Are you interested in strengthening your leadership skills? Sign up for the BGSU Leadership Achievement Award (BLAA)! The BLAA is a self-paced, comprehensive, leadership development program designed to encourage and recognize student leadership education and experiences at BGSU. Any student can sign up to participate! If you are interested, click the link below and click on Enroll to get started. https://www.bgsu.edu/center-for-leadership/program-and-events/leadership-certificate-program.html  

Being the First: But Making Sure You are Not the Last The nation recently welcomed Kamala Harris, our first woman and first woman of color, into the role of Vice President of the United States. The Center for Women & Gender Equity within the Division of Diversity and Belonging invites you to view “Being the First: But Making Sure You are Not the Last” – a brief roundtable discussion with Dr. Lisa Dubose, Dr. Kathleen Kollman, and Dr. Melissa Miller about the meaning and impact of having our first woman as Vice President. We’ll also discuss how to get women more involved in leadership at a local level and the importance of representation. You can view the recording here. On January 27th at 12:30pm, you can join Director of the Center for Women and Gender Equity, Dr. Kacee Ferrell Snyder, for a live discussion follow-up of the panel on Instagram @bgsu.cwge. WATCH NOW Our panelists include: Dr. Melissa Miller is an expert on American politics with a specific focus on elections and voting behavior, women in American politics, public opinion, and the media. She teaches courses in American Government, Political Parties, Voter Behavior, Women in American Politics, and Research Methods. In 2016 Dr. Miller was named Master Teacher -- the highest teaching award on campus. Dr. Kathleen Kollman completed her PhD in American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University in 2020. She is currently serving as a Lecturer of English at the Ohio State University. Her research focuses on representations of gender in film, television, literature, and other popular culture texts. Dr. Kollman is working on turning her dissertation, “If She Were President: Fictional Representations of Female U.S. Presidents in Film, Television, and Literature,” into a monograph.  Dr. Lisa E. Dubose is a dually certified Human Resources Administrator (SHRM-SCP; SPHR), with nearly three decades of experience in public and private sector industries. She is currently employed as Director, Human Resources for Employee Relations and Professional Development at Bowling Green State University where she also earned her Ed.D in Leadership Studies. She has instructed as an adjunct at two universities, which include teaching for the past two summers, an accelerated master’s level Strategic Human Resources course for the Mendoza College of Business at The University of Notre Dame, in South Bend, Indiana.        

All DMA audition events will be held virtually.

FORGE MENSTRUAL DRIVE | March 1 - 31 , 2021 Drop your donations off outside the Center for Women & Gender Equity office located at 280 Hayes Hall Don't FORGET to leave your name and email address with the items you drop off – FORGE will be giving away Diva Cups through a raffle for those who donate!

It's OK not to be OK. You are invited to join a mental health virtual discussion with the BGSU Counseling Center staff, Employee Assistance Program, Human Resources, and featured guests from across campus. Individuals who attend will have the opportunity to learn about mental health services, talk with each other about mental health concerns, discuss strategies for caring for their mental health and ask mental health-related questions. Faculty/Staff Schedule  Representatives will be available from the Counseling Center, Human Resources, and Impact Solutions (the university’s Employee Assistance Program). February 11, 2021 at 12pm (Thursday) JOIN ZOOM March 19, 2021 at 12pm ( Friday) JOIN ZOOM April 7, 2021 at 12pm ( Wednesday) JOIN ZOOM Students Schedule Wednesday February 10, 2021 at 12pm (undergraduate students) JOIN ZOOM Friday February 19, 2021 at 11am (graduate students) JOIN ZOOM Tuesday March 16,2021 at 3pm (undergraduate students) JOIN ZOOM Friday March 26, 2021 at 2pm (graduate students) JOIN ZOOM Tuesday April 13, 2021 at 3pm ( undergraduate students) JOIN ZOOM Wednesday April 14, 2021 at 12pm ( graduate students ) JOIN ZOOM For more information visit bgsu.edu/counselingcenter  

“Tour” the BG Recycling Center, courtesy of Wood County Solid Waste Management District. Learn how the city sorts and prepares recycling for the market. Find out how you can recycle correctly and often, and do your part to reduce waste! WATCH HERE! ---------- Join us in April for events and activities, both virtual and in-person that will involve and motivate the university community on the environment and sustainability, as well as celebrate our common home.  Because when it comes to our sustainable future, Earth is truly our nest!

