Showing events on March 11, 2020
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Job Search Strategies - Utilizing the 2-Hour Job Search Method
March 11, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
The job search can seem like a daunting task. Where do I start? What can I do to be effective? How do I find employers who are hiring?
The 2-Hour Job Search Method offers a handy road map to help you plan and strategize your job search.
Michelle Woods, SSW Career Services Director, will discuss how to utilize methods from “The 2-Hour Job Search: Using Technology to Get the Right Job Faster” book by Steve Dalton for your job search.
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The Cognitive Costs of Environmental Racism: Myth, Science and Myopia
March 11, 2020 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Please join the University of Michigan MLK Health Sciences Committee and the Institute for Social Research as we host author and ethicist Harriet A. Washington on March 11 for a presentation and discussion on her book "A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and its Assault on the American Mind."
Harriet A. Washington has been the Shearing Fellow at the University of Nevada's Black Mountain Institute, a Research Fellow in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School, and a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University. She is the author of Deadly Monopolies, Infectious Madness, and Medical Apartheid, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Oakland Award, and the American Library Association Black Caucus Nonfiction Award.
Does the dose make the poison? Are US patterns of environmental toxicity driven by socioeconomics or race? Are hereditarian scientists correct in ascribing intelligence to racial genetics? How have our habitual modes of thought blinded us to the true nature of environmental toxicity, and what challenges face public health practitioners as they assess the roles of industry, science and government?
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Building CASC Community: Senior Brinner!
March 11, 2020 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Join the CASC Minor Senior Celebration Brinner (Breakfast For Dinner)!
Graduating seniors will participate in community building and networking activties, get information about graduation and graduation tickets, and celebrate your journey as a CASC Minor student. Participating students will also have an opportunity to record a statement about their experience in the minor, which will be featured at the CASC Minor graduation ceremony, May 1st.
Join us for an opportunity to connect with others and celebrate!
Dinner will begin at 5:00PM
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LSA Opportunity Hub Grad School Fair
March 11, 2020 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
An admissions representive will be attending the LSA Opportunity Hub Grad School Fair to share information about U-M's MSW and PhD programs.