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IN THIS ISSUE... Experiential Ed Workshop..........2 Recent Rankings...........................3 Faculty Spotlight...........................4 UT to “Read Japan”.....................5 What is Emotional........................5 Intelligence?
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2012 NOVEMBER
Bob Graham to Kick Off Governor’s Speaker Series Nov. 27
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ob Graham, former governor of Florida, will be the first speaker in a new speaker series at UT. The Governor’s Speaker Series, coordinated by Pam Iorio, leader-in-residence for the TECO Center for Leadership, will bring Florida’s former governors to UT to present their take on civic involvement and responsibility. Graham is scheduled to speak on Nov. 27 at 4 p.m. in the Vaughn Center. The program is intended as a way for students, such as those who are campus leaders, leadership minors or President’s Leadership Fellows, to have an open and intimate discussion with the former governors.
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Each student participant will be required to read a book about leadership written by the former governor, or a leadership book the governor recommends. Students would then listen to the former governor’s talk and engage in a group discussion about leadership. A reception and book signing opportunity will follow each discussion. Four future talks with other former Florida governors are slated for the spring semester. Joe Sclafani, associate director of the TECO Center for Leadership, said this new program will be a point of distinction for UT’s leadership programs and can be tied back to all that the TECO Center does. “We know of no other university that has done such a series,” Sclafani said. In future years, the series may include discussions with former Tampa mayors, as well as military leaders.
FAMILIAR PLACE, FAMILIAR FACE — The NBC Today Show, with anchor Lestor Holt, as well as the network’s Nightly News, broadcast from the East Verandah of Plant Hall on Oct. 21. The event was part of NBC’s 2012 presidential election coverage. About 75 spectators (mostly students) turned out for the Today Show and the Spartan Band played during the broadcast.
Spartans on Ice Come support the UT Ice Hockey Club on Monday, Nov. 12, as they take on the University of South Florida at the Tampa Bay Times Forum at 7:30 p.m.
Next Faculty Colloquium Nov. 9 On Friday, Nov. 9, Spencer Segalla, assistant professor of history, will present “Poison and P.R.: Tri-orthocresyl-phosphate, Cooking Oil and America’s Cold War in North Africa, 1959-1960” as part of the 20122013 Faculty Colloquium Series. The presentation begins at 3 p.m. in the Sykes College of Business, Room 131. A reception will follow the presentation in the lobby.
UT to Welcome Star of Hoop Dreams Arthur Agee Jr., who was featured in the 1994 documentary Hoop Dreams, will be on campus Nov. 14 from 7–9 p.m. in Fletcher Lounge to speak about his experiences with succeeding through education and finding your place in life. Agee founded the Arthur Agee Jr. Role Model Foundation, for which he travels around the U.S. speaking to audiences about the importance of finding your success through adversity. In addition, Hoop Dreams will be screened on Nov. 13 at 9 p.m. and Hoop Reality will be screened on Nov. 15 at 8 p.m., both in Reeves Theater.
Sustainability at UT Centralizing Utilities
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n the September issue, we highlighted the new chilled water plant the University is building off North Boulevard. Centralized utilities, like this new system, allow campus to grow in an energy efficient manner while also reducing maintenance on multiple smaller systems. Over the past year, the University has also focused on centralizing electrical and communications distribution (you may have noticed many of the overhead lines are gone). This project consolidated many individual building use meters to one new primary meter. This upgraded underground electrical infrastructure reduces the potential for outages due to wind storms, animals or keeping lines beyond their useful life. The University will also see an improved electrical rate from TECO, though savings are still being evaluated. UT’s potable water systems are also being upgraded. More than 1,700 linear feet of pipe was laid to connect water services from Kennedy Boulevard near the future Naimoli Family Athletic and Intramural Complex to North Boulevard, south of the Bailey Art Studios. This project was necessary to handle the increased demand from the new facilities being built on the west side of campus. This also reduces UT’s dependence on aged underground pipe that was limited in size and susceptible to leaks. The larger water meters and water lines will reduce the need for campus booster pumps and demand on the city’s infrastructure. In all these systems, services can be fed from either direction and minimize downtime in emergencies or routine maintenance. For more information about UT’s sustainability efforts, see www.ut.edu/sustainability .
