How do I sign up? Registration is *only* in person on a first-come, first-served basis at the Outdoor Adventure Center (on the bottom floor of the Recreation and Wellness Center) during the OAC's open hours. You must have a valid UCF ID for this course. You can only register yourself. No online, phone, or email registrations are accepted. There is no way to "hold a spot" for this course. There are no refunds.
Please see the "Trips Policies" on for more information: http://rwc.sdes.ucf.edu/policies#p31
The event is only available to UCF community, so please share this email with others who you think would be interested. Registration is required as seating is limited, please register using the Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/leadercast-women-ucf-simulcast-tickets-50458995213
This event has been made possible through the generous sponsorship of UCF Information Technology & Resources and UCF Human Resources.
]]>Erin Elizabeth is a conceptual artist and utilizes non-traditional materials such as cake and sprinkles along with gold leaf in order to explore questions about banality, celebration, and experiential value. Harry Sidebotham is first and foremost a painter. He engages in the tradition of painting, investigating scientific theories such as parallel dimension theory. They have two young children and a collaborative studio practice that assumes the identity, Elizabeth / Sidebotham.
Elizabeth / Sidebotham embraces the paradox presented by the intersection of a traditional domestic landscape and artistic productivity. The work reflects the sacrifices, challenges, freedom, and joy of parenthood. Fragility interplays with strength. Reverence replaces frivolity. The materials, forms, and modes of productions are infused with memory and sentimentality and exist in a state of premature nostalgia. There is profundity in the banal, but it is also spectacularly boring. Elizabeth / Sidebotham strives to capture this contradiction. More Information
Exhibition Dates: Sept. 27-Nov. 2
Opening Reception: Thursday, Sept. 27 from 5-7 p.m.
Artist Talk: Friday, Sept. 28 at 10 a.m.
DACA Roundtable
]]>Additionally, we will be discussing opportunities at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa and how to connect directly with the faculty seeking postdocs.
Students must register for all workshops through their myUCF Student Center under Graduate Students then Pathways to Success.
]]>What is consent? How does one ask for consent? In this interactive 60-minute workshop, participants will gain a better understanding of how consent relates to sexual violence and healthy relationships.
]]>Must attend all six episodes to receive a completion certificate.
Episodes 1 & 2
Course number: DIV362
Friday, August 31 from 1:30pm-4:30pm
Facilitator: Barbara Thompson
Location: Barbara Ying Center, Room 140
Episodes 3 & 4
Course number: DIV363
Friday, September 14 from 1:30pm-4:30pm
Facilitator: Barbara Thompson
Location: Barbara Ying Center, Room 140
Episodes 5 & 6
Course number: DIV364
Friday, October 12 from 1:30pm-4:30pm
Facilitator: Barbara Thompson
Location: Barbara Ying Center, Room 140
Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years tells the definitive story of the civil rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, and embodied a struggle whose reverberations continue to be felt today. The six episodes in this series cover all of the major events in the civil rights movement from 1954-1965.
Episodes include:
Awakenings (1954-1956)
Fighting Back (1957-1962)
Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961)
No Easy Walk (1961-1963)
Mississippi: Is This America? (1962-1964)
Bridge to Freedom (1965)
Hurt is the author of the poetry collection In Which I Play the Runaway (Barrow Street, 2016), which won the Barrow Street Book Prize, and The Rusted City: a Novel in Poems (White Pine, 2014). Her work has been included in the Best New Poets anthology series and she's been awarded prizes and fellowships from Arts & Letters, Hunger Mountain, Poetry International, Vermont Studio Center, Jentel, and Yaddo. She teaches at Slippery Rock University.
A selection of her poems is available for preview in the Indiana Review and at the Prose Poetry Project:
https://indianareview.org/2017/06/39-1-preview-rochelle-hurt/
http://www.prose-poems.com/raw_poems5.3.html#hurt
This event is presented by the Cypress Dome Society.
The room number for this event is BA1 121.
]]>Finite Element Modeling Guided Interstitial Photodynamic Therapy - From the Clinic to the Bench and Back
Prof. Gal Shafirstein
Photodynamic Therapy Center
Department of Cell Stress Biology
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Buffalo, New York
Abstract: Interstitial photodynamic therapy (I-PDT) has shown promise in the treatment of locally advanced cancer. In the USA, photodynamic therapy with Photofrin® is approved for the treatment of lung and esophageal cancers. Several clinical studies have suggested that I-PDT with Photofrin® is also safe for the treatment of locally advanced head neck cancer (LAHNC). The primary objective of I-PDT was to alleviate the pain and symptoms caused by LAHNC. In an effort to improve its local tumor control with a potential cure, we developed a customized finite element modeling (FEM) approach to study the response to I-PDT.
This talk will begin by presenting the principles of I-PDT. I will describe how our FEM was developed and validated. I will present how the FEM approach was used to identify the critical parameters that control the response of locally advanced cancer to I-PDT, and how these findings were used to develop a hypothesis that was tested in preclinical studies, i.e. moving from the clinic to the bench. The design and results from the preclinical studies will be presented. I will present a new unexpected finding that was discovered during the preclinical studies. This finding was investigated with rigorous experimental work in conjunction with FEM to achieve high cure rates in one animal model and was then successfully translated to another model. These results are now being used to develop a clinical study, taking the research from the bench back to the clinic.
Biography: Prof. Gal Shafirstein earned his B.Sc. in the Department of Materials Science at the Ben-Gurion University (1986), his M.Sc. (1988) and D.Sc. (1992) in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. He then moved to England to work at the United Kingdom National Physical Laboratory (1992-1995), and to Israel and USA to work in the industry (1995-2001). He returned to academia in 2001 and joined the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, where he was an Associate Prof. and the Director of Translational Research. In 2012, he was recruited as a full Prof. of Oncology and Member at the Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) Center of Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY. The PDT Center at Roswell Park is a world leader in the field of PDT. RPCCC is where modern PDT was initiated in the 1970s', and the first FDA approved PDT drug for cancer therapy was developed. Prof. Shafirstein serves as the director of PDT Clinical Research since 2015. He is responsible for developing and supporting multiple clinical studies in PDT. His research is supported, primarily, with competitive awards from the National Cancer Institute at the National Institute of Health, USA. His research focuses on developing laser therapies for patients with cancer that have no good treatment options.
]]>Come out and support your Knights!
]]>This event is sponsored by the Kurdish Political Studies Program (KPSP), Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, Middle Eastern Studies Program, Al Ghazali Islamic Studies Program, and Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd Program for Strategic Research and Studies (PMBF Program).
Those planning to attend should contact Haidar Khezri at hkhezri@ucf.edu or 812-558-6118
]]>Book and lyrics adapted by David H. Bell
Music adapted and arranged by Rob Bowman
Based on “The Mikado” by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
Directed by Earl D. Weaver
*Please join us for a post-show reception with the cast and crew following the opening night performance on Thursday, October 11, 2018.
Purchase tickets online:
Thursday, October 11 at 7:30pm
Friday, October 12 at 7:30pm
Saturday, October 13 at 7:30pm
Sunday, October 14 at 2pm
Thursday, October 18 at 7:30pm
Friday, October 19 at 7:30pm
Saturday, October 20 at 7:30pm
Sunday, October 21 at 2pm
We'll see you there!
]]>Please arrive at 11:40pm on 10/12 to get checked in!
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