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Sharon Bryan Poem Reading

Sharon Bryan is the author of four collections of poems, including Salt Air, Objects of Affection, and Flying Blind.Her most recent book, Sharp Stars (2009), is the winner of the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award. The publisher, BOA Editions, describes Bryan’s poems as “tightly-knit” and “succulent” and praises her “acrobatic language that probes matters philosophical and psychological.” Bryan’s awards include two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and The Discovery Award from The Nation. She is the editor of Where We Stand: Women Poets on Literary Tradition, and the co-editor, with William Olsen, of Planet on the Table: Poets on the Reading Life.

Co sponsored by the UConn Co-Op

Student Rally for Health Care Reform Wed. Nov. 4th

from 12:00-2:00pm on Fairfield Way.

Gretchen Raffa of Planned Parenthood will be speaking about why healthcare reform is a
women's issue and how young women can get involved! Free t-shirts, signs,
and stickers. Don't miss it!

 
Thursday, November 12 at the Konover Auditorium, 7:00 pm
Named by the New Yorker one of the twenty best writers under forty, Allegra Goodman is the author of six books, including the highly regarded The Family Markowitz (1996), about an endearing three-generational Jewish family; Kaaterskill Falls (1998), about a mostly Orthodox Jewish summer community in upstate New York; Paradise Park (2001); Intuition (2006); and her latest work, The Other Side of the Island (2008), in which she makes her first foray into the world of young adult literature. The LA Times calls it “a dark vision rendered in wonderful and imaginative detail” and notes that “with global warming, carbon footprints and the corporatization of government dominating headlines, Goodman’s story is timely and disturbing.” Goodman will read from The Other Side of the Island and discuss the unique challenges of writing for young adult audiences.
Co-sponsored with the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation

 
PLEN’s Women & Public Policy Seminar in Washington, DC, January 11-15, 2010 
Seminar registration deadline is NOVEMBER 27, 2009
The Public Leadership Education Network (PLEN) is offering a one-of-a-kind opportunity for women students to learn first-hand how many different ways an individual can make and influence public policy during its Women & Public Policy Seminar on JANUARY 11-15. New this year! Students may now choose to focus on policy tracks in Finance, Education or Sustainability! They’re taught by women who influence national policy every day: top legislative staffers, White House officials and federal agency leaders, nonprofit advocates and corporate lobbyists. These women immerse the students in the major issues of the day, guide them through the realities of policy making, and help them discover if they want to become part of the process.
Visit http://www.plen.org/ for more information and on-line registration.

 
Women & Science/Technology Policy Seminar in Washington, DC
Seminar registration DEADLINE is November 20, 2009
 The Public Leadership Education Network (PLEN) will be holding its Women & Science/Technology Policy Seminar January 4-8, 2010 for women science majors who want to explore what life is like as a science advisor.
This is a one-of-a-kind opportunity for women students to discover a different way to professionally apply their scientific and technological knowledge – in a career developing public policy. The seminar teachers are women scientists in diverse areas of government and the private sector, including: White House science advisors, legislative staff in Congress, Institute directors at NIH, corporate lobbyists and scientists, and nonprofit advocates. These women immerse the students in the major issues of the day, guide them through the realities of policy making, and help them discover if they want to become part of the process.
Visit http://www.plen.org/ for more information and on-line registration.