Join us as we celebrate summer with a Big Summer Potluck! Sign-ups will be going around soon.
Plates, silverware & drinks will all be provided!
DATE: 8/8/2014 (Fri 11:30AM – 1:00PM)
LOCATION: Staff Room (Bierce 351)
If you’d like to sign up online, use this link: www.SignUpGenius.com/go/10C054AAFA723A7FE3-summer/18738995
Monday, April 28
| When | Where | What |
| All Day | Lobby/Einstein’s | Legos/Puzzles |
| 8pm-close | Bierce/S&T | Coffee Break |
Tuesday, April 29
| When | Where | What |
| All Day | Lobby/Einstein’s | Legos/Puzzles |
| 11am-12pm | Bierce 168 | Meditation Lesson |
| 8pm-close | Bierce/S&T | Coffee Break |
| 8pm- | Bierce | PB& J Deli |
Wednesday, April 30
| When | Where | What |
| All Day | Lobby/Einstein’s | Legos/Puzzles |
| 11am- 3pm | Lobby | Therapy Dogs |
| 8pm-close | Bierce/S&T | Coffee Break |
Thursday, May 1
| When | Where | What |
| All Day | Lobby/Einstein’s | Legos/Puzzles |
| 11am-12pm | Bierce 168 | Meditation Lesson |
| 5-7pm | Lobby | Chair Massages |
| 8pm-close | Bierce/S&T | Coffee Break |
Sign up here to volunteer to help with the Therapy Dogs: http://vols.pt/u2DVfK
Wednesday’s Therapy Dogs Schedule:
Christine & Sophie (Golden Retriever Mix) 11-12:30
Marisa & Vinnie (Dachshund) 11-1
Rhea & Clark (Bullmastiff) 12-2
Christin & Gracie (Newfoundland) 1-3
Thanks to all the volunteers for your willingness to serve on this committee to recognize our wonderful student employees! This year’s committee will be:
The committee will meet shortly and nomination information will be distributed soon. The award(s) will be given at our service awards celebration at the end of April.
Installation has begun on “Thoughts as Pages, Stacks as Memories” a collaboration between artist Buzz Spector and UA Myers School of Art students. Exhibit opens tomorrow in Bierce lobby!
Acclaimed artist, Buzz Spector, is collaborating with students from The University of Akron’s Myers School of Art in “Thoughts as Pages, Stacks as Memories,” a free exhibition March 12 through April 18 in the lobby of UA’s Bierce Library.
In addition to Spector’s works, the exhibition will feature works created by students in a painting class taught by UA Art Professor Matthew Kolodziej. The art students have created works from books donated by UA’s Center for the History of Psychology. After studying the content of the books, they altered them and incorporated their artistic responses to the Center’s intriguing collection of devices used for testing memory and perception. Some of the devices are also in the exhibition.
To open the exhibition, Spector will give a free public lecture at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, March 12, in the auditorium of Folk Hall, home of the Myers School of Art, 150 E. Exchange St.
Librarians Lori Fielding and Bonnie Chojnacki were instrumental in getting this project off the ground.
Vic Fleischer will join a select group of other UA leaders in The UniverCity Community Leadership Institute (UCLI), a new program developed by The University of Akron in partnership with Leadership Akron. This leadership development program will benefit the campus and greater Akron community by building relationships between campus and community leaders and the organizations they serve. The program will begin in early February and continue throughout the Spring 2014 semester.
WKSU’s Kabir Bhatia reports on the University of Akron’s “Rethinking Race” week and highlights the The Race Card Project at Bierce. Access Services Student Assistant Will Carter is featured.
Click here for the story: http://www.wksu.org/news/story/38223
February 7, 2014
The UL is partnering with the School of Communications for Candid Conversations with Dr. Lin on Friday, February 7th at 11am in Einsteins. Dr. Lin, who teaches intercultural communication at UA, will use submissions from The Race Card Project display in Bierce lobby to start conversations about race, ethnicity and identity. Please join us!
February 10, 2014
The opening of the exhibit “This is Akron with Opie Evans: The Rubber City as Seen through the Lens of One of Its Earliest African-American Photographers” at the McClain Gallery of Akron’s Black History and Culture. Reception on February 10th from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
The exhibit is a partnership between the McClain Gallery, Pan-African Center for Community Studies and Archival Services of University Libraries.
February 14, 2014
Lisa Lazar will be hosting Different faces, different films: examining the portrayal of race in different types of film and exploring race-related film resources at Bierce Library on Friday, February 14th from 10-11:30am in room 154 in Bierce Library. The session is open to both faculty and students.
The UL sponsored Rethinking Race Film Festival, as well as the Bierce Film series, will continue through Friday February 14.
For more information about Rethinking Race activities on campus, see http://www.uakron.edu/race/
Bierce to Host The Race Card Project with NPR’s Michele Norris
In honor of National Public Radio (NPR) Michele Norris’ visit to campus on Monday, February 3, 2014 for Rethinking Race, the University Libraries will host an installation of The Race Card Project in Bierce Library.
The Race Card Project is the brainchild of Norris, developed as a tool to jumpstart conversations about race during her recent book tour. She asked people to think about their experiences, questions, hopes, dreams, laments or observations about race and identity, distill them to just one sentence that had only six words, and submit them on postcards. It has been a wildly successful and insightful project.
From Monday, January 27- Friday, February 14, 2014, UA students, faculty and alumni are encouraged to join in a conversation about race, ethnicity and identity by submitting their six-word race card essays in Bierce Library. The collection of candid submissions will be on display in the library throughout Rethinking Race 2014.
For more on The Race Card Project, http://theracecardproject.com/ For more information about Rethinking Race, http://www.uakron.edu/race/
Please join us on Thursday, January 23, 2014 at 3:00pm at the Science Faculty Research Gallery reception in the Science and Technology library.
In the sciences, most research output is in the form of journal articles and over time a tradition developed of honoring particularly excellent articles by putting art from the article on the journal’s cover. To ‘get a cover’ means the researchers have combined excellent research with something visually engaging. If you walk through the halls of a research building, you will see journal covers like these proudly displayed on doorways and lab windows.
This gallery collects journal covers from University of Akron researchers in Biology, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Computer Science, Polymer Engineering and Polymer Science.