Warhawk Weekly 5-17-2016: Kinesiology students earn recognition; More than 300 attend Outreach conference

More than 300 attend Outreach Admin Professionals Conference

Outreach at Auburn University at Montgomery recently hosted an Administrative Professionals Conference, and 325 administrative professionals from across the state — including 25 attendees from AUM — attended the one-day event at Wynlakes Golf and Country Club.

Speakers included Jaime Andress, AUM Human Resources; Dr. Venessa Funches, AUM College of Business; Neal Kelley, SummaSource Training Solutions; and Trudy Cathy White, daughter of Chick-fil-A founder Truett Cathy White.

Reno publishes book on ‘Wordsworth and the Green Romantics,’ earns research grant

Dr. Seth Reno, assistant professor of English, recently published a book, Wordsworth and the Green Romantics: Affect and Ecology in the Nineteenth Century (University of New Hampshire Press), which he co-edited with Lisa Ottum of Xavier University.

The collection includes essays on ecocriticism, affect studies, and Romantic studies, all of which draw from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature and science as well as from contemporary theories of ecology and emotion.

Reno also has been awarded an AUM Summer Research Grant to fund work on his current book project, Representing Climate Change, 1784–2015, a transatlantic and transnational study of the literature and art of the Anthropocene. At the heart of the book is the conviction that literary and artistic representations of climate have played an important role in shaping the discourses of climate change and global warming in science, politics, and popular culture.

The book opens in 1784, the year James Watt invented the steam engine, and ends with 2015, the year that the amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere rose above 400 parts per million.

AUM goes tobacco free June 1

AUM takes Warhawk wellness seriously. Effective June 1, 2016, AUM will join more than 1,000 other colleges and universities by becoming a smoke-free, tobacco-free campus. AUM is committed to providing a healthier and cleaner campus community for our students, employees and visitors.

A smoke-free campus will further promote the health, safety, and well-being of the AUM Family by reducing exposure to secondhand smoke on campus and at university-owned and -leased properties. For specifics, read the policy online.

Farrow presents at Trenholm State Community College

Dr. Lee A. Farrow, Distinguished Teaching Professor in History and Director of the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, recently gave two presentations on creating positive interactions with students at Trenholm State Community College’s 2016 Staff and Faculty Retreat.

‘Between the Lines: Making Sense of Abstraction’

“Between the Line: Making Sense of Abstraction,” a student-curated exhibition sponsored by the Department of Fine Arts, will run through Aug. 15 in the Goodwyn Gallery.

“Between the Lines” includes artworks by Italian, Dutch, American, Japanese, Spanish, and Greek modern printmakers. Each uses the language of abstraction to express a particular artistic vision.

From minimalist compositions that explore color, to optical art, or simplified arrangements of forms, the exhibit teases out the many meanings of abstraction globally from 1967–1977.

The exhibit also includes child-friendly gallery interactives.

For information, contact [email protected] or 334-244-3986.