Hello all,

Here is your SASgov weekly for 10/6/09! Hope to see you at SASgov’s happy hour this Thursday.

Sincerely,

Suzanne B.

SASgov Weekly – October 6, 2009

1. Upcoming SASgov Events & Announcements
a. Second Fall Happy Hour! Thursday, October 8

2. Upcoming GAPSA Events & Announcements

a. Distrito Happy Hour, October 8

b. King of Prussia Shopping Trip

c. City Tavern Dinner, October 24

3. Other University Announcements

a. Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship Information Session, October 9

b. PGWISE  (Penn Graduate Women in Science & Engineering)- Club Monaco Fall Preview & Networking Event

c. PDSC Speed Dating Event, October 16

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

4. Other Events of Interest
UPenn Bookstore Discussions:

Tuesday, Oct. 6 at 6PM
Penn Professors’ Ira Harkavy and Frank Johnston
“The Obesity Culture”

Thursday, October 8 at 6:00 p.m. - Discussion and Signing

Michael Sielski

“Fading Echoes: A True Story of Rivalry and Brotherhood from the Football Field to the Fields of Honor”

5. Call for Papers
a. Penn Humanities Forum Graduate Conference “Missed Connections”

6. Graduate Student Center Programs / Announcements

Navigating Series events!

Navigating the Grant: AAUW Grants – Tuesday, Oct. 13

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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. SASgov’s second fall Happy Hour takes place on Thursday, October 8, 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

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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.
Check the events page of the GAPSA website (http://www.gapsa.upenn.edu/engage/events) regularly, as GAPSA is finalizing some great social events for September!

a. Distrito Happy Hour

Date: Thursday, October 8^th

Time: 9:30pm-10:30pm

Location: Distrito Restaurant, 3945 Chestnut St.

Details: 2 free drinks for the first 200 graduate students.  Must present valid Penn graduate ID and 21+ ID for entrance.

Questions: contact gapsa.sa@gmail.com

b. King of Prussia Shopping Trip

Date: Saturday, October 17^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 11:00 am and returns at 6:00 pm. It’s free! Graduate Penn ID required. Email gapsa.sp@gmail.com to reserve a seat on the bus.

Questions: contact gapsa.sp@gmail.com

c. City Tavern Dinner

Date: Saturday, October 24^th

Time: 6:30-8:30

Location: City Tavern, 138 S 2nd St.

Details: Tickets available exclusively at gapsa.ticketleap.com for $25. Tickets include a five course meal and an alcoholic beverage. Must show valid 21+ ID to receive alcoholic beverage. Limit 3 tickets per Penn grad ID. Must bring Penn grad ID to event.

Questions: contact gapsa.sp@gmail.com

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3. Other University Events

a. Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship Information Session
Interested in getting a $70,000 Fellowship?

…Then come to the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship information session. The director of the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships will be at Penn on Oct. 9th to answer any questions that you might have. You will also get to hear about the experience of a Penn student, who was successful at obtaining the fellowship last year.

When: Oct. 9th, 2009 from 1:30-2:30

Where: The Fireside Room on the second floor of the Arch building (building with red doors at the corner of 36th and Locust)

Who: 1st or 2nd year students who might be eligible for the fellowship (You are eligible if: 1.you are a naturalized US citizen OR 2. you are the child of parents who are both naturalized US citizens OR 3.you currently hold a green card)

What: Meet the director of the Paul and Daisy Fellowships and get to hear about the application process.
For more information about the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship, please visit http://www.pdsoros.org/faq/#question1.

b. 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

c. 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

d. 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

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4. Other Events of Interest

a. UPenn Bookstore Book Discussions!

Tuesday, Oct. 6 at 6PM
Penn Professors Ira Harkavy and Frank Johnston
“The Obesity Culture”
Using the Urban Nutrition Initiative - a Penn-established community partnership project - as their model, Harkavy and Johnston outline how “a culture of obesity” can be changed through community-based cooperation

Thursday, October 8 at 6:00 p.m. - Discussion and Signing

Michael Sielski

“Fading Echoes: A True Story of Rivalry and Brotherhood from the Football Field to the Fields of Honor”

The true story of small-town American life as it chronicles two outstanding athletes and Doylestown natives whose dreams and devotion to their country led them to the Middle East.

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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/