UT to Host Workshop on Experiential Education
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n Saturday, Dec. 1, UT will host two workshops devoted to experiential learning in higher education: “Fundamentals of Experiential Education” and “Identifying, Understanding and Applying Outcomes Assessment in Experiential Learning.” The workshops will take place in the Brevard Community Room. Speakers include Al Cabral, retired associate professor of management and director of internships for Nazareth College Rochester, and James Colbert, assistant vice president for academic affairs and director of the EYE (Experience Your Education) program at Lander University-Greenwood (SC). The workshops are coordinated through the Experiential Education Academy of the National Society for Experiential Education (NSEE). The goals of the NSEE Academy are to provide to NSEE members a foundation in standard theory and practice of experiential education; support practitioners new to experiential education so that their programs will meet the standards of best practice identified by NSEE; facilitate new member access to the expertise and knowledge of senior members; and provide all members with competencies that will lead to the strengthening of experiential education within institutions. To register, contact Stephanie Thomason, associate dean of the Sykes College of Business, at sthomason@ut.edu . For a description of the workshops or to learn more about NSEE, email nsee@talley.com, go to www.nsee.org or call (856) 423-3427.
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Recent Rankings
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rom academics to athletics — and even our marketing efforts — this fall the University has been recognized by various reputable organizations as one of the best. For the seventh year in a row, UT’s Sykes College of Business was named an outstanding business school by the Princeton Review and features the school in the 2013 edition of The Best 296 Business Schools. The Princeton Review tallied its ranking lists based on its surveys of 19,000 students attending the 296 business schools during the 2011-2012, 2010-2011 and 2009-2010 academic years. Earlier this year, the Princeton Review named UT one of the nation’s best institutions for undergraduate education in their annual guidebook, The Best 377 Colleges: 2013 Edition. The University’s MBA program was listed as the “Favorite MBA program” in the second annual Tampa Bay Business Journal Best in the
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DAVID BECHTOLD, assistant professor of management, had his article “When it froze in Florida: The challenges that occur when farmers and local residents collide” accepted for publication in the Journal of Management Policy and Practice.
Biz: Reader’s Choice Awards. More than 7,000 votes were cast for the 65 Tampa Bay business-related categories. Ranked behind UT were MBA programs from the University of Florida (No. 2), the University of South Florida (No. 3), USF-St. Petersburg and St. Leo University. In athletics, UT was ranked No. 14 among NCAA Division II universities and No. 89 overall in the 10th Annual NCSA Collegiate Power Rankings. The rankings assess the academic and athletics standards of all NCAA athletic programs across the country and are used by prospective student athletes and their families to evaluate the particular strengths of the top colleges and universities at the Division I, II and III levels. Fewer than 6 percent of colleges and universities earned a spot in NCSA Athletic Recruiting’s Top 100 for 2012. Finally, the UT website was recognized in the 14th annual My College Options® Enrollment Power Index®, an analysis of the admissions websites of nearly 3,000 colleges and universities. UT’s website is among the most highly rated in the country, scoring in the top 100 of all sites rated and earning an “A” ranking. MyCollegeOptions.org is the nation’s largest online college planning program.
MARY KEENER, assistant professor of accounting, had her article “Value relevance of restructuring charges in firms with varying levels of health” accepted for publication in the Journal of Finance and Accountancy. CATHY KESSENICH, professor and associate director of nursing, co-authored “Computed tomography angiography and pulmonary embolism,” which was published in Nurse Practitioner.
DAN REIMOLD, assistant professor of journalism, published his 100th column for USA TODAY College’s Campus Beat section. Reimold’s columns are focused on college life and student media, and popular PETER BRUST, who retired in Spring 2012 as associate professor of economics, and Vivekanand Jayakumar, associate professor of chemistry, topics have included write-ups on college Quidditch clubs, the student “YOLO” phenomenon and a campus bow tie club at the University co-authored “Introducing Valuation Effects-based External Balance of Colorado. Analysis into the Undergraduate Macroeconomics Curricula: A Simple Framework with Applications,” which was published in the Journal of MARY JANE SCHENCK, professor of English, presented a paper Economic Education. “Legal Binds and Social Bonds: Once Again Fiefs in Raoul de Cambrai” at the International Congress of the Société Rencesvals held in Wadham MARK COLVENBACH, director of career services, will present College at Oxford University in August. Earlier this year, she presented “Refreshing Your Employer Relations Strategy” at the 2012 Southern Association of Colleges and Employers (SoACE) Annual Conference in St. two other papers “Old French Epic and the Law: Emotion and Justice” at the New College Conference on Medieval & Renaissance Studies Pete Beach, FL, in December. in Sarasota, FL, and “Customary Law, Imagination, and Community” at ANTONY ERBEN, associate professor of TESOL, co-authored the International Medieval Congress at Western Michigan University in “Language Anxiety: Experiences of Chinese Graduate Students at U.S. Kalamazoo, MI. Higher Institutions,” which was published in the Journal of Studies in STEPHANIE THOMASON, associate dean of the Sykes College of International Education. Business and assistant professor of management, was elected to the BRUCE FRIESEN, associate professor of sociology, published a book board of directors for the National Society of Experiential Education. review, “Everyone’s a Winner: Life in Our Congratulatory Culture,” in Teaching Sociology.
