Communication Email: October 13, 2009
Hello all,
Here is your SASgov Weekly for 10/13/09. Good luck in the lead-up to fall break!
Suzanne B.
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SASgov Weekly – October 13, 2009
1. Upcoming SASgov Events & Announcements
a. Next fall happy hour – Thursday, October 22
2. Upcoming GAPSA Events & Announcements
a. NLCS Happy Hour, Oct. 15
b. King of Prussia Shopping Trip, Oct. 17
c. City Tavern Dinner, Oct. 24
d. Halloween Party, Oct. 29th
e. SAVE THE DATE: GAPSA 3rd Annual Black and White Ball – Nov. 21
f. Join the Gradfest Committee!
3. Other University Announcements
a. PGWISE - Club Monaco Fall Preview & Networking Event
b. PDSC Speed Dating Event, October 16
c. Young Friends of the Penn Museum’s Golden Gala Party, October 23
d. 2009 Wharton Energy Conference: “Generation Energy”, sponsored by Wharton Energy Club, Oct 30th
4. Other Events of Interest
UPenn Bookstore Discussions:
Tuesday, October 13 at 6:00 p.m. - Discussion and Signing - Penn Professor John Kromer - “Fixing Broken Cities: The Implementation of Urban Development Strategies”
Wednesday, October 14 at 6:30 p.m. - Discussion and Signing - Alumnus David Hall - “Allies at Work: Creating a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Inclusive Work Environment”
5. Call for Papers
a. Penn Humanities Forum Graduate Conference “Missed Connections”
6. Graduate Student Center Programs / Announcements
Navigating Series events!
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1. Upcoming SASgov Events
SASgov strives to improve the living, learning, and working experience of graduate students in the School of Arts and Sciences. For more information, please visit http://www.sas.upenn.edu/sasgov/
a. Stay posted for details of our next Fall Happy Hour – on Thursday, October 22!
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2. Upcoming GAPSA Events & Announcements
GAPSA is the university-wide student government for all graduate and professional students at the University of Pennsylvania.
a. NLCS Happy Hour
Date: Thursday, October 15th
Time: 5:30-7:30pm
Location: Cavanaugh’s Rittenhouse, 1823 Sansom St.
Details: $10 cover includes 2 hours of free drink selected drinks and light appetizers. Must show Penn Grad ID and 21+ ID.
Questions: contact gapsa.sa@gmail.com
b. King of Prussia Shopping Trip
Date: Saturday, October 17th
Time: 11:00am (buses will leave promptly) – 6:00pm
Location: King of Prussia Mall
Details: Bus leaves from Chestnut and 37th on Saturday October the 17th headed to King of Prussia Mall at 11:00am and returns at 6:00 pm. It’s free! Graduate Penn ID required. The first 90 to arrive will get spots.
Questions: contact gapsa.sp@gmail.com
c. City Tavern Dinner
Date: Saturday, October 24th
Time: 6:30-8:30
Location: City Tavern, 138 S 2nd St.
Details: Tickets include a five course meal and an alcoholic beverage. Must show valid 21+ ID to receive alcoholic beverage. Tickets available exclusively at gapsa.ticketleap.com for $25, limit 3 tickets per Penn grad ID. Must bring Penn grad ID to event.
Questions: contact gapsa.sp@gmail.com
d. Halloween Party
Date: Thursday, October 29th
Time: 9:00pm-2:00am
Location: Fuzion Grill and Social Club, 460 N. 2nd Street (between Spring Garden and Vine)
Details: First 200 Penn graduate students receive free admission, afterwards $10 cover. Guests are $10, limit one guest per Penn graduate ID. Admission includes 2 hours of open bar from 9:00-11:00 and light appetizers. Please wear a Halloween costume.
Questions: Contact gapsa.sa@gmail.com
e. SAVE THE DATE: GAPSA 3rd Annual Black and White Ball
Date: Saturday, November 21st
Time: doors open at 8:30 pm
Location: Ritz Carlton, 10 Avenue of the Arts
Details: Forthcoming- check the GAPSA website regularly for more details. Tickets will go on sale at the Graduate Student Center 11:00am on October 20th.
