Having trouble reading this? View it in your browser. Office of the Provost's email digest: September 11, 2018 September 11, 2018 Features Jazz+Math Thursday, September 13, 3:00 p.m., Music Bldg. Room 330 Join musician-mathematician-writer-educator Marcus Miller in performance and conversation with fellow musician and Lehman mathematics professor Rob Schneiderman as they explore how principles of jazz and math can boost success. Constitution Day Celebration Monday, September 17, 3:30 p.m., Carman Hall Room B-04 The Office of the Provost and the Department of Political Science invite you to a screening of “RBG,” a documentary film about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's exceptional life and career. Pizza and beverages will be provided. Consequences of War: A Refugee and Immigrant Mental Health Crisis in the Middle East Thursday, September 20, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. The CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy and Lehman's Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies present a forum on Middle East refugee and immigrant mental health. Click here for information and to RSVP. Webinar: "Online Office Hours and Online Meetings" Thursday, September 20, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Have you ever wondered which technology tools can support real-time meetings, or how to get more students to show up for individual conferences? This is the first of a year-long series of lunchtime webinars on topics in online, hybrid, and innovative teaching methods. Co-hosted by Dr. Natasha Nurse, an experienced instructor who has designed exemplary online courses for the department of nursing. REGISTER HERE by September 19th! Open Call for Human Books! Leonard Lief Library is seeking Human Books for our Human Library event on Thursday, October 25, 12pm-3pm. Share a chapter from your life to challenge prejudice, bias, stigma, misunderstanding, or discrimination within a respectful conversation in a safe space. Participants will receive a Digital Badge for their service. Faculty, staff, and students may take part and register to be a Human Book by October 18. Please contact Rebecca Arzola, 718-960-8831, for more information. 5th Annual Global Citizenship Gala October 25, 6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m., Villa Barone Manor, Bronx The Global Citizenship Gala benefits the Lehman L.I.F.E. (Leaders Involved for Everyone) Alternative Break Program. Please consider attending the 5th Annual Global Citizenship Gala! All proceeds support grants for domestic and international service-learning opportunities for students. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit http://www.lehman.edu/globalgala. ONE DAY SALE: September 27th, 2018 $50 off single tickets with code: LIFE at http://www.lehman.edu/globalgala. More News... FYI CUNYfirst Training Thursday, September 13, 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., Carman 125 & 3:00-4:30 p.m., Carman 120. Do you know about submitting travel reimbursement requests in CUNYfirst? Splitting costs between budget codes? How to figure out the dreaded default location code? These topics and so much more will be covered at the faculty CUNYfirst Travel and Reimbursement workshop. Note: To get the most from this training you should have access to the CUNYfirst Travel and Expense module. To request the Travel and Expense Module, employees must complete the CUNYfirst Travel Expense User Request Form and return the completed form to Arlene Young Irizariz, Accounts-Payable--Shuster 016. For more information contact Alison Abreu at (718) 960-8019. NCFDD Membership Lehman College is now a member institution of the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity, an independent professional development, training, and mentoring community for faculty members, postdocs, and graduate students. Through the NCFDD, you have access to a variety of virtual programs and resources including: Weekly Monday Motivator Monthly Core Curriculum Webinars Monthly Guest Expert Webinars Multi-Week Courses Dissertation Success Curriculum for Graduate Students Private Discussion Forum for peer-mentoring, problem solving, and moderated writing challenges Monthly accountability buddy matches 14-day Writing Challenges Member Library that includes past webinar materials referrals and readings To activate your membership, visit http://www.facultydiversity.org/join and choose Lehman from the dropdown menu. Save the Date! November 15 - 17, 2018 VIII Biennial National Dominican Studies Association Conference: Dominicans on the Map: Heritage, Citizenship, Memory & Social Justice Eugenio María de Hostos Community College, CUNY. Free Admission to the Guggenheim Museum Through the generous support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is offering free admission (plus one guest) to Lehman College ID cardholders. Lehman is one of five CUNY institutions that was recently selected