This Week at UT Dallas
Events and Announcements for Feb 20-26.
Lectures, Seminars, Events and Exhibits
President's Volunteer Service Awards Ceremony
Monday, Feb. 20 (2-3:30 p.m.)
UT Dallas faculty, staff, students, and alumni will be recognized at this annual ceremony for the President's Volunteer Service Awards.
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ECS 25 Years of Technology: Show and Tell
Monday, Feb. 20 (4-5 p.m.)
A corporate panel of representatives from TI, Plexon, Zyvex, Tyler Tech, and GM will offer a view of technology 25 years ago, today, and 25 years in the future. More Info
Lecture by Dr. Robert Sapolsky
Tuesday, Feb. 21 (7-8 p.m.)
Topic: How stress affects the human body, how your body's reaction can save your life, why some individuals cope better with stress than others, and how to improve coping skills. More Info
More Than a Piece of Paper
Wednesday, Feb. 22 (10-11:30 a.m.)
The Office of Human Resources Management will offer strategies to help supervisors conduct effective performance reviews.
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Blindfold Chess
Wednesday, Feb. 22 (11 a.m.-12 p.m.)
UT Dallas Chess Grandmaster Julio Sadorra will wear a blindfold and take on challengers from the public in chess matches as a part of the 11th annual ChessFest. More Info
Center for BrainHealth Lecture Series
Wednesday, Feb. 22 (12-1 p.m.)
Topic: “Translational approaches for understanding atypical brain development in autism spectrum disorder.”
Speaker: Dr. Matt Mosconi. More Info
Psychological and Cognitive Science Brown Bag
Wednesday, Feb. 22 (1-2 p.m.)
Topic: “Influence of Perceptual and Semantic Factors on Inhibitory Responses: An fMRI Study.”
Speaker: Hsueh-Sheng Chiang, Ph.D. student in Center for BrainHealth at UT Dallas. More Info
Student Entrepreneurial Challenge
Wednesday, Feb. 22 (4-5 p.m.)
Part of the Engineering Week, this event is a chance for students to present their product ideas in this make-believe world of entrepreneurism in front of real entrepreneurs. More Info
The Entrepreneurship Exchange Series
Wednesday, Feb. 22 (5-6:45 p.m.)
The Entrepreneurship Club presents Juli Spottiswood, president and CEO of Parago Inc. Anyone with an interest in innovation and entrepreneurship is welcome to attend. More Info
East meets West and West Meets East
Wednesday, Feb. 22 (7:30-9 p.m.)
Mr. Peng Jingquan, Chinese performing artist, and UT Dallas Professor Thomas Riccio will perform a Chinese pantomime show.
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Introduce a Girl to Engineering
Thursday, Feb. 23 (10 a.m.-2 p.m.)
Students from Irma Rangel Young Women's Leadership School will visit UT Dallas for a day of engineering fun led by student leaders in ECS and various student organizations. More Info
Catch Comet Pride
Thursday, Feb. 23 (9:30 a.m.-12 p.m.)
Catch Comet Pride is designed to equip trainees to provide the very best customer service to potential students, current students, families, faculty, the community and co-workers. More Info
Finding Research Funding Today
Thursday, Feb. 23 (10 a.m.-12 p.m.)
The Office of Sponsored Projects and the McDermott Library will host an interactive demonstration of the SPIN and GENIUS databases to find research funding opportunities. More Info
NSERL Lecture
Thursday, Feb. 23 (10:45 a.m.-12 p.m.)
Topic: “Materials and Device Aspects of III-V 3D Transistors.”
Speaker: Peide (Peter) Ye, Ph.D. in solid state physics from Max-Planck Institute. More Info
Can't We Talk About This Later?
Thursday, Feb. 23 (4:45-6:15 p.m.)
UT Dallas Student Counseling Center will lead a workshop on overcoming procrastination. This session will provide tips and strategies to help break the procrastination cycle. More Info
Meet the Dean
Thursday, Feb. 23 (6-7 p.m.)
Meet with the dean of students and the dean of undergraduate studies to discuss issues and ideas important to the UT Dallas community. More Info
ChessFest XI
Thursday, Feb. 23 (7-8:30 p.m.)
The 11th annual ChessFest organized by the UT Dallas Chess Program and Eugene McDermott Library will present chess teacher and author Bruce Pandolfini in a free lecture. More Info
“Why Feelings Matter”
Friday, Feb. 24 (9:30-10:30 a.m.)
The Center for Children and Families Spring 212 Lecture Series presents Dr. Jackie Nelson who will discuss the importance of emotional competence in childhood. More Info
ECS 25th Anniversary Lecture Series
Friday, Feb. 24 (11 a.m. - 12 p.m.)
Topic: “Semiconductor Nanomaterials for Bio-Integrated Electronics.”
Speaker: Dr. John Rogers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. More Info
Callier Center Lecture
Friday, Feb. 24 (12-1 p.m.)
