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Two Students Receive Goldwater Scholarship for Math and Science
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Two New College of Florida students, one using algebraic geometry to study cancer and another identifying ways to help white blood cells fight disease, have been awarded Goldwater Scholarships, the premier U.S. undergraduate award recognizing students showing potential to make significant contributions to mathematics, science and engineering.
Timothy Duff and Jonas Slackman are among just 271 students nationwide (and just five at Florida colleges) to be named a 2013 Goldwater Scholar. Awards went to students at 171 colleges, of which only 71 had multiple recipients.
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New College Offers First-Ever Summer Session
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For the first time in its history, New College of Florida is offering a summer session of classes that will explore both classic higher education themes and cutting-edge technologies, in classes taught by the College's distinguished and expert faculty.
The classes are open to students who have completed their freshman year at New College or other colleges, as well as the community's mature learners, who can take the classes with or without credit.
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Pennypacker Presentation on Protection of Vulnerable Persons Act
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April 17, at 11 a.m.
Sudakoff Conference Center, 5845 General Dougher Place
Open to New College students, faculty and staff
Call YeVette Thornton at 941-487-4417 for more information.
New College's Office of Human Resources has arranged for Stephen Pennypacker, deputy director of Florida's Department of Children and Families, to brief the New College campus community regarding Florida's new Child Abuse Reporting/Protection of Vulnerable Persons law (FS 39.205), which requires mandatory reporting of known or suspected child abuse, neglect or abandonment to the Department of Children and Families. The law provides for severe penalties, including a $1 million fine to individuals at public universities or colleges in Florida who fail to report known or suspected child abuse in a timely fashion. Pennypacker's presentation will inform students, staff and faculty about the law and its reporting expectations. If you are not able to attend, please plan to access and review the training material that Human Resources has posted on their portal under Protection of Vulnerable Persons Act.
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Natural Sciences Seminar with Albert Fathi
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April 19, at 2:30 p.m.
Chae Auditorium, Heiser Natural Sciences Complex, 500 College Drive
Free and open to the public; no reservations necessary
Albert Fathi (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon & Institut Universitaire de France) will give the talk "A Recent Connection Between Classical Mechanical Systems and Partial Differential Equations." In the 1980s there were fundamental discoveries in two different domains: the discovery by Aubry and Mather of new invariant motions in dynamical systems and the discovery of certain non-regular solutions of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation in PDE. It was realized in the 1990s that these two advances were different faces of the same mathematical phenomenon viewed in different coordinate systems. The aim of this lecture is to explain these facts in as elementary terms as possible, avoiding all technicalities. The lecture is intended for people who have had college courses in calculus and elementary classical mechanical systems.
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Artist Conversation with Toby Twining Music
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Toby Twining Music, New Voices, New Harmonies
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April 20, 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
Visit newmusicnewcollege.org for more information.
Toby Twining has established a reputation as one of the most innovative vocalists/composers active today, and performances by his ensemble have won accolades from critics. In the words of Don Heckman of the Los Angeles Times: "Using elements as diverse as jazz improvisation, contemporary classical pointillism and repetitions, ethnic throat singing, doo-wop, yodels, vocal sound effects and a few utterly unclassifiable techniques that are uniquely their own, the ensemble is setting a standard for the stylistically unrestricted exploration of voice music." For New Music New College's season finale, Toby Twining Music will perform music from Twining's score for the ballet, Eurydice, excerpts from the group's break-out recording, Shaman, as well as completely new material.
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