Wednesday, May 26, 2021
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- 'Drugs Not Bugs': Join the CPI for a Science Cafe with Dr. Hans Wildschutte!
- It's time to ride a bike with BGSU Bike Rental!
- Donate surplus/unwanted office supplies
- Help us to keep our recycling contamination-free!
- 5k Scott Hamilton CARES Steps to Stop Cancer
- Know a student in crisis? Here's how to help!
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Campus Update Archive1. 'Drugs Not Bugs': Join the CPI for a Science Cafe with Dr. Hans Wildschutte!
Dr. Hans Wildschutte is an associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at BGSU. He will discuss his research, which focuses on the identification of compounds and bacteriophage that kill deadly bacterial pathogens. If you are interested in attending this informative discussion on May 27 from 6:30-7:30 p.m., followed by an interactive Q&A panel, please register here.
2. It's time to ride a bike with BGSU Bike Rental!
Any BGSU student, staff or faculty member can rent a bike from BGSU Bike Rental this summer! It's only $39 for the whole summer — May 19 through Aug. 20 — and includes free service! It simply can't be beat! Many bikes to choose from. Ride on or off campus. Stay/get fit; enjoy the outdoors; reduce vehicle emissions, and have fun all summer long! Apply here. Contact Campus Sustainability at greenbg@bgsu.edu with any questions.
3. Donate surplus/unwanted office supplies
If your office/area is moving this summer, or if you're in the process of cleaning out in preparation for staff return, or any other reason, please be aware that Campus Sustainability has an initiative known as the "re Store", which makes slightly used and even new office supplies and other small items available for no cost to staff, faculty and students throughout the academic year at special events. Donations of office supplies to this program are always accepted and welcome. We will pick up your boxed/ bagged donations of still usable office supplies and/or other small items if you submit a Maintenance Request online (off the Misc. Services Menu of MyBGSU) and in the body of the request, state that you have a donation for Campus Sustainability's re Store program and summarize what you are donating. Thank you! Contact greenbg@bgsu.edu with any questions.
4. Help us to keep our recycling contamination-free!
Help us keep contamination out of BGSU recycling containers. The only items that go into BGSU recycling containers are those listed on the container signage. If it is not on the signage, it does not go into the container. Say YES to cans (aluminum or steel); plastic bottles; glass bottles; newspaper/office paper (which also includes magazines/brochures, posters, envelopes, and sticky notes). Cardboard must be broken down with packing materials removed and placed in orange "cardboard only" dumpsters outside buildings. Say NO to these contaminants: Plastic bags and packing materials; binders with metal on them such as hanging file folders or 3 ring binders; laminated paper; paper towels; candy wrappers; pizza boxes; food; disposable cups/straws, and styrofoam, or anything else not listed in container signage. Contamination can destroy an entire load of recyclables and send it to the landfill. Thank you for your support! Contact greenbg@bgsu.edu with any questions.
5. 5k Scott Hamilton CARES Steps to Stop Cancer
Join us for Steps to Stop Cancer Bowling Green, Ohio - a 5k for Cancer Research! Held in person at the Slater Family Ice Arena June 5, 2021 at 2:00PM or virtual participation available May 30 – June 5, 2021.
Participate and Fundraise
1) Register for $25 and receive your choice of a CARES water bottle or Sk8 to Elimin8 Cancer™ t-shirt!
2) Raise funds by asking your network to donate. Set a goal to earn rewards through your philanthropy.
3) Complete your 5k independently or in-person. You can independently run your 5k anytime the week of May 30-June 5, or join us in-person on June 5 at 2 p.m. and run your 5k, starting and ending at the Slater Family Ice Arena.
Support a Participant by Donating
By donating to a Sk8 to Elimin8 Cancer™ participant's fundraising goal, you are not only supporting them but providing critical research funding for the Scott Hamilton CARES Foundation and our healthcare partners at Mercy Health and Wood County Hospital.
For more information, contact: Laura Fischer, dunnle@bgsu.edu.
6. Know a student in crisis? Here's how to help!
Help create a Community of Care at BGSU and make sure no Falcon struggles unnoticed and alone! Start the Conversation is a collaborative training offered by the Counseling Center and the Humanities Troupe from the Department of Theatre and Film. In the training, you will learn how to contribute to a community of care, how to identify the warning signs of people who may be struggling, and how to help (including suicide prevention strategies). Simple expressions of care are powerful, and you can make a difference in someone's life!
The next training is Wednesday, June 16, 1:00 to 2:30 p.m., Zoom. Register here, and learn more about how you can help create a community of care at BGSU!
1. Exploring Music (BGP, online) starts today!
Don't miss your chance to enroll in Exploring Music, a fun summer BGP class that starts today! In this course—MUCT 1010-401W; 6e1—you'll learn how music helps movies tell stories, what reggae and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony have in common, and why music is not a universal language. We'll examine how music intersects with ethnicity, gender, war, politics, and more. This is a web-based course. No previous musical training needed. For further details, contact Dr. Ryan Ebright at eryan@bgsu.edu.
1. Intro to Canvas Studio Workshop
The Center for Faculty Excellence is offering an Intro to Canvas Studio workshop. Canvas Studio is a screen capture tool that makes it easy for faculty to create engaging videos right within Canvas. The Studio interface allows students and instructors to engage with media by implementing in-video commenting. Low-stakes quizzes can be added right within the video for low stakes student assessment. This workshop will demonstrate the features of Canvas Studio from producing and editing screen capture videos to utilizing student analytics.
Categories: Expectations, Support, Engagement, Feedback & Assessment, and Academic Support Technologies
Facilitator: Holly Barber, CFE Instructional Designer
REGISTER for the Intro to Canvas Studio workshop offered though the Center for Faculty Excellence.
2. OMA Summer Book Club
Join the Office of Multicultural Affairs for our virtual summer book club experience. We will be reading and discussing, "The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together". Author Heather McGhee, is a leading voice in the national conversation on systemic racism and its impacts on individuals, communities, and societies. “The book is a personal journey and a powerful examination of the debilitating economic and social consequences of racism, for everyone”. In this book club we will use concepts from the book to ask difficult and uncomfortable questions about ourselves and the systems we uphold.
This book club is open to all BGSU staff and faculty. We will provide physical copies (to be picked up on the BG campus) of the book for the first 10 people to sign up. Capacity for this book club is 15 participants. It will run for approximately 10 weeks (1 week per chapter+) and start the week of June 14th. The Day and time of the book club will be decided once all participants have signed up.
If you have additional questions or would like to join the book club, please email: Shevonne Nelson Dillingham at sndill@BGSU.edu. Registration closes June 4th at 11am EST. Here is a link to the New York Times review of the book.
3. Update: Fall 2021 Canvas Webex Decommission
ITS will decommission the Canvas Webex integration at the end of the Fall 2021 Semester. In response to faculty input, the Canvas Zoom integration was implemented during the Fall 2020 Semester as a replacement for Webex. Faculty who have not yet made the transition to Zoom should prepare to do so in the coming months, which includes the export of videos currently stored in Webex. Export instructions and additional information is available at www.bgsu.edu/webex.
Questions? Contact ITS at 419-372-0999 or ITSchat.bgsu.edu.