We live in a vibrant and multi-cultural city where hundreds of languages are spoken in homes and in the streets besides English. The New York Circle of Translators, in partnership with MATI, TISH, The Languages of New York Project, and The State Office of Language Access, invites you to an evening of presentations, interactive activities, […]
Dr. Monique Ross, Associate Professor in the Engineering Education Department at The Ohio State University, will present her experience and ideas regarding gender and race equity in computer-related engineering fields, including garnering and retaining the interest of students who identify as women and belong to marginalized populations. This event is sponsored by the McNulty Scholars […]
Porochista Khakpour was born in Tehran and raised in the Greater Los Angeles area. She is the critically acclaimed author of two novels, a memoir, and a collection of essays. Khakpour's most widely-read book, Sick was a Best Book of 2018 according to TIME, Real Simple, Entropy, Mental Floss, Bitch Media, Autostraddle, The Paris Reivew, […]
Speed friending is a fun and easy way to get to know your peers and make connections. (Limited capacity.) This is a Spring Welcome Week event to welcome students back to campus and welcome new students to their first semester. Sponsored by the Office of Student Activities and the Undergraduate Student Government.
Ayana Mathis's first novel, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie (Knopf, 2012), was a New York Times Bestseller, second selection for Oprah's Book Club 2.0, a 2013 New York Times Notable Book, NPR Best Book of 2013, and was long listed for the Dublin Literary Award and nominated for Hurston/Wright Foundation's Legacy Award. Mathis's nonfiction has been published in the The […]
Melissa Febos is the bestselling author of four books, including Girlhood—which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism and has been translated into seven languages, and Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative. Her fifth book, The Dry Season, is forthcoming from Alfred A. Knopf. Her awards and fellowships include those from the Guggenheim Foundation, LAMBDA […]
Mary Szybist is most recently the author of Incarnadine, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Poetry. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress, and the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center. Her work […]
Mary Gaitskill is the author of three novels, three books of short stories, and an essay collection. Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a PEN/Faulkner Award nomination for Because They Wanted To. Veronica was a National Book Award nominee, as well as a National Book Critics Circle finalist. In 2002 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, and that same […]
Join us for an immersive experience and the premiere of the award-winning film Preschool to Prison, which exposes how children from black and brown communities, are unfairly labeled and funneled from school to prison for minor infractions. Trauma affects the whole collective, but so does Healing. Systemic change begins as an inside-out process. We will tend to […]
Award-winning poet A. Van Jordan is the author of four collections, most recently, When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again (WW Norton, 2023). His other books include The Cineaste (WW Norton, 2013), which Terrance Hayes described as "dazzling." Quantum Lyrics (WW Norton, 2007), M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A (WW Norton, 2005), which was listed as one the Best Books of 2005 by The London Times, and Rise (Tia Chucha Press, 2001), […]
