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Child Abuse Prevention Month Pinwheel Garden Fundraiser
Date/Time: April 13, 2012
Location: Children’s Advocacy Services
Audience: Open
Description: “Pinwheels for Prevention” is a state and nationwide public awareness campaign that puts a new spin on child abuse prevention. The pinwheel represents hope, health and happiness. This uplifting symbol of childhood represents our efforts to ensure the healthy development of children, while recognizing that child development is a building block for community and economic development. Last year, CASGSL served over 400 children and we would like a pinwheel in our garden for each of those children. We are asking for a minimum donation of $2 per pinwheel.
For Info: Karen Banks at 314-516-7389

Monthly drawing for small prize package
Date/Time: April 13, 2012
Location: Go to any University Program Board Event
Audience: Open
Description: Do you like to go to free events? Do you like free stuff? Go to any University Program Board event throughout the semester, fill out a survey, and automatically get entered to win a free Kindle Fire and other small, assorted prizes! The raffle for the Kindle Fire will be held April 18 at the Mirthday Concert. This will be a drawing for one of five smaller prize packages as well. Check your email to see if you won.
For Info: Scott Morrissey at 314-368-4931

‘Feed the Lou’ – Food Drive
Date/Time: April 13, 2012
Location: MSC, SSB, Stadler Hall, Residence Halls
Audience: Open
Description: Hunger is affecting 1 in 8 people in St. Louis. We are a group of four MBA students conducting this Food Drive as part of our class project. Please join us in this effort by donating non-perishable food items, toiletries etc. All items will be donated to the St. Louis Area Food Bank. Bring your items to the orange bins located in the MSC, SSB, Stadler Hall, Oak Hall, Mansion Hill and University Meadows from now until April 16.
For Info: Nels Williams at 314-766-9413

Aspen Santa Fe Ballet
Date/Time: April 14, 2012 2:00 PM
Location: Anheuser-Busch Performance Hall, Touhill PAC
Audience: Open
Description: “Fleet, feisty and fun” (Denver Post) – Aspen Santa Fe Ballet boasts top-flight dancers in an electric and engaging repertory. The vibrant troupe performs works by veteran and up-and-coming European and American choreographers like Twyla Tharp, Dwight Rhoden, Paul Taylor, Trey McIntyre and dozens more. With dual citizenship in two chic and lively cities, this Western wonder combines rugged athleticism with liquid grace in frisky programs that fuel its skyrocketing national reputation. Presented by Dance St. Louis and Novus International, Inc. Tickets starting at $10 with UMSL student ID (limited quantities available).
For Info: Touhill Ticket Office at 314-516-4949

Aspen Santa Fe Ballet
Date/Time: April 14, 2012 8:00 PM
Location: Anheuser-Busch Performance Hall, Touhill PAC
Audience: Open
Description: “Fleet, feisty and fun” (Denver Post) – Aspen Santa Fe Ballet boasts top-flight dancers in an electric and engaging repertory. The vibrant troupe performs works by veteran and up-and-coming European and American choreographers like Twyla Tharp, Dwight Rhoden, Paul Taylor, Trey McIntyre and dozens more. With dual citizenship in two chic and lively cities, this Western wonder combines rugged athleticism with liquid grace in frisky programs that fuel its skyrocketing national reputation. Presented by Dance St. Louis and Novus International Inc. Tickets start at $10 with UMSL student ID (limited quantities available).
For Info: Touhill Ticket Office at 314-516-4949

Optometry Reunion
Date/Time: April 15, 2012
Location: TBD
Audience: Open
Description: TBD. For more information, please contact the Alumni Relations Office at 314-516-5833, or email: alumni@umsl.edu.
For Info: Alumni and Community Relations Office at 314-516-5833

A Brief Survey of Chair Design from the St. Louis Art Museum
Date/Time: April 16, 2012 12:15 PM to 1:15 PM
Location: Gallery 210, Telecommunity Center (near North Campus MetroLink)
Audience: Open
Description: Terry Suhre provides an illustrated analysis of chair design as represented in the St. Louis Art Museum Decorative Arts Collection. Suhre is director of Gallery 210 and research professor of art at UMSL.
For Info: Karen Lucas at 314-516-5698

Building Rapport with Your Professors
Date/Time: April 16, 2012 3:00 PM to 3:45 PM
Location: Center for Student Success (Millennium Student Center 225)
Audience: Student
Description: Are you sabotaging relationships with your professors? Do you fully participate in the classroom? Effective communication skills and participation are both critical in college. Understanding faculty expectations is a key to your success and intentional participation will yield great rewards. Learn how to facilitate effective communication with your professors in a variety of situations and learn about the benefits of classroom participation.
For Info: Antionette Sterling at 314-516-5300

