Brother Joseph W. Stander Symposium
On April 17, 2013, the University of Dayton will sponsor the annual Brother Joseph W. Stander Symposium to recognize and celebrate academic excellence in undergraduate and graduate education. This annual event provides an opportunity for students from all disciplines to showcase their intellectual and artistic accomplishments. The Stander Symposium represents the Marianist tradition of education through community and is the principal campus-wide event in which faculty and students actualize our mission to be a "community of learners."
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Mission
The purpose of the Brother Joseph W. Stander Symposium is to provide an annual campus-wide forum to showcase academic excellence at the University of Dayton. It is designed to recognize student learning through faculty mentored undergraduate and graduate research, scholarship and artistic accomplishments representing all academic units at the University of Dayton.
GOAL 1: Recognize and encourage student academic engagement by providing a community-wide forum for their research, scholarship and artistic achievements.
GOAL 2: Recognize and encourage faculty mentorship of students and their work.
GOAL 3: Represent the Marianist tradition of education through community in which faculty, staff and students actualize our mission to be a “community of learners.”
2013 Symposium Registration
Faculty and/or students may now register Symposium projects on the Stander Symposium tab in Porches (porches.udayton.edu). The deadline to register is Friday, March 8, 2013.
Project Formats
Oral Presentations: Each student will be given a 20-minute time slot for their presentation. This allows 15-minutes to present and 5-minutes for questions. For group projects, please indicate how many 20-minute time slots you require. Save your presentation to a flash drive for easy transfer.
Poster Presentations: On the day of the Symposium you will be given a 4'(length) X 3'(height) presentation board and push pins. Wireless access is available but those wishing to use their laptop should have the battery fully charged as electrical outlets will not be provided. The Symposium offers a poster PowerPoint template and free poster printing. For details go to, http://www.udayton.edu/provost/stander/resources.php.
Visual Arts Displays, Performances and Panel Discussions: After you have registered, you will be contacted to discuss your space and equipment requirements.
Other presentation formats should be proposed to the Stander Coordinator as soon as possible.
Information you will need to register
- Advisor(s) name(s)
- Co-Presenters names if you are part of a group
- Poster / Presentation Title
- Abstract (Your abstract should be no longer than 300 words)
*If you plan on attending (but not presenting at) the Stander Symposium, you do not need to register.
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Two nights of art and entertainment.
2013 Celebration of the Arts
Opening
Monday, April 8, 2013
Schuster Center, One West Second Street
8 p.m.
Pre-show activities begin at 6:30 p.m.
University of Dayton’s performing arts groups take the Schuster Center stage for an evening to inspire. Two-time Grammy Award winner and composer of The Secret Garden, Lucy Simon, will speak and have some of her Broadway show tunes performed. DCDC and DCDC 2 will join our students on stage for two pieces and the directors of the Dayton Art Institute, Jane Black and Michael Roediger, will emcee the evening. In addition, individual student artwork and large-scale collaborative installations will be on display before and after the show in the Wintergarden.
Tickets are free but required. Tickets for UD students, faculty and staff are available at the Kennedy Union box office with a valid university ID. Tickets for the general public are available by calling Ticket Center Stage at 937-228-3630 or online at ticketcenterstage.com.
Free transportation to the Schuster from campus provided by Greater Dayton RTA. Roundtrip chartered buses will depart from the corner of Stewart and Alberta (near A lot) at 6:45 p.m. and 7:20 p.m. on Monday, April 8.
Closing
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Gallery 249, College Park Center, UD Campus
5-7 p.m.
The Department of Visual Arts hosts an evening of open studios as the closing event to the University’s annual Stander Symposium. The evening will feature student exhibitions, art-making workshops and the awards ceremony for the annual Horvath Exhibition, a juried exhibition highlighting student artwork. Tickets are not required for this free, public event. Parking available in D lot after 4 p.m.
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2013 Keynote Speaker
Sir Ken Robinson, Ph.D.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
RecPlex - Main Gym
7:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the University of Dayton Speaker Series
Free and open to the public. No tickets required. A book signing will follow his talk.
