Q & A sessions offered on BGSU health care plan

The employee Open Enrollment period for health care benefits ends at 5 p.m. Nov. 20.

There are four educational sessions scheduled this month. Representatives from Medical Mutual of Ohio, Caremark and Delta Dental will be present to answer questions. Session times and locations are:

• Thursday (Nov. 4) from 2:30-4 p.m. in 100 College Park, Room 1
• Tuesday, Nov. 9, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in 204 Foundation Hall, BGSU Firelands
• Tuesday, Nov. 9, from 6-7:30 p.m. in 100 College Park, Room 1
• Wednesday, Nov. 10, from 9-10:30 a.m. in 100 College Park, Room 1

Call 2-2112 to reserve a seat.

BGSU hosts third annual Native American Unity Forum

The third annual Native American Unity Council Speakers’ Forum and Pow Wow will be held Monday (Nov. 8) and Tuesday, Nov. 9, in 101 Olscamp Hall. This year’s theme is “Human BE-ing: Identity as a Verb.” All events will be held in 101 Olscamp Hall.

Nationally recognized Native American scholars will be presenting on both Monday and Tuesday.
Giving individual presentations are Tony Clark, American studies faculty member at the University of Kansas; Eddie Madril, a member of the Pascua Yaqui tribe of southern Arizona and northern Sonora Mexico.; Richard Morris, a Mescalero/Kiowa and communication studies faculty member at Arizona State University, and Steven Pratt, a communications faculty member at the University of Central Oklahoma. A speakers’ panel will be held from 7:30-8:30 p.m. Monday.

The speakers’ Nov. 9 presentations will be followed by the Pow Wow at 7 p.m. with the Mingo Nation Drumming Group.

Call Lynda Dixon, communication studies, at 2-7172 for more information.

BGSU to host Ohio Academy of Science; abstracts invited

The 2005 meeting of the Ohio Academy of Science will be held at BGSU April 1-3. Faculty members, graduate and undergraduate students who are conducting research and would like to present it at the meeting are welcome to submit an abstract. The abstract must be postmarked on or before Monday (Nov. 8).

Details about the abstract submission process can be obtained from www.ohiosci.org/BGSUCFP.pdf.

Literary festival designed for aspiring writers

The “Winter Wheat: Mid-American Review Festival of Writing” offers more than 40 writing workshops for aspiring writers of all abilities. The event includes panel discussions and readings by poets Carl Phillips, Allison Joseph and Camille Dungy; fiction writers J. David Stevens and Gabriel Welsch, and several BGSU faculty members.

The festival will be held Nov. 12-14. The majority of the workshops will be held Nov. 13, from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. in the Bowen-Thompson Student Union.

From 1-2:15 p.m. Nov. 13, there will be a special panel discussion on young adult (YA) fiction. The panel discussion will be moderated by YA author Erik E. Esckilsen and will include Toledo YA author Paul Many, librarians, educators and young readers.

Carl Phillips is the author of four collections, most recently The Rest of Love (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004). He has been a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Lambda Literary Award. He also serves as a consulting editor for MAR. He will give a reading at 4 p.m. on Nov. 13 in the Bowen-Thompson Student Union Theater. A question and answer period will follow.

Allison Joseph is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Imitation of Life (Carnegie Mellon, 2003). She is also the editor and poetry editor of Crab Orchard Review. She will read at 6 p.m. Nov. 13 in the Sky Bank Room of the union.

For registration and event information, contact Karen Craigo at karenka@bgnet.bgsu.edu or visit www.bgsu.edu/midamericanreview.

BG@100 open forum set

The next BG@100 open forum will be held at 11 a.m. Nov. 23 in 314 Bowen-Thompson Student Union. It is an opportunity for faculty, staff and students to learn more about the project to implement PeopleSoft administrative systems.