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ENVIRONMENTAL SEMESTER
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- A full semester of across-campuses, interdisciplinary special events to focus on the environment. Curricular innovations, research efforts, and community activities will per pursued from attention to local, regional, natiopnal, and global concerns. ESProjects
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CURRENT SCHEDULE of SPEAKERS and SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
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- Speakers invited by Colloquies and made available to the University community through special presentations
- Continuing discussions and forums
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UNIVERSITY STUDIES PUBLICATIONS in support of INTERDISCIPLINARITY
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- Essays and monographs that foster, advance, and exemplify interdisciplinary scholarship
- Faculty from diverse disciplines discovering and exploring common ground.
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Table of Interdisciplinary Resources
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- Bibliographies, internet sites, and relevant essays collated for your convenience by the University Studies Colloquy on Creativity
- Continuing dynamic collection of resources augmented by friends and colleagues of the Interdisciplinary List-Serve, begun at the 1999 AAHE Conference
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September 1999
PLAY and the BRAIN: Summit “Meeting of the Minds”http://dailybeacon.utk.edu/issues/v82/n26/play.26n.html
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- Sponsored by University Studies (Creativity Colloquy) and IPA/USA (American Association for the Child’s Right to Play)
- Roster includes distinguished researchers and clinicians united by an interest in play behavior, collaboratively exploring interdisciplinary connections and prospects for mutual enrichment through enlarging paradigms. [Play and the Brain website]
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1999 annual meeting:
American Association for Higher Education
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- Presentation and Workshop by Al Burstein and Neil Greenberg
- “Against the Grain: The Natural History of an interdisciplinary faculty development program
- History and overview of the University Studies Program on the occasion of its 25th anniversary emphasizing the utility of a center for sharing information with other schools on the role of interdisciplinarity in faculty development
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1996 -1998
Conferences on Values in Higher Education
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- Proceedings of the 1996, 1997, and 1998 Conferences on Values in Higher Education
- Documents include abstracts with links to full text and e-mail links to participants
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The Centaur of Volos
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- The art and artifacts of The Centaur Excavation at Volos now resides in the Jack Reese Galleria of the great Hodges Library of the University of Tennessee
- Links include the annual showcase of Centaurian Scholarship.
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The South Knoxville
Arts and Heritage Foundation
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- The South Knoxville Arts and Heritage Foundation is a community development initiative that began with a student project in a University Studies class in 1999.
- Its current function is to stage the annual VESTIVAL, a gathering of local artists, musicians, and the people of the South Knoxville Vestal Community in a celebration of their past, present, and potential. [more on Vestival]
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