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The Update, March 2014, University Of Northern Iowa. College Of Humanities, Arts And Sciences.

Update

Inside this issue...

-- Slam Dunk : Featured Org, English Club
-- Department News
-- School of Music Events
-- Interpreters Theatre Productions Schedule
-- Department of Technology to Host "Expanding Your Horizons"
-- Two CHAS Alumnae Presented Outstanding Thesis Awards
-- Cyberdefense Competition Team
-- Featured Organization: Women in Physics Club
-- Shane Lies: Student Spotlight, Chemistry
-- Leanne Hotek: Alumni Spotlight, Philosophy & World Religions
-- Coming Up at Theatre UNI: Mauritius & August: Osage County

What Are Little Girls Made Of?, Francesca Soans

UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

What Are Little Girls Made Of? is a postcolonial exploration of nursery rhymes in which animation and the textures of personal memories are ironically juxtaposed to comment on the continued legacy of European cultural colonialism in India.

As an Indian woman reminisces about growing up in India, a child’s drawing unfolds on the screen, narrating the well-known English nursery rhyme, “Little Miss Muffet.” The woman recalls her deep desire for a white dress and blond hair, as her own dark skin relegates her to the position of “boy” in school plays. The memories, seemingly nostalgic, are juxtaposed with an …

Visual Communication And The Digital Turn, Bettina Fabos

UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

I am very excited about the Digital Turn on multiple levels as a way of expressing ideas in visual form and making them more accessible and finding different ways to tell stories. As Joan Didion wrote, “we tell ourselves stories to live,” and I live and breathe that phrase.

For this presentation, my aim is to show you the new forms of communication that excite me to no end, and then talk about how our relationship with new media content producers has drastically changed. If you have never heard of SnowFall, an incredibly impressive piece of interactive media that …

The Professional Turn, Adrienne P. Lamberti

UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

I’ve spent the past two decades of my professional life immersed in technology, not because I first chose to do so, but rather because doing so was my responsibility. No good scholar and teacher in professional communication—and indeed, no good scholar in rhetoric who also lives in the 21st century—should participate in the luxury of dismissing technology as a central aspect of her work.

Over time this tech-centric approach has informed my professional identity and a larger understanding of my discipline’s mission; meanwhile, as a member of a discipline that (at UNI) is classified as one of the English field’s …

Dig-It-All Tropes, David Grant

UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

I am going to basically say everything that Dr. Lamberti said, only in a different key, as it were. I would much rather explore some of these theoretical things but hopefully not over anyone’s head. To start, I will try to give you an understanding of where I’m coming from in terms of looking at the turns here. Any good English major knows a turn is just a trope. So, what are some of the major turns that are going on within digital studies? I think there’s a lot of anxiety. Folks have been saying large-scale pronouncements about a revolution …

José Esteban Muñoz, Nació1967 – Murió El 4 De Diciembre 2013, Jason Benjamín Treviño

UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

When I was asked to prepare this song in memory of José Esteban Muñoz, I thought it would fly from my fingers and land perfectly onto a page like those so many obituaries I wrote in my former years working as a Funeral Director and Embalmer. But those skills don’t transfer here. My curser remained mute, blinking angrily at me to write about a man I never met but whose work was a bright star. It is a sad honor to participate in the celebration of José Esteban Muñoz’s life and works.

Tangents

UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

No abstract provided.

The Gendered Way Of Hooking Up Among College Students, Phyllis Baker, B. Keith Crew, Kevin T. Leicht

UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

This study explores gender differences in sexual socialization as a determinant of hooking up by college students. Survey results for 469 respondents show both generic (alcohol consumption and sexual socialization through pornography) and gender specific (gender-related attitudes) mechanisms that explain men’s higher rates of hooking up. Men engage in the generic behavioral correlates of hooking up more often than women. Women with patriarchal attitudes report more hooking up and men with rape supportive attitudes report more hooking up. Efforts by college administrators to reduce rates of hooking up should take into consideration alcohol consumption, pornography, and gender related attitudes.

A Reflection On The Work Of Late Yale Professor Sam See, Sarah E. Kersh

UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

Over the course of his too-short career, Sam See’s scholarship focused on queerness, race, and form in American and British Modernism. See’s work examines texts by a range of authors including canonical figures such as Henry James, Langston Hughes, Virginia Woolf, and Ernest Hemingway, and more marginalized writers such as Djuna Barnes, and Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler. In his essay on Ford and Tyler’s 1933 novel The Young and the Evil, he argues for an analysis of the text’s “generically dual ambitions…[which,] I propose, enable contemporary literary historians to make modernism new” (1078). Understanding ‘duality’ is at the …

Third Annual Conference On African American Children And Families, February 28, 2014, University Of Northern Iowa. College Of Education

African-American Children & Families Conference Programs

The program for the annual Conference on African-American Children and Families held at the University of Northern Iowa.

University Of Northern Iowa Secondary Teacher Education Senate Meeting Agenda, February 27, 2014, University Of Northern Iowa. Secondary Teacher Education Senate.

