NYS ACE Women’s Network Presents: Climbing the Leadership Ladder in Higher Education
Panelists: Amy DeKay, VP for Student Development, Medaille College, Jacqui Hollins, Associate Vice Provost and Director of Academic Success Initiatives, University at Buffalo, Fatima Rodriguez-Johnson, Associate Dean of Diversity and Inclusion, Canisius College
The UB Undergraduate English Club is hosting the Fifth Annual Undergraduate English Conference and is now seeking undergraduate submissions for presentation. The theme for the conference is revolutions, uprisings, and upheavals of all kinds, across historical periods and disciplines. We welcome submissions examining revolutions or radical change from historical, literary, anthropological, philosophical, or other points of view. An ideal paper presentation might rely on Marxist literary theory to relate an important work of literature to its social setting, or compare historical instances of major political change to the contemporary moment, for example.
The conference will be held on Friday, April 26 from 12pm to 6pm in Clemens 120. Light refreshments will be served, and attendance is open to all students and the public. A 250-300 word abstract will be due by midnight on Friday, March 15. All abstracts should be emailed as a .doc or .docx file to UBenglishconf@gmail.com.
On March 27th at 6:00pm, there will be a medical student-run mentoring event for Honors College premedical students at the Downtown campus (Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences).
The event will be in 1225A. When you arrive at the
medical campus, you will buzz in and sign in at the front desk since the entire
campus is swipe access only.
This event will include a presentation from myself (Cullan) and other first-year medical students giving advice, resources, and generalized tips about the process of applying to medical school. The pre-health committee is a fantastic resource, however, our goal is to give more of an insider perspective with students who have recently gone through the process. The end will be an informal Q&A session, so be sure to bring some questions for us!
FREE PIZZA will be provided!
Click on the link below and enter your name into the google
spreadsheet so we can get an accurate count of who is interested in coming. We
hope to see you there!
We are pleased
to announce the 5th annual undergraduate English conference, titled
“Revolt! A Conference on/in Upheaval”. We are now accepting
submissions for papers and presentations relating to political, social, and
cultural upheaval from any discipline. Students are encouraged to present their
unique perspective on what qualifies as upheaval, and how societies have dealt
with sudden changes in the past. Examples of possible paper topics are included
in the attached poster.
The conference
is scheduled for Friday, April 26th from 12pm to 6pm in Clemens 120.
If you are
interested, please send your 250-300 word abstract to UBenglishconf@gmail.com in
the form of a doc. or docx. file. The deadline for submissions is Friday,
March 15th at midnight. If you have any questions about
submissions, deadlines, or helping to organize the conference, please feel free
to email us at UBenglishconf@gmail.com or
at shaunnow@buffalo.edu.
Abstract: With the rapid approach of self-driving cars, we are poised to yield autonomy to millions of machines that will have the power over life and death. The road to this future has a bright promise, but as we are beginning to see, there are numerous psychological roadblocks. Many of these involve thorny ethical challenges that come when the moral decisions that are today made by individual drivers are turned over to preprogrammed algorithms. How should these cars be programmed to mete out risks to the various people on road? Who determines the ethics of these algorithms? I will discuss the recent work with my collaborators on the social psychology and legal implications of these moral machines.
Bio: Azim Shariff is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia where he holds the Canada 150 Research Chair of Moral Psychology. His research on morality, religion, and technology has appeared in top academic journals such as Science and Nature and received global media coverage. He has presented this work in The New York Times, Scientific American, and at the Aspen Ideas Festival. He teaches a free Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) on The Science of Religion for the public through edX.
Join us for a conversation on queer identities in academia over dinner with DR. ERIC PRITCHARD THURSDAY, MARCH 07 | 5:30 PM LOCATION WILL BE DISCLOSED AFTER REGISTERING