Interviewing Skills Workshop, ‘Life After College’ Talk
Date/Time: April 17, 2012 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM
Location: 225 MSC, Center for Student Success
Audience: Student
Description: Interviewing Skills Workshop 2:30-4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 17, 225 MSC, Center For Student Success, Apria Healthcare (This workshop will also include a “Life After College” discussion). Want to know more about interviewing and how to improve your skills? Join us to learn interviewing techniques and what employers say makes for a successful interview. Please note room assignment and times.
For Info: Career Services at 314-516-5111

Peace Corps Information Session
Date/Time: April 17, 2012 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
Location: Boeing Auditorium, TLC, Marillac Hall
Audience: Student
Description: This information session will outline exciting transitional career opportunities in the Peace Corps working overseas. A Peace Corps recruiter will talk about their experience as a Peace Corps Volunteer, and will also explain the application process and the financial and educational benefits of being a Peace Corps volunteer. For more information, contact Career Services, 278 MSC, at careerservices@umsl.edu or 314-516-5111.
For Info: Career Services at 314-516-5111

Cello Choir Concert
Date/Time: April 17, 2012 7:30 PM
Location: Lee Theater, Touhill Performing Arts Center
Audience: Open
Description: Join the University Cello Choir for an evening of all-cello arrangements. The Cello Choir performs under the direction of Kurt Baldwin.
For Info: Touhill Ticket Office at 314-516-4949

Drawing for Kindle Fire prize package at Mirthday Concert
Date/Time: April 18, 2012
Location: Go to any University Program Board Event
Audience: Open
Description: Do you like to go to free events? Do you like free stuff? Well I have just the thing for you! Go to any University Program Board event throughout the semester, fill out a survey, and automatically get entered to win a free Kindle Fire and other small, assorted prizes! The raffle for the Kindle Fire will be pulled on April 18 at the Mirthday Concert. Attend the Mirthday Concert or check your email the next day to see if you won!
For Info: Scott Morrissey at 314-368-4931

Mirthday Volleyball & Free T-Shirts!
Date/Time: April 18, 2012 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Location: Mirthday Grounds- near the MSC Patio
Audience: Open
Description: Mirthday volleyball is today! Can you come out and play? All participants win T-shirts in Campus Rec’s annual, drop-in, non-competitive volleyball games held today, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., near the MSC Patio, among the other exciting Mirthday activities. This event is FREE and open to all Mirthday attendees!
For Info: Campus Recreation, 203 Mark Twain at 314-516-5326

Mindfulness Meditation
Date/Time: April 18, 2012 12:15 PM to 12:45 PM
Location: Center for Student Success conference room — 225 MSC
Audience: Open
Description: Mindfulness Meditation is a proven—and increasingly popular—method for reducing stress, anxiety, insomnia, and a variety of medical conditions. Incorporating Mindfulness into your schedule can enhance your overall well-being and allow you to live your life more fully. These weekly, guided Mindfulness activities are free and open to beginning as well as experienced meditators.
For Info: Jamie Linsin at 314-516-5711

Staff Association – Staff Council Monthly Meeting
Date/Time: April 18, 2012 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM
Location: JCP 402
Audience: Open
Description: Meetings open to all UMSL staff members.
For Info: Sandra Crawshaw at 314-516-7298

Teaching with Technology Workshop
Date/Time: April 18, 2012 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Location: UMSL North Campus, SSB 449
Audience: Faculty
Description: “Evaluate with Ease: Constructive and Efficient Grading On- and Offline.” Avoid those end-of-the-term blues by attending this workshop to learn some easy strategies for delivering feedback in MyGateway and determining that complicated final grade, even if you drop the two lowest quiz grades, sum participation points, and average weighted assignments. Let Excel and MyGateway do the work for you!
For Info: Peggy Cohen at 314-516-4508

Test-taking Strategies
Date/Time: April 18, 2012 4:00 PM to 4:45 PM
Location: Center for Student Success (Millennium Student Center 225)
Audience: Open
Description: Learn tips about taking certain formats of tests (multiple choice, essay, true/false, etc). Get information to make your test preparation more productive and how to better manage test-taking jitters.
For Info: Antionette Sterling at 314-516-5300

MyGateway Tips for Teaching and Learning
Date/Time: April 19, 2012 12:30 PM to 1:45 PM
Location: 103 Express Scripts Hall
Audience: UMSL Only
Description: This session will introduce tips on how to organize your course in MyGateway and produce effective learning outcomes. Faculty Resource Center staff will recommend strategies for course structure that will help students comfortably navigate the course and become self-directed learners. Some of the topics we will cover are listed below, but please bring your own questions and suggestions because FRC staff will be available to work with you individually during the session. Topics include: folder organization, course menu organization and functionality of Grade Center.
For Info: Tom Roedel, Jennifer Simms and Paul Wilmarth at

