Provost Nancy Cantor will recommend to the University Board of Regents during its Oct. 15-16 meeting that associate School of Information dean Gary Olsen be appointed interim dean while a national search is conducted for a permanent replacement.
Michigan Quarterly Review Editor and English Prof. Laurence Goldstein presented the 61st annual Summer Hopwood Awards for creative writing and the Marjorie Rapaport Award for poetry to seven University students this past Friday.
Winners included Music senior Jason Lindner, LSA sophomore Amy Hayes and LSA seniors Neil Chang, Matthew Schmitt, Kathleen Mulcrone, John Ghose and Ericka Smith.
Rackham Amphitheater is scheduled to host three visiting writer events during October. A Festival of New Jazz/Rock and Poetry will take place Oct. 9, featuring a unique blend of poetry and music on topics including interlingual English/Chicana poetry.
English Prof. Tobin Siebers is scheduled to read from his memoirs on Oct. 26. Writing about what it was like to grow up with polio, Siebers will combine meditations and stories to express emotions from a male perspective.
Writer's Harvest For Share Our Strength will be held Oct. 29. The program is a national lecture series aimed to inform people about poverty and hunger issues.
Tickets will be available at the door at $5 for students and $10 for the general public.
The visiting writer series is co-sponsored by the English department and the Office of the Provost.
The University Office of Counseling and Psychological Services will offer local residents a free depression screening as part of National Depression Screening Day on Oct. 8 from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the Michigan League.
The CAPS program will include a short video discussing depression, after which participants can take part in an anonymous written screening test for depression.
The program started eight years ago as a part of Mental Health Awareness Week. Last year, 80,000 people attended National Depression Screening Day at 2,400 sites across the nation.
The Institute for Research on Women and Gender is sponsoring three lectures next months.
Johns Hopkins University Public Health Prof. Laurie Zabin is scheduled to deliver a lecture titled "Girl Youth: First Sex, First Contraception, First Pregnancy" in East Hall room 1324 on Oct. 7 at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
Cornell University Prof. Joan Brumberg is scheduled to give a lecture titled "From Corsets to Body Piercing: Historical Perspectives on American Girls and Their Body Projects" in the Modern Languages Building, Aud. 3 on Oct. 12 at 7 p.m. The event is free to the public and will including a reception and book-singing afterwards.
City University of New York Prof. Blanche Cook will give a speech about the life and legacy of Eleanor Roosevelt in 4448 East Hall on Oct. 29 at 5 p.m.
-Compiled by Daily Staff Reporter Adam Zuwerink.
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