Vanderbilt Register: Campus Calendar

Alan Shapiro

Event of the Week

Poet Alan Shapiro will read from his work Sept. 27 at 8 p.m. in Room 126, Wilson Hall. The reading, which is free and open to the public, is part of the Gertrude and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Program, sponsored by the Department of English. A brief reception will follow. Shapiro’s books will be available for purchase at the reading, courtesy of the Vanderbilt Bookstore.

Shapiro, a professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the author of five books of poetry: After the Digging (1981), The Courtesy (1983), Happy Hour (1987), Covenant (1991) and Mixed Company (1992). Happy Hour was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1988. Shapiro is also the author of prose works, including In Praise of the Impure: Poetry and the Ethical Imagination (1993), a collection of critical essays, and The Last Happy Occasion (1996) and Vigil (1997), both autobiographical works.Vigil, whicch chronicles the death of the poet’s sister from breast cancer, won the New England booksellers Association Award.

Shapiro received his bachelor of arts degree from Brandeis in 1974 and then was a Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford the following year. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry, a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts writer’s fellowship, and was the recipient, from 1992 to 1995, of a prestigious Lila Wallace Readers Digest Award.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20

Religious holiday. Yom Kippur.

Deadline. Award nominations for the Affirmative Action and Diversity Initiative Awards, formerly the Affirmative Action Awards. Nominations should be returned to the Opportunity Development Center today. Call Anita Jenious at 322-4705 for more information.

Seminar. Owen Graduate School of Management. Sept. 20-22. “Persuasion and Influencing Skills.” Sam Lloyd, presenter. 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. $1,550. To register, call Tonya Hobbs at 322-3932. 25% discount to Owen alumni.

Training. ACIS. Students only. “Netscape and Simeon.” Sept. 20-24. Sept. 20. 11:10-noon and 3:10-4 p.m., Sept. 21. 9:35-10:25 a.m. and 1:10-2 p.m., Sept. 22. 10:10-11 a.m. and 2:10-3 p.m., Sept. 23. 11-11:50 a.m. and 2:35-3:25 p.m. and Sept. 24. 9:10-10 a.m. and 1:10-2 p.m. Mary Marler. Call 343-1628 to register.

Clinical Informatics conference. Noon. 4109A MCE.

Early Modern Studies group. The Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities. “Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Childbirth Practices.” Holly Tucker. 3:10 p.m.

ChE and ME seminar. Chemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. “Particle Transport in electro-Hydrodynamic Flow-Fields.” 3:30-4:30 p.m. Dr. H. Schmid.

Chemistry seminar. “Design and Realization of Highly Anisotropic Organic Materials.” Rainer Glaser. 4:15 p.m. SC5326.

Faculty Recital. Blair School of Music. Lawrence Borden, trombone and Melissa Rose, piano. Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall. 8 p.m. Free and open to the public.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

Trauma conference. Orthopedics and Rehabilitation. “Fracture.” Dr. Kenneth D. Johnson. 7 a.m. C2209 MCN.

Brown bag lunch. Divinity School. The program is part of the current art display in the bookstore “Social Change.” Presentation then questions by the audience. Noon-1 p.m. Divinity School Bookstore (Cokesbury). Free and open to the public. Call 322-7230 for more information.

HEALTH Plus program. “Walking Club.” Wednesdays through Nov. 10. Medical Center North Shuttle Drop-off. Noon-12:30 p.m.

MCSE Seminar. Advanced Networking Certificate Program (School of Engineering). Learn how we can help prepare you for Microsoft certification. 5326 Stevenson Center. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Call 322-1025 to register.

Eucharist service. 5:30 p.m. followed by dinner. St. Augustine’s Chapel.

Wesley Foundation (Methodist) mid-week program. 7:30 p.m. St. Augustine’s Chapel.

September 13-26, 1999