Whether it’s due to allergies, celiac disease, or just a desire for relief from joint pain, gluten-free diets are on the rise. But what exactly is gluten, and why is it seemingly in everything? If you are curious about the benefits of a gluten-free diet or have recently been told you must rearrange your pantry to accommodate a gluten-free lifestyle, this is the class for you! February 13, 2012 at 10:00 am
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Former GRCC student and onetime adjunct colleague Carmen Bugan has won the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Bakeless Prize for her memoir of growing up in Ceaucescu’s Romania, living through years of tyranny and suffering after her dissident father drove to the central square in Bucharest and confronted the regime for the horrors it perpetrated. The story her family endured was both harrowing and heroic, and in this memoir, Burying the Typewriter, she finally has written it out for all to see.
Barely free of her homeland, Carmen spent two years at GRCC, later graduated summa cum laude from Michigan, achieved the highest honors ever given by the Poets’ House/Lancaster University, Ireland, for her MFA, and earned her DPhil (PhD) from Oxford University with high honors. Her first book of poems, Crossing the Carpathians, was highly acclaimed, and her second is in the works now, as is an volume of essays based on her doctoral thesis. Carmen has served as a book reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement (London), taught creative writing at Oxford, has lectured and read at Harvard and many other universities, and presently teaches at the University of Strasbourg. She and her husband Alex, a physicist who works on the CERN atom smasher, live near Geneva and are raising their two kids.
There will be a local book launch and reading from the book in September. Burying the Typewriter will be released by Graywolf Press in July, and is available for pre-order at Amazon.
Courtesy of GRCC’s Media Technologies Department, the video of this year’s GIANTS Awards is now available for viewing on YouTube:
Student Employment Services sponsors The Anchor Award, which is a monthly award that recognizes Student Employees for contributions to their department and to the college based on a different trait/skill each month. The nomination quality for December is Change/Adaptability.
The Anchor Award Winner for February is Laura Wooden. Laura is an Office Assistant in the Music Department and was nominated by Kevin Dobreff for her exemplary work integrating and deploying the ImageNow document management system for their department.
Congratulations Laura!
Next month’s recognized skill/trait is Responsiveness/Accountability (March). If you would like to nominate a deserving Student Employee, please contact Chris Allen at callen@grcc.edu or extension 3738.
College administrators eager to hear more details of President Obama’s plan to keep tuition affordable
Published: Tuesday, January 31, 2012, 1:44 PM | Grand Rapids Press
West Michigan college and university administrators say they’re hopeful that plans laid out last week by President Obama to keep tuition from rising will jump-start conversations with state officials about how to best fund higher education. [...] Raul Alvarez, a spokesman for Grand Rapids Community College, said he’s pleased that the president is focusing on higher education and he’s eager to hear more details about the plan.
“We have to review the plan before we comment on it,” he said. (More)
Join the Distance Learning and Instructional Technologies department in celebrating Digital Learning Day!
Digital Learning Day is a day set aside to celebrate innovative teaching and learning through technology. The focus is to use technology in teaching and learning to engage students and promote student success!
As a way of celebrating, we encourage you to:
February is Food Collection Month at Kids’ Food Basket (a Grand Rapids-based charity fighting childhood hunger). KFB has a corporate donor who will donate dollars to pounds for the day they collect the most food (eg, 5,000 pounds of food will get a donation of $5,000).
Therefore ESP will be collecting from Wednesday, February 1st – Tuesday, February 21st at the following locations:
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