few weeks:
JMC students winners in South Central Broadcast Society awards
Three Arts & Sciences graduate students earn honors at Research and the State
Two ArtSci faculty receive $5,000 Iman Awards for research and teaching
Psychological sciences doctoral student receives national research award
Vocal music students win top honors at regional competition
Anthropology student finalist for Rhodes, Marshall national scholarships
$4.2 million NSF grant helps biologist gather large-scale river measurements
Two biology students place highly at Sigma Xi research conference
The goal of this eNewsletter is to be helpful and relevant to you, our ArtSci faculty and staff. If there is something we missed or should include in future issues, email your suggestions and feedback to Tom Roesler at troz@k-state.edu.
Faculty Colleagues:
Wow, we are already 10 weeks into the semester. The semester is moving along quickly and things are gearing up for the great push to the end. This week students are starting to enroll in their spring courses. This is a very important retention step and I would like to thank you for all that you do to make that process successful and smooth for our students. This is also the last week that a student can drop a regular session course, which some students may find necessary for a variety of reasons.
Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the Michael Tilford Conference on Diversity and Multiculturalism at Pittsburg State University. If you are unfamiliar with this conference, it provides an opportunity for faculty, staff, and administrators at Kansas Regents’ institutions to discuss diversity in higher education. If you would like to attend in the future here is where you can find more information http://www.pittstate.edu/tilfordconference/. If you don’t want to wait until next year to have some discussion and interaction around the topic of diversity, please consider attending the 10th Diversity Summit/Institute for Student Learning Assessment on Thursday afternoon and Friday, November 12-13, 2015. This Summit will provide two days of programming aimed at improving our campus climate for diversity and inclusion, assessing student learning outcomes in diversity, and celebrating the rich cultural diversity of our community. The Summit/Institute is free to all K-Staters, with the exception of meals. More information can be found at http://newprairiepress.org/isla/conference/2015/ or by contacting the Office of Diversity, romaine@ksu.edu, 785-532-6276. I would also be glad to help.
Thank you for all you do to promote diversity and inclusion in our college the largest and most diverse college in the university from most vantage points.
Thank you for all you do for ArtSci and K-State!
Kimathi
Indian Classical Music Concert, Oct. 28
Parrish Lecture on Religious History to feature Edith Blumhofer from Wheaton College Oct. 29
Nominations for Provost’s Lecture on Excellence in Scholarship
Significant funds available to support faculty publishing in open access journals
Kansas budget topic of Nov. 3 Lou Douglas Lecture on Public Issues
Rosalyn Durant to deliver 16th annual Huck Boyd Lecture in Community Media, Nov. 5
Native American Student Association to show film Trick or Treaty, Nov. 6
10th K-State Diversity Summit set for Nov. 12-13
ArtSci Diversity Lecture Series Grant application deadline, Nov. 15
Fellowships for Women Scholars, deadline Nov. 15
Public lecture about Spanish Gen. Francisco Franco
Free workshops cover vital skills for digital humanities researchers
Fellowships for female international students, postdocs deadline Dec. 1