SASgov Weekly – October 19, 2009

1. Upcoming SASgov Events & Announcements

a. Fall Happy Hour – on Thursday, October 22!

b. Halloween Extravaganza, Thursday, October 29

2. Upcoming GAPSA Events & Announcements

a. Join the GradFest Committee

b. Archtoberfest Happy Hour, October 23

c. King of Prussia Shopping Trip #2, October 24

d. Art of Networking, October 26

e. Halloween Party, October 29

f. Fogo de Chao Dinner, November 3

g. Tickets on Sale 10/20: Black and White Ball, November 21

h. Cheap movie tickets!

3. Other University Announcements

a. Penn Students of Ailing Mothers, Fathers Welcome Back Kickoff/Informational Meeting, October 20

b. “Talking About Your Teaching”, October 20

c. National Climate Seminar, October 21

d. Art of Living Club at Penn presents Breath, Meditation, and Mind, October 21

e. “More Than One Way to Use Your PhD: Science & Engineering”, October 22

f. “More Than One Way to Use Your PhD: Science & Engineering”, October 23

g. Young Friends of the Penn Museum’s Golden Gala Party, October 23

h. PennTango Argentine Tango Lesson, October 25

i. 2009 Wharton Energy Conference: “Generation Energy”, October 30

4. Other Events of Interest

UPenn Bookstore Discussions:

Tuesday, October 20 at 6:00 p.m. - Wharton Panel Discussion. “Marketing for Financial Advisors”

Wednesday, October 21 at 6:00 p.m. - Discussion and Signing – Penn Professor Emeritus Nicholas Kefalides. “Echoes from the Cobblestones”

5. Workshops / Call for Papers

a. Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship and Constitutionalism, Graduate Workshop: “Education and Citizenship in Liberal-Democratic States, Oct. 22

b. Penn Humanities Forum Graduate Conference “Missed Connections”

6. Graduate Student Center Programs / Announcements

Navigating Series events!

Navigating the Dissertation

Ergonomics Workshop, October 22

Navigating the Grant

Panel Discussion: “NRSA: What? When? How?”, October 23

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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. Fall Happy Hour – on Thursday, October 22!

SASgov’s third fall Happy Hour takes place on Thursday, October 22, from 5 to 7 pm, at 3619 Locust Walk.

SAS and LPS grad students free with PennCard. Guests $5. Beer, soft drinks, pizza (which goes quickly!), and fun!

Please contact sasgov-comm@sas.upenn.edu with questions about SASgov social activities

b. Halloween Extravaganza

Thursday, October 29, 5-8 PM.

SASgov invites you to a HALLOWEEN EXTRAVAGANZA! CA$H prizes for top 3 costumes in costume show! Free for SAS grad students with costume ($3 with no costume, $5 non-SAS students). Food, drinks, candy, and more…

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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. 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.

b. Archtoberfest Happy Hour

Date: Thursday, October 22nd

Time: 5:30pm-7:30pm

Location: Meyerson Hall

Details: Must present Penn Graduate ID and 21+ ID to attend.

Questions: contact gapsa.sa@gmail.com

c. King of Prussia Shopping Trip

Date: Saturday, October 24^th

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. Register at gapsa.ticketleap.com

Questions: contact gapsa.sp@gmail.com

d. Art of Networking, co-sponsored by the Graduate Student Center and Career Services

Date: Monday, October 26th

Time: 6:00pm-8:00pm

Location: Ben Franklin Room, Houston Hall

Details: Learn how to be at ease in any situation: at a recruiting event, a mixer, while entertaining for business and/or cocktail party. Appetizers and wine will be served during the event. Tickets are $7 per person (limit 2 per grad ID). Purchase tickets in advance at the Graduate Student Center, 3615 Locust Walk.

Questions: contact gapsa.sp@gmail.com

e. 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

f. Fogo de Chao Dinner

Date: Tuesday, November 3rd

Time: 6:30pm-8:30pm

Location: Fogo de Chao - 1337 Chestnut Street

Details: Tickets available exclusively at Ticketleap for $25. Limit 2 per valid Penn grad ID. Dinner includes all-you-can-eat meal as well as one alcoholic beverage. Must present valid 21+ ID to receive alcoholic beverage.

Questions: contact gapsa.sp@gmail.com

g. ON SALE TUESDAY: GAPSA 2nd Annual Black and White Ball

Date: Saturday, November 21^st

Time: Doors open at 8:30 pm

Location: Ritz Carlton, 10 Avenue of the Arts

Details:  Invitation can be purchased at the Graduate Student Center (3615 Locust Walk) starting Tuesday, October 20th at 11:00am. Limit 2 invitations per Penn Graduate ID.  Must present valid Penn Graduate ID and invitation for admittance and must be 21+ to receive alcoholic beverages.

Questions: contact gapsa.sa@gmail.com

h. Cheap Movie Tickets

Subsidized movie tickets for the Bridge Theatre on 40th and Walnut now on sale at the Graduate Student Center for $3. Tickets can be used at any time. Limit 3 per Penn graduate student ID.

