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Audubon Honors Morris as 'Florida Woman in Conservation'
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 For being "a leading voice for the environment, and for inspiring a generation of Floridians," Audubon Florida honored New College's Julie Morris as its 2012 Florida Woman in Conservation.
Morris, assistant vice president of academic affairs, received the award at the organization's annual meeting in October 2012. Audubon recognized her two decades of public service, including 10 years on Florida's Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and nine on the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council. She currently serves on the federal Marine Fisheries Advisory Commission. Morris also has worked on many local, state and national environmental groups, including the Myakka Conservancy, the Sierra Club, the Council for a Sustainable Florida, Florida Native Plant Society and the Crowley Museum and Nature Center. Read More |
Details Emerging about Plane Crash at New College
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Details are slowly emerging about the plane crash that occurred Saturday afternoon on the New College of Florida campus, claiming the life of the pilot and leaving the passenger in critical condition with life-threatening burns at Tampa General Hospital. Fortunately, no students or staff from the College were injured, nor were any buildings damaged when the single-engine Seawind 3000 crashed at around 3:30 p.m. just west of the Heiser Natural Sciences Building.
Officials from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) arrived on the New College campus on Sunday morning and began piecing together the details surrounding the crash. While they are still not sure about the reason the plane went down, NTSB officials say the accident occurred just minutes after takeoff from the nearby Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport when the experimental kit plane failed to gain altitude and struck a tree on the New College campus. The plane then veered into a second tree before crashing to the ground in flames.
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New Music New College, "Psychoanalysis, Gender and Jazz"
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January 18 at 11 a.m.
College Hall Dining Room, 351 College Drive
This discussion with pianist and psychotherapist Marilyn Lerner is co-sponsored by the New College Gender Studies Program and is open to New College students, faculty and staff only. Visit newmusicnewcollege.org or call 941-487-4888 for more information.
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Dynamical Intelligence: Navigation and Intention
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January 18 at 1:30 p.m.
Chae Auditorium, Heiser Natural Sciences, 500 College DriveFree and open to the public; no reservations necessary
Cornell University's Dr. Eric Aaron, candidate for tenure-track asst. professor of computational science at New College, will give the talk "Dynamical Intelligence: Navigation and Intention." Intelligent embodied agents, whether characters in animated worlds (virtual agents) or real-world mobile robots (physical agents), move through their environments, performing sequences of tasks to achieve their goals. To succeed in complicated environments without human intervention, these agents must be autonomously responsive and adaptive. In this talk, Dr. Aaron will present dynamically responsive approaches to collision-free navigation and intention-guided task sequencing for robots and virtual agents, and he will describe hybrid dynamical cognitive agents (HDCAs), which integrate these navigation and task-sequencing levels of intelligence.
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New Music New College, Artist Conversation with Marilyn Lerner
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January 18 at 3:30 p.m.
Mildred Sainer Pavilion, 5313 Bay Shore Road
 Free and open to the public; no reservations necessary Visit newmusicnewcollege.org or call 941-487-4888 for more information. This free Artist Conversation with pianist Marilyn Lerner and New Music New College Director Stephen Miles precedes Lerner's performance, Dreamwork, on Saturday, January 19.
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New Music New College, Marilyn Lerner, Dreamwork
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January 19 at 8 p.m.
Mildred Sainer Pavilion, 5313 Bay Shore Road
Tickets $15; $5 for non-NCF students; free for New College faculty, staff and students
Reserve online at donate.ncf.edu/events or call 941-487-4888 newmusicnewcollege.org  Widely recorded and internationally renowned, Marilyn Lerner's work speaks to improvisation, not just as an approach to music-making, but as a way of life, a mode of being that is accessible to all of us in our daily lives. Her groundbreaking recordings have garnered much recognition, including her two solo recordings, Luminance and Romanian Fantasy, as well as Special Angel with Sonny Greenwich. Her intimate knowledge of the piano, combined with a fearless experimental and passionate spirit, render her a true original. Lerner's work spans the worlds of jazz, creative improvisation, klezmer and 20th-century classical music. She composes for film, theater, radio and television. She is also an audio artist and has created a series of soundscapes using samples of sounds she collects in the natural environment.
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Klingenstein Lecture, "The Essentially Ambiguous Jewess"
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January 22 at 7 p.m.
Mildred Sainer Pavilion, 5313 Bay Shore Road
 Free; reserve online at donate.ncf.edu/klingenstein or call 941-487-4888 Cynthia M. Baker, author of Rebuilding the House of Israel: Architectures of Gender in Jewish Antiquity, will give the talk "The Essentially Ambiguous Jewess: Exploring Images of Jewish Women through the Centuries." Drawing on art and literature from the distant to the recent past, this talk will illuminate ways in which Jewish women have been imagined--and have imagined themselves--as significant points of contact between their own and other cultures. Baker is associate professor of religious studies at Bates College. Click here for a complete calendar listing of events
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