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| Two Students Win Top Prizes in Archaeology Grants Competition | |
New College students Matt Andersen and Jodi Johnson won the top prizes in the 2013 Student Archaeology Grant competition sponsored by the Time Sifters Archaeology Society. They will present their work at the Sarasota-based society's March 13 meeting.
 This is the fifth consecutive year that New College students have won the top prizes from Time Sifters.
Andersen's work examines the Emerson Point Mound site on Snead Island. The site's architecture exhibits influences of both the Tocobaga and Calusa tribes, and therefore may have been political and religious neutral ground. The presentation grew out of Andersen's independent study project supervised by New College Professor of Anthropology Uzi Baram. He is a third-year student concentrating in anthropology and religion.
Johnson's work is on Warm Mineral Springs, which is significant both scientifically and in legend, as a possible site of Ponce de Leon's Fountain of Youth. Her paper explores the intersection of archaeology and imagined heritage and how the two themes can co-exist. The work came from her thesis project and from work in Baram's Ancient North America class. She is a third-year student concentrating in heritage and cultural resource management, and a wife and mother who returned to college at age 35.
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| Former U.S. Ambassador to Speak on Sub-Saharan Africa | |
As the U.S. ambassador to Zimbabwe, James D. McGee had a front-row seat to a historic 2008 election and political transition in the African nation. He had previously served as ambassador to three other African countries, Swaziland, Madagascar and the Comoros.
 Few people know the continent as well as McGee, and he will discuss "The Problems, Promise and Potential of Sub-Saharan Africa" in a New Topics New College lecture on March 21. McGee will use South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria as the anchors for outlining the issues facing southern and central Africa, and how the countries' leadership is addressing the challenge and advancing democratic processes across the continent. He also will provide his observations on U.S. interests in the region and how our government is working on the bi-lateral and multi-lateral fronts. Read More
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New College Gets Strong Support in Giving Challenge
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Alumni, students, faculty and staff responded with enthusiasm in the 36-Hour Giving Challenge, with 462 donors giving $74,600 to the New College Foundation. The support will help New College continue to provide an academic program already recognized as one of the country's best values for quality and price.
The donations total is likely to grow. New College also is eligible for Giving Challenge matching gifts and bonus grants yet to be announced.
The results also showed the Sarasota-Manatee community the strength of the New College family. New College ranked second among all 287 participating nonprofits for total donations and was near the top of the widely-viewed online leaderboard for the duration of the event. The College also was a strong performer for the number of donors, ranking fifth among the participating groups.
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Moving Voice Workshop with Sarah Kane
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March 12 & 13, at 5-7 p.m.
Black Box Theater
Free; open to New College students, faculty and staff only
The workshop will focus on the principle of using movement and imagination to make speaking accessible. It is designed for those interested in theater and acting, but also for those students who want to use speech as a vehicle of personal development and are prepared to participate in an actor's process. The workshop participants will be introduced to working with the essential creative tools in order to facilitate their speech impulse. The Michael Chekhov speech technique, at the foundation of the workshop, has been inspired by Rudolf Steiner's Creative Speech approach. It has been designed specifically for the work with heightened texts, such as Shakespeare, Goethe and Moliere, etc. The Moving Voice approach utilizes archetypal imagery and delves into the origins of speech formation, thus providing the speaker with the means essential for achieving the grandeur and passions required by the classics. The workshop will be taught by internationally acclaimed master teacher Sarah Kane. She was the founding vice president of the Michael Chekhov Association, New York, NY and is a founder and co-director of the Michael Chekhov Centre UK and the Head of Drama at Artemis School of Speech and Drama (UK). The workshop will take place at the Black Box Theater on March 12th and 13th from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. To be included in the session, please arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the workshop to sign up. Observers are also welcome. Those planning to participate in the workshop should arrive dressed to move. No special preparation is necessary as texts will be provided during the workshop. This workshop is presented by New College's Division of Humanities and the Student Allocation Committee.
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Proust Project Sarasota, Madame Proust
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March 12, at 7 p.m.
Mildred Sainer Pavilion, 5313 Bay Shore Road
 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, Evelyne Bloch-Dano of Université Populaire de Caen will give the lecture "Madame Proust," which will be conducted in French. A book sale and signing will follow. Proust Project Sarasota is sponsored by New College of Florida, Sarasota County, Alliance Française de Sarasota and Book Store One.
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Moving Past Identity: Feminism Today
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March 14, at 5:30 p.m.
Mildred Sainer Pavilion, 5313 Bay Shore Road
 Free and open to the public; no reservations necessary
Call 941-487-4888 for more information.
During her February and March residency at New College, Visiting Distinguished Scholar bell hooks will offer a series of talks under the theme of Love Unlimited. Love is transcendent and transformative, helping us move past names, labels and stereotypes. Through love, by loving, we can affirm who we are without having limits placed on us. The Love Unlimited conversations are both theoretical and practical, covering topics ranging from race to gender and feminism today. Co-sponsored by the Gender Studies Program.
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Physics Goodies from the London Olympics
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March 15, at 2:30 p.m.
Chae Auditorium, Heiser Natural Sciences Complex, 500 College Drive
Free and open to the public; no reservations necessary
Call 941-487-4888 for more information.