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CREATE Final Pitch Nov. 9 The BNY Mellon Bank CREATE Final Pitch Competition will be held Friday, Nov. 9, at 9 a.m. in the Vaughn Center. CREATE (Creating Real Entrepreneurial Actions Through Education) is a business idea pitch competition open to all UT students who believe they have an idea that can become a real business. Students with the best business concepts are selected to go through an entrepreneurial boot camp. At the Final Pitch Competition students showcase their presentation and compete for cash prizes, including $3,500 for first place, $1,500 for second place and $500 for third place.
A Friendly Reminder Registration for Spring 2013 is underway. Encourage students to register as soon as possible to ensure they have the best choice of course selection. For registration dates and class schedules, go to www.ut.edu/ schedule .
Faculty Spotlight: Scott Witherow
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cott Witherow, assistant professor of chemistry, was “a bit giddy” following the announcement that the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2012 would go to Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka. Witherow held a postdoctoral position in Lefkowitz’s lab at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC, after finishing graduate school. “I was there 10 years ago now, but even then I’d say he was in consideration [for the Nobel],” said Witherow. “I had interviewed for several postdoctoral positions, but when I was offered the position in his lab, I couldn’t turn down the opportunity to work with one of the top scientists in the field.” Witherow worked in Lefkowitz’s lab for about three years studying G-protein-coupled receptors. He explained that these proteins are on the surface of cells and allow cells to bind and react to other molecules. Understanding how these proteins work is important, he said, because pharmaceuticals target and interact with them, thus impacting the effectiveness of drugs. From graduate students to visiting professors, Witherow said there were 25 to 30 people working in Lefkowitz’s lab at any one time. This was a very different experience for him than the two or three people in the lab at the University of Miami School of Medicine where he earned his doctorate. “He was a very good mentor while I was working there,” he said, describing Lefkowitz as a bit of a workaholic. “I’d get emails from him at 4 a.m. But that kind of drive is what has made him so successful.” Though he went on to work in another lab, Witherow soon transitioned into teaching. “When I think back to my time in the lab, whenever we’d have a new person, I liked being the one to show them around, explain how things worked,” said Witherow. “I realized I like teaching. I enjoy interacting with students.” Nowadays, Witherow draws on his lab experiences to get the importance of research across to his students. “The point of research is to figure out the unknown,” he said. “I tell my students that that is the whole point of their college education — to get them to think and apply what they are learning.”
CHECK IT OUT — Members of UT’s fine arts faculty are exhibiting their latest works at the Scarfone/ Hartley Gallery through Nov. 29. Faculty-artists displaying work include Catherine Chastain-Elliott, Santiago Echeverry, Kendra Frorup, Cory George, Lew Harris, Ina Kaur, Jack King, Brooke Scherer, Doug Sutherland and Chris Valle. The exhibition features works in various media, including photography, painting, sculpture, digital images, drawings, installations and mixed media. Lew Harris, Einstein Revisted
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Book Donation Allows UT to “Read Japan”
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ack in May, Laura Rounds, cataloging and acquisitions librarian, applied on behalf of the Macdonald-Kelce Library for The Nippon Foundation’s “Read Japan” book donation program, “100 Books for Understanding Contemporary Japan.” “The library gets a substantial portion of its collection from donations, both in direct funds and in materials (books, videos, etc.),” said Rounds. In October, Rounds was delighted to receive word that UT had been selected as one of this year’s recipients. UT has a minor in Asian studies, which focuses on the history, culture and politics of East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Indian Subcontinent. This acquisition clearly benefits students studying this area, but the library also purchases materials with an international focus that will benefit students in a wider range of majors.
The library already had 18 of the 100 books on the list. The rest will be shipped sometime in November from the bookstore Kinokuniya Company. While all the books focus on Japan, subject matter varies widely, including politics, government and international relations, economics and business, society and culture, literature and arts, and history. “This donation personally represents cosmic payback,” said Rounds, explaining how in the summer of 2011, the library heavily weeded the reference collection when converting many print titles to their comparable online resources. “While I sent many older reference sets across the nation to other academic libraries in need, the majority went to Books for Asia. Give books to Asia, get books from Asia.”sions into practice.