Topic: “An EEG Time Frequency Analysis of Action Versus Object Identification.”
Speaker: Bambi de la Rosa, PhD student in Cognition and Neuroscience. More Info
ECSS Lecture
Friday, Feb. 24 (1-2 p.m.)
Topic: “CMOS ICs in Biotechnology.”
Speaker: Dr. Arjang Hassibi, assistant professor at the ECE Department and the Institute for Cellular Biology of UT Austin. More Info
Geosciences Seminar
Friday, Feb. 24 (3:30-4:30 p.m.)
Topic: “Collisional Delamination in New Guinea - The Geotectonics of Subducting Slab Breakoff.”
Speaker: Dr. Mark Cloos of the University of Texas at Austin. More Info
Radio UTD - Dance Party
Friday, Feb. 24 (8:30-11:30 p.m.)
Radio UTD presents the second dance party of the semester. The event will offer free pizza, drinks and concert ticket giveaways.
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STEM Conference
Saturday, Feb. 25 (10 a.m.-3 p.m.)
The Multicultural Center in partnership with Project Still I Rise will host a Science, Engineering and Mathematics conference for young boys and girls from throughout the Metroplex. More Info
Miao Minority and Miao Folk Songs
Saturday, Feb. 25 (4-5:30 p.m.)
The Confucius Institute at UT Dallas presents Peng Jingquan, a renowned Chinese performing artist, will lecture about and perform demonstrations of Chinese Opera. More Info
Career Center
- Monday, Feb. 20 (2-3:30 p.m.)
“CPT Information Session” More Info
- Tuesday, Feb. 21 (10-10:45 a.m.) “How to Interview” More Info
- Tuesday, Feb. 21 (2:30-3:15 p.m.)
“How to Write a Professional Resume” More Info
- Wednesday, Feb. 22 (11 a.m.-2 p.m.)
“Public Agency Career Expo”
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- Thursday, Feb. 23 (7-8 p.m.)
“Choosing or Changing Your Major” More Info
Office of Student Volunteerism Activities
- Homework Helpers
Feb. 20 (3-5:30 p.m.) More Info
- Network Food Pantry
Feb. 24 (12:30-3:30 p.m.) More Info
- Tuesday, Feb. 21 (7-8:30 p.m.)
“Student Information Security Awareness Certificate- Identity Theft”
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- Thursday, Feb. 23 (2-3:30 p.m.)
“Student Information Security Awareness Certificate- Identity Theft”
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- Friday, Feb. 24 (10 a.m.-12 p.m.)
“Faculty/Staff Information Security Awareness Certificate- Online Security and Privacy”
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Ongoing
Affinities: Selections from the Comer Collection
Feb. 7 - April 14
“Affinities” includes photos by artists such as Larry Fink, Andrea Modica, Luis Mallo, Rufus O. Lovett, Andres Serrano and Paula Willmot Kraus. The exhibit is curated from the Jerry and Marilyn Comer Photography Collection of mid- to late-20th century American photography. More Info
Sin, Sex, and the C.I.A.
Feb. 23 - Feb. 25
This play is by Michael Parker and Susan Parker, directed by Kathy Lingo. Huge Oil reserves have been discovered in The Chagos Islands. O.P.E.C. is pressuring the Chagosians to join the cartel. A bumbling C.I.A. agent and an under Secretary of State, whose life appears to be run by her libido, are sent to a safe house in the mountains of Virginia to begin negotiations for the U.S. to place The Chagos Islands under their protection. More Info
Global Positions
Feb. 24 - Mar. 24
The photographers in this exhibition travel through unfamiliar terrain, underscoring the connection between records of the past and the present that involve environmental concerns, border issues and regional conflicts. More Info
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Public Agency Career Expo
Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
This event offers UT Dallas students and alumni an opportunity to interact with employers from non-profit and government organizations about jobs and internships. More information is available at www.utdallas.edu/career.
Language Day Celebration
The United Nation’s International Mother Language Day celebrates language diversity and variety all around the world. Join Bangladeshi Student Organization, the ISSO, and many cultural groups as they host a Language Day Celebration on Friday, February 24 from 7:30pm to 11:30pm. The event will consists of cultural show, booth representations by different countries, free snacks and multimedia presentations.
Researchers Win Conference Award
Doctoral student Pavani Chennapragada (left) and post-doctoral research scientist 
Krishna Vattipalli have won the won the Tony B Student Awards at the Society for Lab Automation and Screening Conference. The conference was held in San Diego, Feb 4-8. More info
Oral Examinations
Siwat Saibua
Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering
February 28, 2012, 9 a.m., ECSN2.704
George Edward Farmer, Jr.
Graduate Program in Behavioral
and Brain Sciences
March 2, 2012, 1 p.m.,
GR4.428
Celucien L. Joseph
Graduate Program in Arts
and Humanities
March 5, 2012, 1:30
p.m., JO5.602
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