THE RMU WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
July 30, 2010
NEWS
-- A university Social Media Guide is now available to answer your questions about using social media such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to promote your campus organization and events. The version included in an email earlier this week did not include the logo that is required for university-affiliated social media accounts. Please refer to the guide here for the attached logo.
-- RMU has agreed to participate in an electricity demand response program with Duquesne Light, in which the university would agree during a spike in electricity usage to reduce power. For more details, click here.
PERSONAL MENTION
-- Angela Bires, head of the Department of Health Sciences, organized a professional development session earlier this summer at the SNM Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City. SNM is an international society that promotes nuclear medicine. "The Business of Health Care, Leadership, and Conflict Management" was organized and moderated by Bires, and co-moderated by Donna Mason, coordinator of RMU's nuclear medicine technology program. Bires also gave a presentation titled "The Path to Health Care Leadership: Strategies, Styles, and Success."
-- Part-time nursing faculty member Jennifer Keeley, a student in the doctor of nursing practice program, has been named one of Pittsburgh's 50 Finest by Whirl Magazine and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. The honor goes to single professionals based on their community service and career success, and each of the 50 Finest commits to raising money for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. You can read more here.
-- "Commedia Profana," a new play by John Lawson, associate professor of English Stuides, premiered July 22 in a staged reading at the Earl Hamner, Jr. Theater in Afton, Va. The play, a four-character comedy about a soul trying to avoid its 10,000th reincarnation, was developed as part of the Virginia Playwrights and Screenwriters Initiative. An early version of the play, titled "Before and After," was published this summer by Lady Jane's Miscellany, a literary journal published in San Francisco.
-- Valerie Powell, university professor of computer and information systems, is presenting a paper this week in Germany at a conference held by the International Association for Development of the Information Society. Powell's presentation is titled "Internet Use for Health: Communications Technology Support Medical and Dental Care."
*EDITOR'S NOTE* Weekly publication of The Minuteman will resume
August 13.
*WELLNESS TIP* Include healthy fats in your diet. Polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats may actually help reduce cholesterol levels. Good sources are nuts and oils, such as canola and olive.
EVENTS
July 30-Aug. 1: Colonial Theatre presents "Boys Next Door" on July 23-24 and 30-31 at 8 p.m. and Aug. 1 at 2 p.m. in Massey Theater. All tickets are $10 and can be purchased at the door. The play takes place in a communal residence in a New England city, where four mentally disabled men live under the supervision of an earnest, but increasingly burned out young social worker named Jack. Mingled with scenes from the daily lives of these four, where little things sometimes become momentous (and often very funny), are moments of great poignancy when, with touching effectiveness, we are reminded that the disabled, like the rest of us, want only to love and laugh and find some meaning and purpose in the brief time that they are allotted on this earth.
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