Thanks to agreements between the University and three separately operated historical museums, Truman students have the opportunity to apply for unique summer internship positions.
The Harry S. Truman Presidential Museum and Library provides an opportunity for students to gain experience at the Truman Library in Independence, Mo. Students can earn up to 10 hours of credit for this full-time, eight-week unpaid internship, coinciding with the University’s eight-week summer session. Selected individuals will each receive a five-hour, in-state tuition scholarship.
Both the
National World War I Museum in Kansas City and the
Missouri History Museum in St. Louis are offering similar internship experiences for students. These eight-week, 20-hour per week unpaid internships will also coincide with the University’s eight-week summer session. Students can earn between three to five credit hours.
Museums are seeking individuals with strong written and verbal communication skills, strong organizational skills, the ability to work independently on multiple tasks and knowledge of basic computer skills.
Selection processes for individual internships may vary. Once selected, students can be assigned to a variety of areas based off interest and skill level, including archives, public relations, marketing, educational programming, museum development and visitor services. There are two internship positions available per museum.
The deadline to apply for the National World War I Museum and the Missouri History Museum is Dec. 1. Applications for Truman Library internships are due Dec. 8. For more information or to obtain an application, contact Jeff Gall at 660.785.7747 or
jgall@truman.edu.
Interested in studying abroad for the Spring 2015 semester? Look for CCIS programs that have moved back their application deadlines.
The program in Shanghai, China, is low-cost and features new course options. There are opportunities to study business, culture and language. The deadline is Dec. 1. For more information, visit the program’s website
here.
Information Tables
12-2 p.m.
Dec. 1-3
Student Union Building
“Breaking down the Stigma” presented by Mike Bolle and Active Minds
7 p.m.
Dec. 4
Violette Hall 1416
“Perks of Being a Wallflower” Movie Presentation and Discussion
6 p.m.
Dec. 5
Baldwin Hall 176
Walk for Mental Health Support
2-4:30 p.m.
Dec. 6
Baldwin Hall 176
All events are free to attend.
A Red Cross blood drive will take place from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Dec. 3 in the Student Union Building.
A reflection and memorial, honoring those in the community and world that have been affected by AIDS, will take place at 7 p.m. Dec. 2 in front of the eternal flame at the Kirk Memorial Building. The senior nursing class will present a brief program of short stories, poems and other small reflection pieces to help increase awareness of AIDS and participation in World AIDS Day.
The Student Health Center has a limited number of flu vaccine doses left. Students are encouraged to schedule an appointment this week for a flu shot to avoid being sick over break. Students need to bring their insurance card. Appointments can be scheduled by calling 660.785.4182.
Senior psychology majors will present their capstone research from 1:30-3 p.m. Dec. 2 in the Student Union Building Alumni Room. Presentations are conference-style posters. Individuals are encouraged to drop by and ask questions of researchers.
Phi Kappa Phi is collecting staple food items for the Novinger Christmas Basket Project. Donations can be dropped off before 3 p.m. Dec. 5 in the CSI/Student Union Building Office (SUB 2000).
Staff Council is sponsoring its annual Holiday Door Decorating Contest. Entries should be submitted by Dec. 8 in order to be judged Dec. 10. The winners will be announced Dec. 12. For more information or to submit an entry, contact Jacey Wood at
jacey@truman.edu.
The School of Business is looking for eligible participants for the Gould Scholastic Award, sponsored by DST Systems, Inc., in Kansas City, Mo.
The award represents Robert Gould’s legacy of effective utilization of operations management and information technology to advance the financial services industry. It recognizes outstanding university students who compose exceptional academic papers on topics related to investment management strategies, theories and trends.
Winners are awarded grants in the amounts of $10,000, $7,500 and $5,000 for first, second and third place, respectively, and are celebrated at a special ceremony in Kansas City. The School of Business will additionally award local grants in the amounts of $500, $300 and $150 for first, second and third place, respectively.
In order to be considered, individuals or groups must complete a research paper and bibliography that addresses the future of financial decision-making and its impact on financial services companies.
Paper guidelines are available here. Students must be a junior, a senior or an Honors program student. Graduate students are not eligible to participate.
The University may only submit three student papers to DST Systems, Inc., for review. Papers are reviewed locally first, and the top three Truman papers are forwarded to the next level. Submit papers to the School of Business at
sbdean@truman.edu by Dec. 15.
DAAD, a German Academic Exchange Service, is accepting applications until Dec. 15 for the University Summer Grant and the Intensive Language Course Grant. The exchange service is also offering an opportunity for undergraduates to apply for a scholarship funding study, senior thesis research and/or internships in Germany. The deadline to apply is Jan. 15.
For more information about these opportunities, visit
daad.org.