Teaching with Technology Workshop IV
Date/Time: April 19, 2012 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Location: UMSL South Campus, SCB 102
Audience: Open
Description: Evaluate with Ease: Constructive and Efficient Grading On- and Off-line Avoid those end-of-the-term blues by attending this workshop to learn some easy strategies for delivering feedback in MyGateway and determining that complicated final grade, even if you drop the two lowest quiz grades, sum participation points, and average weighted assignments. Let Excel and MyGateway do the work for you!
For Info: Margaret W. Cohen at 314-516-7133

Using Cognos Student Reports
Date/Time: April 19, 2012 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Location: 65 JCP
Audience: UMSL Only
Description: The goal of this session is to familiarize UMSL faculty and staff with the student-oriented reports available via Cognos. Topics in this hands-on session include: signing on to Cognos; setting the default folder; an overview of the available reports; how to run reports; and where to find documentation. There will be ample time for questions and listening to suggestions for improvement. To fully participate, you will need access to Cognos. You can check your access by addressing an email to yourself in Outlook, right clicking on your name in the “To…” block, selecting “Outlook Properties”, click on the “Member Of” tab, and scroll down the list to look for either “UMSL, Cognos SR” or UMSL, Cognos SR (FERPA)”. If you see one of these entries, you have access. If you do NOT see one of these, you need to contact Diana Johnson (djohnson@umsl.edu) in the Registrar’s office and complete the required FERPA training at least 24 hours before the session.
For Info: Larry Westermeyer at

Teaching with Technology Workshop
Date/Time: April 19, 2012 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Location: UMSL South Campus, SCB 102
Audience: Faculty
Description: Evaluate with Ease: Constructive and Efficient Grading On- and Off-line Avoid those end-of-the-term blues by attending this workshop to learn some easy strategies for delivering feedback in MyGateway and determining that complicated final grade, even if you drop the two lowest quiz grades, sum participation points, and average weighted assignments. Let Excel and MyGateway do the work for you!
For Info: Peggy Cohen at 314-516-4508

Résumé Writing Workshop
Date/Time: April 19, 2012 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Location: 278 MSC, Career Services
Audience: Student
Description: Résumé Writing Skills Workshop, 2-3 p.m. Thursday, April 19, 278 MSC, Career Services. Your résumé is an important job-hunting tool; its purpose is market yourself to potential employers. Learn how to write a job-specific résumé.
For Info: Career Services at 314-516-5111

Serving Alcohol at Nonprofit Events: Things to Consider
Date/Time: April 19, 2012 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: 126 J.C. Penney Conference Center
Audience: Open
Description: Many nonprofit organizations serve alcohol at their fundraisers, or other events. Selling alcoholic beverages can be a good way to raise funds, but what are the potential downsides of this activity? What liability does your organization face in the event of a problem? What resources should your organization have in place, or know about, to help you plan for an event where you sell, or serve, alcohol, or to help protect you in the event of a problem? What regulations apply to your proposed sale of alcoholic beverages? Come learn the answers to these questions and more as we explore issues that might not be fully appreciated as they apply to this otherwise common activity. Cost is $40 to attend. Register on-line via UMSL CE at: umsl.edu/webapps/CE/register.cfm?prog=10435&fy=2012.
For Info: Dan Sise at 314-516-6378

Focus On Public Administration and Policy: Discussion Series
Date/Time: April 19, 2012 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Location: J.C. Penney Conference Center
Audience: Open
Description: Balancing Public Values as a Question of Ethics: Public ethics questions often focus on the balance between personal and public interests. However, public ethics dilemmas can also arise when public values are placed in competition with one another. How can we balance public values like objectivity, efficiency, resources stewardship, and political agenda setting in an ethical manner? Taking full advantage of digital audience feedback technologies and real world case studies, this forum will allow the audience to engage with each other and expert discussants in exploring these questions. Moderator: Wally Siewert, UMSL Center for Ethics in Public Life. Session will be followed by a networking reception.
For Info: Julianne Stone at 314-421-4220, ext. 288

Salute to Business Achievement Awards
Date/Time: April 19, 2012 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Location: UMSL MSC Century Rooms
Audience: Open
Description: This award ceremony recognizes alumni of the College of Business Administration who have demonstrated exceptional personal and professional accomplishments to the university, their profession and/or their community.
For Info: Alumni and Community Relations Office at 314-516-5833