  Reimagining and Rebuilding Resilient Economies and Communities in Northwest Ohio The State of the Region Conference is the premier economic development gathering in Northwest Ohio and is hosted by the BGSU Center for Regional Development. The conference brings elected officials, economic developers, and business leaders together to discuss issues critical to the future vitality of our region and its people.

BGSU Men's Soccer at Kentucky TV: ESPN+ Streaming Video: https://www.espn.com/watch/player/_/id/ac840795-0cab-4fdf-bbac-0308824a6132#bucketId=1 https://bgsufalcons.com/calendar.aspx?id=11000

The Career Center holds 15 minute in-person and phone drop-in hours on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm on a first come first served basis during the academic year. Stop by the Career Center in BTSU 225 or call 419-372-2356 for a 15-minute resume or cover letter review drop-in session.

This workshop will offer a variety of models of assignments and activities that provide students the opportunity to demonstrate their learning through reflection.  This workshop has been adapted to account for online learning and virtual course delivery.  Workshop goals and learning objectives include: To define and clarify definitions of reflection. To share the D.E.A.L. Model of reflection. To provide faculty and staff with the tools to design reflective assignments and activities to assist students in articulating their learning. To learn about how the Center for Public Impact can support the integration of reflection assignments and activities into courses and programs Register for the Reflection Techniques to Foster Student Learning Workshop.

  The Life Design Leadership Certificate (LDLC) is a program that will help you develop the mindsets and tools necessary to live a meaningful, purpose-driven life as a leader on campus and beyond. This certificate, offered by the Marvin Center for Student Leadership and Office of Student Success and Life Design, will help participants build confidence navigating an unknown future and make meaningful contributions to their community and organization.  This certificate will build on the Life Design framework to empower you to enhance your personal and leadership development. The LDLC is a six-week program that will take place on Tuesday evenings beginning Tuesday, March 2nd from 6-7:30 p.m. This program will take place virtually using the Zoom platform. Participants will receive a Zoom link, as well as an invitation to join the accompanied Canvas course, via email after registering for this opportunity. Should you have any questions or concerns, feel free to reach out to us at leadership@bgsu.edu.     Session 1: Explore Your Viewpoints In this session, participants will work to develop their college view, world view, and leadership view. Identifying and articulating these views will allow participants to reflect on how congruent they are.  Session 2: Build Your Pathways  In this session, participants will create 3 pathways for their leadership at BGSU. You will develop your current pathway, a sperate pathway as a backup, and a pathway without limitations. Participants will learn about the importance of generating more than one idea for an experience.  Session 3: Create Your Dashboard In this session, participants will reflect on their personal dashboard by looking at their own levels of work, play, love, and health in their life. Then, participants will create two dashboards that reflect their organization. One dashboard will be where the organization is now and then next will be where you want your organization to be. By the end of the session, participants will identify ways to meet their goal dashboards.  Session 4: Design Thinking to Solve Problems In this session participants will learn about the differences between anchor and gravity problems. We will reflect on anchor problems and gravity problems that you currently see in your group or organization. Then, participants will utilize design thinking to solve problems within their organization.  Session 5: Mindsets of Design Thinking in Leadership In this session, participants will learn about the 5 mindsets of the design thinking process as it relates to the process leadership. We will place emphasis on one mindset, radical collaboration. Session 6: Problem Solving in a Community Participants will use the process of ideation to solve problems within a community. We will introduce the use of mind maps to ideate. Participants will identify a problem they see in their community and solve it using design thinking concepts. 

Join UAO as they host bingo and provide food kits that winners can get a chance to win. 

