12/13 - Congratulations Graduates! - Commencement Info

Congratulations graduates!

Viewing information for commencement is available here:  http://www.winona.edu/registrar/commencementinfo.asp

Live streaming feed for the ceremony will be available here: live streaming feed

10/23 - Athenaeum at 1pm - Industry-Driven Research Projects for Students by Beckry Abdel-Magid

Join us this Wednesday, October 23, 2013 at 1:00pm for our last Athenaeum of the fall semester.  We hope you will join us in learning about  Industry-Driven Research Projects for Students presented by Beckry Abdel-Magid, Professor, Composite Materials Engineering.

This presentation will discuss a number of research projects which were initiated through direct interaction with local and regional companies. The projects focused on research that will benefit an entire industry in the region rather than specific companies. A number of students in the engineering department were involved in these projects, and they shared their results with scientists and engineers from various companies in the region. The projects were funded by WSU Next Chapter Grant. The experience of developing such projects that allow students to work on practical problems, and put them in direct contact with professional in the field will be shared with faculty, staff and students.

Please encourage your students and come out to support a colleague!  The Library Athenaeum is located on the second floor of the Library, south side.

For more information please visit:  http://www.winona.edu/library/athenaeum/

03/13 - Athenaeum at 1pm - Assessment in the History Department: Outcomes for History Majors and GEPS Students

Come one come all!  Join us at 1:00pm on Wednesday, March 13, for "Assessment in the History Department: Outcomes for History Majors and GEPS Students" presented by Matthew Lungerhausen, Matt Lindaman  and Michelle Kuhl.

The panel will discuss the methods used by WSU’s history department to assess student learning among both majors and General Education (GEPS) students. Professor Lungerhausen will address the main focus of the Department’s assessment for majors, the senior thesis project. Professors Lindaman and Kuhl will discuss the way they have used Document Based Questions to assess historical thinking skills in GEPS students from Professor Lindaman’s Western Civilizations classes.

Please encourage your students and colleagues to attend.

The Library Athenaeum is located on the second floor of the Krueger Library, bluff side. For more information about the fall Athenaeum events please visit: http://www.winona.edu/library/athenaeum/

03/06 - Athenaeum at 1pm - Introduction to Tai Chi and Chi Gong

Please joins us at 1:00pm on 6 March 2013 for our Library Athenaeum titled Introduction to Tai Chi and Chi Gong, by Brice Wilkinson, Retired Professor, Winona State University.

An experiential introduction to the science of Tai Chi. It has preventive medicine, every day you give yourself a self administered acupuncture treatment. It is a dance to many, a weapon system to some, they way of enlightenment for a few. If you can walk you can play Tai Chi. Oh yes, it reverses the laws of aging.

The Library Athenaeum is located on the second floor of the Krueger Library, bluff side.  For more information about the Library Athenaeum please visit our website at:

http://www.winona.edu/library/athenaeum/#six

8/17 Getting started: Information for New Faculty

Check out the Library's page for new faculty:
http://www.winona.edu/library/guides/informationfornewfaculty.html

Please contact your librarian liaison for more detailed information and research sessions for your students: http://www.winona.edu/library/liaisons/



For more information and returning faculty:
http://www.winona.edu/library/guides/informationforfaculty.html

3/25 Athenaeum at 1pm - Sabbatical Experience in the Middle East by Beckry Abdel-Magid and Margaret Trott

Join us on Wedneday March 25, 2009 at 1pm for Beckry Abdel-Magid and Margaret Trott's a lecture and discussion titled A Sabbatical Experience in the Middle East.

The lecture will emphasize planning for a sabbatical leave, application to the Fulbright Scholarship Program, and selection of program and country. The discussion will include academic and cultural preparation for a successful sabbatical leave, transition and family relocation to host country, adaptation to new environment of work and leisure. An overview of the society, economy and politics of the United Arab Emirates (our host country) will be presented.

The Athenaeum is located on the second floor of the WSU Library, bluff side. The Athenaeum schedule is available at: http://www.winona.edu/library/athenaeum/

2/4 Athenaeum at 1pm -Phillis Wheately the first African American Poet by Michlitsch and Ripley

Join us on Wednesday February 4 at 1:00pm for Professor Gretchen Michlitsch and Professor Chuck Ripley's presentation on Phillis Wheately the first African American Poet.

Michlitsch and Ripley discuss Phillis Wheatley, the First African-American Poet
Brought from Gambia, Africa to colonial America in 1761, Phillis Wheatley entered Euro-American Christian culture as an enslaved girl. A literary prodigy, she became the first published black American poet in 1767. Her poems provide an important window into the developing but conflicting discourses surrounding freedom, race, and human nature in the era of the American Revolution. Gretchen Michlitsch and Chuck Ripley will explore Wheatley’s works in terms of her immediate eighteenth-century context and her twenty-first century significance as the founder of the African-American literary tradition.

The Athenaeum is located on the second floor south side of the WSU Library.
The Athenaeum schedule and more information can be found at: http://www.winona.edu/library/athenaeum/

Minnesota History: Survival at Crow Creek, 1863---1866 by Colette Hyman

Stop by and read Colette Hyman's new article in Minnesota History, a quarterly periodical published by the Minnesota Historical Society. Dr. Hyman's article is available in the current periodicals section on the first floor of the library.

Survival at Crow Creek, 1863---1866 by Colette A. Hyman
Drawing on all possible resources, Dakota women sustain their families and community in bitter exile after the 1862 war.

10/22 Athenaeum at 1pm - Understanding Muslim and Islamic Culture by Ahmed El-Afandi

Join us on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 at 1:00 pm for a presentation by Ahmed El-Afandi titled "Understanding Muslim and Islamic Culture."

Emeritus Professor El-Afandi (Political Science), who was a founding member of the Winona Islamic Center, will discuss Muslim and Islamic cultures to help foster a better understanding of significant cultural differences and similarities between Muslim and non-Muslim beliefs.

The fall 2008 schedule can be found at: http://www.winona.edu/library/athenaeum/

The Library Athenaeum is located on the second floor of the WSU Library.

10/8 Athenaeum at 1pm - Why I Read and Write Poetry by Orv Lund

Join us on Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 1:00 pm for Orv Lund's presentation on "Why I Read and Write Poetry." Emeritus Professor Lund (English) discusses the importance of poetry in his personal life and professional life as a scholar/professor.

Then Athenaeum is located on the second floor of the WSU Krueger Library.

The fall 2008 Athenaeum schedule can be found at: http://www.winona.edu/library/athenaeum/

8/12 Information for New Faculty - Web Page

Information for New Faculty - A Customized Web Page

This web page highlights information about library services for new faculty.
http://www.winona.edu/library/guides/informationfornewfaculty.html
We hope that this page will get you up to speed on some of the basic services and resources you will need in the first few months of the semester.

For more extensive information, the Library also provides a web page for returning faculty and staff information. http://www.winona.edu/library/guides/informationforfaculty.html

This link is located on the left hand side of the Library's homepage at:
http://www.winona.edu/library/