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Before you leave for the break, please take a few minutes and help AUM in its energy conservation endeavors.
- Turn down the thermostat.
- Pull the plug in the offices as well as in the break rooms.
- Computer, monitor, printer, fax and copy machine, coffee makers, tea kettles, microwaves and other appliances
- Unplug the power strips.
- Turn off what you can’t unplug.
- Turn off all task lighting.
- Close all windows and shut all blinds.
- Shut off the main office lights.
- Call Facilities at 244-3232 to report any leaky faucets or toilets or if you have any trouble with windows, thermostats or lights during your shutdown.
Wood set to speak at MLK Reflections Breakfast on Jan. 21
Sieu Tang Wood will serve as keynote speaker at Auburn Montgomery’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Reflections Breakfast on Jan. 21, 9 a.m., in Taylor Center 230. Admission is free, but guests must RSVP by Jan. 14 at 244-3904. Read more about Wood and the Reflections Breakfast
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Ukrainian nurse overcomes obstacles to earn degree at AUM
More than 350 students graduated from Auburn Montgomery on Saturday. While each overcame many obstacles to achieve this milestone, Tetyana Alvarado’s journey was particularly rocky. more
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Warhawks soccer teams to host camps in February
The Warhawks men's soccer program and the Wulf Koch Soccer Academy will host its annual College Prep Camp, a two-day camp and clinic, on Feb. 2-3 at the AUM Soccer Complex. The Warhawks women's soccer program and the Jamey Newsome Soccer Academy will host a two-day Winter Camp on Feb. 16-17 at the soccer complex.
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Liberal Arts 'SchOLARs' help bring Christmas joy to area children
SchOLARs (School of Liberal Arts Representatives) Maddie Bogacz (Communication and Dramatic Arts - Theatre), Allyson Lee (Communication and Dramatic Arts - Theatre), Josiah Almosara (Fine Arts - Graphic Design), Rachel Campbell (History), and Chris Blair (Sociology - GIS), and Liberal Arts Advisor Dana Bice helped bring a little joy to community children at AUM’s Nonprofit Leadership Alliance Christmas party Dec. 8.
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Nursing students earn awards at Alumni and Senior Tea
The School of Nursing recognized its best and brightest students at its Alumni and Senior Tea and Senior Awards event on Dec. 11. Dottie Kenady Blair, AUM alumna and generous benefactor, was the guest speaker. more
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More AUM Next Generation Nonprofit Leaders named
Eight more students involved with Auburn Montgomery’s Nonprofit Leadership Alliance have been awarded $4,500 scholarships from the Next Generation Nonprofit Leaders Program to complete internships in the local community and become certified. The chosen students join four other Warhawks who were selected in October. more
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Phillip Kidd, AUM alumnus from Prattville, Ala., who earned his bachelor's degree in fine arts in 2011, has been accepted to the Ani Waichulis Art Academy. Kidd will fill one of just two spots that were open in the academy focusing on photo-realistic representation.
Dr. Roger Ritvo, Professor in Management and Fulbright Scholar/Visiting Professor at Tbilisi State University, published "Transforming NGOs in Post-Soviet Georgia" in the Journal of Enterprise Transformation. The article was coauthored with Nazibrola Janezashvili, the Executive Director of a major human rights organization in Tbilisi, Georgia. It applies the principles of major system change from IBM to a local, obviously much smaller, organization in the Republic of Georgia. Of note, many "Western" principles are being adapted to the needs of the country.
Dr. Ben Severance, Associate Professor in History and International Studies, will speak Thursday at the Alabama Department of Archives and History's Architreats series about his new book, A Photographic History of Alabama in the Civil War. The book is the 10th volume in the series Portraits of Conflict, which shows the human side of the country’s great national conflict. More than 200 photographs of soldiers and civilians from Alabama, many never seen before, are accompanied by their personal stories and woven into the larger narrative of the war both on the battlefield and the home front. Severance will speak at noon on Thursday, Dec. 20, at the Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., downtown Montgomery.
Dr. Keri Watson, Assistant Professor in Fine Arts, contributed "Eudora Welty’s Making a Date: One Photograph, Five Performances" to Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race, edited by Harriet Pollack and published by the University of Georgia Press. Early reviewers note that the collection "makes an impressive, substantive addition to Welty scholarship. Developing fresh, provocative readings likely to revise, perhaps even upend, earlier views of Welty's approaches to African American themes and characterization... The essayists read anew Welty's fiction, photographs, and memoir."
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Wednesday, Dec. 19
***Thursday, Dec. 20 - Wednesday, Jan. 2: Campus closed. Happy Holidays!
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