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Tuesday

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March 2015

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TechConnect workshop to be held in Alter Hall

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The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute will lead its TechConnect workshop tonight from 5:30 to 8 p.m. in the MBA Commons on the seventh floor of Alter Hall. The workshop offers the opportunity to work with real world technologies, identify entrepreneurial partners and develop strategies to build a business or apply for translational research funding. This two-day workshop continues tomorrow at 5:30 p.m.

This event is free and open to all. Refreshments will be served.   

 

Tuesday

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March 2015

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Center for Humanities sponsors activist discussion

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The Center for the Humanities is sponsoring a discussion today from 2-6 p.m. “The Scholar as Activist, The Activist as Scholar” will explore the relationship between academic scholarship and social justice activism.

Speakers will include Robin Andersen from Fordham University, Gabriel Rockhill from Villanova, Liz Sevcenko from The New School Humanities Action Lab and Temple Law School’s Jennifer Lee. They will share their experiences with CHAT Fellows facilitators. A reception with refreshments will follow the event in the CHAT Lounge on the 10th floor of Gladfelter Hall. The discussion is free and open to all.

Tuesday

24

March 2015

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Dr. Donnalyn Pomper holds communications discussion

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The discussion “It’s Always Time to Talk About Social Identity Intersectionalities” will start at 12:30 p.m. today in Annenberg Hall Room 3. Dr. Donnalyn Pompper of the School of Media and Communication will talk about the importance of the intersectionalities approach to understand how people fit into different dimensions of age, class, culture, ethnicity, faith, gender, physical ability, sexual orientation and more.

Organization managers try to create unity in the workplace by understanding these dimensions, but rarely discuss the challenges that arise from the differences. Pompper’s  one-hour discussion is free and open to all.

Tuesday

17

March 2015

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Film and conversation for Women’s History Month

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In celebration of Women’s History Month and Social Work Month, alumna Joan Sadoff will present a film and conversation on Thursday from 3-5 p.m. in the Ritter Hall Walk Auditorium. Sadoff is the producer of “Standing on My Sisters’ Shoulders” and the editor of its companion book “Pieces From the Past: Voices of Heroic Women in Civil Rights.”

Sadoff was recently selected as the recipient of a 2015 Alumni Impact Award for her outstanding service, contribution and advocacy to her school and university. This event is free and open to all.

Tuesday

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March 2015

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Kimberly Williams to lead discussion on the dead

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Kimberly Williams will lead her presentation, “Landscapes of Death in Ancient Arabia,” on Thursday afternoon from 12:30 to 1:50 p.m. in the Center for Humanities on the tenth floor of Gladfelter Hall. Williams believes the location and details of how people choose to dispose of their dead reflects relationships between the living and deceased in a community.

Williams will discuss the change from the burial cairns of the Oman Peninsula in the Bronze Age to the low, central tombs in the middle of the third millennium B.C. Williams holds that this shift effectively destroyed any individual identity that was previously celebrated. Using GIS modeling to visualize the mortuary landscapes and understand landform use, Williams will model how ancient people transformed physical landscape into a landscape of death. This event is free and open to all.

Tuesday

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March 2015

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Temple welcomes Ari Kelman

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The Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy will welcome author Ari Kelman on Wednesday from 3-5 p.m. in Weigley Room 914 of Gladfelter Hall. Kelman is the McCabe Greer Professor of History at Penn State.  He is also the 2014 Bancroft Prize-winning author of “A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek.”

Kelman will discuss the meaning and impact of the events of the 1864 Sand Creek massacre in Colorado that has affected struggles over history and memory in the American West. This discussion is free and open to all.

Tuesday

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March 2015

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Tickets go on sale for Philly Spring Jam Concert

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Tickets go on sale on Wednesday at noon for the Philly Spring Jam Concert at the Liacouras Center on March 29. The concert will feature performances from Keith Sweat, Ginuwine, 112, Whodini and Rob Base.

Rapper Doug E. Fresh will be hosting the event. Philly Connections tickets are $10 with TUid at the Reel Box Office. Only two tickets can be purchased per ID. The box office is located in the Student Center South. The concert is open to all.

Tuesday

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March 2015

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Discussion to highlight climate change

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The Department of Geography and Urban Studies has partnered with the Office of Sustainability to present “Philadelphia on the Frontline of Climate Change.”

The discussion will highlight how Temple and different organizations in Philadelphia are addressing the problem of climate change. Panelists will include Adam Garber, the field director at PennEnvironment, and Kathleen Grady, the director of sustainability at Temple. Christina Rosan, the director of environmental studies, will moderate the discussion. This event is open to all on Tuesday from 5-6:30 p.m. in Room 208 of Anderson Hall.

Tuesday

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April 2014

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Avitae to Main Campus

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Over the next few weeks, students will begin to see a new brand of energy drinks in dining halls and vending machines around Main Campus.

This new drink, called Avitae, looks and tastes just like water but has added caffeine.

Norm Snyder, a representative for Avitae, said that while the company is not trying to replace any morning cups of coffee, he believes their energy drinks offer a healthy alternative.

“A lot of people load up their coffee with cream and sugar, and they turn a low calorie beverage into an extremely high calorie beverage,” Snyder said. “So instead of having that second or third cup, or fourth cup, go to the ninety milligram, or you could drink the 125. There is something for everyone.”

The drink comes in three different levels of caffeine, a 45 milligram which is equivalent to half of a cup of coffee, a 90 milligram, at a full cup of coffee, and a 125 milligram, which is about a cup and a half. None have calories and are free of carbohydrates.

While Avitae was started in the Midwest, Snyder said the company has begun to move through Philadelphia and is now sold in places like Whole Foods, Wegmans and Walgreens around the city.

“Now with the help of Sodexo, we are now going to go to places like Temple, Villanova, St. Joes and Drexel, and go through the ‘Big Five,’” Snyder said. “And have some fun with it, it’s a brand you can have fun with.”

Sunday

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April 2014

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Talib Kweli on Main Campus this Tuesday

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Main Campus Program Board will host a night of music with Talib Kweli, a Brooklyn-based rapper who’s collaborated with Kanye West, Melanie Fiona and Miguel among other artists, on Tuesday beginning at 7 p.m.

The event will take place in the Temple Performing Arts Center and students may enter free of charge by presenting a student ID card. The doors for the event will open at 6 p.m.

Kweli, a known activist along with his career as a recording artist, will also take questions from the audience as part of an interactive dialog aspect of the appearance. The hip hop musician is well-known for his political expressions and opinionated stance on social issues in America.