Questions: contact gapsa.sa@gmail.com
f. Join the GradFest Committee!
Are you interested in helping plan a major springtime event for graduate and professional students at Penn? If so, join the GradFest 2010 committee! A variety of volunteer opportunities are available, from organizing carnival games, to event promotion, to securing corporate sponsors. The committee will meet biweekly throughout the year. Students from all graduate and professional schools and programs are welcome.
Additional information about this fun, festive tradition can be found at www.gapsa.upenn.edu/engage/gradfest. For questions, or to sign up for the committee, please send an e-mail to gradfest@gsc.upenn.edu.
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3. Other University Events
a. PGWISE - Club Monaco Fall Preview & Networking Event
Date: Wednesday, October 14th, 7-9 pm
Location: Club Monaco, 1503 Walnut St, Philadelphia
Penn Graduate Women in Science and Engineering (PGWISE) is teaming up with Club Monaco to offer an exclusive fall preview and networking event for Penn graduate students and post-docs. Enjoy free champagne, cupcakes and personal shopping help from fashion associates while browsing Club Monaco’s full collection of business and casual clothing. All purchases during this special event will be offered at 30% off. Must have valid Penn id ; no undergraduates will be admitted. RSVP to rsvp@clubmonaco.com .
Questions: Contact pgwise@dolphin.upenn.edu
b. PDSC Speed Dating Event, Sponsored by Penn Design Student Council
Date: Thursday, October 15, 7:00-9:00pm
Location: Roosevelt’s Pub, 2022 Walnut Street
Price: $10, includes one drink ticket. If you sign up with a friend, you get $1 off each ticket.
This is a great opportunity to interact with students in other schools in a fun setting. SEAS meets SAS anyone? MFA + MBA = <3 ? Think of it as good time management, or dating on fast forward, since you don’t have time for anything else. Drink specials for participants until 9pm. Buy your tickets Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12-2pm in the Graduate Student Center.
Questions: contact Erika Lindsey, erikamlindsey@gmail.com
c. Young Friends of the Penn Museum’s Golden Gala Party
Date: Friday, October 23, 6:00pm-8:30pm
Location: Penn Museum, 3260 South Street
Price: $75
Join the Young Friends of the Penn Museum for a Golden Gala Party featuring cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, a live auction, and a private tour and sneak preview of the new exhibition Iraq’s Ancient Past: Rediscovering Ur’s Royal Cemetery as part of the larger event, The Golden Age Of Archaeology: Secrets Beneath The Sand Gala. For more information or to purchase tickets, please visit: www.penn.museum/yfgala
Questions: contact egoldsle@sas.upenn.edu
d. 2009 Wharton Energy Conference: “Generation Energy”, sponsored by Wharton Energy Club
Date :Friday, Oct 30th, 9:00AM – 6:30PM
Location: Union League of Philadelphia, 140 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102
Price: Student - $40 in advance, $45 at the door
Business leaders today have the unparalleled opportunity - and the responsibility to future generations - to achieve a sustainable energy portfolio. This opportunity presents itself at a time when industry leaders are seeking new avenues to create economic value. Our goal is to further industry understanding of, and interest in, the opportunities to meet the global energy challenge.
The annual event attracts more than 400 industry professionals and Wharton MBA students and encompasses the variety of fields related to energy including renewables, oil and gas, power, energy finance, and energy policy.
Keynote Speakers:
Michael Allman, CEO, Sempra Generation
H. Jeffrey Leonard, President, Global Environment Fund
Federico F. Peña, Senior Advisor, Vestar Capital Partners, Former Secretary of Energy
Network & Learn/ Panel themes:
* Adventures in Entrepreneurship
* Energy Project Development
* The Great Leap Forward: The Future of the Electricity Grid
* Investing in Energy: Perspectives from the Trenches
Tickets and further information are available on the conference website: www.whartonenergyclub.com/wec2009
Questions: contact gmiriam@wharton.upenn.edu
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4. Other Events of Interest
a. UPenn Bookstore Book Discussions!