This general-audience talk will view some of the fascinating moments from last summer's Olympic games through the eyes of a physicist. How did Usain Bolt win the 100-meter sprint? What allowed Missy Franklin to dominate the pool? What's the difference between gold and silver in archery? How powerful are weightlifters, and what can biomechanical scaling tell us about what they can lift? Several other sporting events will be discussed, too. The speaker is John Eric Goff, professor of physics at Lynchburg College and author of "Gold Medal Physics: The Science of Sports."
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The Response of Microbes to the Deepwater Horizon Blowout
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March 15, at 3:30 p.m.
Chae Auditorium, Heiser Natural Sciences Complex, 500 College Drive
Free and open to the public; no reservations necessary
Call 941-487-4888 for more information.
 New College alumnus Adam Rivers will present the Natural Sciences Seminar "The Ecological Response of Microbes to the Deepwater Horizon Blowout." Abstract: The Deepwater Horizon blowout released a massive amount of oil and gas into the deep ocean between April and July 2010, stimulating microbial blooms of petroleum degrading bacteria. To understand the metabolic response of marine microorganisms, we sequenced ~66 million community transcripts that revealed the identity of metabolically active microbes and their roles in petroleum consumption. Reads were assigned to reference genes from ~2,700 bacterial and archaeal taxa, but most assignments (39%) were to just six genomes representing predominantly methane and petroleum degrading Gammaproteobacteria. Specific pathways for the degradation of alkanes, aromatic compounds, and methane emerged from the metatrascriptomes, with some transcripts assigned to methane monooxygenases representing highly divergent homologs that may degrade either methane or short alkanes. The microbial community in the plume was less taxonomically and functionally diverse than the unexposed community below the plume; this was due primarily to low evenness resulting from Gammaproteobacteria blooms. Surprisingly, a number of common marine taxa (related to SAR11, Nitrosopumilus, and Bacteroides, among others) contributed equal numbers of transcripts per liter in both the unexposed and plume samples, suggesting that some groups are unaffected by the petroleum inputs and blooms of degrader taxa, and may be important for reestablishment of the pre-spill microbial communities.
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Experimental Music Meets Bluegrass
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March 15, at 3:30 p.m.
Mildred Sainer Pavilion, 5313 Bay Shore Road
Free and open to the public; no reservations necessary
For more information, call 941-487-4888 or visit newmusicnewcollege.org.
This panel discussion on the intersection of traditional music genres bluegrass and blues with modernist and experimental ideas, will feature New College professors Stephen Miles (New Music New College director), David Brain (member of Passerine), and Kariann Goldschmitt.
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Fuzion Dance Artists' 7th Season Concert
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March 15, at 8 p.m.
March 16, at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
March 17, at 2 p.m.
Jane B. Cook Theater, FSU Center for Performing Arts, 5555 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota
Tickets $30; students $15 (click here for student ticket info)
Purchase at the Sarasota Ballet Box Office, 359-0099 ext. 101 or www.fuziondance.org
 Fuzión Dance Artists, Sarasota's professional contemporary dance company, will be presenting its 7th Season Dance Concert in the intimate Jane B. Cook Theater at the FSU Center for Performing Arts. Sixteen eclectic and dynamic dancers will take the stage in both dramatic as well as high-energy entertainment performing a variety of contemporary works for all to enjoy. Artistic director Leymis Bolaños Wilmott, an adjunct instructor of dance at New College, will bring back African Skies, recently performed as the opener for the Arts Council Awards Ceremony at the Van Wezel. New College Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Mark Dancigers and local favorite Scott Blum will compose original music for Bolaños Wilmott's new work. Dancers include current New College student Wendy Rucc (Performance Studies AOC) and New College graduates Ariel Hart and Caitlin McMullen, as well as arts interns Megan Rogers and Erica Lindegren.
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Crossroads 5: BluesX
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March 16, at 8 p.m.
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.
Visit newmusicnewcollege.org for more information.
 New Music New College's annual Crossroads performances bring together musicians of very different backgrounds to perform together and to learn from each other under the stars in the PepsiCo Arcade. For the fifth edition of Crossroads, the musicians will get down and go deep, exploring the modernist dimension of music that is strongly traditional, the music of bluegrass and the blues. Enjoy performances by NMNC musicians Stephen Miles and R. L. Silver, New College students (including blues virtuoso Nat Langston), and special guests trombonist David Manson and the bluegrass band Passerine, featuring New College professor David Brain, alumna Sara Moone and current student Dave Baker. As always at Crossroads, we'll surround the audience with three stages of intense performers and invite you to move around and vary your experience of this musical extravaganza.
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Sharing the Scholarship
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March 18, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Johnson-Blalock
Education Center, Room 1003/04
5401 Bay Shore Road, Sarasota
Free and open to the public; no reservations necessary
The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Library and New College of Florida present Sharing the Scholarship, the 6th annual symposium of the latest student research in art history from the classes of Dr. Cris Hassold and Dr. Matthew McLendon. Parking available at the Asolo Center for the Performing Arts. Click here for a complete schedule.
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Proust's Reception in the Anglo-American World
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March 19, at 7 p.m.
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 ofSwann's Way, David R. Ellison, Ph.D. will give the lecture "Proust's Reception in the Anglo-American World." A book sale of "A Reader's Guide to Proust's In Search of Lost Time" and signing will follow. Proust Project Sarasota is sponsored by New College of Florida, Sarasota County, Alliance Française de Sarasota and Book Store One.
Click here for a complete calendar listing of events
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In the News
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A selection of recent news stories about New College, its faculty, students and alumnae/i
Sarasota Herald-Tribune (Mar. 8) |
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