Relay for Life
Date/Time: April 20, 2012
Location: TBD
Audience: Open
Description: Held on UMSL’s campus each April, Relay for Life is a life changing event that helps communities across the globe celebrate the lives of people who have battled cancer, remember loved ones lost, and fight back against the disease. Join our student-alumni team today!
For Info: Alumni and Community Relations Office at 314-516-5833

Colloquium Series – Psychology Department & MIMH
Date/Time: April 20, 2012 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM
Location: 102 Benton
Audience: Open
Description: John Constantino, M.D., Blanche F. Ittleson Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, presenting a colloquium titled, “Recent Advances in Understanding Autism: Toward A Biology of High-Impact Intervention.”
For Info: Jean Mayo at 314-516-5393

IC Short Course – Adobe Photoshop Basics Session 1
Date/Time: April 20, 2012 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Location: SSB 102
Audience: UMSL Only
Description: This course is designed to teach you the basic beginning steps of Adobe Photoshop. Learn how to use this application for image editing and more that may be required for classes, your job or for your own website purposes. Topics include: opening an image, merging images, adding text to an image, copyright responsibilities, personalize your photographs, improving the colors of an image, etc.
For Info: Dale/ Instructional Computing Staff at

Staff Association 2nd Annual Golf Tournament & Dinner
Date/Time: April 20, 2012 11:00 AM
Location: Normandie Golf Club, 7605 St. Charles Rock Rd., St. Louis
Audience: Open
Description: $40 per player without dinner; $45 per play with dinner; light lunch provided to players. Prizes will be awarded for closest to the pin and longest drive.
For Info: Bernadette Dalton at 314-516-6138

IC Short Course – Adobe Photoshop Basics Session 2
Date/Time: April 20, 2012 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: SSB 102
Audience: UMSL Only
Description: This course is designed to teach you the basic beginning steps of Adobe Photoshop. Learn how to use this application for image editing and more that may be required for classes, your job or for your own website purposes. Topics include: Liquefying an image or modifying an image to have a different profile; transforming an image on top of a background; blending that image onto the background; tools to change the colors of an image to the colors of the background; and using various drawing tools such as the paint brush and pencil to draw by hand onto different layers.
For Info: Dale/Instructional Computing Staff at

College of Business Administration Research Seminar Series
Date/Time: April 20, 2012 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
Location: 401 SSB
Audience: Open
Description: Greg Geisler and Steve Moehrle, Department of Accounting, University of Missouri–St. Louis. Topic: TBA.
For Info: Dr. Dinesh Mirchandani at 314-516-7354

The Basics of Writing a Business Plan
Date/Time: April 20, 2012 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Location: J. C. Penney Conference Center
Audience: Open
Description: This workshop will provide you with step-by-step instructions for writing each major section of your business plan, including the Business Description, Marketing Plan, Operations Plan and Financial Plan. You will learn how to access and use our Financial Projections Excel Spreadsheet to produce 3-year projections of your income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement. You will also receive guidance on overall style and appearance. Fee: $59.
For Info: Erica Candela at 314-516-5908

National Academy of Inventors UMSL Chapter Launch Reception
Date/Time: April 20, 2012 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Location: Millennium Student Center, Rotunda and SGA Chambers
Audience: Open
Description: Reception and ceremony to inaugurate the first class of members (UMSL faculty, student and staff inventors), into the UMSL Chapter of the National Academy of Inventors. RSVP required by 5 p.m. on April 16 to muskusm@umsl.edu. Space is limited.
For Info: Michael Muskus at 314-516-4248

‘Cubano Be, Cubano Bop’: Poncho Sanchez & his Latin Jazz Band
Date/Time: April 20, 2012 8:00 PM
Location: Anheuser-Busch Performance Hall, Touhill PAC
Audience: Open
Description: Poncho Sanchez and Terence Blanchard, with the backing of the Poncho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band, have created a hot new project: “Cubano Be, Cubano Bop,” a tribute to the legacy of the original conga King, Chano Pozo and his co-conspirator in Latin jazz, Dizzy Gillespie. In the late 1940s Chano Pozo was at the top of his game. His rhythms descended from the ceremonies of his Afro-Cuban religion, Santeria. Chano and Dizzy had created Afro-Cuban Jazz, writing the standards, “Manteca” and “Tin Tin Deo,” and their performances on George Russell’s “Cubano Be, Cubano Bop” burst the genre onto the musical map in a major way. Poncho Sanchez and Terence Blanchard have put together a program that recreates that seminal concert, the Afro-Cuban standards, their own compositions and fresh new collaborations. This concert is part of the Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival. Tickets start at $10 with UMSL student ID (limited quantities available).
For Info: Touhill Ticket Office at 314-516-4949