Mystery abounds at Bobby Majestic’s Amazing Tigerland. Money is missing, and everyone knows something about who took it. Can you find the culprit amongst this group of outcasts? Documentary filmmaker Steve Brinkman has video that shows who is the thief. But, he’s encrypted all of the clips. Players work together to unlock all of the encrypted video to discover this offender. Tigerland is an escape style game designed to be played with remote teams use video conferencing technology. Players join together and communicate virtually to solve puzzles, listen to the video clips, and determine the thief. The game is scalable with up to 20 simultaneous teams of up to 10 players at one time. Live gamemasters check each room to provide assistance during the game. Tigerland is not a game hastily converted to online play by filming an existing escape room, it was designed from the ground up as a virtual game. Tigerland is an adult game. Please note there is explicit language, sexual innuendo, and adult situations. How it works Individuals or teams register on our website and join a video stream that we host.  Once in the video stream, we place them into breakout rooms with their team members (if individuals register to play we will place them in teams) and send them the link to the escape room website.  During the game they communicate with their team members via the video stream to discuss their game and they can request a moderator join their room at any time for help or hints. Teams vs Individuals Players can register as a team or as an individual.  But every player should join the video stream meeting. How many players Up to 500 players can play during the event. During the event time, new games are started as players arrive so players can join anytime.   Check back for event link two weeks prior.  

