GSCA Announcements and Upcoming Events for the week of February 25, 2013
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Below are announcements and upcoming events to consider.

**Announcements**
1.	Graduate Student Support Group
2.	Grad School & GSA Travel Fund – March 1st deadline

**Upcoming Events**
3.	Thursday, February 28th – Dr Ramon Gutierrez, Lecture
4.	Friday, March 1st – Dr Charles Finch III, Lecture at UC
5.	Tuesday, March 5th – Dr. M. Joycelyn Elders, 15th US Surgeon
General
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1) Graduate Student Support Group
This is a graduate student group where you can meet and discuss anything
from relationships, academics or other things causing stress or anxiety.
Consider coming together with your peers. Flyer is attached.

Tuesdays 4:00 – 5:30pm @ the MU Student Counseling Center
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2) Graduate School & GSA Travel Fund Deadline
If you presented at a conference or recently accepted to present, the next
deadline for travel funds through the Graduate School and GSA is quickly
approaching.  Visit the website below for more information – click on the
link for Graduate School Travel Fund Application.
http://www.miami.muohio.edu/graduate-studies/forms-publications/index.html


Next Deadline:  Friday, March 1st
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3) Lecture by Dr. Ramón Gutiérrez
Dr Gutierrez, a historian from the University of Chicago, will present a
lecture about the religious origins of the Mexican American Civil Rights
movement.  More information is attached.

Thursday, February 28th @4pm at the Shriver Center, MPR B
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4) Lecture by Dr Charles Finch III, “The African Origins of Science and
Technology”
In celebration of Black History Month, the University of Cincinnati is
bringing Dr Finch to Cincinnati to speak.  Finch has been conducting
independent studies in African antiquities, comparative religion,
anthropology, and ancient science since 1971.  In 1982 he began publishing
his findings with more than a dozen articles including book chapters in
works by renowned scholar Ivan Van Sertima and has authored two of his own
works, Echoes of the Old Dark Land and The Star of Deep Beginnings:
Genesis<http://kemetamorphosis.com/?page_id=87> of African Science &
Technology.  Flyer with more information is attached.
If you plan on attending, contact Samuel Burbanks, President of the United
Black Doctoral Student Organization, [log in to unmask]  They want to
recognize students from other institutions.

Friday, March 1st @ 6:30pm at the University of Cincinnati, 329 Dyer Hall
(map attached)
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5) Dr M. Joycelyn Elders, 15th US Surgeon General of the United States
Elders’ was appointed the 15th US Surgeon General by President Clinton in
July of 1993 and was the first African American woman to hold that post.
She is now a Distinguished Professor of Public Health at the University of
Arkansas School of Public Health and a Distinguished Professor at the
Clinton School of Public Policy. Flyer attached.
Former US Surgeon General Dr. M. Joycelyn Elders will discuss Healthcare
Reform for the annual Casper Memorial Lecture.  The lecture is free and
open to the public. RSVP: (513) 727-3471.  Limit two tickets per person.

Tuesday, March 5th @ 7:00pm at the MU Middletown’s Miriam G. Knoll
Community Center
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Valerie O. Robinson
Director of Diversity Enhancement
Miami University Graduate School
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