Sir Ken Robinson, PhD is an internationally recognized leader in the development of education, creativity and innovation. He is also one of the world’s leading speakers with a profound impact on audiences everywhere. The videos of his famous 2006 and 2010 talks to the prestigious TED Conference have been seen by an estimated 200 million people in over 150 countries.
He works with governments in Europe, Asia and the USA, with international agencies,Fortune 500 companies and some of the world’s leading cultural organizations. In 1998, he led a national commission on creativity, education and the economy for the UKGovernment. All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture and Education (The Robinson Report) was published to wide acclaim in 1999. He was the central figure in developing a strategy for creative and economic development as part of the Peace Process in Northern Ireland,working with the ministers for training, education enterprise and culture. The resulting blueprint for change, Unlocking Creativity, was adopted by politicians of all parties and by business, education and cultural leaders across the Province. He was one of four international advisors to the Singapore Government for its strategy to become the creative hub of South East Asia.
For twelve years, he was professor of education at the University of Warwick in the UK and is now professor emeritus. He has received honorary degrees from the Rhode IslandSchool of Design, Ringling College of Arts and Design, the Open University and the CentralSchool of Speech and Drama, Birmingham City University and the Liverpool Institute forPerforming Arts. He was been honored with the Athena Award of the Rhode Island School of Design for services to the arts and education; the Peabody Medal for contributions to the arts and culture in the United States, the LEGO Prize for international achievement in education and the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the Royal Society of Arts for outstanding contributions to cultural relations between the United Kingdom and the United States. In 2005, he was named as one of TIME/FORTUNE/CNN’s ‘Principal Voices’. In 2003, he received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the arts. He speaks to audiences throughout the world on the creative challenges facing business and education in the new global economies.
His book The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything (Penguin/Viking 2009) is a New York Times best seller and has been translated into twenty-one languages.His latest book is a 10th anniversary edition of his classic work on creativity and innovation,Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative (Capstone/Wiley). Sir Ken was born inLiverpool, UK, as one of seven children. He is married to Therese (Lady) Robinson. They have two children, James and Kate, and now live in Los Angeles, California.
Parking
Visitors to campus may park in D lot the evening of the event.
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2013 Schedule of Events
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Online registration begins.
Friday, March 8, 2013
Deadline to submit project proposals.
Monday, April 8, 2013
Celebration of the Arts Opening
8 p.m., Schuster Center downtown Dayton
Pre-show activities begin at 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Mass of the Holy Spirit
12:05 p.m., Immaculate Conception Chapel
Keynote Address by Sir Ken Robinson, Ph.D.
7:30 p.m., RecPlex - Main Gym
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 *Alternate Day of Learning*
Day at the Stander
8 a.m. to 5 p.m., UD Campus Locations
For more than 20 years, the Stander Symposium has acted as an annual showcase where both undergraduate and graduate students are invited to showcase their research, creative endeavors and academic achievements. We celebrate the symposium as a day of alternate learning by canceling all regularly scheduled courses and meetings-instead inviting the whole University to engage in conversation, learning and panel discussions-outside of the classroom.
Free Breakfast
8 to 9:30 a.m., RecPlex, Main Gym
Poster Sessions
RecPlex, Main Gym
9 to 10:30 a.m. Session I
11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Session II
Oral presentations, panel discussions, performances and visual arts displays
8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Various Campus Locations
2013 Issue Forum: "Shaping Our Future: How Should Higher Education Help Us Create the Society We Want?"
1 p.m. and 3 p.m., Roesch Library
Celebration of the Arts Closing
5 to 7 p.m., Gallery 249, College Park Center
Parking
On Tuesday, you may park in C lot after 4:30 for the Keynote speaker and not be cited.
On Wednesday, there is parking in S1 all day, in addition to parking in D lot after 4:00 p.m. There is also limited guest parking in P, C, and B on the 17th.
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Brother Joseph W. Stander Symposium
University of Dayton
300 College Park
Dayton, OH 45469-1302
Email: stander@udayton.edu
2013 Co-Chairs:
David Darrow, Ph.D., College of Arts & Sciences
Linda Hartley, Ph.D., College of Arts & Sciences
Symposium Coordinator:
Andrea Meyer Wade, Office of the Provost