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Research & Scholarship Events: 2007-2008

September 2007:

"Groupwise: Be More Productive with GroupWise"
September 20, 2007 | a CIT Workshop | 9:00 - 11:00 a.m. | HL 122 | Instructor: Krista Spahr | (register)

Learn how to be more productive using GroupWise. We’ll show you the various options you have when sending and receiving email learn how to use the address book, create additional address books, and use groups and aliases. We’ll also show you how to use the calendar. Prerequisite: None

October 2007:

"Reimagining Educational Excellence"
October 11-13, 2007 | Prince Conference Center at Calvin College | Grand Rapids, Michigan
Conference Registration | Conference Schedule | Presenter Biographies

Sponsored by Kuyers Institute for Christian Teaching and Learning, the conference will explore how the call of Micah 6:8, “to seek justice, love mercy, and walk humbly before God,” can reframe the visions of educational excellence that we pursue. Plenary speakers at this conference will be David Purpel (emeritus, University of North Carolina at Greenboro), Herma Williams (Fresno Pacific University), and Christopher Smit (Calvin College).

For further information contact:

  • Seminars in Christian Scholarship
  • Calvin College
  • 1855 Knollcrest Circle SE
  • Grand Rapids MI 49546-4402
  • 616.526.8558
  • fax 616.526.6682
  • seminars@calvin.edu

"Effectively Working with Collaborators—Disciplinary, Grant, Community, and Industry"
October 23, 2007 | 12:00-2:00 | Reading Recess Luncheon | Alumni Board Room

Panel discussion with Beryl Hugen (Disciplinary); Karen and Mark Muyskens (NSF); Gail Heffner, Gail Zandee (Community); John Ubels (Industry). To RSVP for this session, please send an email with your name and the discussion table you wish to join to: scholars@calvin.edu.

November 2007:

 

December 2007:

“Sharing Successes and Challenges: Follow-up on Five Year Plan of Scholarship Workshop”
December 10, 2007 | 12:00 - 2:00 P.M. | Alumni Board Room

Targeting faculty who have previously participated in the summer workshop entitled, "Developing Your Five-Year Plan of Scholarship," and facilitated by Helen Sterk and Janel Curry, this discussion will function as a roundtable sharing of what participants have been working on since the workshop(s).

February 2007:

 

March 2008:

From Every Nation (F.E.N.) Symposium
March 5-6, 2008

The Office of Multicultural Affairs is hosting the second annual "From Every Nation Symposium on Race" March 5 and 6, 2008. This symposium will feature two evening lectures by Dr. John Palmer and Dr. Kristal Brent Zook. The purpose of the symposium is to hear from leading scholars and to stimulate our own conversation as we revisit Calvin's commitment to diversity and anti-racism.

For more information on the FEN Symposium, contact Razel Jones in the Multicultural Affairs Office at 616.526.8703 or multiculturalaffairs@calvin.edu.

April 2008:

"Grant Program Consultation"
April 22, 2008 | 12:00-2:00 | Advising Recess Luncheon | Alumni Board Room

Join a table and discussion with a faculty member(s) who has been successful in obtaining a grant(s) under a particular program or area, or has reviewed such grants. To RSVP, please send an email with your name, email, and the table you wish to attend: instruction@calvin.edu.

Tables: Fulbright (Bruce Berglund); NIH (Kumar Sinniah and Arlene Hoogewerf), NEH (Bill Romanowski and Craig Hanson); The Arts (Ellen van’t Hof and Darlene Meyering); NSF (Paul Moes and Joel Adams).

May 2008:

“Planning for your sabbatical: Follow-up on Five Year Plan of Scholarship Workshop”
May 12, 2008 | 12:00 - 2:00 P.M. | Alumni Board Room | Starring: Janel Curry and Shirley Roels.

Developing Five Year Plan of Scholarship
May 27-28, 2008 | 9:00 - 3:00 P.M. | Starring: Janel Curry and Helen Sterk.