Faculty-Staff Edition - Nov. 7, 2022
Campus Community
3 ways Career Services can support your work in the classroom
Faculty and staff can play an important role in helping students figure out what to do after college. Career Services offers many resources to support your work in the classroom and help students with their future plans. Here are some ways you can partner with Career Services.
Right Here, Right Now
New events during Dec. 1–4 summit focus on community impacts
Organizers of the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit have announced a range of community-focused events. The new Think Globally, Engage Locally Panel Series places the impact, obligations and solutions themes of the global summit into a national and local context.
How courts can help protect human rights amid climate change
Learn from panelists at the upcoming Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit on how the law can be used to address the negative impacts of climate change on human rights around the world.
Research in Your Backyard
COVID still a ‘dangerous global health threat.’ New international study spells out how we can end it
Greater attention to indoor air ventilation and filtration, rebuilding public trust and clearly communicating the dominant role of airborne transmission for SARS-CoV-2, addressing pandemic inequities and a “vaccine-plus” approach are among the recommendations made by 386 experts from more than 100 countries.
From #Freethebird to #Stayandfight: Expert talks the future of Twitter
ñ's Casey Fiesler weighs in on why Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter has raised alarm bells among some of the platform's users, and if there's anywhere for them to go.
Events & Exhibits
Leading graphic novelist Alison Bechdel to speak Nov. 17
Described as one of the most important graphic novelists working today, Bechdel is known for “Dykes to Watch Out For”and a famous test of gender representation in movies.
‘Odeon’ finds common roots in diverse cultural cues
“Odeon,” Ephrat Asherie Dance’s original work bound for Macky Auditorium Nov. 18, combines storied Afro-Brazilian rhythms and sounds with contemporary hip-hop, house, vogue and other choreography styles that are part of the current lexicon of street and club dancers in New York.