Having trouble reading this? View it in your browser. Office of the Provost's email digest: September 18, 2018 September 18, 2018 Features 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! Focus on Student Success: PTS3 The Pathways to Student STEM Success Program (PTS3) is a five-year collaboration between Bronx and Hostos Community Colleges and Lehman that engages low-income and Hispanic students in activities that boost their success in STEM fields. It has become a model strategy that advances the mutual goals of the participating institutions and their aspiring STEM majors. In addition to the program’s innovations in student support, instruction, and curriculum, benefits of PTS3 also extend to faculty members at collaborating institutions. Read more about Pathways to Student STEM Success. NCFDD Institutional Membership Now is the time to sign up for free professional development, training, and mentoring opportunities through the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD). With Lehman's institutional membership you have access to a variety of virtual programs and resources to enhance your teaching, scholarship, research, and advance your career. To register, visit http://www.facultydiversity.org/join and choose Lehman from the dropdown menu. Would you like to submit an item to the eDigest? We welcome submissions of news, events, conferences, workshops, faculty advisories, faculty publications, and information especially of interest to Lehman College faculty and staff. The deadline is two weeks in advance of your target publication date. Please make sure to review and follow the eDigest guidelines before submitting items for publication. More News... FYI 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 this year's event! 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. 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. Join us for the ribbon cutting ceremony on October 2 at 5 p.m. Open Call for Human Books! Leonard Lief Library is seeking faculty, staff, and students for our Human Library event on Thursday, October 25, 12pm-3pm. Be a human book and share a chapter from your life to challenge prejudice, bias, stigma, misunderstanding, or discrimination within a respectful conversation in a safe space. Please Register by October 18. Contact Rebecca Arzola, 718-960-8831, for more information. 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. 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. 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). 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! Faculty Achievements Music professor Penny Prince received a THRIVE training grant from the College and Community Fellowship, which is providing three days of training plus continued assistance to help make Lehman a more informed and supportive environment for reentering students. There are 30 participants representing every school and department. Anthropology Professor Eric Delson had several articles published recently: With adjunct instructor Natalie O'Shea, he wrote a popular essay on modern human origins for a special issue of Natural History magazine: "The origin of us: Archaeological and fossil finds shed light on the emergence and spread of modern humans." In collaboration with Prof. Chris Gilbert of Hunter College and other colleagues, he analyzed the earliest fossils of the extinct baboon Papio from South Africa, dating to around 2.5-2 million years ago. With a team from the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont in Barcelona, he described new fossils of a macaque monkey from a 5 million-year-old site in southeastern Spain. For Your Students Office of Pre-Graduate School Advisement Help us assist your students in preparing for graduate school by announcing to your classes that the Office of Pre-Graduate School Advising is offering fall advising hours as well as workshops on getting into graduate school (Oct 17th) and writing personal statements (Nov. 14th). 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. 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. 1: Foundation for Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Mid-Career Research Grant Nov. 16: A Blade of Grass invites Applications for 2019 Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art Nov. 30: Russll Sage Foundation Seeks Letters of Inquiry for Social Inequality Research Dec. 1: Brady Education Foundation: Applications for Program Development and Evaluation Jan. 15, 2019: Hearing Health Foundation Invites Applications for Research Projects March. 1: American Chemical Society Invites Nominations for Scarborough Medicinal Chemistry Award 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.