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Current DMA students will perform a showcase recital as part of our doctoral auditions. If you are interested in applying to our DMA program, please visit our website.  This event is virtual and will be live streamed: https://www.youtube.com/user/bgsumusic/videos PROGRAM Prelúdio I (1946)………………………………………………..Claudio Santoro (1919 - 1989)      Ia. Série                          Jonathan de Oliveira Neruda (2018)………………………………………………………Pablo Gomez-Estévez (b. 1991)      iii                          Hila Zamir, clarinet                          Pablo Gomez-Estévez, piano Riga in Rain (2020)………………………………………………Ayaz Gambarli (b. 1984)                          Humay Gasimzadeh, piano Skrt-Skrt (2021) World Premiere)…………………Adam Har-zvi (b. 1994)                           Claudia Aizaga, flute                           Anat Kardontchik, viola                           Shelly Du, harp Mística (2003)……………………………………………………………Tania Léon (b. 1943)                          Ariel Magno da Costa, piano Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano (1984)…William Albright (1944 - 1998)      II. La Follia Nuova                           Joshua Heaney, saxophone                           Sandra Coursey, piano Songs of the Transformed (1983)................................Joseph Dubiel (b. 1955)      II. Owl Song                            Katherine Pracht Phares, mezzo-soprano                            Adam Har-zvi, bass Coastal Kaleidoscope (2012)……………………………………Alyssa Morris (b. 1984)      I. Waves                           Claudia Aizaga, flute                           David Munro, oboe                           Sandra Coursey, piano   BIOS Claudia Aizaga – flute Ecuadorian flutist, Claudia Daniela Aizaga Chávez holds degrees from Universi- ty of Northern Iowa and Louisiana State University. She has won prizes in vari- ous competitions including “Música Maestro” in Ecuador and the LSU Concerto Competition, and has served as a flute teacher through “El Sistema” at the FOSJE foundation in Ecuador for the last seven years. She is in her first year of DMA studies with Tim Munro. Sandra Coursey – piano Sandra Coursey received degrees in Piano Pedagogy and Piano Performance from BGSU and Oklahoma City University. Most recently, she performed with the Diverge Trio in Mississippi Women’s University’s Women in Music Festival. She is in her first year of DMA studies with Solungga Liu. Shelly Du – harp Shelly Du has served as principal second harpist of the Oklahoma City Philhar- monic and as acting principal harpist of the Sarasota Orchestra (FL). A winner of the American Harp Society Anne Adams Awards, she holds degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory and the Cleveland Institute of Music. She is in her second year of DMA studies with Julie Buzzelli. Humay Gasimzadeh – piano Born in Baku, Azerbaijan, Humay Gasimzadeh is a winner of the Chamber Music Competition at Stavanger University in Norway, Conrad Art Song Competition at BGSU, and Cortona Contemporary Performance Competition in Italy. She is in her third year of DMA studies with Robert Satterlee. Pablo Gomez-Estévez – composition Pablo Gómez-Estévez is a composer and pianist from Santiago, Dominican Re- public. He received a Master’s in Composition from BGSU and a BA from Luther College. His music combines elements from Caribbean genres infused with jazz harmonies and contemporary composition techniques. He is in his first year of DMA studies with Christopher Dietz. Adam Har-zvi – composition Adam Har-zvi is a composer and double bassist from northern New Jersey. His pieces have been performed by The Toledo Symphony, The Wind Ensemble Society of New York City, The 21st Century Consort, and the Mivos Quartet. He holds degrees from the Cleveland Institute, UMass Amherst, and BGSU. He is in his first year of DMA studies with Marilyn Shrude. Joshua Heaney – saxophone A prizewinning saxophonist, Joshua Heaney has soloed with the Atlanta Cham- ber Collective, Atlanta Wind Project, and the Georgia State University Wind Ensemble. He has premiered over 35 new works and was a featured performer on Atlanta’s SoundNOW festival and WABE’s Atlanta Music Scene. In addition to his duties at BGSU, he currently teaches saxophone, clarinet, and chamber music at Heidelberg University. He holds degrees from Susquehanna University and Georgia State University, and is in his second year of DMA studies with John Sampen. Anat Kardontchik – violin Anat Kardontchik has won prizes in competitions such as the Young Musicians Competition with the Peninsula Symphony, MTNA Young Artist Award and Pittsburgh Concert Society Young Artist Award. She has served twice as concert- master of the National Festival Orchestra in Carnegie Hall. She holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and Duquesne University. She is in her fourth year of DMA studies with Penny Kruse. Ariel Magno da Costa – piano Brazilian pianist Ariel Magno da Costa holds degrees from Central Michigan University and the State University of Campinas, Brazil. His research focuses on the music for solo piano by Basque-Spanish composer Gabriel Erkoreka (b. 1969). He has participated in the 14th and 15th editions of soundSCAPE Festival (Cesena, Italy), Bowling Green New Music Festival 38, 39, 40 and 41, Society of Composers 2018 National Conference (Tacoma, WA), and the 2017 IDRS Annual Conference (Appleton, WI). He is in his fourth year of DMA studies with Laura Melton. David Munro – oboe David Munro is an oboist with a dedication to and passion for performing 20th and 21st century contemporary, avant-garde, and electroacoustic music. He re- ceived degrees from Virginia Commonwealth University and BGSU, and is in his first year of DMA studies with Nermis Mieses. Jonathan Oliveira – piano Jonathan de Oliveira holds degrees from the Federal University of Goiás, Brazil. A prizewinner in both the Concurso “Jovens Talentos da EMAC” and the Con- curso Nacional de Piano “Orestes Farinello,” he has commissioned new works for piano based on his pedagogical research. He is in his fourth year of DMA studies with Solungga Liu. Katherine Pracht Phares – mezzo-soprano Ms. Pracht Phares’ 2019 season included stage debuts as Charlotte in A Little Night Music (Madison Opera), Ottavia in L’incoronazione di Poppea (Florentine Opera), and Prokofiev’s The Love for Three Oranges (Opera Philadelphia). 2021 engagements include the world premiere of Joseph Summer’s Hamlet (Ruse, Bul- garia), and the title role in Kevin Puts’ opera, Elizabeth Cree (West Edge Opera). She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and the University of Iowa, and is in her first year of DMA studies with Jane Rodgers. Hila Zamir – clarinet A native of Israel, clarinetist Hila Zamir is a versatile performer of classical and contemporary music. Performance credits include solo concerts at MerkinHall and Walt Whitman Theater in NY, Alte Oper Hall in Germany and Charles Bronfman Auditorium in Israel. In 2014, she performed as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic under the baton of Maestro Zubin Mehta. She is in her fourth year of DMA studies with Kevin Schempf.