The Office of Institutional Equity and the Center for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion will be posting newsletters regarding information on domestic abuse each week during the month of October.

You can find the newsletters here: https://www.evansville.edu/offices/titleix/additional-resources.cfm.

This week check out our newsletter on the history of Domestic Violence Awareness month and learn how to be an advocate for ending intimate partner violence.

If you have any further questions, email Jaylen Brown at jb858@evansville.edu.

The Center for Career Development would like to invite you to a virtual informative networking event to be held on Thursday, October 15 from 4:00 to 5:15 pm. This event allows students to talk with professionals in their field and learn more about the skills and background necessary for these careers. You can talk with professionals to hear how they advanced in their positions.

Register for the event on Handshake.

Join the following UE alumni professionals on zoom at this event: Rocky Bush – Creative Ninja, Blake Kleaving – Hoosier Energy, Ryan Cramer – Ping Pong, Andrew Epperson - Motivating Systems, Pam Hight – Deaconess Health Systems, Chris Callahan – Ultimate Kronos Group.

The Office of Marketing and Communications welcomes Parker Franklin as our new copy editor!

Parker comes to UE from Murray, Kentucky, where he was communications specialist.

His first day was Wednesday, October 7. Feel free to welcome Parker to UE by emailing pf60@evansville.edu.

I-House is back and the first country is Italy. We changed the format and this semester we will be conducting interactive interviews with international students. This Wednesday we will be talking to Francesco Brunetti, or Bruno. He is a junior majoring in exercise science. He is also a soccer player at UE. Besides playing soccer, Bruno loves cooking and he will be sharing more about himself and his culture in Eykamp this Wednesday October 14th at 7pm.

The Presidential election is fast approaching, Race relations are strained.

COVID-19 complicates access to equitable services.

As these events and issues unfold in our society various implications may be experienced on our campus.

Do you have comments, questions, concerns, or ideas about how diversity, equity, and inclusion plays out at UE?

If so, The Center for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is sponsoring three listening sessions for you (students and employees) to share your comments, etc. The identical sessions will be made up of panelists from the Faculty, Student Government Association, Office of Public Safety, Office Student Engagement, and Center for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Please make plans to join us at one of the following dates and times via Zoom:

• Session 1 – Tuesday, October 13, 2020, 10:00 am - 11:00 am
• Session 2 – Thursday, October 15, 2020, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
• Session 3 – Tuesday, October 20, 2020, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

The SWOT structure will be used to guide the sessions: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats.

Registration is not required for these sessions.

We look forward to your participation.

Are you interested in changing your major or adding a double major? Are you curious about minors and looking to add one?

Advising Week is coming up on October 26 and all of us in Academic Services, Academic Affairs, and The Center for Career Development would like to help support and connect you to the different departments offering majors and minors that you might be interested in.

Take the Academic Interest Survey.

Need a Major, Want a Minor and get started in the process today! The survey will be available from 10/5/20 thru 10/19/20.

ChangeLab Managing Creativity, Projects, and Change Webinar by Tad Dickel

Wednesday, October 14th
12 to 1pm CT via Zoom
RSVP to ck116@evansville.edu by October 13th

Get tools to use on your projects from this Design Thinking and Simplexity Thinking certified Trainer! Tad Dickel is an expert in creative problem solving.

Dr. Tad Dickel is the President of T.A. Dickel Group, a strategy, leadership, and creativity consulting firm that works with a wide variety of organizations. He specializes in strategic planning, leadership coaching, group facilitation, innovation processes, and team building.

Get ahead by taking Winter Intersession online courses. Complete a missing required course, lighten your spring load, and take advantage of the longer winter break. Classes run December 10, 2020 to January 15, 2021, and students may take up to two courses. Discuss it with your advisor and begin registration November 2, 2020.

Check out the list of courses.

Winter Intersession Courses

If you are seeking financial aid to help pay for Winter Intersession courses at UE, please submit the Winter Intersession Application to the Office of Student Financial Services by November 16, 2020. Our office will help you examine your options for aid, which in most cases is limited to loans.

