DUC 300, Liberman Graduate Center, Friedman Conference Room
Join the first-year cohort of Chancellor's Graduate Fellows as we celebrate the start of a new year, and have a chance to network and get to know each other better.
The Chancellor's Fellows participated in a spring community service project in March. They devoted a Saturday morning to work with Project Backpack St. Louis. They filled backpacks with age and gender appropriate necessities for children who have been removed from their homes often with nothing but the clothes on their backs.
Chancellor's Fellows presented their first interdisciplinary collaborative cancer research syposium. Ph.D. students from Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Genetics and Genomics, Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology presented posters and their research. This gave the audience a great opportunity to ask questions and learn at their own level of understanding.
The Holiday party was a smash hit thanks to all of you. Great food, good conversaton, competition and prizes. Chanez Symester took home two gift cards for winning both the trivia contest and the Ugly Sweater competition, although hers was definitely cute and not ugly.
A big thanks to all of the fellows who came out and gave back to the community during our volunteer event at the Ronald McDonald House. We all had a great time preparing, cooking and cleaning for those staying at the House while their young children are under going medical care at nearby hospitals. It was a great example of team work and fellowship. It was also very rewarding and a fun time.
The current Chancellor's Graduate Fellows and Alumni celebrated their 25th Anniversary on Friday, October 14th with a keynote address by Imani Perry, the Hughes-Rogers professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and faculty associate in Princeton's program in Law and Public Affairs and Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her keynote address, "Looking for Lorraine: Gifts of the Hidden Hansberry" foreshadowed Professor Perry's forthcoming biography of Lorraine Hansberry for Beacon Press. In her talk, Professor Perry explored Hansberry as a critical figure for conceptualizing race, gender, sexual orientation, and global politics.
