Tickets $15; free for New College students, faculty & staff

Advance reservations are no longer being taken, but tickets can be purchased at the door. For more information, call 941-487-4888.

Healthcare Information Exchange (HIE) is the electronic exchange of medical information across disparate systems such as hospital information systems, physician's offices, EMR systems, labs, imaging centers and even disease and vaccine registries. Dr. John Collins, a New College alumnus, will explain how the mobilization of healthcare information electronically across organizations within a community will improve quality and better patient outcomes. Not only do patients expect communication between treating physicians, but healthcare providers require useful information to accurately diagnose and render good care. Effective data exchange allows improvement in cost, quality, safety and efficiency.

For more information, email library@ncf.edu
Free and open to the public

The Jane Bancroft Cook Library, along with various University of South Florida and New College campus organizations, will be hosting the African American Read-In. The Read-In is part of a national event endorsed by the National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association. Students, faculty and staff will be reading poems, excerpts from novels, and short stories written by their favorite African-American writers. The public is invited to either read or stop by to enjoy the readings. To sign up to read, click here. For more information, click here. 

Registration: 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday and 8:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Saturday in Sudakoff Lobby
Click here for a complete schedule or visit fch.ju.edu for more information.

This year's keynote speaker will be Dr. Paul Kramer of Vanderbilt University. Dr. Kramer, an influential scholar of 20th-century American history in a transnational/global context, is the author of the prize-winning study The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States and the Philippines (University of North Carolina Press, 2006), and is currently at work on a book on the geopolitics of U. S. immigration policy across the 20th century. His keynote speech, "You're History: Why We Need the Past," will explore philosophical approaches to why we study history, told through and interwoven with the story of William Jones, a 19th-century part-Indian anthropologist. 

Free and open to the public; no reservations necessary
Click here to view the complete schedule of events 

As part of Proust Project Sarasota, celebrating the 100-year anniversary of Swann's Way, William C. Carter will give the lecture "Proust: A Centenary Tribute." New College President Donal O'Shea will provide opening remarks. Proust Project Sarasota is sponsored by New College of Florida, Sarasota County, Alliance Française de Sarasota and Book Store One.  

Free and open to the public. For more information, call 941-752-5319.

The panel discussion "Rediscovering Jackie Robinson: A Hero Across Generations" will be held at the Family Heritage House Museum on Thursday, March 7, at 6 p.m. Jackie Robinson was more than a Black baseball payer, he was an active participant in the civil rights movement. This panel aims to raise awareness of the larger contribution of his actions. Speakers include Professor Stephen Butler of Earlham College, Professor Richard Zamoff, a sociologist at George Washington University (GWU), and Dr. Barry Zamoff, the former associate director of research and statistics at the District of Columbia's Office of Human Rights and former professor of sociology at Howard University. Refreshments will be served. Co-sponsored by Family Heritage House Museum and New College of Florida.

Click here for a complete calendar listing of events at New College

Help University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee raise awareness about the global water crisis and collect funds for packH2O during World Engagement Week, February 25-28, 2013. Click here for a schedule of World Engagement Week events at USFSM. All events are open to the community.Your $10 donation provides a backpack to improve the life of a woman or child who carries water. Visit www.packh2o.com.  For more information, contact Robin Danzak, rdanzak@sar.usf.edu or 941-359-4249.