Communication Email: October 26, 2009
SASgov Weekly – October 26, 2009
1. Upcoming SASgov Events & Announcements
a. Halloween Extravaganza, Thursday, October 29
2. Upcoming GAPSA Events & Announcements
a. Join the GradFest Committee
b. Art of Networking, October 26
c. Halloween Party, October 29
d. Wine Tasting at Supper, November 6
e. Wilma Theater Wine Tasting and Show, November 13
f. Black and White Ball, November 21
g. Thanksgiving Dinner Party, November 27
3. Other University Announcements
a. Art of Living Club at Penn presents Breath, Meditation, and Mind, October 28
b. President Gutmann’s Halloween Party, October 30
c. 2009 Wharton Energy Conference: “Generation Energy”, October 30
d. PennTango’s 1st Annual Halloween Masquerade Milonga at Penn, October 31
e. Public Policy Challenge Interest Meeting, November 3
f. Homecoming Weekend! Nov. 5-8
g. Behind the Scenes Tour of Penn Museum, November 6
h. SPEC Connaissance Presents: “An Evening with Steve Forbes”, November 3
4. Call for Papers
a. Penn Humanities Forum Graduate Conference “Missed Connections”
5. Graduate Student Center Programs / Announcements
a. Finding Your Career Fit Graduate Student Seminar, October 30
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. 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. 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
c. 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.
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Questions: Contact gapsa.sa@gmail.com
d. Supper Wine Tasting
Date: Friday, November 6th
Time: 6:30pm-8:30pm
Location: Supper, 926 South Street
Details: Tickets are $16 and are exclusively available on ticketleap.gapsa.com. Limit 2 per valid Penn graduate ID. Must present valid 21+ ID to attend event.
Questions: contact gapsa.sa@gmail.com
e. Wilma Theater Wine Tasting and Show
Date: Friday, November 13
Time: 7:00-8:00pm, pre-show wine tasting in the lobby of the Wilma Theater; 8:00-10:00pm, the show
Location: The Wilma Theater (Broad and Spruce Street)
Details: Tickets are $10.00, on sale now at the Graduate Student Center. Limit 2 per Penn Graduate ID. MUST PRESENT PENN GRADUATE ID AT EVENT, as well as 21+ ID to receive alcoholic beverages.
Questions: Contact gapsa.sp@gmail.com
f. GAPSA 2nd 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: 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
g. Thanksgiving Dinner Party
Date & Time: Friday, November 27th, 6:00-9:00pm
Location: Philly Diner, 39th and Walnut
Details: Tickets are $5 and are exclusively available at ticketleap.gapsa.com. Limit 2 tickets per valid Penn grad ID. Must have Penn Graduate ID.
Questions: Contact gapsa.sp@gmail.com
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3. Other University Events
a. Art of Living Club at Penn presents Breath, Meditation, and Mind
Date: Wednesday, October 28, 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
b. President Gutmann’s Halloween Party
Date: Friday, October 30, 6:30-7:30pm
Location: Wynn Commons
Ghosts, Goblins, and creatures of fright. Don’t miss the call of Halloween night! Join President Gutmann for treats and sweets under the tent on Wynn Commons
Don’t forget your Penncard!
c. 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
d. The 1st Annual Halloween Masquerade Milonga at Penn
Date: Saturday, October 31st, 8:00pm-1:00am
Location: Arch Auditorium (36th Street at Locust Walk, Enter the RED double door and go to the 2nd Floor)
Pricing: FREE to Students with ID, $10 Non-Students
PennTango and the Philadelphia Argentine Tango School will be hosting an elegant Masquerade Milonga at the ARCH Auditorium on the Penn campus. Come enjoy an exciting and lovely night of dancing. The milonga will be preceded by an intro/all levels lesson taught by Damian Thompson & Aja Fenn, guest teachers for the Philadelphia Argentine Tango School. There will be a performance by our guest instructor Damian at 11pm that you won’t want to miss!
Questions: Contact ningrui@gmail.com
e. Public Policy Challenge Interest Meeting, Sponsored by The Public Policy Challenge / Fels Institute of Government
Date: Tuesday, November 3rd, 5:00pm-6:00pm
Location: Fels Institute of Government, 3814 Walnut St.
The Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania announces the 1st annual Public Policy Challenge, an interdisciplinary competition at Penn. The Challenge gives students and recent alumni with an interest in any policy issue area a chance to work with like-minded colleagues from other Penn schools. It focuses on the Philadelphia regional policy process, asking each team to develop an integrated policy campaign plan for a policy initiative of its choice. Competition events take place during the first half of the spring semester, but individual applications are due November 17th.
Get the details at www.publicpolicychallenge.org
If you can’t make it, no problem. For more information or to get on the mailing list, contact Jack Higgins at thechallenge@sas.upenn.edu.
f. HOMECOMING!
Next weekend, Nov. 5-8, is Homecoming Weekend! Check out some great (and free!) events at http://www.alumni.upenn.edu/homecoming2009/
g. Behind-the-scenes tour of the Penn Museum, sponsored by The Penn Museum
Time and Date: Friday, November 6th, 2:00-4:30 pm
Location: Penn Museum (3260 South Street - across from Franklin Field)
Price: Free! Must preregister; space is limited.
Come tour the museum, learn what it’s all about, meet our staff and researchers, and get involved! The behind-the-scenes tour will take graduate and professional students to places the public never sees (including storage) and meet representatives from various museum departments. We’ll hear about the museum’s educational outreach, collections, exhibit construction, archival materials, object conservation, development efforts, and the organization of events. Join us for a casual reception in the Lower Egyptian Gallery following the tour and meet fellow graduate students as well as museum staff.
Space is limited so sign up now. RSVP by sending your name, program, and year in program to gradmuseum@gmail.com. If you cannot make the tour itself, but would like to join us for a reception afterward, please feel free to join us at 4:30pm in the Lower Egypt Gallery - just drop an email to the above address.
Contact information: gradmuseum@gmail.com
h. SPEC Connaissance Proudly Presents: “An Evening with Steve Forbes”
Date: Tuesday, November 3rd, 8:00 PM
Location: Irvine Auditorium
Price: Tickets are $5 for PennCard holders. The lottery is now open. To enter the lottery, please go to http://www.specevents.net
Steve Forbes is the editor-in-chief of business magazine Forbes as well as president and chief executive officer of its publisher, Forbes Inc. He was a Republican candidate in the U.S. Presidential primaries in 1996 and 2000. His speech will focus on the political ramifications of the current economic crisis; he will also address topics of health care, taxes and business growth.
Tickets will be distributed from October 26th to November 2nd. Lottery winners will be notified in advance. They will be allowed to pick up a maximum of two tickets.
Questions: contact calvin@sas.upenn.edu
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4. Workshops / 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.)
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5. Graduate Student Center Programs / Announcements
a. Finding Your Career Fit Graduate Student Seminar , co-sponsored by GAPSA
Friday, October 30, 2009 , 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
CAPS, 133 South 36th Street, Mezzanine Level
Using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and self-exploration techniques, start to explore how your values, skills, interests and personality all impact your career fit. Also learn how to use Career Service resources to find jobs that best fit you and also compliment your current degree program.
