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MAY 25

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Announcements

  • Academics » College of Arts and Sciences
    Anxiety Study
    The anxiety disorders laboratory is looking for Asian Americans and Caucasian Americans to participate in a study examining social anxiety. Participation in our online survey takes approximately 30 minutes and can be completed by clicking on the following link:

    https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CCR9VX3

    If you have any questions please contact Caitlin Condit at ccondits@gmail.com.
    Sponsor: Department of Psychology
    Contact: Caitlin Condit, ccondits@gmail.com
    Paid Psychology Study on Coping & Emotion - Earn $15
    We are recruiting AU students age 18+ for a study about coping and emotion. You will be asked to complete questionnaires about your personality, mood, and how you deal with emotion. You will also be asked to watch film clips about nature, loss, and dating, and to complete an editing task with a $25 prize to the two highest performers. Heart rate, blood pressure, and finger temperature will be recorded. Participation takes approximately 65-75
    minutes, and you can chose to be compensated $15 cash or 1.5 research credits to use towards your course
    grade if enrolled in participating psychology courses.
    Sponsor: Department of Psychology
    Contact: Jesse Hutchison, jh9455a@american.edu
    Psychology Study
    I am looking for women, ages 18 years and older and who self-identify as African American who are interested in participating in an online study about eating disorders. This study will take place entirely online. Participation in this study will take approximately 30 minutes. All participants will be entered for a chance to win a $100 gift card! Please contact Lauren Rothstein for more information:lr4538a@student.american.edu
    Sponsor: Department of Psychology
    Contact: Lauren Rothstein, lr4538a@student.american.edu
  • Academics » Provost
    BA in Public Communication & Strategic Communication-Significant Change to a Degree Program proposal
    The School of Communication has posted a Significant Change to a Degree Program proposal for the Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Public Communication & Strategic Communication. Please direct any comments to Associate Dean Rose Ann Robertson. We will be accepting comments on this proposal through June 3, 2013.
    Sponsor: School of Communication
    Contact: Rose Ann Robertson, rrobert@american.edu
  • Academics » School of Professional and Extended Studies
    Improve your English this Summer!
    The English Language Program in the School of Professional and Extended Studies is accepting registrations for summer courses. Three courses are available: TOEFL Preparation, Business Communication, and Integrated Skills. The courses are designed for students with an Intermediate to advanced level of English and open to anyone in the AU community or DC metro area. The cost is $695 per course. Classes meet two evenings a week for eight weeks from June 10 to August 1. For more information or to register for classes, click on the SPExS website link below.
    Sponsor: School of Professional and Extended Studies
    Contact: Ken Janjigian, elp@american.edu, 202-895-4919
  • Academics » School of Public Affairs
    The Gap from Parchment to Practice: Ambivalent Effects of Constitutions in Democratizing Countries
    This conference, to be held May 28-29 in the SIS Founders Room, seeks to identify the conditions under which the promulgation of new constitutions in already-democratizing nations does not necessarily foster democratic deepening, but in fact may produce a decline in nations’ levels of democracy. Existing studies of constitutionalism have taken substantive and legalistic approaches or process-oriented political approaches, but none has combined these. This project pursues a multi-method strategy combining quantitative indicators of democracy, the content of constitutions, and ethnographies of processes used to establish them.
    Sponsor: Department of Government
    Contact: Ghazal Nadi, gp4917a@american.edu
  • Life@AU » Clubs and Organizations
    Join the AU Pep Band!
    The AU Pep Band is currently looking for experienced brass, woodwind, drum set, electric guitar, keyboard, & bass players for the fall 2013 semester.

    There is no audition, but experience on your instrument is required. The AU Pep Band rehearses on Thursday evenings, 5:30-8:00 PM, and performs at most American University athletic and school spirit events. Rehearsals begin in the fall term.

    Email AU Pep Band Director, Marc Decker, decker@american.edu, for questions about membership.

    GO EAGLES!
    Sponsor: Athletics
    Contact: Marc Decker, decker@american.edu
    Join the AU Symphonic Band!
    The AU Symphonic Band is currently looking for experienced brass, woodwind, and percussion players for the fall 2013 semester.

    The AU Symphonic Band rehearses on Tuesday evenings, 5:30-8:00 PM, and performs two concerts per semester.

    For questions about membership, email AU Symphonic Band Director, Marc Decker, decker@american.edu.