Documents - Secondary Senate

Meeting agenda from the Secondary Teacher Education Senate of the University of Northern Iowa.

Institute Of African-American Children & Families Pre-Conference, February 27, 2014, University Of Northern Iowa. College Of Education.

African-American Children & Families Conference Programs

The program for the annual Conference on African-American Children and Families held at the University of Northern Iowa.

University Of Northern Iowa Secondary Teacher Education Senate Meeting Minutes, February 27, 2014, University Of Northern Iowa. Secondary Teacher Education Senate.

Documents - Secondary Senate

Meeting minutes from the Secondary Teacher Education Senate of the University of Northern Iowa.

University Of Northern Iowa Graduate Council Minutes, February 27, 2014, University Of Northern Iowa. Graduate Council.

Documents - Graduate Council

Meeting minutes from the Graduate Council of the University of Northern Iowa.

Ann Bradfield, Alto, Soprano And Tenor Saxophones, February 27, 2014 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music.

Music Recital Programs

Program of a music recital given by faculty, students, or guest artists from the School of Music at the University of Northern Iowa.

Une Soirée De Mélodies, Françaises, February 27, 2014 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music.

Music Recital Programs

Program of a music recital given by faculty, students, or guest artists from the School of Music at the University of Northern Iowa.

Northern Iowa Symphony Orchestra, February 26, 2014 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music.

Music Recital Programs

Program of a music recital given by faculty, students, or guest artists from the School of Music at the University of Northern Iowa.

Uni Jazz Combos, February 25, 2014 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music.

Music Recital Programs

Program of a music recital given by faculty, students, or guest artists from the School of Music at the University of Northern Iowa.

Heather Peyton, Oboe, February 24, 2014 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music.

Music Recital Programs

Program of a music recital given by faculty, students, or guest artists from the School of Music at the University of Northern Iowa.

Isso Weekly Newsletter, February 21, 2014, University Of Northern Iowa. International Students And Scholars Office.

ISSO Weekly Newsletter

Inside This Issue:

-- Ethnic Food Celebration: International Student Association Feb. 25
-- UNI International Students & Community Schools Cultural Exchange Program
-- International Student Design Competition
-- Ask About English! A Workshop for International Students
-- Delta Kappa Gamma Society International Scholarship
-- UNI Spring Career Fair: Feb. 27
-- Conversation Corner
-- Interpreters/Translators Needed
-- Income Tax Season
-- Small Refrigerator for Sale - Price Reduced
-- Like and Follow Us!
-- ISSO Office Hours
-- ISSO - Enhancing International Experiences

Northern Iowa Flute Choir & Flute Studio Annual Concert, February 19, 2014 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music.

Music Recital Programs

Program of a music recital given by faculty, students, or guest artists from the School of Music at the University of Northern Iowa.

Northern Brass Quartet, February 18, 2014 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music.

Music Recital Programs

Program of a music recital given by faculty, students, or guest artists from the School of Music at the University of Northern Iowa.

University Of Northern Iowa Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, February 17, 2014, University Of Northern Iowa. Faculty Senate.

Documents - Faculty Senate

Special Meeting (for postponed meeting of January 27, 2014)

Meeting minutes from the Faculty Senate of the University of Northern Iowa

University Of Northern Iowa Faculty Senate Meeting Agenda, February 17, 2014, University Of Northern Iowa. Faculty Senate.

Documents - Faculty Senate

Special Meeting (for postponed meeting of January 27, 2014)

Meeting agenda from the Faculty Senate of the University of Northern Iowa.

University Of Northern Iowa Graduate Council Minutes, February 13, 2014, University Of Northern Iowa. Graduate Council.

Documents - Graduate Council

Meeting minutes from the Graduate Council of the University of Northern Iowa.

Addendum To Publication Agreements For University Of Northern Iowa Authors, University Of Northern Iowa. Rod Library.

Library Documents & Reports (entire collection)

An addendum for UNI authors to supplement publication agreements that allows authors the right to keep their copyright and to allow placement in the institutional repository twelve months after publciation.

University Of Northern Iowa Faculty Senate Meeting Agenda, February 10, 2014, University Of Northern Iowa. Faculty Senate.

Documents - Faculty Senate

Meeting agenda from the Faculty Senate of the University of Northern Iowa.

Amanda Mccandless, Clarinet, & Matthew Andreini, Percussion, February 10, 2014 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music.

Music Recital Programs

Program of a music recital given by faculty, students, or guest artists from the School of Music at the University of Northern Iowa.

Uni Concert Band & Winter Drumline, February 10, 2014 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music.

Music Recital Programs

Program of a music recital given by faculty, students, or guest artists from the School of Music at the University of Northern Iowa.

University Of Northern Iowa Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, February 10, 2014, University Of Northern Iowa. Faculty Senate.

Documents - Faculty Senate

Meeting minutes from the Faculty Senate of the University of Northern Iowa.