to participate in this pilot program, which is open to all Lehman faculty, staff, and students for the next two years. Present your valid ID at the admissions and membership desk for your complimentary ticket(s). Submit to SUM: a new CUNY Website for Faculty and Students SUM was developed to advance the goals of Connected CUNY, and features scholarship, research and creative work by CUNY faculty and students, distilled for a wide range of audiences--elected officials, the media, prospective students, and faculty. Submissions will be considered based on news value and relevance to a general audience. What about that free textbook you received in the mail? Ever wonder what you should do if you receive a complimentary copy of a textbook from a publisher hoping you will select its volume for use in the classroom? Check out this new Ethics Reminder from the New York State Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) and find out! Submit to eDigest! We welcome submissions of news, events, conferences, workshops, faculty advisories, faculty publications, and anything especially of interest to Lehman College faculty and staff. Read the submission guidelines here. Faculty Achievements Last month, the U.S. State Department named Dr. Charles Cange, assistant professor in the Department of Health Sciences, as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar for Fall 2018. He will be conducting research on adolescent traumatic experiences among Thai young adults and how these experiences influence HIV/AIDS risk. In Thailand he will be a visiting professor at the Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. He hopes to make connections that will enable future academic exchanges between Lehman and Chulalongkorn. This is Prof. Cange's third Fulbright award, having previously been a two-time Fulbright Scholar to Kuwait. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Cange on this distinguished achievement! For Your Students Instructional Support Services Fall Workshops The Instructional Support Services Program (ISSP) offers tutoring and workshops in a range of subjects, academic coaching, a computer lab, and more; please keep ISSP in mind as a resource for your students. For more information about ISSP and a schedule of fall semester workshops, see the ISSP Bulletin. The Bloomberg Terminal is now available in the Leonard Lief Library The Bloomberg Terminal is a premier international financial services database providing news and analytics for over 129 countries and 250 exchanges. Lehman College has introduced one Bloomberg Terminal, housed in the Leonard Lief Library. Funding Opportunities and Notifications If you need funds to support your scholarship, research, creative work, publications, academic programming, and/or travel, consider applying for a grant. For more information on grant funding opportunities and how to apply, contact the Office of Research & Sponsored Programs at 718 960-8357. Oct. 1: American Philosophical Society Accepting Applications for Franklin Research Grants Oct 1: Greenwall Foundation invites letters of intent for Scholars Program in bioethics Oct. 1: Whitehall Foundation invites LOIs for bioscience research projects Oct. 31: Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC) Distinguished Fellowship Program The Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC) of the Graduate Center invites tenured and tenure-track scholars conducting research in any one of the following areas to apply for our Distinguished Fellowships for the 2019-2020 academic year: Inequality, Immigration, Multilingualism & Translation, Global Cities, and Critical University Studies. Apply here. For more information contact Don Robotham, Professor of Anthropology and Director, Advanced Research Collaborative at arc@gc.cuny.edu or (212) 817-7544. Nov. 16: A Blade of Grass invites Applications for 2019 Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art Dec. 1: Brady Education Foundation: Applications for Program Development and Evaluation Jan. 15, 2019: Hearing Health Foundation Invites Applications for Research Projects NSF upcoming due dates Grant Forward available through the Leonard Lief Library Grant Forward is a search service that locates and updates a database of sponsors and funding opportunities. The Grant Forward Researcher Welcome Guide outlines creating accounts, searching for grants, and getting recommendations. For access, visit the Leonard Lief Library and search for Grant Forward under the Databases tab. Visit PND Digest to search for funding opportunities and RFPs! The Office of the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs & Student Success oversees all educational programs; faculty matters; accreditation reviews; strategic planning; and the review of division and departmental budgets. Questions? Email provost.office@lehman.cuny.edu or call 718-960-8222. For submissions or issues relating to the eDigest, email edigest.provost@lehman.cuny.edu.