University Bulletin – April 1, 2014

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Announcements

Applications Are Now Available For The PASSHE Women’s Leadership Institute – The institute provides a forum to nurture the leadership of female students by creating an experience that empower them as leaders, challenges them to realize their full potential as leaders and connect them with other women who are committed to social change. Applications are available in the Women’s Center (411 Normal St.), Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs (121 Reibman) and the SAA Office (Room 223 of the University Center). Applications should be returned to the SAA by Friday, April 11.

Student Activities
Thursday, April 3, 2:30 to 4:30 PM – Stony Acres: Hike in the Delaware Water Gap.
Thursday, April 3, 9:00 PM – Warrior Knights event: Open Mic Night in Stroud Hall, Room 117.
Friday, April 4, 7:00 PM – Relay for Life in Koehler Fieldhouse.
Saturday, April 5, 10:00 PM – Warrior Knights event: Wacky Olympics in Linden Lounge.
Sunday, April 6 – Diamond in the Dirt Mud Run at Stony Acres. All proceeds will be donated to breast cancer research. Students
– $15; Faculty, staff and alumni – $20.
Now Playing at the Cinemark: Divergent, Muppets Most Wanted, 300: Ride of an Empire, Mr. Peabody & Sherman, Need for Speed, Tyler Perry’s The Single Moms Club, Non-Stop, Son of God, The LEGO Movie. Playing at the Pocono Community Theater: 12 Years a Slave, Gloria and The Dallas Buyers Club.
Discount Movie Tickets – Pocono Community Theater and Cinemark Stroud Mall. Students – $5.50, Non-students $8. All tickets can be purchased in Room 211 of the University Center.
All tickets can be purchased in Room 211 of the University Center.

ESU will host Award-Winning Poet Vijay Seshadri for a Poetry Reading, at 4:00 PM, on Thursday, April 3, in Beers Lecture Hall. Jan Selving, assistant professor of English, and Rick Madigan, associate professor of English, look forward to introducing students and the community to Seshadri’s work, which includes highly acclaimed essays, poems and reviews that have appeared in many publications, including AGNI, The American Scholar, Antaeus, Bomb, Boulevard, Lumina, The Nation, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Shenandoah, The Southwest Review, The Three penny Review, Verse, Western Humanities Review, The Yale Review and the Times Book Review. For more information on Seshadri’s visit, which is free and open to the public, contact Selving at jselving@esu.edu or Madigan at rmadigan@esu.edu.

Success Series Workshop on Interviewing Skills: What Employers Look For from 2:00 to 4:00 PM, Thursday, April 3, Stroud 117. Join ESU Career Development and Jeff Full, district manager at Fastenal, to learn what employers are looking for in an interview. Learn how to prepare to meet their expectations and hear real-world examples of how to succeed. RSVP warriorcareers.esu.edu or call 570-422-3219.

ESU’s Chapter of Kappa Delta Rho Fraternity will host its Second Annual Stroudsburg Strut 5K walk/run Saturday morning, April 12, on the Quad. Attendees may pre-register from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM the following specified days: Tuesday, April 1, Thursday, April 3, and Monday, April 7, through Friday, April 11, in the courtyard outside the University Center windowed area. The cost for those who pre-register is $15. Registration the day of the race, which is open to the public, will begin promptly at 9:00 AM Those registering on race-day will pay $20. Children ages 10 and younger can take part for free. All proceeds from the event will be donated to the Andrew McDonough B+ Foundation which provides financial and emotional support for the families of children battling cancer. The B+ Foundation also provides research grants in an effort to help fight childhood cancer research. For more information, contact Billy Lacroix, fraternity president, at 267-235-0717, or Jazmyn Pulley, assistant director of student activities, at jpulley@esu.edu.

The ESU Office of the Provost and the ESU Faculty Development and Research (FDR) Committee will host a Symposium to Showcase the work of two Recent Major Grant Recipients from 6:00 to 9:00 PM, Thursday, April 10, in Lower Dansbury. The scholarship highlights will be Li-Ming Chiang, Ed.D., an assistant professor in the ESU department of movement activities and lifetime fitness, and Yi-hui Huang, Ph.D., an associate professor in the ESU department of digital media technologies. Chiang will present, “The Acute Response of High Intensity Interval Training,” and Huang will present her production of photographic project, “Space Between.” For more information about the symposium please contact Assistant Professor of Psychology Irina Khusid, Ph.D., at 570-422-3092, or Manager of Sponsored Projects and Research Christina McDonald, at 570-422-7954.

ESU’s Dance Team will host its Second Annual Showcase on Saturday, April 12, and Sunday, April 13. The event is at 7:00 PM on Saturday and at 1:00 PM on Sunday in the Abeloff Center for the Performing Arts on campus. The showcase will include entertainment as well as prizes for all ages. This event is open
to the public for a cost of $6. It is $3 for ESU students with an eCard. T-shirts and other prizes will be distributed. For more information please contact Danielle France at dgf1504@live.esu. edu or Suzanne Prestoy, Ph.D., associate professor of nursing, at 570-422-3563 or sprestoy@esu.edu.

