February 10 - February 21, 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:
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- GPS workshops
- Opportunities to connect with other graduate students, staff, and facultyÂ
- Relevant university and campus events, hand-picked for graduate students
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🧑‍💻 indicates resources also available to online & hybrid students.Â
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February 11, 2025 @ 3:00 - 4:00 PM (GRC Classroom 201B and Online)
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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.  A zoom link will be sent to registered participants the day before the event. Register here.Â
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February 12, 2025 @ 11:00am-12:00pm (Location TBD)
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Christian Scholars Forum is an interdisciplinary group for Baylor graduate students and young faculty. We host biweekly meetings to discuss books/articles exploring the implications of researching and teaching as Christians. This semester we will be reading George M. Marsden's The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship (intro and Chapter 1 for Feb. 12th; Chapter 2 for Feb. 26th; and biweekly following). Please email Anna Judd (anna_judd1@baylor.edu) or Ariadne Lewis (ariadne_lewis2@baylor.edu) to be added to the email list; we'll be announcing locations and ways to access the reading soon.
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February 19, 2025 @ 6:00 - 9:00 PM (Be Kind Coffee)
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Just Write! A Graduate Writing Center Event |
Trying to get into good writing rhythms for the semester? Or looking to get a jumpstart on those midterm conference papers? The GWC is here for you!  On Wednesday, February 19th from 6:00-9:00pm we have reserved Be Kind Coffee for grad students who wish to use it as a workspace, with consultants on reserve to answer any writing questions.
Additionally, the first 20 attendees to arrive will receive a free coffee or tea priced at up to $5, compliments of the GWC. So, stop by and get a head start on those assignments!Â
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| FEBRUARY: BLACK HISTORY MONTH |
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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.
February 11 Black History Month Celebration – Women’s Basketball Game – 7 p.m. Foster Pavilion
February 13 Lunch & Learn Featuring Attorney Damario Simmons - 12:00 Noon. Memorial Alexander Common Room. Hosted by Baylor Law School and Honors Residential College.
February 15 Black History Month Celebration – Men’s Basketball Game – 1 p.m. Foster Pavilion
February 18 Truett Black Seminary Association - Chapel, Sponsored by Truett Seminary – 11 a.m. Paul Powell Chapel
February 18Â Neighbor Night - 6:00 p.m. Â Bobo Spiritual Life Center. Hosted by Better Together & Black Student Union
February 19 GATHER: Food, Justice, and Nourishment in an Anti-Black World Featuring Dr. Ashante Reese - 4:00 p.m. Barfield. Hosted by Creative Arts Experience
February 21 Film screening of the documentary, Juneteenth, and conversation with the director, Rasool Berry Sponsored by: The Black Church Studies Program at Truett Seminary and the W. E. B. DuBois planning committee – 5:30-8:30 p.m. Truett Seminary, Room 107
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February 10, 2025 @ 2:30 - 3:30 PM (Moody 104 and Online)
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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.
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Spring Registration is now open for the DOTS program! This program is designed for doctoral students interested in learning the theory and practice of designing and teaching high quality online courses. To register or find out more information click here.Â
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February 17, 2025 @ 7:00 - 8:30 PM (Honors Residential College)
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The HRC, the Honors College, and Baylor’s Student Leadership Development will host Alan Noble, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English at Oklahoma Baptist University, for the second Formation Series lecture of the semester. The title of his talk is: "Belonging and Mental Health: How Belonging to Others Helps Us Get Out of Bed.”
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February 11, 2025 @ 3:30 - 5:00 PM (Memorial Drawing Room)
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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.
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February 11, 2025 @ 3:30 - 5:00 PM (Kayser Auditorium)
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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.
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| PERSONAL WELLBEING & ACTIVITIES |
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Whether you're new to fitness, or have some experience, there is something for everyone! Classes include BearCycle, F45, Hip Hop Cardio, Yoga Sculpt, Yoga Flow, Step Aerobics, Vinyasa Yoga, Connect Yoga, and Yogalates.
It is a single semester pass that gives members access to EVERY fitness class offered! To purchase, visit the Campus Recreation website here.
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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.
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