Trick or Treat at NOVA
Open to all Nova Families
Join us if your DARE for a HALLOWEEN SCARE!!!!
Bisdorf Building | Room: AA–132
Activity start from 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Trick or treat time(s) are 5:30 PM, 6:00 PM and 6:30 PM
CONTACT:
For more information please contact Tommy Le | lle@nvcc.edu
Touchdown to Student Success!
Tuesday, October 29th, AA158 Faculty and Staff! Please join us for a full day of activities to celebrate NOVA’s AtD student success policy initiatives and our passion for student achievement.
ALL DAY: KICKOFF
Faculty Success Stories in the Classroom.
Share your own success stories with your students. How did you to where you wanted to be?
11:00am-2:00pm
Hall of Fame
Stop by AA158 and do a short “Who Inspired Me to be Successful?” video
Bag of goodies will be distributed to participants.
12:30pm-2:00pm
Student Success Stories AA158
Student Panel Discussion and Lunch
Faculty and staff are encouraged to wear their favorite football jersey shirts!
Sponsored by AL AtD campus committee.
CONTACT:
For more information please contact Dr. Frances Villagran-Glover | fvillagrangl@nvcc.edu
Hello colleagues – – It is time to register!
Power Up Your Pedagogy
(PUP)
The Ninth Annual Power UP your Pedagogy (PUP) Conference is OPEN FOR REGISTRATION! All Faculty and Professional Staff are cordially invited.
It is an online registration—Just click on this link.
http://www.nvcc.edu/faculty-and-staff/teaching-support/cetl/conference.html
And then on the Registration Tab.
PUP is an exciting, award-winning, professional development conference that brings all NOVA faculty together. PUP is YOUR conference presented by YOUR colleagues. You will leave with amazing new insights about the best teaching practices, the best teaching tips and tricks and the very best ideas about teaching and especially about teaching at NOVA! Cluster Meetings are also part of the conference.
The 2014 PUP 21st Century Teaching & Learning
January 8th and 9th on the Annandale Campus
Don’t miss it!
You will get all of these features!
Every attempt is being made to be sure that everyone, even those who only attend Cluster Meetings, receives a lunch. The lunches are the single largest expense for PUP. In these tight economic times, it is imperative that we have an accurate count of those who wish lunch. The only way to count YOU is by your registration. You must register even if you only plan to attend the Cluster meetings.
CYBERWATCH’s Second Life Island series
Join Professor Garnet (Prof. Margaret Leary) virtually in CyberWatch’s Second Life Island for a series of free security awareness/security topics presented by CyberWatch students. Students will present virtual information sessions on a var…iety of security topics. The series is in recognition of October, which is cyber security awareness month.
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Day |
Date |
Time |
Presenter |
Series |
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• Tuesday |
Oct. 22 |
1 p.m. |
Minh Ho, NOVA | “Security Issues in Healthcare” |
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• Tuesday |
Oct. 22 |
4 p.m. |
Robin Burkett, NOVA | “Digital Photography Forensics” |
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• Wednesday |
Oct. 23 |
1 p.m. |
Halie Peacher, Mississippi State University | “United States’ Preparations for Cyber Security” |
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• Thursday |
Oct. 24 |
2 p.m. |
Ana Martinez, Monterey Peninsula College | “Social Media Safety” |
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• Monday |
Oct. 28th |
10:30 p.m. |
Norma Fleming, NOVA | “Mobile Phone Security” |
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• Monday |
Oct. 28th |
2 p.m. |
Matthew Matchen, University of Maryland University College | “SSL Interception/Decryption” and “Associated Privacy Concerns.” |
New users to Second Life need to visit secondlife.com to create an avatar and download the client to participate “in world” at the scheduled day and time. Presentations will be in the CyberWatch Second Life Island at CyberWatch Public Region, CyberWatch (42/31/24). From within Second Life, the Public Auditorium can be accessed at the following slurl: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/CyberWatch/42/31/24
CONTACT:
For more information please contact Professor Margaret Leary | mleary@nvcc.edu
ALEX M. PURUGGANAN
ENGLISH PROFESSOR
HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL STUDIES
ALEXANDRIA CAMPUS
If I think deeply enough, I can still recall my b-boy crew’s congratulatory hands slapping my back, brushing the top of my head, and pulling my arms high into the air. I can also still feel the heavy bass of the music seeping into my bones and hear the whooping and chanting from the crowd. Above all else, I can distinctly remember the euphoric emotion and the sense of accomplishment after completing my best and most important windmill while battling against another more accomplished break-dance crew in Los Angeles, California.
