Monitoring your online accounts could save your tax refund
With tax season underway, malicious actors are targeting taxpayers by claiming discrepancies with their account information. These scammers use fear tactics to swindle you into making rash decisions and handing over financial info. University IT advises you to monitor your online accounts and bank statements regularly and be cautious of how tax information is shared. If you’re contacted, ask yourself: are you using a tax professional? Are you sharing sensitive data with them over a secured network? Any stolen tax information could compromise your refund and identity. If you receive suspicious phone calls, emails, or text messages, or notice errors related to your bank accounts, contact your bank or credit card provider immediately through their verified contact information.
“Love is a fundamental human need, and being in a long-term relationship can shape our reality by altering how we see ourselves and the world,” says Ronald Rogge, an associate professor of psychology. “When that relationship falls apart, it’s life-shattering. Your identity is fractured.”
Stop by the Goergen Athletic Center and meet therapy dogs today, March 4, from 6 to 7:15 p.m. Peer Health Advocates will also be there with giveaways such as lavender sachets and stress balls. Brought to you by the UHS Health Promotion Office.
Express yourself through collage
Join the Paul J. Burgett Intercultural Center for Collage Night. Supplies are provided; bring your creativity, stress, joy, sadness, and willingness to express yourself. Bring a friend, or come by yourself. The event takes place every Tuesday evening in March from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Humanities Center, Conference Room B, Rush Rhees Library.
One Language, One Recipe: Arabic
Join the Language Center on Wednesday, March 6, from noon to 1 p.m. at the Community Kitchen, Douglass Commons, to experience Arabic cuisine with a cooking demonstration from Afrah Alfati, a senior lecturer in Arabic. The demonstration will be conducted in the Arabic language.
Sign up for Celebrating Research Week
Sign up to be a part of Celebrating Research Week in April. Event registrations are open to all undergraduate students who have conducted research in the last year; you may apply for all three opportunities. The deadline to apply is Monday, March 18.
Friday, April 5: The full-day speakers symposium will consist of four sessions, each representing a distinct disciplinary section of the University.
Wednesday, April 10: Twenty students will be selected to give “Lightning Talks.”
Friday, April 12: The Undergraduate Research Exposition and awards ceremony. Students at all levels and areas of study are invited to present posters of their investigative and creative work.
Attend the annual Flourish Festival
The Health Promotion Office is hosting its annual Flourish Festival on Friday, March 22. This full-day event will provide students with wellness and mindfulness activities including yoga, qigong, guided meditations, pet therapy, VR mindfulness, a wellness fair, and a mindful eating pop-up. Explore events and register here.
‘Omics and Donuts’ with the Center for Advanced Research Technologies
The Center for Advanced Research Technologies hosts a new series, “Omics and Donuts,” launching Tuesday, March 5, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. in Auditorium K-307 (3-6408), Medical Center. Receive an overview of the current and emerging “omics” technologies available to researchers at the Medical Center and beyond over coffee and donuts. This session will focus on the Metabolomics Resource.
Nominations open for the annual College Prizes
The College is now accepting nominations for its annual College Prizes, coordinated by the College Center for Advising Services. Outstanding students in the College are recognized in a variety of ways each year, many of them receiving special prizes. Most of those authorized by the College have specific academic criteria, but others are awarded to students who have served the University community in special ways. Some decisions are made within departments, while other interdepartmental prizes are decided within the dean’s office after nominations are received. Most prizes are endowed, and students receive cash awards, often at commencement.
Breny Mendoza, a professor of gender and women’s studies and academic lead of the MA program in diverse community development leadership at California State University, Northridge, presents the lecture “Decolonial Feminism in Question” today, March 4, at 5 p.m. in the Gamble Room, Rush Rhees Library. Learn more here.
Screening of the film Navalny
Attend a film screening of Navalny on Tuesday, March 5, at 7 p.m. Please note the location has been changed to Hoyt Auditorium. The event will open with introductory remarks by Dmitry Bykov, the University’s inaugural Scholar in Exile. Find the movie trailer here.
Discover your pathway to a Simon Professional MBA
Did you know students can begin their studies at Simon Business School before formally applying to the Professional MBA program through a nonmatriculated start? Nonmatriculated students may start in any term during the year and take up to two MBA core classes. Attend “PMBA Pathways: Opportunity Through Non-Matriculated Entry” on Tuesday, March 5, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. to learn how a Simon degree can help accelerate your career. Participants will receive an application fee waiver, a $90 value. If you discover a nonmatriculated start best matches your personal and professional goals, you can register for classes during the event.
Visualizing Camelot exhibit, opening reception
From the collection of Alan Lupack and Barbara Tepa Lupack, Visualizing Camelotis an exhibition of more than 350 items, confirming the ongoing appeal of the Arthurian legends, especially in England and America. The exhibition is free and open to all during the hours for each space within Rush Rhees Library from March 7 to December 2.
Attend an opening reception for the exhibit on Thursday, March 7, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in Robbins Library on the fourth floor of Rush Rhees Library. Parking is available in Library Lot. Registration is recommended.
Margaret Parkhurst Morey lecture
Pierre Saint-Amand, the Benjamin F. Barge Professor of French at Yale University, presents “A Slave Revolt in Saint-Domingue: Pigault-Lebrun’s Le Blanc et le Noir (1795)” on Thursday, March 7, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the Humanities Center’s Conference Room D, Rush Rhees Library. The talk is sponsored by the Margaret Parkhurst Morey Lecture Series in French, the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, and the Department of Black Studies. Refreshments will be served.
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