50 Minutes - 1 Book Lecture on A Guide to Queen City, featuring Greg Hand - Dec 8th!

From UC News:

Lunchtime Lecture Explores History of 'The Cincinnati Guide'

UC's Archives & Rare Books Library presents its '50 Minutes – One Book' lecture series.

Date: 12/1/2011 12:00:00 AM
By: Kevin Grace

   The first "50 Minutes – 1 Book" lunchtime talk for this academic year will be held Thursday, December 8, in the Archives & Rare Books Library, in the Schott Seminar Room, 814 Blegen Library at noon.

Greg Hand, director of UC Public Relations, will discuss the book variously known as “The Cincinnati Guide” or “The WPA Guide to Cincinnati,” although its actual title is "Cincinnati: A Guide to the Queen City and its Neighbors," published in 1943 and written by the workers of the Federal Writers Project. In the seven decades since publication, it has become an essential starting point for historians of Cincinnati. For this discussion, Hand will talk about the Great Depression and the WPA in Cincinnati and Ohio. He will review the development of the guide, its reception on publication, and a great deal about the post-WPA life of its editor.

Last year, the 50 Minutes – 1 Book series featured presentations on the world’s smallest book, a book bound in human skin, the work of local bookbinder and designer Gabrielle Fox, and Barry Moser’s magnificent Pennyroyal Caxton Bible.  As we renew the lunchtime presentations, we look forward to more wonderful discussions about books.  

January’s talk will be on Cervantes’ Don Quixote, presented by Jerry Newman.

Please join us on December 8 for another casual noon get-together.  Bring your lunch, order in, or just come to listen, look, learn, and converse. All students, faculty, and staff are very welcome.

Join UC on "What's Your Green Umbrella" Sustainability Site

From UC Sustainability:

Have you heard about the new city-wide campaign to engage Cincinnatians in sustainable actions?  Check out the What’s Your Green Umbrella site now!  

Once you have registered to participate in this easy to use program where you track the things you do to help protect the environment, you can go to the Groups tab and join the UC group.  Then your sustainable actions will be tracked together with other members of the UC community.  

In preparation for the UC vs. Xavier Crosstown Shootout on Saturday, December 10, we are participating in a friendly competition with Xavier to see which university can earn the most emissions reductions and save the most money before the big game!  

The UC group is currently at 9 tons of CO2 reduced and $5,602.41 saved!  And just by registering to use the site you’ll receive a chance to win a life-long family membership to the Cincinnati Zoo. 

Help UC Go Red, Go Black, and Go Green!  Check out What’s Your Green Umbrella today!

Greater Cincinnati GLBTQ Youth Group - Meets Sundays!

From the UC LGBTQ Center:

The GLSEN Greater Cincinnati Youth Group is up and running!  And you are invited to join us every Sunday afternoon.  GLSEN Greater Cincinnati Youth Group ("GYG") provides a fun, safe, supportive and confidential environment for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Questioning High School Youth and their Allies.  GYG will strive to build friendships and explore identity while promoting a peaceful community founded upon equality, acceptance and diversity. 

We meet every Sunday afternoon from 3-5pm at Mt. AuburnPresbyterian Church (no religious affiliation).  (We are not meeting Sunday, December 25th due to the holiday.)  

The address is 103 William Howard Taft Road, Cincinnati Ohio, 45219

GLSEN Greater Cincinnati Youth Group's next meeting is this Sunday, December 4 

from 3-5pm.  At this Sunday's meeting Shawn Jeffers, GLSEN Greater Cincinnati's Education Outreach Chair, will give a presentation about how to establish and support a gay-straight alliance ("GSA") at your school.  All high school students and your parents/guardians are invited -- We hope you can join us!

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Please Note: If you live East of Cincinnati, we are pleased to let you know about a similar group called the ClermontCounty Teen Alliance.  Clermont County Teen Alliance, run by ChildFocus, is a safe space for teens ages 14-18 who identify themselves as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, questioning or straight.  The purpose of the group is to facilitate social activities and to provide education and resources that support safe school environments for all youth.  Snacks and beverages will be provided.

Physical address: 551-B Cincinnati-Batavia Pike

                                   Cincinnati, Ohio 45244

Meetings are held twice a month on Wednesdays from 4:30pm to 6:00pm. 

Schedule:  December 7^th & 21^st, and January 11^th & 25th

                                                                       

Contact info: Melanie Recchia

                      mrecchia@child-focus.org

                      513 752-1555

                      www.child-focus.org

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Questions? Contact: education@glsencincinnati.org or call  (866) 934-9119. 

Like the GYG Facebook Page to stay up to date with the Youth Group.   

Thank you for your support!

-GLSEN Greater Cincinnati

Four Tristate Educators to be Honored at UC’s December Commencement Ceremony

From UC News: 

Four Tristate Educators to be Honored at UC’s December Commencement Ceremony

UC’s seventh-annual Cincinnati USA Outstanding Educator Awards will be presented at Commencement on Dec. 10.

