February 3 - February 14, 2025 |
Happy Monday, graduate students! The Two Week Outlook is a weekly newsletter curated by graduate students for graduate students. Check it out every week so you don't miss:
|
- GPS workshops
- Opportunities to connect with other graduate students, staff, and facultyÂ
- Relevant university and campus events, hand-picked for graduate students
|
🧑‍💻 indicates resources also available to online & hybrid students.Â
|
|
|
February 5, 2025 @ 12:00 - 1:00 PM (GRC and Online)
|
🧑‍💻 February GSA Assembly |
Please join our GSA leadership for a time of updates, announcements, and of course - free lunch! Feel free to bring any questions, concerns, or issues that you want to speak with the GSA team about. A Zoom link will be sent out to those wanting to join online.
|
February 6, 2025 @ 2:15 - 3:15 PM (GRC Classroom 201B and Online)
|
Written exams are common, but do they measure what we think they measure? This session will explore the ways our exams often create unnecessary anxiety in students and share simple habits for writing tests that target learning objectives. Â Light refreshments will be served at the in-person session. Â Register here: a Zoom link will be sent to all registrants the day before.
|
February 7, 2025 @ 2:30 - 3:45 PM (Schumacher Flex Commons and Online)
|
Join the Graduate Writing Center and the Baylor Libraries for a Q&A panel about navigating secondary research and finding literature relevant to your work. Questions from the audience will be incorporated. Whether you're in the humanities, social sciences, or STEM, finding and vetting secondary sources is vital to our work as academics and researchers. This workshop is offered on Fri., Feb. 7 at 2:30pm - 3:45pm, both in-person and online, with refreshments provided.
For more information and to register, click here.
|
|
|
| FEBRUARY: BLACK HISTORY MONTH |
|
|
Black History Month is an annual celebration of achievements by Black Americans. We join our country, and others, in celebrating this month with a calendar of events that embraces history, enriches our knowledge, and encourages us to celebrate the diversity within our Baylor family. Here are events of note in the next two weeks.
Feb. 1-28, 2025
Waco History – African American History Self-Guided Tour - Curated by Baylor University Institute for Oral History & The Texas Collection
Feb. 3, 2025
Black History Month Carillon Recital – Hosted by the School of Music. 2:00 p.m., McLane Carillon, Pat Neff Hall
Feb. 5, 2025
A Reinterpretation of Blackness & Freedom in the American Revolution - The Department of History presents this free and open to the public lecture for our 2025 Black History Month Speaker Series, which features Dr. Ronald Angelo Johnson, Ralph & Bessie Mae Lynn Chair and Associate Professor of History at Baylor University. The lecturewill introduce the Baylor community to the research methods and sources utilized in his latest book, Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy during the American Revolution. 4:00 p.m., Foster 240.
Feb. 5, 2025
Black History Month Celebration – Women’s Basketball Game – 7:00 p.m. Foster Pavilion
|
|
|
February 3, 2025 @ 2:30 - 3:30 PM (Moody Library 104 and Online)
|
Join Dr. Elisabeth Kincaid and Dr. Elijah Jeong from the Institute for Faith and Learning for a discussion about how focusing on virtue and community solidarity can provide the condition for faith informed teaching. Â Sign up now - Zoom link will be sent to online participants!
|
February 10, 2025 @ 2:30 - 3:30 PM (Moody 104 and Online)
|
This session will help set student parameters for AI use, share ways to identify common characteristics in AI generated content, and share tips on having productive discussions with students who have used AI outside of established guidelines. Participants will leave the session with practices and materials to incorporate in their own courses as well as ways to start conversations with colleagues about disciplinary, departmental, or professional guidelines for AI use in teaching. Register here - Zoom link will be sent out to online participants.
|
|
|
February 11, 2025 @ 3:30 - 5:00 PM (Memorial Drawing Room)
|
The Great Texts Program invites you to its annual lecture, featuring William Weaver, Ph.D., Program Director and Professor of Literature. This year’s lecture, titled "Anger in Great Texts," delves into how timeless works engage with one of humanity’s most powerful emotions. Join us as Dr. Weaver brings the innovative scholarship of the Great Texts faculty into dialogue with pressing cultural questions and concerns.
|
February 11, 2025 @ 3:30 - 5:00 PM (Kayser Auditorium)
|
Join us for our Annual Religion Department Lecture. This year will feature Dr. Natalie Carnes: “Why Feminist Theology needs Art.” Dr. Carnes Carnes is a constructive theologian who reflects on questions of theological aesthetics, feminist theology, and systematic theology in the conviction that these three areas of inquiry, though distinct, also illumine one another. She is also part of Baylor Women's and Gender Studies and the director of the Baylor Initiative in Christianity and the Arts.
|
|
|
February 6, 2025 @ 1:00 - 2:30 PM (Creekmore Conference Room, Jones Library)
|
BU Counseling Center staff will train you in how to watch for signs that someone may be suicidal and how to intervene to get that person to a professional for help. In-person workshop open to any Baylor faculty, staff or students.  Those interested in becoming a Mental Health Ally can get an Ally T-shirt to identify yourself on campus to students as someone who understands and can direct them to resources.
|
February 8, 2025 @ 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
|
Baylor is offering mental health first aid training to undergraduate and graduate students who want to learn hands-on skills to recognize and respond to mental health challenges for self and others. This free training will result in a a certification as well.  Register here!
|
|
|
| PERSONAL WELLBEING & ACTIVITIES |
|
|
Baylor Opera Theatre presents Hänsel und Gretel, composed by Engelbert Humperdinck with libretto by Adelheid Wette. Purchase tickets through the Baylor Theatre Box Office. Contact the Box Office: (254) 710-186 or theatreboxoffice@baylor.edu. Discounts are available for seniors over 60 and students of all ages.Â
Performances:
February 6, 7 and 8, 7:30 p.m.
February 9, 3 p.m.
|
IF: Baylor Women's Ministry is a community of Christian women spanning all ages and denominations who gather intentionally each month in small groups on and off campus to enrich connection with each other and with God. Our foundational question is, "If what Jesus said and did is true, how does that change my life every day?"Â Sign up for small groups (IF:Tables) today and sign up for the IF newsletter here.
|
|
|
February 11, 2025 @ 3:00 - 4:00 PM (GRC Classroom 201B and Online)
|
Are you a graduate student with an ambitious dissertation project requiring extensive time abroad? Or perhaps you’d be willing to consider a project like that if you knew it could be fully funded? Or maybe you are a graduate student thinking of pursuing another degree but don’t know how to pay for it. What if you are just burned out on graduate school and want a year to clear your head while being paid to live and work abroad? All of these things are possible through the Fulbright program. Come learn more about funded opportunities through the Fulbright at this GPS Workshop led by former Baylor graduate student and Baylor’s Assistant Director of Fellowships & Awards, Dr. Anna Beaudry.
|
|
|
Stay connected with the Baylor Graduate School
|
|
|
|
