A Solo Woman Backpacker

The third Women’s and Gender Studies Colloquium speaker for fall 2013 will be Sherry Lee Short. She will talk about solo backpacking from a personal and feminist perspective. Short is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art & Design and is the Director of Women’s and Gender Studies. BR 154, 11:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m., Friday, Nov. 22.

STEM Teaching Toolbox session – today at 3 in the FDC

Hear from faculty about handy software to use in your courses: Adam Goyt will share information about LaTex; Damiano Fulghesu will talk about creating graphs of functions using Grapher and Geogebra; John Buncher will present information on Inkscape and Gimp; and Erdenebaater Chadraa will talk about ‘R’, an open source statistical package.

Catering Showcase Thursday

Our Catering Showcase is this Thursday at the Comstock Memorial Union Ballroom from 2 – 6:30 p.m. We will be featuring food samples, cakes, decorating ideas, event planning, photographers, printing services and more! Get ideas and inspiration for your next event. For questions and information, contact us at catering@mnstate.edu. Free admission!