Featuring Paul Mullins, "Glazed America:  The History of the Doughnut"

Paul Mullins turns his attention to the simple doughnut in order to learn more about North American culture and society. Both a breakfast staple and a snack to eat any time of day or night, doughnuts cross lines of gender, class, and race like no other food item. Favorite doughnut shops that were once neighborhood institutions remain unchanged--even as their surrounding neighborhoods have morphed into strip clubs, empty lots, and abandoned housing. Blending solid scholarship with humorous insights, Mullins offers a look into doughnut production, marketing, and consumption. He confronts head-on the question of why we often paint doughnuts in moral terms, and shows how the seemingly simple food reveals deep and complex social conflicts over body image and class structure.

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Jane Luzar, dean of the newly established honors college will present, "Establishment of the IUPUI Honors College".

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The meeting will be a forum to exchange ideas, discuss issues and identify avenues to work together in a mutually beneficial way.

Registration is by invitation only.  Please contact us if you are an Associate Dean and you did not receive the announcement.

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Scholarship at Lunchtime: Mood Stress, and Decision Making in a Virtual World featuring Mark Pfaff, School of Informatics

Dr. Pfaff’s research explores the intersection of people, information, and technology in computer-supported cooperative work environments through the use of experimental simulations and mixed-methodological approaches. The focus of this talk will be on applied cognitive psychology, with some discussion of the systems used in complex work environments.

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Presenters: Robert Bringle, Chancellor’s Professor of Psychology, Purdue Univ. School of Science, Director, Center for Service and Learning; Sharon Andreoli, Professor of Pediatrics, IU School of Medicine, Director of Pediatric Nephrology

This workshop will explore how to best represent your teaching and/or service to satisfy the guideline requirements of "satisfactory" or "excellent".

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A conversation with Chancellor Charles R. Bantz.

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The Center for Teaching and Learning has invited 2001 Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics, Carl Wieman, Ph.D. to the IUPUI campus as part of its CTL Winter Lecture Series. This lecture series honors nationally recognized scholars who have made a contribution to their discipline as well as teaching and learning within their discipline.

Guided by experimental tests of theory and practice, science has advanced rapidly in the past 500 years. Guided primarily by tradition and dogma, science education meanwhile has remained largely medieval. Research on how people learn is now revealing how many teachers badly misinterpret what students are thinking and learning from traditional science classes and exams. However, research is also providing insights on how to do much better. The combination of this research with modern information technology is setting the stage for a new approach that can provide the relevant and effective science education for all students that is needed for the 21st century. Wieman will discuss the failures of traditional educational practices, even as used by “very good” teachers, and the successes of some new practices and technology that characterize this more effective approach, and how these results are highly consistent with findings from cognitive science. 

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Scholarship at Lunchtime: Understanding Religion in American Life and the Role of the IUPUI in that Endeavor featuring Phillipp Goff, School of Liberal Arts

Dr. Goff is the Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture. The Center aims at increasing awareness and understanding of the diversity of American religious life and the manifold forms in which religion reveals itself in culture. By placing Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and non-mainstream beliefs, behaviors, and rituals together in fashioning an analysis of American religion, the Center has helped increase scholarly and public understandings of the diversity of the American religious experience and established entirely new views from which to study religion in America.

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Potential Presenters: Professor Mary L. Fisher, IU School of Nursing, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, IUPUI; Professor Gail Williamson, IU School of Dentistry, Faculty Fellow for Faculty Advancement Initiatives

Have specific questions? Bring them to this workshop for a direct answer.

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**NOTE:  This workshop is the same as the one offered on Friday, March 26th.  Please only register for one.**

Faculty who will be participating in the Promotion and Tenure process, as well as their mentors, chairs and deans, are encouraged to attend this important workshop.

The workshop will offer an overview of the IUPUI Promotion and Tenure process along with the values and aspirations which shape specific decisions. Uday Sukhatme, Dean of the Faculties, will offer his perspective on the P&T process and Mary Fisher, Associate Dean of the Faculties, will present the 2010-11 “Dean of the Faculties Guidelines for the Preparation of P&T Dossiers.”

The workshop will engage participants in simulations of the decision process and members of this year’s IUPUI Promotion and Tenure Committee will offer comments and answer questions.  

We look forward to talking with tenure-line and non-tenure line faculty about developing the best case they can for faculty advancement.

Event Contact:  Gail Williamson or Christy Cole.

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**NOTE:  This workshop is the same as the one offered on Thursday, March 25th.  Please only register for one.**

Faculty who will be participating in the Promotion and Tenure process, as well as their mentors, chairs and deans, are encouraged to attend this important workshop.

The workshop will offer an overview of the IUPUI Promotion and Tenure process along with the values and aspirations which shape specific decisions. Uday Sukhatme, Dean of the Faculties, will offer his perspective on the P&T process and Mary Fisher, Associate Dean of the Faculties, will present the 2010-11 “Dean of the Faculties Guidelines for the Preparation of P&T Dossiers.”

The workshop will engage participants in simulations of the decision process and members of this year’s IUPUI Promotion and Tenure Committee will offer comments and answer questions.  

We look forward to talking with tenure-line and non-tenure line faculty about developing the best case they can for faculty advancement.

Event Contact:  Gail Williamson or Christy Cole.

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Rachel Wheeler, "To Live upon Hope:  Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth-centurey Northeast"

Through extensive research, especially in the Moravian records of day-to-day life, Rachel Wheeler offers an understanding of the lived experience of Mohican communities under colonialism. She complicates the understanding of eighteenth-century American Christianity by demonstrating that mission programs were not always driven by the destruction of indigenous culture and the advancement of imperial projects. In To Live upon Hope, Wheeler challenges the prevailing view of accommodation or resistance as the two poles of Indian responses to European colonization; colonialism placed severe strains on native peoples, yet Indians also exercised a level of agency and creativity that aided in their survival.She systematically employs the rich German-language Moravian archive to study New England Indian history. This path-breaking use of sources and Wheeler's fine-grained analysis of the differing Moravian and Congregationalist priorities are major achievements.

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Vice Chancellor Karen Whitney will present "Update on Student Initiatives and Co-curriculum".

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Scholarship at Lunchtime: We are not Mutilated: Voices of Circumcized Women featuring Khadija Khaja

Dr. Khaja’s research focuses on the cultural traditional practice of female circumcision and Muslim Human Rights. She has examined the perceptions of circumcised African Muslim women migrants living in North America towards international human rights policies that ban female circumcision. Findings illustrate why many African circumcised women migrants feel marginalized globally by the very human rights policies that were designed to protect them.

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Mitchell L. H. Douglas honors the music and spirit of late soul legend Donny Hathaway in his debut collection Cooling Board: a Long-Playing Poem. Speaking in the voices of Hathaway and those that knew him best, Douglas stands lyric poems next to prose poems next to the innovation of “alternate takes” to conduct a chorus that acknowledges Hathaway’s struggles while singing his praises.

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