Women’s Lacrosse Hosts a Pair of Games This Weekend
Team faces Delaware and Yale
Your Canisius women’s lacrosse team, fresh off its first win of the season Monday afternoon, comes home this weekend for the first time in 2018.
The Griffs host Delaware at 4 p.m. today, Friday, March 9 before welcoming Yale to the Demske Sports Complex on Sunday, March 11 at 1 p.m. Canisius is 1-3 after starting its campaign with road games at Northwestern, Michigan and Oregon prior to winning at Binghamton. Delaware carries a 2-3 mark into Friday’s game with their most recent contest a 12-8 loss at Georgetown. Yale is undefeated after four games with a 16-15 overtime win versus Harvard in its most recent contest.
There is no admission charge for women’s lacrosse. Additional information on the team and first-year head coach Allison Daley can be found at www.GoGriffs.com
Submitted by: John Maddock, associate athletic director, External Events
Griff Fair: Career, Internship and Service Fair
Faculty and staff are welcome to attend
Griff Fair, our annual career, internship and service event, will take place on Thursday, March 15 from 3 – 5 p.m. in Science Hall.
All undergraduate and graduate students, as well as alumni, are encouraged to attend. Students and alumni can register through their Handshake accounts.
This year, 80 organizations are registered from a variety of industries including business, education, healthcare and government. Griff Fair is a great opportunity for students and alumni to build their professional networks and learn about career, internship and service opportunities.
Faculty and staff are welcome to stop by the event. We hope to see you there!
Submitted by: Julie Zulewski, director of Graduate Enrollment and Corporate Engagement
Serious Games Meetup
Learn about the various applications of games
Join us for our next Serious Games Meetup of 2018 on Friday, March 16 at 11 a.m. in the Digital Media Arts Lounge on the third floor of Lyons Hall.
Serious Games can serve a wide variety of purposes: educational, scientific simulation, healthcare, therapy, personnel training, emergency management, city planning and politics. The Serious Games Meetup is sponsored by the Digital Humanities Group. Here, faculty, staff and students explore learning theories and game design and conduct workshops where participants explore digital and analog game use and creation. And yes, they play some games, too!
Submitted by Mark Gallimore, instructional designer, Center for Online Learning and Innovation
COLI Faculty Meetup
Discuss reading, writing and plagiarism
This spring, the Center for Online Learning & Innovation (COLI) is hosting a faculty meetup focused on the pedagogy of reading, writing and academic integrity. The event is on Thursday, March 22 from 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. in the library classroom.
Now more than ever college faculty are under pressure to cultivate critical reading and writing skills in our students. But in our students’ worlds, courses, lessons and assignments compete with a wide variety of other priorities and media. We often struggle to persuade our students that these intellectual virtues are worth their time. Our most frustrating experiences come when we discover that our students committed academic dishonesty, rather than make a sincere attempt to create original work.
This meetup will not be a formal presentation, rather faculty should come as colleagues to share experiences and concerns. Moreover, each participant is encouraged to share triumphs, however tentative or small. For example, when did you do or discover something that you believe fostered reading and writing skills among your students? What can you share with your colleagues across campus that might help them in their classrooms and disciplines?
All faculty are welcome. COLI supplies the refreshments.
Together, we can do much more!
Submitted by: Mark Gallimore, instructional designer, COLI
Digital Humanities Workshop
Getting Started in WordPress
Ben Dunkle, professor of digital media arts, presents “Getting Started in WordPress,” a Digital Humanities workshop on Monday, March 26 at 3 p.m. in Old Main 115.
WordPress is a web development toolset powering almost a third of the internet. It is used for big-traffic professional websites but is surprisingly user-friendly to beginners. Faculty, staff and students use WordPress to create and maintain websites for offices, projects, blogs and professional portfolios.
In this workshop, Dunkle helps participants get into the basics of building and maintaining websites and blogs. Learn how to author attractive, functional content on the web, and develop skills useful for presenting yourself, your work and your organizations to the world.
Dunkle teaches courses in graphic design, web design and fine arts. He oversaw the development of numerous interactive projects, designed and coded web-based applications, created custom fonts, icons, logos and graphical assets used on millions of websites, and built curricula for educating future web designers and developers. Dunkle works on the WordPress open source project, designing icons for the administration environment. He is committed to empowering individuals who want to learn web design, and organizes bi-monthly meetup groups and conferences focused on WordPress and web design.
Submitted by: Mark Gallimore, instructional designer, COLI