Exhibit: September 28 – November 25, 2020
Student Workshop: Sept. 29, 1:15-4pm
Student Gallery Lecture: Sept 30, 10:00-11:30am
Artist’s Reception & Public Gallery Lecture: October 1, 6:30-8:00pm (Lecture at 7:00)
All events are in the Melvin Peterson Gallery
Masks and Safe Distancing will be observed
Emerging Contemporary Artist Lecture Series supported by the Efroymson Family Fund and the Dept.of Art

Painting, Drawings and Ceramic Art by Evansville Artist, Terra Kilgore. UE Krannert Gallery. October 11-November 25. A public reception for the Artist: Thursday, October 22, 6:30pm. (Masks and safe-distancing will be observed.) Artist: Thursday, October 22, 6:30pm. (Masks and safe-distancing will be observed.)

Emerging Contemporary Artist sponsored by the Efroymson Family Fund with the UE Dept. of Art.

Bio

I currently reside in Evansville, Indiana but I grew up on my family’s farm in Western Kentucky. That area would provide inspiration that I still use in my work today. I have many passions, but I have always been most passionate about is art, and art education. I studied art education at Murray State University and during this time was able to explore several art mediums to better teach a wide variety of art styles and techniques. I was always a shy, quiet child and learned at an early age to use art for my own expression and communication. Still, as an adult, I use art to communicate what I can’t in words. I am currently a middle school visual arts teacher. I feel it is important for growing children to explore their own feelings, opinions, and be able to express through the language of visual arts.

Artist Statement

Time constantly passes over us leaving behind the remains of what once was. My art largely deals with the passing of time and the commonality of times effect on everything and everybody. I explore time not being a beginning or an ending, but a never-ending cycle. An example of this idea is evident in my painting Rerum Gestarum (Events of Circumstance). Rerum Gestarum is about striving for solidarity and meaning in life, all with the acknowledgement of life’s unpredictable frailness and eventual physical ending, but still existing in time even after we are gone. Growing up on a farm, I was exposed to acres of nature, machinery, and livestock I would spend my time walking down fencerows, exploring creeks, and examining the life cycles of a farm. I was fascinated by expansive spaces, gnarled tree roots, abandoned grain-bins, rusted tools and the expendable livestock. All these things combined started my fascination with cycles of both living organisms and objects.

My earliest artistic influences stem from surrealist artists such as Dali, Magritte, and the organic style of art nouveau. My emphasis in college was clay where I learned and experimented with clay and glaze techniques and recipes. After college I quickly abandoned traditional firing techniques in place of a more primitive alternative pit firing. Much like with my paintings, I use the idea of leaving a fingerprint in time; a fossil. I fire organic material to “paint” a carbon image directly onto the clay’s surface.

My current style is largely influenced by artist, Ben Mahmoud, and his large acrylic paintings, specifically “The Retrospective”. Recurring themes in my work are items that are decayed or are associated with decay, icons of time, and viewing windows to show a moment in that particular time and space. I use recycled materials such as paint, newspaper, house siding, bones, and other organic material in most of my pottery, paintings, and jewelry. I recycle materials to add to an idea of items having a previous life, and being repurposed. I also utilize shadow boxes, focal points, and linear perspective to help guide what my work is trying to communicate to the viewer. I am interested in art that subtly tells a story using lighting, focal points, and or composition. I hope to continue experimenting with different mediums, and using my work to communicate with an ever changing society.

In 2019 and thus far 2020, Dr. Mark Kopta, Professor, Department of Psychology, is a coauthor on four research articles published in the following journals: Journal of Counseling and Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy Research, Journal of Counseling Psychology, and Journal of College Student Psychotherapy. The other authors are members of the CelestHealth Research Group. CHRG studies the assessment of mental health and psychotherapy outcomes. Dr. Kopta is Founder and Director of CHRG.

Clark Kimberling, professor of mathematics at UE, and Peter Moses, an engineer in England, have jointly authored a research paper, "Mappings from the Plane of a Triangle to a Circumconic." The paper appears in the current issue of Journal for Geometry and Graphics, an international publication based in Austria. Kimberling and Moses also jointly authored, with William R. B. Lionheart of the University of Manchester, England, a recently published research paper entitled "The Geometry of Elliptical Probability Contours for a Fix Using Multiple Lines of Position" in The Journal of Navigation, published by Cambridge University Press. Both papers cite extensively the UE-based website, the Encyclopedia of Triangles Centers.