Denton Details, 02-20-19

02/19/19
  • Faculty and staff are invited to attend Dialogues on Race & Social Inequality from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 20 in ACT 301. This month’s topic is “Understanding the experiences of students navigating college when English is not their first language.” The event also will be available via livestream.
  • Reminder: The North Texas Food Bank Mobile Pantry will be in the Jones Hall parking lot from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21. All qualifying faculty, staff and students are invited to grab some fresh fruits and veggies. Questions? Contact CARE at care@twu.edu or x2789.
  • The Department of Sociology and Social Work will sponsor “Wrongful Convictions” from 2-4 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26 in ACT 301. Anna Vasquez, communications director for the Innocence Project of Texas, will speak about wrongful convictions in the criminal justice system, the work of her organization and her own experience as an exoneree. The event is free and open to the public.
  • Faculty and staff are invited to take part in the March For A Cure, an on-campus 5K fundraiser from 9 a.m. to noon, Friday, March 1. The event begins and ends in front of the TWU Greenhouse. Bring your dogs, friends and family members! Registration is a minimum $5 per person; donate $20 or more and get a T-shirt. All proceeds from the event go to Cancer Care, which provides free support services and information for those affected by cancer. The TWU Center for Student Leadership is sponsoring the event.
  • Congratulations to the winners of the STAR Symposium awards! Pushkala Raman (business) won “Most Nominations,” Sheila Bustillos (multicultural women’s & gender studies) was awarded “Best Assignment,” and Alex Pomelnikov (business) won “Best Presentation.”
  • Michelle Reeves (Civility and Community Standards) will serve full time as interim director of TWU’s Health and Wellbeing Initiative beginning Friday, March 1.
  • Jian Zhang (computer science) will serve as program co-chair for the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education’s 50th annual SIGCSE Technical Symposium Feb. 27-March 2 in Minneapolis. SIGCSE, the world’s largest computing education conference, will attract more than 1,500 researchers, educators and others interested in improving computing education.
  • Ling Hwey Jeng (School of Library and Information Studies) was elected vice president of the City of Denton Library Board.
  • Connie Briggs (reading) has been named president of the national Association of Literacy Educators and Research organization.