I was nine years old when I first started pop-locking and popping. I danced at local parks, swap meets, and neighborhood parties, generating laughter from amused adults who smoked cigarettes and played cards. One of the more respected, older neighborhood b-boys, “Flyman,” had asked me to join his crew after an impromptu afternoon battle at a park. I was the youngest member of Flyman’s dance crew, so he took me under his b-boy wing, teaching me breakdancing moves to replace my pop-locking routines and presenting me with a new nickname, “Kid Krazy Legs,” because of the way my legs convulsed and kicked as I spun doing windmills, a dance move where movement is generated from legs twirling in the shape of a V. In one particular battle against a rival dance crew, Flyman and I completed simultaneous windmills as a climactic touch – the oldest and youngest members of our crew leaving a lasting, and ultimately victorious, impression for the judging crowd.
Greetings,
Please SAVE THE DATE for our Annual Thanksgiving Dinner!!!
This year the dinner will take place on Tuesday, November 26th at 6:30pm.
As a friendly reminder, NOVA Police will be hosting Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, and Stalking Awareness training sessions on the dates and times listed below. Spaces are still available and all are encouraged to attend. On the Annandale and Alexandria campuses, we will have a guest speaker from SAVE Fairfax. The speaker, founder of SAVE Fairfax and herself a domestic violence survivor, has helped us teach Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence in the past and has gotten great reviews. Please e-mail me at the address below if you wish to attend this class.
Topics Include:
Dates/Locations: (Training will be from noon – 1:30 PM)
Regards,
OFC. Tony Ong
Community Resource/Crime Prevention Officer
Police Department
Northern Virginia Community College
3001 N. Beauregard Street
Alexandria, Virginia 22311
Office: (703) 933-1850
Cell: (703) 229-2527
Attention NOVA Students!
Are you looking for ways to prepare for your future career? Attend this event to learn more about effective communication in the work place, time management, and job search to job offer strategies to help you jump-start your future!
Free lunch and (2) current/continuing NOVA students will win a $600 Scholarship!!! Register Today!
Register by Clicking HERE:
Questions? Contact Crystal Young: cyoung@nvcc.edu
A Good Read
Theory of Mind is the human capacity to comprehend that other people hold beliefs and desires and that these may differ from one’s own beliefs and desires. The currently predominant view is that literary fiction —often described as narratives that focus on in-depth portrayals of subjects’ inner feelings and thoughts—can be linked to theory of mind processes, especially those that are involved in the understanding or simulation of the affective characteristics of the subjects. Kidd and Castano (p. 377, published online 3 October) provide experimental evidence that reading passages of literary fiction, in comparison to nonfiction or popular fiction, does indeed enhance the reader’s performance on theory of mind tasks.
Taking Out the Trash
The purpose of sleep remains mysterious. Using state-of-the-art in vivo two-photon imaging to directly compare two arousal states in the same mouse, Xie et al. (p. 373; see the Perspective by Herculano-Houzel) found that metabolic waste products of neural activity were cleared out of the sleeping brain at a faster rate than during the awake state. This finding suggests a mechanistic explanation for how sleep serves a restorative function, in addition to its well-described effects on memory consolidation.
2013 Women’s Issues Conference
Start: Saturday, 26 October 2013
Time: 09:00 a.m. – 01:00 p.m.
Location:
George Washington Middle School
1005 Mt Vernon Ave
Alexandria, VA 22301
Join Congressman Moran and keynote speaker Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro for the 2013 Annual Women’s Issues Conference at George Washington Middle School, 1005 Mt Vernon Ave, Alexandria, VA 22301 on October 26, 2013 from 9:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m.
Rosa DeLauro is a leader in Congress on issues affecting women, families and children, serving as the top Democrat on the influential Labor, Health, Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee.
The conference will include health screenings, information booths on a range of relevant issues, and a series of seminars on topics including women in the developing world, finance, professional and community leadership, and auto care.
Agenda:
Registration begins at 9:00 a.m., event will start at 10:00 a.m. to prevent a conflict with the Alexandria Breast Cancer Walk.
Information Sessions:
Leading at Work and in the Community
This session will discuss the leadership skills women possess to advance professionally and attain leadership roles in the community.
Making “Cents” of it All: Wealth Building for the 21st Century Woman
Learn the basics of wealth building, including budgeting, investing, and retirement planning.
Women in the Military: Challenges Facing our Female Soldiers
Learn more about the experiences of women serving in the military including the increase in the reported number of sexual assaults, the debate over women serving in combat, and regulations on reproductive health care for women in the military.
Women in the Developing World
This session will review the challenges of women in developing countries and how we can support efforts for women’s equality around the world.
Navigating the Affordable Care Act
Learn more about the Affordable Care Act, what it means for you and your family, and how to successfully navigate this new health care law.
Car Care 101
This hands-on session will teach you the basics of auto care, and what to do when the unexpected happens.