Date: 11/29/2011 12:00:00 AM
By: Dawn Fuller
Phone: (513) 556-1823

Photos By: Ashley Kempher and Dottie Stover

   

UC Commencement

• Teaching is her second career, and she’s praised by students for fostering a love of learning.
• A teacher of gifted students will receive this special gift at UC’s Commencement ceremony.
• A self-proclaimed “small-town” student will honor the former teacher who literally drove her on the pathway to a higher education.
• A December graduate will honor a former teacher and administrator, now retired and pursuing her lifelong learning at UC.

All four women will be honored with UC’s seventh-annualCincinnati USA Outstanding Educator Award as the University of Cincinnati celebrates all-university Commencement at 9 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 10, in Fifth Third Arena.

Each of the honorees will be presented with a $1,000 scholarship to be awarded to a student of her choosing who plans to attend UC in the 2012-2013 academic year.

Earlier in the fall, future UC graduates from around the Tristate were invited to recognize the K-12 educator who fueled their dreams of achieving a higher education. The recipients of the Cincinnati USA Outstanding Educator Awards were selected from 23 nominations that were reviewed by a UC committee that included representation from the Office of the President, UC faculty, staff and students.

The recipients of the 2011 Cincinnati USA Outstanding Educator Awards are:

Susan Moore – Moore teaches at the Live Oaks Career Development Campus in Milford, and is a 17-year veteran of teaching. Her former student, Katherine Yount of Amelia, is earning her associate degree in multi-skilled health technology and attending Clermont College. “She not only shared her love of the medical field with me, but also a love of learning, and that being a lifelong learner is something that everyone should strive for,” Yount says.

Gail Seifert – Seifert is a 34-year veteran of teaching, including 25 years of working with gifted students. The Whitaker Elementary School teacher is being honored by music education major Sarah Grogan, a full scholarship recipient at UC. “She also emphasized that there was no such thing as failure. If something didn’t work, the gifted class just kept on going. My experience in Mrs. Seifert’s class had such an impact on me that I decided early on to become a teacher,” says Grogan.

Marcia Taynor – The Springfield-Clark Career Technology teacher is a 24-year veteran of the profession. Her former student, Allison Sherick, will be graduating next June with a bachelor’s degree in middle childhood education with a focus on math and science. “Ms. Taynor supported me and helped me through leaving home for the first time, and she continued to take interest in my progress, my struggles and my achievements,” says Sherick. “She is still my biggest supporter and my best mentor.”

Anita Williams – The 33-year veteran of teaching was a teacher, principal and district curriculum director when she retired from the Winton Woods City School District. She is now a doctoral student in UC’s urban educational leadership program. Her former student, Stephanie Tevis, will march at Commencement in December as Tevis achieves a bachelor’s degree in dietetics. “She was one of my very first teachers to show a balance of strength and compassion,” Tevis says. “Basically, she was the person who made me feel like I was able to accomplish an education beyond high school.”

UC’s December Commencement ceremony recognizes graduates who completed their associate, bachelor’s or master’s degrees last summer or this fall.

UC Commencement Website

Student Government Survey about Homecoming!

From UC Undergradute Student Government Association:


Below you will find the link to a survey regarding the Homecoming Parade andFootball Game. I am hoping to gather a lot of feedback about the Homecoming set up and how students felt about it.

If you could take four minutes and fill out this survey and then take another two minutes to pass it on to your respective students groups, it would be much appreciated!

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HYWFDYV

Greek Life Virtual Food Drive for Freestore Foodbank

From UC News and UC Fraternity & Sorority Life:

Greek Life Virtual Food Drive

All of the Greek organizations at the University of Cincinnati are founded on principles such as—leadership, friendship, scholarship, citizenship, and service—for the purpose of fostering the highest level of personal development for all members. To demonstrate and reinforce the commitment of all its members to achieving a higher level of personal development, the Interfraternity Council has chosen to begin a community wide service and/or philanthropy project. This All Greek Philanthropy Project is a virtual food drive to raise money for Freestore Foodbank to aid Freestore Foodbank in providing food and services, create stability, and further self‐reliance for people in crisis here in Cincinnati and in surrounding areas. Click here to go to the donation site!

Free Program at Cincinnati Zoo on Effects of Climate Change - Dec 5th!

From UC Sustainability:

Join us this Monday, December 5, 2011 at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden for an evening program on the effects of climate change.  

Eric Gruenstein, UC Professor and an official presenter for the Climate Reality Project, will discuss the overall global effects of climate change and its effect on species habitat and extinctions. Bernadette Plair, scientist and researcher for the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden (CZBG) & the Center for Conservation and Research of Endangered Wildlife (CREW), will focus on CZBG’s collaboration with Polar Bears International (PBI), how climate change has an effect on arctic ice and CREW’s research, conservation, and education efforts regarding polar bears. 

Please join us for this enlightening program, starting at 7pm.  Co-sponsored by the City of Cincinnati’s Officeof Environmental Quality.

Reserve your FREE ticket by visiting https://tickets.cincinnatizoo.org/mainstore.asp?vid=2#cat1264. 

Attendance is limited and the FREE tickets are required. 

Contact gogreen@cincinnatizoo.org with any questions you might have