“Building Your Business in Nutrition”
Presented by Maye Musk R.D.
Wednesday, February 8, 6-8 p.m
Ledford Hall
Hosted by the Nutrition Graduate Student Association
Free

Meredith College International Film Festival showing of "Moolade"
Wednesday, February 8, 6 p.m. (refreshments) 6:30 p.m. (film begins)
Kresge Auditorium
Free

In her African village, Colle is determined to protect her daughter and five other young girls from genital mutilation, a rite of passage required for marriage in their society. Disobeying the elders, Colle listens to the radio for news from the outside world. This winner of a Special Mention Prize at the Cannes Festival gives a humours view of a controversial issue that still affects millions of women around the world. SENEGAL-FRANCE-BURKINA/2004. 124 mins. In French and Bambara with English subtitles. Directed by Ousmane Sembene.

 

Spring 2011 All Staff Meeting
Thursday, February 9, 3–4 p.m. (Refreshments 2:30 p.m.)
Kresge Auditorium

This event is sponsored by the Staff Affairs Committee. Scheduled speakers include:
Lennie Barton, who will share his enthusiasm for the “Be One in a Million” initiative with staff; Deborah Tippett, who will discuss the upcoming presidential inauguration;  Pam Davis, who will update staff on Meredith’s Community Perks; and Laura Fieselman, who will offer a sustainability and energy update.

 

“Darwin’s Voyage: Then and Now”
North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill
Saturday, February 12, 2 p.m.
Free
RSVP to (919) 962-0522 in order to be counted for the reception

Professor of Biology Emerita Janice C. Swab will present this special lecture on the 203rd anniversary of Darwin's birth. The lecture will be based on images from her travels to many of the places that Darwin visited on his five-year voyage around the world on HMS Beagle and will emphasize some aspects of his plant collecting. A walk in the garden to emphasize aspects of plant evolution will begin at 1 p.m. for all who wish to attend. Visit http://ncbg.unc.edu/lectures/ for more information.

 

The Sound of Music by Rodgers & Hammerstein
February 14-18 at 8:00 pm; February 19 at 3:00 pm
Jones Auditorium
Free for Meredith faculty, staff and students, $10 general public, $5 students/seniors

Highlights from this beloved musical, which first opened on Broadway in 1959, include: “My Favorite Things,” “Do-Re-Mi,” “Climb Ev’ry Mountain,” “Edelweiss” and “Sixteen Going on Seventeen.”

 

Randi Zuckerberg
2012 Woman of Achievement Lecture
Monday, February 27
Q & A event at 3:30 p.m., Jones Auditorium
Lecture at 7 p.m., Jones Auditorium
Free

Randi Zuckerberg ran marketing at Facebook for six years, where her team led the company's U.S. election and international politics strategy, launched the live streaming industry with her media partnerships around the U.S. Presidential Inauguration, and was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2011 for her innovative TV/online coverage of the 2010 mid-term elections.

 

“Standing There,” an exhibition by Chris Cassidy
Through March 25
Weems Art Gallery
9-5 p.m. Weekdays, 2-5 p.m. Weekends
Engaged with contemporary technology, Chris Cassidy creates with the intent to envision place while also envisioning the compromised devices of seeing place. The projects range from single-channel video work to more complicated works employing custom software and hardware. The exhibition includes an interactive composite video assembled from a collaborative project with participants from the Meredith College community.

 

“Visual Voices: The Language of Typography”
Through March 25
Rotunda Gallery
9-5 p.m. Weekdays, 2-5 p.m. Weekends

An exhibition featuring the work of 14 Meredith art students and faculty member Dana Ezell Gay. The visual work within this group exhibition celebrates the formal visual properties of typography and how they influence & affect our perceptions; it explores the connections between form, content, and concept; and it offers the viewer both a unique view of the expressive nature of typography and of the many typographic systems at play.

 

The next issue of Campus Connections will be published February 21. Submit items for Upcoming Events to allenme@meredith.edu.

In this Issue:

Visioning Conference Brings Campus, Community Together

Alumna Silda Wall Spitzer to Deliver 2012 Commencement Address

Alumnae Help Prospective Students “Discover Meredith”

Meredith College to Host NCICU Ethics Bowl

Education Department to Host Beginning Teacher Conference

William Blake Scholar Presents Lecture

Meet the Student Phonathon Supervisors

Faculty/Staff Accomplishments
Upcoming Events
News Briefs

 

Have you presented research or attended a professional meeting recently? Has your department earned an award? Share news of these accomplishments and more with the Meredith community. Faculty and staff are invited to email items to Melyssa Allen, “Campus Connections” editor, at allenme@meredith.edu.