Dining services and SGA team up for pancake mania

It is finals week again… start sharpening those #2’s and getting those blue books ready.

Finals bring stress and exhaustion, but they also bring free pancakes.

The UH dining service and SGA are partnering again this semester to give a free pancake breakfast to students.

Finalsmania will take place Wednesday, May 6 at 10 p.m. at the Rockwell Pavilion Room upstairs in the M.D. Anderson library.

Breakfast will be served until they run out.

– Patricia Estrada

Parker executive search hired to find new athletic director

Last Wednesday, April 22, Athletic Director Dave Maggard retired just days after announcing a plan to renovate Robertson stadium. Students and Alumni were shocked that the school’s second longest tenured athletic director was gone.

UH President Renu Khator has now hired a search firm to find candidates to fit the job description; she has also assembled an 11-person committee chaired by UH Executive Vice President for administration and finance. The committee will be in charge of interviewing and presenting strengths and weaknesses for final candidates.

Parker executive search will conduct the nationwide search and will have to find somebody to fit the shoes of an athletic director that revived the two biggest sports at UH, football and basketball.

– Bill Barajas

QEP Research-Enhanced Courses Now Available

Beginning in Spring 2009, undergraduates will be able to enroll in a slate of courses that incorporate inquiry-based pedagogy or research practicum training. The research-enhanced courses are being developed as part of the QEP Curriculum Development Grant Program.

Projects supported by the program range from enhancement of core and major course to broader department and college initiatives which span multiple courses and levels. Now available is a list of 2009 QEP Pilot Projects and Courses.

– Heather Duran

Pizza with the Pros

The UH student chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators is presenting Pizza w/ the Pros featuring former CBS correspondent David Henderson.

Henderson is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, communications strategist, author and noted blogger. In addition to working with CBS, he has handled public relations duties for Edelman Worldwide and Gulfstream Aerospace. His books include “The Media Savvy Leader: Visibility, Influence and Results in a Competitive World” and “Making News: A Straight-Shooting Guide to Media Relations.”

Among the topics he will discuss are the importance of Web 2.0, strategic thinking and how to become a communications star.

FREE pizza will be served (while supplies last).
This event runs from 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m., Thursday, April 30 in the Pacific Room of the University Center (underground). It is open to all students and faculty.

Crowe Show debuts on student network

The Craig Crowe Show will air on Wednesday, April 15 and Thursday April 16 at 11 a.m. on the Student Video Network Channel 6.

For more information call 713-743-5216 or visit www.uh.edu/svn

– Holly Prevost

Horticulture Society plants goals of visibility and membership

UH’s Horticulture Society will discuss their goals for increasing group visibility and membership, as well as what they plan to cultivate for the summer season.  The meeting will take place on Friday, April 17 at 3 p.m. at the greenhouse located next to the Science Building.

For more information, contact Yosef Kerzner at uhgreenhouse@gmail.com.

– Sylvia Saumell

National researchers and UH faculty come together to discuss obesity research in Texas

The UH Texas Obesity Research Center (TORC) will host a 2-day conference on Thursday, April 9 and Friday, April 10 at the M.D. Anderson Library.  A multitude of national researchers and UH faculty will host discussions on public health and clinical applications in an effort to raise awareness of ongoing obesity research in Texas.

For more information on registration and the itinerary, call Pamela Silva at (713) 743-9310 or visit http://www.hhp.uh.edu/.

– Sylvia Saumell

Women’s Resource Center creates new ‘crafty lunches’

Come make bracelets at this week’s Crafty Lunches at the Women’s Resource Center on Thursday, April 9.  This is a brand new program for students, faculty, and staff.  Bring your own lunch. Drinks will be provided along with the craft project.  Great chance to eat, have fun, make friends, and take home a craft!  The event is from 12p.m. to 1p.m.

– Shruti Purohit

Women’s Resource Center and Commuter Services holds Life Span meeting

The Women’s Resource Center will be having its biweekly Life Span, a support group for nontraditional students, meeting Wednesday April 8 in the Claudette Room, in the UC Satellite.  The meeting will be from 4p.m. to 5p.m. and it is co-sponsored by Commuter Services.

– Shruti Purohit

Women’s Resource Center hosts weekly movie madness

The Women’s Resource Center will be showing The Great Silence: Rape in Congo at its weekly Movie Madness event on Wednesday, April 8.  April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

This movie is about the powerful and painful epidemic of rape that happen to women in the Congo.  The event is from 11:30a.m. to 1:30p.m. and popcorn and drinks will be served.

– Shruti Purohit