CitySongs—13th Annual Winter Concert
CitySongs presents its 13th annual winter concert, "A Community of Peace," on Sunday, Dec. 12, at 4 p.m. in O'Shaughnessy Auditorium at the University of St. Thomas. CitySongs is an after-school music and development program for at-risk youth started by SSW professor Helen Kivnick. The program will include original songs written for CitySongs, traditional songs, holiday songs, and songs in different languages. The concert is free of charge and the public is invited. For more information contact Cathy Bouggy at 612-626-1241 or cbouggy@che.umn.edu.

Supervisory Cinema in McNeal Hall
CHE is hosting the video presentation, "The Vision of Teams" as part of U Human Resources Supervisory Cinema series. The program will be held on Wednesday, Dec. 7, from noon to 1:15 p.m. in 274 McNeal. Ann Bancroft shares the amazing journey of the first womens' team to ski across Antarctica to the South Pole. While the tasks of the American Womens Expedition were unique, its lessons show how individuals can learn to work together as effective, goal-oriented, and powerful teams. Supervisors and staff with responsibilities facilitating or chairing committees or leading project teams, are welcome to attend. Register

FSCN Dairy Food Gift Certificates
Purchase $5 and $10 gift certificates good for dairy food products from the Dairy Food Products Salesroom, 166 ABLMS, on Wednesdays from 3 to 5 p.m. Read more about the salesroom.

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In the media

• Bill Doherty, FSoS, is featured in the cover story of the winter issue of M. He discusses overscheduled families.
• Sharon Danes, FSoS, was on MPR and WCCO radio on Dec. 3 talking about her study finding that teens financial behavior improved after a short financial course.
• Jean Quam, social work, was on the Minnesota News Network (MNN radio) Dec. 1 and MPR on Dec. 3 discussing the new Bachelor of Social Work Child Welfare Consortium. Read the press release.
• Ann Warner Roberts in the Center for Restorative Justice and Peacemaking/School of Social Work is quoted in the December issue of Reader's Digest, page 143, in the feature article, "Getting Beyond the Crime, a growing movement brings victims and offender together--for healing, resolution and peace."
• Kathleen Campbell and the Goldstein are featured in December Minnesota magazine. The article chronicles some of the high points in the museums history.
• Ann Kranz, SSW, was quoted in a Nov. 30 Minnesota Daily story on the $450k grant the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse received for its Violence Against Women Online Resources. Read the story.
• Pauline Boss, FSoS, was on MPR Nov. 29 discussing how to handle family political disagreements during holiday get-togethers.
• Joanne Slavin, FScN, was on the KARE-11 News Extra on Nov. 19 commenting on the health benefits of soy. Read the story.
• Yukiko Nakajima, a graduate assistant at the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse in the School of Social Work, was quoted in a Nov. 18 Minnesota Daily story about Transgender Day of Remembrance. Read the story.
• Caren Martin, DHA, was interviewed for the Nov. 8 issue of Officeinsight as part of a feature on recent enhancements to the InformeDesign Web site.
• Betty Orchard, FScN, was quoted in the Nov. 19 Minnesota Daily on Carbohydrate Awareness Month and how to eat carbohydrates healthfully. Read the story
• Bill Doherty, FSoS, was quoted in the Nov. 11 Wall Street Journal in a story about how family dinners can improve kids health and grades.
• Ann Warner Roberts, SSW, was quoted in the Nov. 8 North Carolina News Observer in a story about one family that is using restorative justice to heal the emotional wounds of their sons hit-and-run death. Read the story
• Laura Abrams, SSW, was quoted in the Nov. 11 Minnesota Daily in a story about new research showing that adolescent girls who eat regular meals with their families are less likely to engage in extreme weight-control behaviors. Read the story

Faculty highlights

• Mark Umbreit, SSW, delivered the keynote address at the annual Peace and Justice Conference at Valparaiso University, entitled "Restorative Justice Dialogue in the United States and Abroad: A Path to Peacebuilding."
• Steven McCarthy, DHA, has had two digital art works juried into FILE 2004 -- the International Festival of Electronic Language in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The first, Con Verse Hay Shun, explores domestic strife, and the second, Identity Heft, plays with the idea of identity theft.
• The Advent Art of Timothy Trent Blade, a DHA professor who died in 1996, is featured in the "The Coming Dawn: The Art of Advent" at the Westminster Gallery, Westminster Presbyterian Church, in Minneapolis. The exhibition includes ink drawings and woodblock prints and the Christmas cards that were made from them, as well as many of his preliminary sketches and thumbnail drawings. The exhibition is curated by Rodney Allen Schwartz, director of the Westminster Gallery, and DHA Ph.D candidate and Goldstein curatorial specialist. Call 612-332-3421 for more information.

New CHE staff

• Paige Rohman is assistant to Cathy Solheim, associate dean for professional and community engagement (P&CE)
• Stephanie Pommier is the new major gifts officer in administration.
• Pat Hadley, accounts specialist in SSW
• Bonnie Allen, executive administrative specialist in DHA./li>
• Angie Benson is the acting executive administrative specialist for the Goldstein Gallery.

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