First Year Seminar

FYSE 1456 “Reading Jared Diamond” will present posters about their independent research projects.

Join us for a relaxing evening of live lullaby performances and readings, coloring, meditation, and more! Snacks/refreshments will be served.

Did you have some difficulty with course registration this week? Come get some assistance from faculty advisors who can help you figure out your options for the Spring semester. We’ll be available to provide guidance from 11:30 - 12:30 on Friday, Dec. 10 in LIB A&B. If possible, please bring your computer.

This mini-symposium is for First Year Seminar students and professors who share the same final exam window (Friday, December 17th, 9:00 - 12:00) to use that time to present their final coursework to each other. It will be solemn and celebratory with an audience of other interested First Year students. 

Photographers Jon Henry and Mikael Owunna discuss their artistic responses to police murder of Black men. Andrew Plumley ’11 (Senior Director, Equity & Culture, American Alliance of Museums) moderates this online conversation, which will include audience Q&A. Free.

Advance registration required. Learn more and register: https://bit.ly/OwunnaHenry.

“Reclaiming Vodou: its Powers, Aesthetics, and Beauty, through Music, Dance, and Ritual”

Come share in “A Ritual for Peace: the Aesthetics of Haitian Vodou” in Coltrane Lounge on November 5th from 7-10pm, where Houngan Jean-Sebastien Duvilaire and his spiritual family “Sosyete Nago” directed by Manbo Marie Evans will invite people into a traditional vodou-style prayer in Creole and Vodou language, with live drumming, song, and dance. 

White attire is encouraged. 

CRISPR is a gene editing tool that allows us to manipulate and control the basic building blocks of life. It can be used to cure disease, reshape the environment, and even design our own children! “Human Nature is a documentary about CRISPR’s far-reaching implications, through the eyes of the scientists who discovered it, the families it’s affecting, and the bioengineers who are testing its limits” (Goodwin, Wonder Collaborative, Inc). It is a must-see for those interested in how this technology can change our relationship with nature, and what it means to be human.