Do You Have Emotional Intelligence? Excerpts from MHNet Behavioral Health Workshop on Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace
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e have all known people who are brilliant, but lack basic living skills. And you probably know others who do not seem very bright, but have mastered the art of living. These people get along well with others, exercise self-discipline, adapt to changing circumstances, and persist in the face of adversity. They are emotionally intelligent. Emotional intelligence is the ability to use your emotions positively and constructively in relating to others, achieving your objectives and meeting the requirements of day-to-day life. Strategies for becoming more emotionally intelligent include: THINK intelligently about emotions. To think intelligently in the emotional and social areas of your life, you must make a conscious effort and pay close attention to what you think, feel and do.
BEHAVE wisely. Emotional intelligence involves not only thinking smart, but also behaving smart. Emotionally intelligent people are wise in their interactions with others. They employ excellent communication strategies, exercise self-discipline in dealing with people and adapt flexibly to what comes their way. FOSTER emotional intelligence in others. Your ability to work with emotional intelligence will grow as you foster emotional intelligence in others, particularly your colleagues. If those around you work with emotional intelligence, you will find it easier to work that way yourself — and your work will be more pleasant and effective. The whole organization benefits when you take the initiative to help your coworkers perform in an emotionally intelligent way. For more information on this workshop and other resources provided by MHNet Behavioral Health, go to www.mhneteap.com.
MAKING PROGRESS — The first piece of the stadium at the Naimoli Family Athletic and Intramural Complex was erected on Oct. 22. The facility continues to come together and is set to be completed by the end of the men’s lacrosse season this spring.
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A SPOOKTACULAR TIME — There was a great turnout for the annual faculty/staff Halloween party Oct. 31 in the Grand Salon. Mark Wright, network systems administrator in the information technology department, won the individual costume contest. The Office of Admissions won the group costume contest with their ode to Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson of TLC’s Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.
Show Your Support Upgrade to a UT specialty license plate and help support scholarships and campus improvements. The plates are $27 (in addition to the regular registration fees). For each plate purchased, $25 goes to UT. To learn more, call the Office of Alumni Relations at x6209, or email alumni@ut.edu .
UT Featured on “The Mayor’s Hour” UT was the topic of conversation on the most recent episode of the City of Tampa Television (CTTV) show, “The Mayor’s Hour.” Mayor Bob Buckhorn visited campus to talk to several campus leaders about UT’s growth and impact on the Tampa community. The episode will air Sundays at 1 p.m., Mondays at 7 p.m., Tuesdays at noon, Wednesdays at 9 p.m., Fridays at 3 p.m. and Saturdays at noon throughout November. CTTV is Channel 15 on the Verizon FiOS system and Channel 615 on Bright House Networks. It will also air MOR-TV on Sunday, Nov. 18 at 7 a.m.
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TWO WEEKS@UT Thursday, Nov. 8
Wednesday, Nov. 14
Scholar’s Symposia: Scholarly Tapas. Featuring Arthur Hollist and Andy Solomon. Music Room. 4–6 p.m.
Honors Symposium. Anthony LaRose, associate professor of criminology and criminal justice, will present “’CSI Colombia’-Do Television Crime Dramas Influence Juror Perception of Forensic Evidence?” Macdonald-Kelce Library, AV2. 4–5 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 9 Student Chamber Music Concert. Sykes Chapel and Center for Faith and Values. 6 p.m. Volleyball vs. Nova Southeastern. Martinez Athletics Center. 7–9 p.m. An Evening of Experimental Dance. Performances in relation to artwork in the fine arts faculty exhibit. Scarfone/Hartley Gallery. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10 Volleyball vs. Lynn (Senior Night). Martinez Athletics Center. 6–8 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 11 Masterclass. Members of the Orquesta Sinfonica de la Universidad de Guanajuato and LUXA 21. Sykes Chapel and Center for Faith and Values. 1 p.m. Guest Recital: LUXA 21 Trio. Sykes Chapel and Center for Faith and Values. 3 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 13 Volleyball vs. Eckerd. Martinez Athletics Center. 7–9 p.m.
Better Together Interfaith Service. Sykes Chapel and Center for Faith and Values. 7–9:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15 Faculty Chamber Music. Lei Liu, violin; Lowell Adams, cello; and Grigorios Zamparas, piano. Grand Salon. 7:30 p.m.
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Thursday, Nov. 15-17. 8 p.m., November 18, 2 p.m. DROOD: The Musical. A riotous take on an English Music Hall show, presents the unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens. Falk Theatre. 8–10:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17 Men’s Basketball vs. Palm Beach Atlantic. Martinez Athletics Center. 4–6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 20 Men’s Basketball vs. Southeastern. Martinez Athletics Center. 7–9 p.m.
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