Students walking into Kenna during Week 1 of classes.

Dear College Faculty and Staff,

I hope this first week of Spring quarter went smoothly for you all!

As we kick off the quarter in the Dean’s Office, we are busy with REAL Program applications and planning for Preview Days. We are currently in the middle of reviewing the 100+ REAL Program applications that we’ve received for summer 2022 experiences so far. It’s too soon to know how many awards we will be able to give out, but we are hoping for a successful Day of Giving on April 6 (for REAL and all our programs) to help us fund more students. Applications are still being accepted and will be considered on a rolling basis.

Next week is our annual Preview Days, when admitted students and their parents will be tuning in to all sorts of virtual sessions (April 5-8) and visiting campus (April 9) as they make their final decision on where to attend college in the fall. We have been busy here in the Dean’s Office coordinating with Admissions to ensure that our virtual and in-person offerings are up to snuff and showing off all the amazing things the College has to offer. If you are participating in any virtual or in-person activities related to this very important week, thank you! It’s all-hands-on-deck as we look to bring in our next class of Broncos. See you soon on campus!

Sincerely,

Daniel

Highlights

Parallel event at CSW66 featured programs that are empowering impoverished rural women, technological advances to educate women and perspectives on program implementations.

Michele Parker (Public Health) and students Annika Disney '22 (Psychology), Madison Hoffman '22 (Sociology), and Kristen Hanlon '22 (Public Health Science and Biology) presented their project entitled "Senga Safe: a mobile application to address women's health in rural Uganda" in a parallel event at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women virtual meeting on March 18. They presented with partner organizations from Uganda and Nigeria. This project is a collaboration between the Public Health Department and the Art and Art History Department in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Computer Engineering Department in the School of Engineering.

Tim Myers’s (English) children’s story “Zoey Wants a Pig” is coming out in Spider Magazine (from the Cricket group). He’s also placed five visual art pieces with Chamisa: A Journal of Literary, Performance, and Visual Arts of the Greater Southwest from the Southwest Hispanic Research Institute at the University of New Mexico, and another piece with Aji Magazine.

Image: "World Forever Poised" by Tim J. Myers

Angela Holzmeister (Classics) led a team of 30 engineers from Applied Materials through a full-day workshop on "Friendship and Building Workplace Relationships," on March 15, at the Doubletree Campbell. The workshop draws off of Angela's C&I course, titled "Friendship: Ancient and Modern," and is grounded in ancient philosophy, particularly Aristotelian virtue ethics. The workshop also addresses current data on workplace relationships and compassionate leadership practices.

Rohit Chopra (Communication) was invited to speak as a panelist at an event organized by the San Diego Coalition For Human Rights (SDCFHR) on March 12. The panel addressed the possibility of an anti-Muslim genocide in India, in light of increasing anti-Muslim violence in India and the rise of global Islamophobia. SDCFHR consists of Muslim, Jewish, and other community organizations and human rights-centered nonprofits in the San Diego area. The event drew over two hundred attendees in person in addition to being widely viewed online.

Sophia Hartenbaum '22 (Psychology) received a 2021-22 Spring Undergraduate Research Grant from Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology! Together with her mentor Birgit Koopmann-Holm (Psychology), she has been examining individual and cultural differences in the awe experience. The grant will fund data collection in Japan.

One of Birgit's former students, Jasmyn Burdsall '20 (Psychology), just got accepted to the Stanford Epidemiology and Clinical Research doctoral program! While Jasmyn was still at SCU, she conducted research in the Culture Impacts Emotion Lab understanding people's views of emotions and trauma.

For the purpose of developing his second book, Love Hates Us, Justin Clardy (Philosophy) has been accepted to attend the summer institute on care facilitated by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The institute brings together 8 scholars whose work seeks to address philosophical questions about the value and support of care and its connection to the state and economy.

Completed mural created by Fall ARTS 143 (Intermediate Painting) and Winter ARTS 32 (2D Design) students in the de Saisset Museum. Photo Credit: de Saisset Museum

Now on view at the de Saisset Museum!

SCU art students produced a collaborative mural, inspired by the current exhibition by Kara Maria, Precious and Precarious: Life on the Edge of Extinction. A San Francisco-based artist, Maria’s work features bright and colorful abstract imagery juxtaposed with photorealistic depictions of endangered and extinct animals, to help bring awareness to the plight that animals face on a warming planet and the concomitant environmental changes that put their lives in peril.

Students in Jessica Eastburn’s (Art & Art History) 2D Design course created a mural design and then painted a mural directly on the wall in the de Saisset gallery space over four weeks of Winter quarter. Ryan Reynolds' (Art & Art History) students in his Intermediate Painting course created 40 paintings of endangered animals painted on circular panels which were installed in the de Saisset gallery once the 2D Design students had finished painting the wall. The mural is a unique collaboration between the Department of Art and Art History and the de Saisset Museum.

An opening reception for the exhibition as well as the new mural will be held on Friday, April 1, 7-8:30 PM. Precious and Precarious as well as the collaborative mural will both be on view through June 11.

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