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Around LAS On-Line

Around LAS On-Line is a weekly e-mail publication informing faculty and staff of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences of events and topics of interest.

UPCOMING EVENTS
January 21: King Day, University Holiday, no classes held
and offices closed
January 23: Phi Beta Delta Seminar: "Integrating Knowledge Gained from International Experiences Back into the Classroom," Eric Abbott, Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication, 302 Catt Hall, noon
January 28: Lecture: "Legacies of Repression: Archives and Human Rights," Trudy Huskamp Peterson, alumna and former archivist of the United States, Sun Room, Memorial Union, 8 p.m.
January 29: Lecture: "Running on Ice: Stories from a Warming Arctic," Elizabeth Andre, alumna, The Gallery, Memorial Union, 7 p.m.
Complete LAS Calendar on-line at www.las.iastate.edunewnews/calendar.shtml

DEADLINES
January 22: LASCAC Proposals
February 1: Miller Faculty Fellowships
February 4: Diversity Grants and Women's Mini-Grants, Provost Office
www.provost.iastate.edu/news/Div Grants-Mini announce.pdf
February 5: CEAH FY08 Fellowships in Scholarly and Creative Activity, 171 Carver Hall
Note: Unless noted all applications should be turned in to 202 Catt Hall.
www.las.iastate.edu/faculty_and_staff/deadlines.shtml

UPDATE ON CAMPAIGN IOWA STATE
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has reached the halfway point to its fundraising goal in Campaign Iowa State With Pride and Purpose. More than $32.2 has been raised toward the overall goal of $65 million. 

LAS has also exceeded its $10 million annual fundraising goal six months ahead of schedule with indications that FY08 contributions will reach a record level.

Overall Campaign Iowa State has raised $542 million of the $800 million stated goal as of December 31, 2007.

WOMEN IMPACTING ISU CALENDAR
Twelve women whose leadership has made a difference at Iowa State are honored by the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics on the second annual "Women Impacting ISU" calendar. Six Iowa State students and six faculty and staff members are included on this year's calendar.
www.las.iastate.edu/CattCenter/calendar/calendar08.shtml

LECTURES
A pair of lectures featuring alumni from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will be held next week in the Memorial Union. Trudy Huskamp Peterson, former archivist of the United States, will speak on Monday, January 28, at 8 p.m. in the Sun Room. Peterson will speak on her experiences working with archives in several countries.

Then a day later, Elizabeth Andre will speak at 7 p.m. in The Gallery about her journey through the Arctic to highlight global warming.
www.las.iastate.edu/lectures

NEW FACULTY AWARD
The Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities has announced a new award for faculty in the arts and humanities. "Collaborative Arts and Humanities Grant Writing Award" will fund two tenured scholars / artists from two different arts and humanities disciplines to collaborate on writing an external grant on the topic of value to the arts, to design, and to the humanities.

This $10,000 award ($5000 / participant) will provide a full or partial teaching release during one semester (2008-09) or, if preferred, provide summer salary support of up to $5,000 for one month of the summer (July 2008 or June 2009).

Deadline for the submitting applications is April 8, 2008.
www.iastate.edu/~ceah/collgwa.html

FACULTY WORKSHOPS
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences' Faculty Development Workshop series will continue with a pair of workshops for new faculty and a special forum of LAS Master Teachers.
www.las.iastate.edu/newnews/news0114d.shtml

LINK YOUR SUMMER INTERNSHIPS AT IOWA STATE
The Interdepartmental Genetics program is maintaining and advertising a website linking all of the summer internships at Iowa State:  
www.genetics.iastate.edu/summerinternships.html  

If you would like to include your summer internship program on this site, contact Linda Wild at genetics@iastate.edu. The site is advertised in a variety of areas pertinent to the life sciences, not just genetics, and has been included in previous years at MANRRS, SCNAS and in Science.

AROUND LAS
The current issue of Around LAS is on-line and includes features on the move of the Department of Statistics from Snedecor Hall, faculty members Rob Sunderman and Gordon Miller and the student group SHARE.
www.las.iastate.edu/newnews/alas011408.shtml

ARTS
A Broadway musical classic and an original production highlight the spring 2008 ISU Theatre season. "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" is this year's Stars Over VEISHEA production, while ISU Theatre's Jane Cox has written an original play, "Love and Honor," about four young men from Iowa and their journeys through the American Civil War.
www.las.iastate.edu/newnews/theatrespring08.shtml

A complete listing of Iowa State arts and entertainment events can be found at www.las.iastate.edu/newnews/arts/isuarts.shtml

Around LAS On-Line is a weekly e-mail publication informing faculty and staff in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences of events and topics of interest.

Current Issue:
January 21, 2008
Vol. 2, Number 19

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Editor: Dave Gieseke
515-294-7742
dgieseke@iastate.edu

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