Tuesday, October 13 at 6:00 p.m. - Discussion and Signing - Penn Professor John Kromer - “Fixing Broken Cities: The Implementation of Urban Development Strategies” - The origin, execution, and impact of urban repopulation strategies - initiatives designed to attract residences, businesses and jobs to places that have undergone decline and abandonment.
Wednesday, October 14 at 6:30 p.m. - Discussion and Signing - Alumnus David Hall - “Allies at Work: Creating a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Inclusive Work Environment” - A guide to create cultural change in the workplace, developing work environments that fully include everyone.
Tuesday, October 20 at 6:00 p.m. - Wharton Panel Discussion - Wharton Professors Keith Niedermeier, Eric Bradlow and Patti Williams; moderated by Dr. Christopher Geczy - “Marketing for Financial Advisors” - Tips, advice and the marketing skills necessary to build a successful financial advising practice.
Wednesday, October 21 at 6:00 p.m. - Discussion and Signing - Penn Professor Emeritus Nicholas Kefalides - “Echoes from the Cobblestones” - A memoir of Kefalides’ life, beginning in the 1930’s when he joined the resistance against the Germans in Greece.
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5. Call for Papers
a. Penn Humanities Forum Graduate Conference “Missed Connections”
The Graduate Humanities Forum of the University of Pennsylvania invites submissions for its 10th annual conference: “Missed Connections.” The one-day interdisciplinary conference will take place on Friday, February 19th, 2010 at the Penn Humanities Forum in conjunction with its 2009-2010 topic: “Connections.” Our keynote speaker is Laura Otis, a leading 19th-century literature and science scholar and recipient of a MacArthur fellowship at Emory University.
What might it mean to consider the ways in which connections are foreclosed, desires for union left unsatisfied, communications disrupted? A “missed connection” might be as intimate as a brush with a stranger or as literal as a dropped phone call or departing plane; it might be a forgotten or neglected history or genealogy. “Missed Connections” seeks to foreground failures or absences of connection across disciplines and methodologies. We hope for briefs against perfect transmission, network theory attuned to the gaps in coverage. We are also interested in fields of study that might come into focus for being “unconnected”: the rural, the isolated (geographically and historically), the illegible, the strange/estranged.
This conference is open to all graduate students, at Penn and beyond, so if you know of someone at another institution who would be interested, please spread the word!
More information on the conference is available at our website: http://www.phf.upenn.edu/09-10/ghf/cfp.shtml
To apply, please send 250-word paper proposals for one of the panels (described on the website) along with a 1-page CV via email to Rachael Nichols at nichols.rachael@gmail.com by Nov 1, 2009. (Notification by Dec 1, 2009.)
6. Graduate Student Center Programs / Announcements – the NAVIGATING Series!
*Please visit http://www.gsc.upenn.edu/ for more information on upcoming Grad Student Center events or to register for the events below
Upcoming Navigating Series events at the Grad Center:
Navigating the Grant
Presentation: AAUW* Grants (*formerly known as American Association of University Women)
Tuesday, October 13, 5-6:30pm
Come to this presentation to learn about the various grants, eligibility, and application procedures from grant-winners. Note: International students are eligible to apply for AAUW grants. This is a free event but registration is required. Please register here: http://www.gsc.upenn.edu/register/
Solving Problems with Your Students
Wednesday, October 14, 2009; 3 - 4:30 pm
Graduate Student Center, 3615 Locust Walk, Room 305
Blackboard Beyond the Basics:
Grade Center, Blogs, Wikis and More
Thursday, October 15, 2009; 1:30 - 3 pm
Van Pelt Library, Goldstein Electronic Classroom
Navigating the Grant
Presentation on AAUW Grants
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 , 5:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Graduate Student Center, Room 305.