    GO EAGLES!
    Sponsor: Department of Performing Arts
    Contact: Marc Decker, decker@american.edu
    Join the Kennedy Political Union (KPU) Staff for 2013-2014
    Since our founding in 1968, the Kennedy Political Union has been recognized as one of the premier college speakers bureaus in the United States.

    The historical success of KPU is the product of a committed, hard-working and cohesive staff of AU students who meet regularly. If you are interested in becoming a staff member for 2013-2014, please visit our website to download the application. The deadline for submitting applications is Friday, May 31st at 5 pm.
    Sponsor: Student Government
    Contact: Chandler Thornton, kpu@ausg.org
  • Life@AU » Diversity
    Safe Space Workshop
    May 30th | 1-4pm | MGC 200
    The Safe Space Program seeks to create a safer and more inclusive campus environment for all members of the campus community by reducing heterosexism, homophobia, and transphobia. Through the training program and the display of Safe Space placards & buttons the program creates a visible and supportive network of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and ally members of the campus community who have basic knowledge about issues of sexual orientation and gender identity and are able to provide support and referrals to members of the campus community.
    Please RSVP.
    Sponsor: Center for Diversity and Inclusion
    Contact: Sara Bendoraitis, cdi@american.edu, 202-885-3651

Events

      • 10:00 am – 7:00 pm
      • Waterworks
      • Katzen Rotunda 1st Floor
      • VSPACER

      • Exhibition: Waterworks
        Tuesday, May 14 through Sunday, June 16
        Waterworks is an exhibition of approximately fifty paintings by local artists using water-based media (gouache, watercolor, acrylic, and water-based oil). Ten artists are participating: Miche Booz, Pat Clarke, Tom Gannon, Natasha Karpinskaia, Kiu Kavousi, Cathy Kwart, Catherine Levinson, Bonny Lundy, Virginia Mahoney, and John Woo. ...more

        Type: Exhibit
        Host: Katzen Arts Center

        Full Event Information

      • 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
      • Spring 2013 Exhibitions: Lee Haner, Painting Borges, and Saturation Point
      • Katzen Museum First Floor Exhibition
      • VSPACER

      • Lee Haner: Mischief
        April 6 through May 26, 2013.
        Recent mixed-media works by a reclusive master. Balanced between representation and abstraction, painting and sculpture, the exhibition is inspired by the land and first peoples of the American Southwest.

        Painting Borges: Art Interpreting Literature
        April 6 through May 26, 2013.
        Argentinean Jorge Luis Borges is one of the most prominent and ...more

        Type: Exhibit
        Host: American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center

        Full Event Information

      • 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
      • Spring 2013 Exhibitions: Timothy App
      • Katzen Museum Third Floor Exhibition
      • VSPACER

      • Timothy App: The Aesthetics of Precision: Forty-Five Years
        April 6 through May 26, 2013
        Timothy App's signature style of geometric abstraction reveals a concise and considered understanding of the nature of painting, visual tension, and persistence. The exhibition brings together various aspects of the artist's evolution and growth into one of the regions most important living abstract painters....more

        Type: Exhibit
        Host: American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center

        Full Event Information

Must See Events

      • May 14 to 26
      • Spring 2013 Exhibitions: Lee Haner, Painting Borges, and Saturation Point
      • VSPACER

      • Lee Haner: Mischief
        April 6 through May 26, 2013.
        Recent mixed-media works by a reclusive master. Balanced between representation and abstraction, painting and sculpture, the exhibition is inspired by the land and first peoples of the American Southwest.

        Painting Borges: Art Interpreting Literature
        April 6 through May 26, 2013.
        Argentinean Jorge Luis Borges is one of the most prominent and ...more

        Type: Exhibit
        Host: American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center

        Full Event Information

      • May 14 to 26
      • Spring 2013 Exhibitions: Timothy App
      • VSPACER

      • Timothy App: The Aesthetics of Precision: Forty-Five Years
        April 6 through May 26, 2013
        Timothy App's signature style of geometric abstraction reveals a concise and considered understanding of the nature of painting, visual tension, and persistence. The exhibition brings together various aspects of the artist's evolution and growth into one of the regions most important living abstract painters....more

        Type: Exhibit
        Host: American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center

        Full Event Information

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Important Dates

  • 05/27/2013: Memorial Day; no classes, university offices closed 

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