Archived announcements for July, 2007
Closure of Quad Road for Reconfiguration and Repaving June 28
On Thursday, June 28, the west,
east and south sections of the Quad
Road will be closed to allow for
reconfiguration and repaving. The
reconfiguration involves narrowing the
roadway on the south end of the Quad
to redistribute the existing parking
to the north end of the Quad. The
Quad will have the same number of parking
spaces that it has had for the past
three years. The work will occur on the west side
of the Quad from Johnson Chapel south,
and on the east side of the Quad from
James Dorm south. There will also be
roadwork and repaving on and around
the Charles Pratt construction site.
While the road is closed there will be
no vehicular traffic or parking
allowed. The north section of the
Quad Road (in front of Frost Library)
will become two-way and parking will be prohibited.
For more information: www.amherst.edu/~phyplant/projects/quad_road_closure.pdf
Help the Annual Fund: Two Types of Jobs Available
The Development Office is looking for
student callers to work the Phoneathon
for the Annual Fund during the month of
June. The Phoneathon will be held in
the evenings (and one Sunday afternoon)
at Smith House (near Pratt Field) and
entails calling alumni who have yet to
give to the Annual Fund this year and
asking them to make a gift. The pay is $7.50/hour, and
dinner and snacks are provided nightly. The Development Office is also looking for a
Student Manager to oversee the
Phoneathon. Responsible include on-site operations of
the Phoneathon, including overseeing
student callers; updating daily call
reports; entering nightly gifts into
spreadsheet; collecting credit card
slips from callers; unlocking and
locking the call center each shift; and
making calls as available. The Student
Manager should be available to work all
shifts. There will also be two raffle prizes each night. The Phoneathon will take place from 5:30 to 9 p.m. every night except
Sunday, June 24, when it will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. Calling will take place Monday - Thursday, June 18-21, and
Sunday - Friday, June 24-29. If interested, please contact Diane Hutton at dbhutton@amherst.edu or
413/542-8237and request an application.
Biology/Hughes Workshop Lecture July 12
Todd R. Golub, director of program
in cancer, Broad Institute, and Howard
Hughes Medical Institute investigator,
will present "Genomic Information and
Cancer" on Thursday, July 12, at 4
p.m. in Merrill 1. Golub is a world
leader in applying genomic tools to the
classification and study of cancers.
His work focuses on using the human
genome to understand the biological and
clinical challenges facing cancer
medicine. He has made fundamental
discoveries in the molecular basis of
childhood leukemia, and pioneered the
use of genomic approaches, particularly
DNA microarrays, to cancer biology.
Emily Dickinson Museum Will Host Children's Circus, Amherst Day on Saturday, July 7
The Emily Dickinson Museum will host a
children's circus and other special
events on Amherst Day, Saturday, July 7.
For more information: www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/events.html
In Memoriam: Visiting Professor Mirjana (Minja) Lausevic
Mirjana (Minja) Lausevic, visiting Valentine Professor of Music at Amherst College (2006-07) and Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, died of a recurrent illness on July 15 in Western Massachusetts.
Lausevic was born and raised in the multi-ethnic city of Sarajevo in the former Yugoslavia. She earned her bachelor's degree in musicology-ethnomusicology from Sarajevo University in 1988. Much of her research since that time examines how music has helped both unite and divide ethnic groups in her native Balkans. She came to the United States in 1991 and earned her master's degree (in 1993) and doctorate (in 1998) in ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University. She has published numerous articles based on her fieldwork in the towns and countryside of Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia, and more recently, the United States. In her book, "Balkan Fascination" (Oxford University Press, 2007), Lausevic explored the multiple roles and meanings Balkan music has had in the United States over the last century. In addition to her scholarly work, Lausevic was an active performing musician. She once led a traditional Bosnian vocal group named Yu-Etno; in New England, she sang and played keyboard with her group Zabe i Babe, which recorded the compact disc Drumovi (Bison Publishing) and was featured on public television's Exploring Worlds of Music series. She has also been a regular member of shape-note/sacred harp singing communities in Northampton and Minneapolis.
In addition to Amherst College and the University of Minnesota, Lausevic has taught at Dartmouth College. She leaves her husband, Tim Eriksen '88, her two children, Anja (3) and Luka (5), her mother, and her brother Dragan Lausevic of Whistler, BC.
Memorial Celebration for Prof. Mirjana Lausevic Will Be Held Saturday, July 28
A memorial celebration of the life of
Mirjana Lausevic will be held
on Saturday, July 28, in the area of
Northampton, Mass. Exact
location to be announced. The event
will include singing from the
Sacred Harp, potluck dinner on the
grounds, and more music.
Information about exact location, as
well as a schedule and information for those who wish
to make memorial donations, is available at the URL below.
For more information: www.wmshc.org/minja_memorial.php
Poetry in the Garden at Emily Dickinson Museum July 15, 22, 29
Poetry in the Garden" returns to the
Emily Dickinson Museum: The Homestead
and The Evergreens, on three Sundays
this summer. The series of readings
will take place in the garden at the
Dickinson Homestead (280 Main Street)
on July 15, July 22, and July 29. All
programs begin at 2 p.m. The readings
are free and open to the public. For the readings, speakers will read selections from Dickinson's poetry and
will also share some of their own
work. Poet Cleopatra Mathis of
Dartmouth College will open the series
on July 15. Artist Nancy Ekholm
Burkert will share her reflections on
Emily Dickinson on July 22. Poet Dara
Wier, who directsthe MFA Program for
Poets and Writers at the University of
Massachusetts, concludes the series on
July 29.
For more information: www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/events.html
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