Student@Tennessee, Monday, Mar 15, 2010 Newsletter for UT Knoxville Students ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special --- Enhanced Security for Hodges Library: The UT Libraries are in the process of implementing a card swipe entry system for Hodges Library between the hours of midnight and 7 a.m. Sunday through Thursday. The second-floor door across from Melrose will serve as the sole entry point for UT students, faculty, and staff during these hours, and a swipe of the VolCard will be required to enter. Individuals may still exit at the ground floor doors, but entry will be closed between midnight and 7 a.m. at the Volunteer Boulevard entrance. Please look for additional publicity regarding the start date for the card swipe activation and be prepared to carry your VolCard with you. Announcement of a start date will be made well in advance of activation. --- Changes to Tmail/Outlook Web Access: When using Tmail from your browser, have you ever been writing an e-mail and your session timed out? Based on user feedback, OIT will be expanding the default timeout for the Public/Shared Computer option from 15 minutes to 1 hour. The timeout settings for the Private Computer option will remain 24 hours. OIT will implement this change at 12:01 a.m. Thursday, March 18. Once the change has been made, you will have up to 1 hour when composing an e-mail message before the system times out. If you need more time, you can choose the Private Computer option when logging into Tmail. This change will only affect you when you are accessing Tmail from a web browser. It does not affect the Microsoft Outlook Client access. If you have any questions about this change, please contact the OIT HelpDesk at (865) 974-9900 or online at http://help.utk.edu. --- Undergraduate researchers, scholars, artists and performers will be in the spotlight for UT Knoxville's first-ever Research Week. The week of March 21-26 will see a concert, an honors symposium, a student paper competition and an art competition. The Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement (EURēCA), in its 14th year, will cap the week of celebration. U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander, former state governor and president of UT, will open the week with a keynote address. Richard Rodriguez, a writer known for his book Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez, will keynote the honors symposium Monday evening. http://research.utk.edu/rw/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Good News --- The UT Libraries have installed new walk-up document scanning stations in the Hodges Library Commons, the Music Library, and the Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine Library. Save an electronic copy to your flash drive or e-mail it to yourself. Scanning is free and kinder to the environment as it uses no paper or toner. --- One hundred seventy-one UT Knoxville students have received $500 study-abroad scholarships funded by a study-abroad fee collected from undergraduates. The $10-per-year fee, proposed by the Student Government Association and approved by the Board of Trustees, went into effect in fall of 2008. The scholarships are based on a combination of financial need and academic merit. Some of the students used the scholarships for study-abroad experiences during spring break; others will use them for study abroad during mini-term and during the summer. http://studyabroad.utk.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Your Calendar --- Are you a sophomore with some issues or problems regarding your major? You are not alone if you are considering changing your major. Learn more at this sophoMORE seminar, "Life in the Real World: Major Issues," 7 p.m. tomorrow in the UC Crest Room. Bring your questions, because you will meet and hear from the college advising offices of Arts & Sciences, Business, Communications, and Education. Staff from Career Services and the Student Success Center also will be on hand to help you fill in the blanks between declaring your major and pursuing your career. http://studentsuccess.utk.edu/soph-seminars.html --- John Marks, the president and founder of Search for Common Ground, a non-profit conflict resolution organization, will discuss peacebuilding and conflict resolution issues, 7 p.m. tomorrow at the I-House. --- Peace Corps information session, 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 17, in 212 Hodges Library. For more info e-mail [log in to unmask] --- The UT Research Seminar on Modern Germany & Central Europe presents a lecture, "Revisiting My Father's Visual Archive," 4 p.m. Thursday, March 18, in the Black Cultural Center. Speaker: Laura Levitt, professor of religion, Temple University. Free and open to the public. Questions? E-mail [log in to unmask] or call 974-2466. --- The UT Science Forum presents Howard L. Hall, UT-ORNL Governor's Chair in Global Nuclear Security and professor of nuclear engineering, who will speak on "Averting Armageddon: Global Challenges in Nuclear Security," noon Friday, March 19, in Thompson-Boling Arena Dining Rooms C-D. Free and open to the public. Questions? E-mail [log in to unmask] or call 974-8156. www.utk.edu/scienceforum --- Registration is now open for a colloquium on promoting healthy weight, "Infancy: Fathers' Experiences & Perspectives; Fathers & Infant Feeding; Motor Development in Infancy; & Fathers' Roles in Families," 12:30 - 5 p.m. Friday, March 26, at the