Apply online now for the 2015 Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellowships competition. The Pickering Fellowship helps talented students, highly motivated and academically excellent graduating seniors or college graduates, who want to pursue a Foreign Service career in the U.S. Department of State. The Pickering programs have been administered by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, one of the United States’ top fellowship providers, for more than 20 years.
The program provides:
* Up to $37,500 annually for academic expenses, covering the first and second year of graduate study
* Two paid State Department summer internships (domestic and abroad)
* Professional development through workshops and informational seminars
* Mentoring by U.S. Foreign Service Officers
Eligibility requirements at the time of application:
* Current college senior or college graduate
* Entering a two-year terminal master’s degree program in the fall of the Fellowship year
* Minimum undergraduate GPA of 3.2 (4.0 scale)
* United States citizenship
Application deadline: Jan. 16, 2015
Recommendations deadline: Jan. 23, 2015
To be placed on the 2015 interest/update list and/or to begin the application process, go
here.
All Day
Jan. 19
The Multicultural Affairs Center and the SERVE Center are looking for 150 Truman students, faculty and staff to spend Jan. 19, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, completing service projects across Kirksville.
To sign up, visit
truservice.truman.edu. For more information, contact Emmanuel Camarillo at
emmanuelc@truman.edu.
Geri Farrell, “The Insufficient Nature of the Human Language”
Shelby Brown, “Edward Abbey’s Use of Comedy in Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang”
Allison Bearly, “Constructed Nature: The Human Impact in Desert Solitaire and Double Whammy”
9:30 a.m.
Dec. 1
Student Union Building Conference Room
Callyn Burgess, “In Parenthesis: A Modern Epic for a Modern War”
Belkisa Causevic, “‘On entend le Canon’: A Translation of Schoolboy Yves Congar’s World War I Journal”
John Brooks, “Sergeant York: Constructing an American Hero”
9:30 a.m.
Dec. 1
Student Union Building Activities Room
Amy Koonce, “Johnny Depp May Be Adorable But Mental Illness Isn’t: The of Women in Benny and Joon”
Stephanie Sherman, “Helpless Hero: The Effect of PTSD in Brothers”
10:30 a.m.
Dec. 1
Student Union Building Conference Room
Laura Kenny, “Who Run the World? Girls”
Theresa Wildhaber, “From Corsets to Overalls: American Women in the Workforce During the First World War”
Kelly Cunningham, “Writers as Pacifists During and After the Great War”
10:30 a.m.
Dec. 1
Student Union Building Activities Room
Hope Benefield, “Abstractions”
Paula Vaught, “Leprechauns, Black Bears, and Other Things About Divorce”
Shelby Welch, “Stars”
11:30 a.m.
Dec. 1
Student Union Building Conference Room
Diane Prinster, “Once Upon a Disability: Portrayals of the Disabled Villain”
Kaitlin Austin, “Portrayal of Disability in Shirley Temple’s Heidi”
Rachel Hoffman, “The Phantom of the Opera: Changing Portrayals of Disability”
11:30 a.m.
Dec. 1
Student Union Building Activities Room
Alexandria Lockett, “Whats the ‘T’ about English Majors? Some Reflections about the Trans-Power of the Field—in around, and outside Academic Jobs”
12:30 p.m.
Dec. 1
Student Union Building Conference Room
Jennifer Marks, “Small Town, Big War: Re-purposing Kirksville, Missouri, for the Great War”
Robert Overmann, “’Ill in the’Ville’: The Events and Culture of Kirksville, Missouri, During the 1918 Influenza as Viewed through Kirksville Newspapers”
Amy Ritter, “Eugenics, Harry Laughlin, and World War I”
1:30 p.m.
Dec. 1
Student Union Building Conference Room
Lauren Ragsdale, “A Study in Disabilities: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in Conan Doyle’s Stories and BBC’s Sherlock”
Janae Fritze, “Representations of Conjoined Twins in Grey’s Anatomy’s ‘Don’t Stand So Close to Me’ and ‘This Magic Moment’”
1:30 p.m.
Dec. 1
Student Union Building Activities Room
Michelle Hadler, “Bad-Mouthing the Enemy: Dysphemistic Use of Language in WWI”
Heather Ernst, “Bringing Harlem to Europe: Power, Jazz, and the Other in WWI”
2:30 p.m.
Dec. 1
Student Union Building Conference Room
Samantha Battrick, “High on the Mountaintop: Seeking Out Nature for Spiritual Renewal and to Commune With God”
Sadie Gerau, “The Sublimity of Landscapes in American Nature Writing”
Julie Phillips, “The Starting Point: A Case for the Power of Children’s Natural Wonder”
2:30 p.m.
Dec. 1
Student Union Building Activities Room
Megan Dice, “The Kilt and the Evolution of Scottish Identity in The Great War”
Paige Bergan, “Reaching the Sky: The Impact of Pioneering Aircrafts in WWI”
Tori Palumbo, “Man Up: Debilitating Social Attitudes toward Shell Shock and the Intersectionality of Disability and Gender in Pat Barker’s Regeneration”
10:30 a.m.
