Spring 2013 Calendar

January 2013

Kickoff of Science Reads community reading program for Portage County; common reading: Four Fish, by Paul Greenberg (Center for Deciphering Life’s Languages and Lindsay-Crane Center for Writing and Literature)

16: Fireside Chat: Partnering with a Winning Brand! with Sal Baglieri, Owner/Operator, McDonald’s; 7-9 p.m., East Hall Forum (Center for Integrated Entrepreneurship)

23: Fireside Chat: Keepin’ It Fresh! with Trevor Clatterbuck, founder, Fresh Fork Market; 7-9 p.m., East Hall Forum (Center for Integrated Entrepreneurship)

30: Fireside Chat: A Dynamic Duo! with Halle and Benjamin Barnett, co-owners media.schmedia and mighty little websites.com; 7-9 p.m., East Hall Forum (Center for Integrated Entrepreneurship)

February 2013

4: Echo Regional Literary Competition submission deadline (Lindsay-Crane Center for Writing and Literature)

5: Public reading and presentation by science/food writer Paul Greenberg (Four Fish); 7 p.m., Kennedy Center Ballroom (Center for Deciphering Life’s Languages and Lindsay-Crane Center for Writing and Literature)

5: Careers in Healthcare Series, Sarah Yarcusko, ‘98, Chief Perfusionist, Blanchard Valley Health System will be on campus to talk with students interested in healthcare at 12 p.m. in the Coleman Room in Gerstacker Science Hall. (Center for Literature and Medicine)

6: Fireside Chat: Helping Students Achieve! with Jimmy Malone, co-host of the Lanigan & Malone Show on WMJI 105.7 FM, and founder of the Malone Scholarship Fund; 7-9 p.m., East Hall Forum (Center for Integrated Entrepreneurship)

6: Margaret Clark Morgan Lecture on Mental Health by Dr. Robert Peralta, to speak on the links between mental health, gender, sexuality and alcohol abuse (Center for Literature and Medicine)

7: Rescheduled from October, Anupama Joshi, Author of Food Justice, will deliver a lecture on "Hunger at Home" at 12 p.m. in the Kennedy Center Ballroom (Center for Engaged Ethics)

11: Barbara Thompson Contest in Short Fiction submission deadline (Lindsay-Crane Center for Writing and Literature)

13: Fireside Chat: Money from a Hole in the Ground!  with Nick Barron, founder, Hole Patch, LLC; 7-9 p.m., East Hall Forum (Center for Integrated Entrepreneurship)

14: John Peck, University of Akron, Science Reads program; noon convocation (Center for Deciphering Life’s Languages and Lindsay-Crane Center for Writing and Literature)

20: Fireside Chat: Providing Support for Start-ups! with Jack Crews, President & CEO, Regional Economic Growth Corporation; 7-9 p.m., East Hall Forum (Center for Integrated Entrepreneurship)

21: Impact of Invasive Species on Lake Erie Fisheries by Eugene Braig; 7 p.m., Alumni Heritage Room (Center for Deciphering Life's Languages and Lindsay-Crane Center for Writing and Literature)

25: Garfield Seminar Series: Iran (Garfield Institute for Public Leadership)

28: ideabuild!2013; 5-8:30 p.m., Dix Dining, Kennedy Center (Center for Integrated Entrepreneurship)

March 2013

1: Vachel Lindsay and Geoffrey H. Stamm Poetry Contests submission deadline (Lindsay-Crane Center for Writing and Literature)

3-9: Alternative Spring Break Trip to Growing Power (Center for Engaged Ethics)

12: Convocation with Norm Cohen, author of Don’t Cry Foul - Just Strike Them Out- Competing Globally and Winning; Noon, Kennedy Center Ballroom (Center for Integrated Entrepreneurship)

13: Fireside Chat: Revolutionizing Recycling! with Jay Schabel, CEO of RESPolyflow; 7-9 p.m., East Hall Forum (Center for Integrated Entrepreneurship)

14: Lecture by Joel Salatin, Organic Farmer and author of Folks, This Ain’t Normal and Salad Bar Beef; 7 p.m. Hayden Auditorium (Center for the Study of Nature and Society and Center for Engaged Ethics)

20: Fireside Chat: Launching Bio-Tech Spin-Outs! with Al Hawkins, Vice President of Business Development, BioMotiv LLC; 7-9 p.m., East Hall Forum (Center for Integrated Entrepreneurship)

26: Careers in Healthcare Series, Megan Harner, '02, Registered Dietician will be on campus to talk with students interested in healthcare at 6 p.m. in the Coleman Room in Gerstacker Science Hall. (Center for Literature and Medicine)

27: Fireside Chat: An Entrepreneur’s Day at the Beach! with Debbie Kuhn ‘86, founder girltrunks; 7-9 p.m., East Hall Forum (Center for Integrated Entrepreneurship)

28: Presentation by Yale historian and food writer Paul Freedman, author of Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination and editor of Food: A History of Taste and writer for Gourmet magazine;  March 28 at 12 in Pritchard Room (Lindsay-Crane Center for Writing and Literature)

April 2013

2: An Evening of Hiram Writers; dinner for winners and donors at 5:30 p.m., readings at 7 p.m. (Lindsay-Crane Center for Writing and Literature)

11-13: Garfield Scholar Washington trip and Crisis Simulation (Garfield Institute for Public Leadership)

19: William Carlos Williams Poetry Competition Reading, guest speaker physician writer Dr. Jay Baruch; 6:30 p.m., Alumni Heritage Room (Center for Literature and Medicine)

August 2013

4-9: EEC’s Entrepreneurship Immersion Week at Hiram College (Center for Integrated Entrepreneurship)