Baker Center. Sponsored by the UT Public Health Nutrition Program. The conference also will be webcast live. Although the colloquium is free and open to the public, space is limited, so registration is required. https://tmail.utk.edu/exchange/student-at-tennessee/Inbox/Event%20to%20be%20posted%20in%20Newsletter.EML/Registration%20open%20flyer_sp10_final.pdf/C5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Get Involved --- In the spirit of friendly competition and going green, UT Knoxville is hosting its first-ever Recyclympics on March 19 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the TRECS Intramural Fields. Students, faculty and staff will compete in various events such as a recycled phone book shot-put, dumpster dive, aluminum can crush and recycle pong. Participants can register on site. The cost of participation is a bag of recyclable material such as empty bottles and cans. RecycleMania T-shirts will be given to the first 50 participants to register, and prizes will be awarded to the individual and team participants who score the most points in a variety of activities. RecycleMania aims to increase recycling participation by students and staff and raise awareness about the significance of waste reduction programs on campuses. It is part of the university's efforts to become "climate neutral." http://www.pp.utk.edu/Recycle/ --- Love Your Libraries Fun Run. Join the Graduate Student Senate in supporting the UT Libraries at the 18th Annual Love Your Libraries Fun Run, Saturday, March 20. http://info.lib.utk.edu/news/blog/2010/01/22/funrun-2/ --- Enter the LGBT Issues Essay & Video Contest for a chance to win a $100 UT Bookstore gift card. Tell us what you think of LGBT Issues in the headlines today. Essay or video themes may include John D'Emilio's Bayard Rustin lecture or his gay history lecture (a podcast is available at http://stream.lib.utk.edu/mp3/leaping_and_creeping.mp3). Other themes may include the opening of the new UT Knoxville LGBT and Ally Resource Center and LGBT issues in higher education. Papers and videos including the intersections of race, religion, ethnicity, class, and sexual orientation or gender identity are especially encouraged. Entry deadline March 31. http://lgbt.utk.edu/events.html#contest ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Deadlines --- Registration for the Clifton M. Jones Student Leadership Conference is still open. The conference is 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Saturday, March 20, in the UC. This year students will be able to "find their new direction" by attending three different breakout sessions on a variety of different topics. Presentation topics in the past have included networking, learning about and improving your student organization, values and ethical leadership, leadership in the "real" world, keeping your meetings exciting, the concept of "servant leadership," and many more. Go to http://sold.utk.edu/conference to register. Questions? E-mail [log in to unmask] --- Environmental Leadership Awards due April 1: Do you know of a UT Knoxville faculty, staff or student who goes the extra mile to promote environmental leadership on campus? Nominate that person for an Environmental Leadership Award. On Earth Day, April 22, 2010, Environmental Leadership Awards will be given to one faculty, one staff and one student from UT Knoxville who demonstrates a strong and continuing commitment to campus environmental leadership through: 1) education; 2) peer outreach; and/or 3) individual actions. The selected person will receive a framed certificate and a "green" goody bag. For more information and to submit a nomination visit http://environment.utk.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ready for the World Events --- The Ready for the World Café, the international buffet run by UT Knoxville students, resumes this week with a "Taste of the South." The menu will include chicken and dumplings, Southern-style greens, cornbread, white bean and vegetable soup, grilled corn, scalloped potatoes, coleslaw and pulled-pork barbecue. The Ready for the World Café is open from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday in the Hermitage Room on the third floor of the University Center. Diners pay $11 for the all-you-can-eat buffet or $9 for a plate of food to carry out. The Ready for the World Café accepts dining dollars and All Star, and faculty and staff can use ARAMARK's UT Reward Card to receive a 15 percent discount. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send comments, suggestions, and items to appear in this newsletter to [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Campus events may be submitted to the online Arts & Events calendar at http://www.utk.edu/events/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe to this newsletter at http://listserv.utk.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=student-at-tennessee&A=1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more links to news and events for the Knoxville campus, go to the student@tennessee Web site at http://www.utk.edu/studentattn/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To view the Student@Tennessee archives or Join/Leave the list: http://listserv.utk.edu/archives/student-at-tennessee.html -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To view the STUDENT@TENNESSEE archives or Join/Leave the list: http://listserv.utk.edu/archives/student-at-tennessee.html