2014 Alexandria Campus Student Writing
Awards
Featured readings by Alexandria resident and poet, Magus Magnus, and selected student award winners:
Date: Wednesday, 30 April 2014
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Location: Bisdorf Building | AA–196
Please, click on the flayer for more details!
CONTACT:
For more information please contact Alexander Morales Purugganan| Instructor of English 703.845.6235 | apurugganan@nvcc.edu | apurugganan@nvcc.edu/home/apurugganan
Join us for the MICROSOFT EXPERICNE
Date: Thursday, May 8, 2014
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Pentagon City
Contact:
Kirstin Riddick
Supervisor, Instructional Support and Development
Alexandria Campus
703-933-3998
http://blogs.nvcc.edu/isandd/
http://blogs.nvcc.edu/kriddick/
Please be advised that a planned power outage will occur on Thursday, 24 April 2014 at 11:30 p.m. weather permitting (the rain date is May 1st). The power outage will affect the entire Bisdorf building, Engineering and Maintenance buildings. We expect the outage to last until 5:00 a.m. (Friday, 25 April 2014).
During this outage there will not be any power in the buildings at all. The generator will not be operational.
Date: Thursday, 24 April 2014
Time: 11:30 p.m. – 5:00 a.m.
Locations: Bisdorf Building, Engineering and Maintenance Buildings 
Note: The Fire Watch will be conducted by NOVA Staff and contractors on site.
Campus Police will be assisting with the Fire Watch.
The Alexandria Fire Department will be notified
Campus: The Campus should return to normal operations on Saturday, 26 April 2014 at 5:00 a.m.,
with NO INTERRUPTION in classes, unless otherwise noted.
TURN-OFF YOUR COMPUTER | THURSDAY, 24 APRIL 2014:
With the upcoming power outage based on this announcement please turn off your computer before leaving for the day (the day before the power will be going out). Also, all Computer Lab Supervisors and Computer Lab Assistants, turn off all of the lab computers before the end of the day, Thursday, April 24. This will ensure that the computers’ power supplies do not get zapped.
CONTACT:
For more information please contact David Babel | IT Manager |703 845-6019 | dbabel@nvcc.edu
1) Banking and economic development – Why developing a banking industry that understands and services agriculture matters
Dr. Maria Pagura, Economist and Senior Program Officer at the World Bank
More on Dr. Pagura:
MARIA PAGURA currently works as a Senior Program Officer for the Agriculture and Environmental Services Department at the World Bank. Maria leads AgriFin’s Knowledge and Networks program where she is responsible for the development and management of AgriFin’s global platform on agriculture finance, www.agrifin.com. In addition, she supports AgriFin projects in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Senegal. Prior to joining the World Bank, she worked for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome, Italy where she led analytical work on rural finance and provided advisory support to member countries. Maria began her career working on enterprise development and microfinance in Mali, South Africa and Uzbekistan. She has written several papers and published a book on rural finance. Maria has a Masters in Economics and a PhD in Agricultural Economics from The Ohio State University.
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2) The NOVA Student Experience!
Three of our fantastic students will share their personal experiences on making it to NOVA, and what they hope to do with the next phases of their lives.
They’ll provide an overview, and there will be plenty of time for discussion.
Not one of the three students has an experience like that of the other two presenters, but our diverse college community will hear some motivating stories and perhaps gain some useful advice on following dreams. The discussion session might just offer us all a few more awesome success stories.
The Student Presenters (in alphabetical order):
– Ms. Karen Clarke-Fuchs: Overcoming Mental Illness and Addiction to Graduate
Karen Clarke-Fuhs is a psychology and addiction counseling student at Northern Virginia Community College. She is President of the Virginia Alcohol & Addiction Professionals (VAAP) Chapter at the Alexandria campus. After a long road through recovery from alcohol addiction, depression, and anxiety, Karen will graduate from NOVA in Fall 2014.
– Ms. Juwariah Shareef: Pursuing a Major of MY Choosing
Juwariah Shareef is a business major who came to the discipline even though it wasn’t her original educational goal. Juwariah has made the most of NOVA by taking a variety of courses that pointed her towards her true passion, which presented her with career goals she had not considered earlier.
– Ms. Sheila Sealy: Realizing My Destiny
Sheila Sealy has been doing what she loves for a long time, and she finally realized it. Now she is taking the steps necessary to be able to move up her this field. And NOVA is helping to make that happen.
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The webpage for Political Science at NOVA-AL: https://sites.google.com/site/jlechelt/
The Facebook page (please “like”): https://www.facebook.com/PoliticalScienceNOVAAlexandria
CONTACT:
For more information please contact Dr. Jack Lechelt | jlechelt@nvcc.edu
TWO Lyceum Series Event at NOVA-Alexandria NEXT WEEK
CONVERSATION WITH TUKWINI MANDELA
THE MORNING BISHOP THEATRE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH NOVA COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Date: Thursday, April 24th, 2014
Time: 11:30 am
Location: NOVA COMMUNITY COLLEGE TYLER RM 121
3001 North Beauregard Street Alexandria, VA 22311-5097 
Contact: MCKENYA DILWORTH @ 202.352.4864
Looking for an interesting class to fulfill a “general/social science/history elective” for Fall 2014? If so, look no further! History 295: Civil Rights and Social Justice in American History may be the class that you are looking for!!!
HIS 295 will combine the disciplines of History, Sociology, Political Science, and Cultural Studies to explore how 
movements to effect social change have been created and sustained in American History since the 1950s, beginning with the Civil Rights Movement.
If you are interested in learning about how social movements work this class may be for you! If you are interested in becoming an agent of social change in your community you can now earn credit while exploring how others have accomplished this goal!
Please click on the flyer for more details!
CONTACT:
For more information please contact Prof. Nicholas Gaffney | ngaffney@nvcc.edu
Date: Thursday, 1 May 2014
Time: 6 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Location: Bisdorf Building room (AA-196)
Contact: Professor Lucy Gebre-Egziabher | 703-845-6297
Hosted by Information Desk & Lounge
Date: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 
Time: 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Location: Tyler Building, Room 207
*NOVA ID is required to use any of the sport equipment & Board Games.*
Contact:
For more information please contact Tommy Le | lle@nvcc.edu
Date: Thursday, April 17th, 2014
Time: 12:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Room: AA 159 
Date: Friday, April 18th, 2014
Time: 11:00 am – 3:00 pm
Location: AA 159
Date: Monday, April 21st, 2014
Time: 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Location: AA 159
Date: Friday, April 25th, 2014
Time: 11:am – 3:00 pm
Location: AA 159
Date: Tuesday, April 29th, 2014
Time: 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Location: AA 159
Date: Wednesday, April 30th, 2014
Time: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Location: AA428
Date: Friday, May 2nd, 2014
Time: 11:00 am – 3:00 pm
Location: AA 159
If interested please email Viridiana Acosta at vacosta@nvcc.edu and include the time(s) you can volunteer.
Contact:
Viridiana Guerra Acosta, M.S.|Student Life Coordinator – AL Campus vacosta@nvcc.edu