The Lehigh Valley Public Health Alliance, a student group from East Stroudsburg University’s Bethlehem-based campus, will Conduct its Inaugural Healthy You Day from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM, Saturday, April 12. The event, which will be at ESU’s Lehigh Valley Center at 60 W. Broad St., Bethlehem, Pa., invites the public to participate in this fun, enriching and educational experience. Held during National Public Health Week, which runs from April 7-13, Healthy You Day will focus on increasing awareness and knowledge of preventive health behaviors which will lead to healthier lifestyles and choices. For more information about ESU’s Lehigh Valley Center, contact site coordinator Tom O’Connor at 610-419-0412 or toconnor4@esu.edu.

Cultural Events

The Art Department at ESU will host the Grand Opening of G3Design Lab, a 3D Printing, Design and Fabrication Facility, on Wednesday, April 16, beginning at 4:00 PM in the Fine and Performing Arts Center. Refreshments will be available in the lobby of the Fine Arts Center from 4:00 to 4:30 PM The program will commence in the Cecilia S. Cohen Recital Hall at 4:30 PM and conclude with a ribbon cutting ceremony in front of classroom G3 at 5:40 PM Tours of the facility will follow the ribbon cutting with students available to answer questions and demonstrate the lab equipment. The Madelon Powers Gallery will be open where the Student Art Association Art Exhibit will be on view. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Joni Oye-Benintende at jbenintende@esu.edu or 570-422-3216.

March 26 – April 18
Madelon Powers Gallery, ESU Fine & Performing Arts Center
Art Association All-University Student Juried Art Exhibit
Gallery hours: 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM, Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays. Open to the public at no cost.
For information, 570-422-3483 or email esuarts@esu.edu.

Before The Musical Rent, There Was The Opera La Boheme. Explore “La Boheme – The Most Performed Opera in the Repertoire.” Join enthusiast Eugene Galperin, Ph.D., an ESU assistant professor of mathematics and learn about the timeless story and touching characters of the opera, which is known for
its lush melodies. The presentation is at 7:00 PM, Wednesday, April 2, in the Dale Snow Theatre of ESU’s Fine & Performing Arts Center. Open to the public at no cost. For information, call Galperin at ext. 3931.

Earth Day! Come Celebrate the Environment with your Fellow Classmates, Staff, and ESU Community, from noon to 4:00 PM, Tuesday, April 22, on the Quad. There will be an ecofriendly fashion show featuring styles that have been repurposed. Swag and prizes will be given away throughout the day for our Earth Day trivia. Games, tye-dye, and live music will also be featured at this event. If you are interested in volunteering or having your club present a booth at this event, please contact Kate at kgn8547@live.esu.edu.

April 24 – 25, 7:30 PM; April 26, 2:00 PM and 7:30 PM; April 27, 2:00 PM
Smith-McFarland Theatre
The Wizard of Oz
Directed by Margaret Joyce Ball, D.M.A.,
Scenic and costume design by Professor Yoshinori Tanokura Dorothy once again finds herself “over the rainbow” in this musical adaptation of the classic L. Frank Baum novel first produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company. This version includes the memorable songs from the beloved MGM film which is marking its 75th anniversary.
General admission, $12;
Faculty/staff and senior citizens (with ID), $10; Students (with ID), $7; Youth, $5.
Tickets available in advance online at www.esu.edu/theatretickets (credit cards only online).
Remaining tickets available at the box office 7:00 to 8:00 PM on performance dates (cash only at box office). Please arrive early. Latecomers cannot be seated.
For other information, please call 570-422-3483, ext. 4.

Student Senate Invites Local Businesses, Clubs and Organizations to 14th Annual Community on the Quad Event, on Saturday, April 26, from noon to 4:00 PM. This year’s theme of “In the Jungle,” is meant to bring the campus and local communities together for a fun, yet productive gathering for students, faculty and staff members and area residents. In order to participate, Student Senate asks that you provide a nominal donation of $20 which will be used for scholarship funding through ESU’s Foundation. With that donation, vendors are welcome to sell merchandise at a private space which will include two chairs and one, 6-foot table, which may be decorated to go along with this year’s theme. Those wishing to reserve a space or looking for more information about the event should contact Student Senate member and special events coordinator Melissa Ciment at mciment@live.esu.edu by April 4.

Courses Pending Approval by the University-Wide Curriculum Committee. Descriptions are available upon request in the office of the committee chair in the English Department (Stroud 309). Address questions within 10 university calendar days after first appearance.

Additions:
PHIL 355 Rationalism & Empiricism (3:3:0)

Changes:
PHYS 110 GE: Sound, Waves and Light (change in des. pre-reqs.)
PHYS 117 GE: Energy (change in pre-reqs.)
PHYS 121 GE: Astronomy: The Sky and Solar System (change in title, pre-reqs.)
PHYS 122 GE: Astronomy: Stars and Galaxies (change in title, des., pre-reqs.)
PHYS 415 Computational Physics (change in des., pre-reqs.)
HIST 355 Constitutional History & Law (addition of DE1)
HIST 384 Third Reich-from Hitler to Holocaust (change in title, addition of DE1)

Addition in Program:
Physics Minor

Change in Program:
B.S. Physics (change in req.courses, co-reqs., add. reqs.)
B.A. Philosophy (change in req. courses)

Tuesday, April 1, 2014