Dec. 2
Student Union Building Conference Room
Isaac B. Akers, “The Absolute Adventures of Grass Peldrage & Miriam Watch”
Thomas Fitzler, “At the Edge of Expansion”
Marissa Meehan, “Wyndfall Jones”
Erin Twenter, “The Awkward Stage: How to Catch It Before It Claims Your Youth”
10:30 a.m.
Dec. 2
Student Union Building Activities Room
Nathan Sandbothe, “The Public’s Walt Whitman”
Stephen Furlong, “Heritage: An Origin Story of the Poetry of Linda Hogan and Louise Glueck”
Conor Gearin, “‘There are birds here’: American Nature Writing in a Fragmented World”
Jessica Koch, “Situational Irony and Its Effects on Nature”
August Thies, “Nature Writing as a Tool to Teach and Encourage the Sciences”
12 p.m.
Dec. 2
Student Union Building Conference Room
Keynote: Alexandria Lockett, “Contagious Nonsense: Informatic Mythography in Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo and Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salt Eaters”
1:30 p.m.
Dec. 2
Student Union Building Conference Room
Libby Jenkins, “’Til We Meet Again”
Lauren Neilson, “The Good Egg”
David Winn, “Laura: Revised”
Joe Rhyne, “#LifeAsWeProbablyDon’tKnowIt: A Ritualistic Trip Around the World”
3 p.m.
Dec. 2
Student Union Building Conference Room
Zainab Jasim, “Jane Eyre’s Bertha Mason: Madwoman or Feminist Rebel?”
Julianne Dworak, “The Best Years of Our Lives: Gender Issues and Disabled Veterans”
Lindsay Hickman, “American Horror Story: Disabilities and Classism in 1950’s America”
Kim Wronkiewicz, “Neurodiversity vs. The Medical Model: A Discussion of Autism from “Look Me In the Eye”
3 p.m.
Dec. 2
Student Union Building Activities Room
Learning Technologies Team – End-of-Semester Open House
This is an opportunity to drink some hot apple cider and visit with the Learning Technologies Team about instructional technology-related projects, ideas, successes or challenges. The Learning Technologies Team is also interested in ideas regarding future workshop topics.
10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Dec. 3
Pickler Memorial Library 205
Learning Technologies Team – Finals Week Open Office Hours for NEW Faculty
Stop in for hot apple cider and take a look at the extensive resources the Learning Technologies Team has available. The Learning Technologies Team will be available for questions after reflecting on the fall semester and in preparation for the spring.
10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Dec. 9-11
Pickler Memorial Library 205
Middle Earth: Midwest Regional Ceramics Invitational Art Exhibition and R. Mertens: Digital/Fibers/Audio Exhibition
Jan. 22-Feb. 20
Public reception at 6 p.m. Jan. 27, University Art Gallery
“Translations” by Brian Friel- mainstage theatre production
8 p.m.
Feb. 18-21
James G. Severns Theatre
A modest admission fee will be charged.
David Mazure: Amputees Wallpaper Art Exhibition
March 3-April 14
Public reception at 6 p.m. March 3, University Art Gallery
"She Kills Monsters" by Qui Nguyen- mainstage theatre production
8 p.m.
April 15-18
James G. Severns Theatre
A model admission fee will be charged.
For more information about any of these events, call 660.785.4417.
Art Gallery Hours:
Monday-Thursday, 8:30 a.m.-7 p.m.
Friday, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
Saturday, Noon-4:30 p.m.
Closed in between exhibitions and during University holidays.
The Truman State University Press has a variety of
new books available, as well as many
forthcoming books. All Truman employees receive 20 percent off their purchases. To receive the discount, books must be purchased at the Truman State University Press Office in the General Services Building Room 312. To contact the office, email
tsup@truman.edu or call 660.785.7336.
The Truman community has the opportunity to share their thoughts and feelings about the Ferguson decision. Individuals can post feelings and responses to relevant questions today on a bulletin board in the Student Union Building lower level hallway across from the Student Activities Board ticket window. Student Affairs staff will be available to hear concerns from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today.
Students Affairs and the Multicultural Affairs Center will also be hosting a small group discussion for students to voice their opinions and examine the grand jury process from 7-9 p.m. Dec. 4 in the Student Union Building Room 3202.
Members of Truman's chapter of Alpha Sigma Alpha celebrated their organization's centennial Nov. 15 with more than 400 returning alumnae. The chapter received a Resolution of Recognition from the Alpha Sigma Alpha National Office. The distinction was presented to Kiley Ruder, chapter president, by Heather Riley, vice president of membership for the National Council of Alpha Sigma Alpha, and Leah Dooley Eickhoff, the program development coordinator for Alpha Sigma Alpha.