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3. Other University Events

a. Welcome Back Kickoff/Informational Meeting for Penn Students of AMF

Date: Tuesday, October 20, 8:00pm Location: Houston Hall, 1st floor reading room, on the left when enter from Perelman Quad Penn Students of AMF (deceased or “Ailing Mothers, Fathers,” or loved ones) is a SAC- and GAPSA-recognized organization, which includes a peer-led Grief Support Group for students coping with the illness or death of a loved one to get together to share with one another and a Service Group open to ALL students to go to service events to raise money for important causes. We had over 30 students attend at least one support group meeting last year and about 10 students per meeting.

We are holding a Welcome-Back Kickoff/Informational meeting (open to all students to learn about both/either groups) on Tuesday, October 20th at 8pm in Houston Hall (1st Floor Reading Room, on the left when you walk in from Perelman Quadrangle).

To get more information, go to http://www.studentsofamf.org or watch a 2 minute video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxgnQUIyMow .

Questions: contact David at davidfa@mail.med.upenn.edu

b. Tuesday, October 20, 12-1 PM

McNeil Building, Room 97

Talking about your Teaching

“Tell us about your teaching” is a question many candidates on the academic job market will hear.  Bruce Lenthall from Penn’s Center for Teaching and Learning will discuss ways to answer this question and strategies for talking about your teaching with enthusiasm and thoughtfulness.

c. National Climate Seminar

Wednesday, October 21, 3 PM

Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center in the Meyerson Conference Room (2nd floor east)

This fall, the Penn Libraries will be participating in the National Climate Seminar, a bi-monthly, national phone conversation featuring top climate scientists, political leaders and policy analysts. The event, hosted by the Bard Center for Environmental Policy, is an opportunity for educators, students and concerned citizens to participate in the national dialogue on climate change. The National Climate Seminar will take place in Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center in the Meyerson Conference Room (2nd floor east). The teleconference begins at 3pm and will last for 30 minutes with a short 15-20 minute discussion immediately after led by Andrew E. Huemmler, Lecturer in Electrical & Systems Engineering and Earth & Environmental Science. All members of the Penn Community are invited to attend. (http://www.library.upenn.edu/news/649)

d. Art of Living Club at Penn presents Breath, Meditation, and Mind

Date: Wednesday, October 21, 7:00pm-8:30pm Location: Brachfeld Room, Room 225, Houston Hall The ‘Art of Living Club @ UPENN’ is offering free, weekly workshop open to all graduate students interested in learning new breathing & meditation techniques that can help decrease stress, reduce negative emotions while increasing energy, focus and efficiency. For those want to dive deeper, come hear about our upcoming ‘Yoga Empowerment Service’ course (Nov 10-15) that’s happening right on campus.

RSVP at

http://secure.artofliving.org/events.aspx?state=PA&city=PHILADELPHIA&type=-1

Questions: contact anup@mail.med.upenn.edu

e. More Than One Way to Use Your PhD: Science and Engineering

Thursday, October 22, 4-5 PM

Houston Hall, Ben Franklin Room

f. More Than One Way to Use Your PhD: Humanities & Social Sciences

Friday, October 23, 12-1 PM

McNeil Building, Room 103

g. 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

h. PennTango Argentine Tango Lesson

Date:  Sunday, October  25th, Class 3:00-4:30pm; Open Practice 4:30-5:45pm

Location: Arch Auditorium (36th Street at Locust Walk, 2nd Floor)

Questions: Contact ningrui@gmail.com

i. 2009 Wharton Energy Conference: “Generation Energy”, sponsored by Wharton Energy Club

Date :Friday, Oct 30^th, 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 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. Workshops / Call for Papers

a. Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship and Constitutionalism, Graduate Workshop: “Education and Citizenship in Liberal-Democratic States (http://www.sas.upenn.edu/dcc/workshops/graduate.html)

Dana Dawson (Social and Political Thought, York University, and Adjunct Faculty, Temple):”Democratization and Aboriginal Education in 19th-century Upper Canada”

Jeehyun Lim (English, UPenn): “Re-imagining Citizenship Through Bilingualism: The Migrant Bilingual Child in Helen María Viramontes’s Under the Feet”

Date: Oct 22, 2009

Place: Room 219, College Hall

Time: 4-5:30pm

b. 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!

Navigating the Dissertation

Ergonomics Workshop

Do you work with computers every day? Do you experience musculoskeletal pain after prolonged hours of computer use? Then this workshop is perfect for you! The workshop will be followed by a happy hour and snacks.

Thursday, October 22, 2009, 4:30-6:00 PM

Graduate Student Center - Room 305

Navigating the Grant

Panel Discussion: “NRSA: What? When? How?”

Are you thinking of applying for the National Research Service Award? Get information on the various individual grants (Diversity, Dissertation, MD-PhD) and their application procedures, and get your questions answered by successful grant-winners. Panelists include a BGS resource person to tell you how they can be of help.

Friday, October 23, 2009 , 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM

Graduate Student Center, Room 305

*Please visit http://www.gsc.upenn.edu/ for more information on upcoming Grad Student Center events or to register for the events below