Library Brown Bag Talks will be offered via Zoom during the Spring 2021 semester. An email will be sent to the UNC Asheville community during the week of the talk with information about logging into Zoom.
All Library Brown Bags are free and open to UNC Asheville students, faculty, and staff. Several select Brown Bags will be open to the larger community and will require registration.
For questions or comments about Library Brown Bag Talks, please contact Gene Hyde, Head of Special Collections and University Archivist, UNC Asheville. ghyde@unca.edu or 828-251-6645
Please note that this semester's Brown Bag Talks are still being scheduled as of mid-January, 2021. The full schedule will be complete soon!
Thursday, January 21
12 - 1 PM
Via Zoom - login information will be sent via email a few days before the talk
Jordan Perry, Healthy Campus Liaison
Meredith Silver, Research Assistant
"Student Health Ambassadors: Building the Ship As We Sail It"
The Student Health Ambassador program began in Summer 2020 with a goal of reducing the likelihood of COVID-19 transmision on campus and promoting general wellness among students. Join Student Health Ambassador program co-coordinator Jordan Perry, project evaluator Meredith Silver, and Student Health Ambassadors themselves to learn about the work of the Student Health Ambassadors (so far!), preliminary evaluation findings, and plans for Spring 2021.
Thursday, January 28
12 - 1 PM
Via Zoom - login information will be sent via email a few days before the talk
Thursday, February 11
12 - 1 PM
Via Zoom - login information will be sent via email a few days before the talk
Thursday, February 18
12 - 1 PM
Via Zoom - login information will be sent via email a few days before the talk
Thursday, February 25
12 - 1 PM
Via Zoom - login information will be sent via email a few days before the talk
Thursday, March 11
12 - 1 PM
Via Zoom - login information will be sent via email a few days before the talk
Kathleen Lawlor, Certification Coordinator
Alison Ormsby, Interim Co-Director of Sustainability
Learn about UNC Asheville's Sustainability Certificate from Certification Coordinator Kathleen Lawlor and Interim Co-Director of Sustainability Alison Ormsby. Our increasingly complex and interdependent world needs critical thinkers with strong problem-solving skills who are able to address the long-term viability of social-ecological systems. The Interdisciplinary Certificate in Sustainability seeks to give students from any major a broad understanding of environmental, socioeconomic, and humanistic systems through interdisciplinary academic preparation, community engagement, and cross-campus collaboration so that they can help develop local and global solutions for a sustainable future. The certificate requires the completion of a minimum of 13 semester hours and 5 courses, to include IST 330, Sustainability Seminar, the required core course for the certificate.
Thursday, March 18
12 - 1 PM
Via Zoom - login information will be sent via email a few days before the talk
Thursday, March 25
12 - 1 PM
Via Zoom - login information will be sent via email a few days before the talk
Thursday, April 8
12 - 1 PM
Via Zoom - login information will be sent via email a few days before the talk
Thursday, April 15
12 - 1 PM
Via Zoom - login information will be sent via email a few days before the talk
Thursday, April 22
12 - 1 PM
Via Zoom - login information will be sent via email a few days before the talk