You are all invited to come to the last Telos Project session of the year – this time it will be a four-person panel made up of:
Dr. Jill Manske, Biology
Dr. Marty Johnston, Physics
Dr. Carol Bruess, COJO
and Dr. Christopher Michaelson, Business Law
Each of these professors has been a featured speaker during the year-long series – come back for a final visit. We will be in Room 309 of the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library – come to the third floor and follow the signs – see you soon!
Have you ever returned a library book so late that you got fined for having it so long?
It’s okay. We know you really needed it to write that awesome-possum paper on <insert your favorite major here>. That’s why you’re here … to dig into it more, right?!?
Now you can pay down those fines* with currency in your pantry and not currency in your pocket (Yeah, we know it’s mostly lint. Thanks for not sharing.)
Math has never been so beautiful
Please join the Department of Mathematics and the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library at the University of St. Thomas for a special mathematical art exhibit.
“Seeing Symmetry” (Exhibit Dates: March 18 through mid-April, 2013)
Exhibit Opening and Public Lecture, Monday, March 18, 2013 -
4:00 p.m.—Exhibit Opening and Reception – free and open to all
O’Shaughnessy Frey Library, Room 108 (the O’Shaughnessy Room)
7:00 p.m.—Lecture by the Artist – free and open to all
3M Auditorium, OWS 150
Light refreshments will be served after the lecture.
About the exhibit:
The word symmetry may evoke bilateral symmetry, as in an idealized human face or the two wings of a butterfly.
For mathematicians, the concept is richer, ranging from the patterns of wallpaper to the symmetries of a molecule or crystal.
Indeed, the concept of symmetry is central to students’ first experiences in the field of abstract algebra, where symmetry is used to illustrate the idea of a group. For mathematicians, group is a technical notion that may be best approached through examples, like the ones offered here.
The images in this exhibition offer a way to learn more about symmetry and the group concept. Of course, some visitors will prefer simply to look and enjoy a workout of the visual cortex.
About the artists:
Frank A. Farris is a 2012 visiting professor at the University of Minnesota. He is an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Santa Clara University. He edited Mathematics Magazine from 2001 through 2005, and again in 2009. He remains active in the Mathematical Association of America and is currently chair of the organization’s Council on Publications and Communications. In 2011, Farris was a visiting professor at Carleton College where this exhibit originated.
Hoping to start your St. Patrick’s Day celebrations a bit early? Join the Department of Special Collections and Center for Irish Studies for their annual St. Patrick’s Day Open House. It will be held on Friday, March 15 from 11:30 am – 1:30 pm in the Special Collections Reading Room (OSF Library LL09). For your enjoyment, brief program featuring a selection of Irish poetry will be presented at 12:15 pm. There will also be a display of rare and unique items from the library’s Celtic Collection. Light refreshments (alas no green beer!) will be served.
We invite all of you to two events highlighting the feast of St. Patrick’s Day – they’re both in the library and they are both waiting for you!
1. On Monday, March 11, 2013 (Noon - 1pm) in the O’Shaughnessy Room it’s a book launch of Extended Family: essays on Being Irish American from New Hibernia Review. Your speakers will be editor Jim Rogers and one of the contributors, Brian Nerney. A book signing immediately follows the program and refreshments will be provided. Read more information here.
2, Friday, March 15, 2013 (11:30 am to 1:30 pm) Come for the Annual St. Patrick’s Day Open House in the Special Collections Department of the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library. The program begins at 12:15 pm. Please contact archivist and head of special collections, Ann Kenne, if you have any questions – 962-5461.
Introducing: noonartsound
The O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library and UST faculty members Shelly Nordtorp-Madson (art history) and Chris Kachian (music) invite you to a series of noontime talks on a variety of periods in art, sculpture, painting, costume history along with guitar music of the corresponding time periods. Shelley and Chris have been performing full-length concerts together for 10 years.
The Library is happy to announce this new series and extends an invitation to all. Shelley and Chris share a unique style, humor, academic breadth of knowledge, along with beautiful yet “unstuffy” presentations of their art. Bring your lunch, light refreshments will be provided.
The noonartsound schedule:
i Tuesday, March 5 “parlor 1590-1890” Noon to 1pm
features the design and art and music of what we call the living room - Shelley will give a presentation about art of the period; Chris will play music of the times with compositions from Dowland, Corbetta, Devisee, Vivaldi, Wiener, and Tarrega.
O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library, O’Shaughnessy Room, 108
ii Tuesday, April 2 “queens prefer…” Noon to 1pm
highlights the sights and sounds of England in the late 16th Century
O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library
iii Tuesday, May 7 “invierno” Noon to 1pm
spotlights the look, feel and touch of the Latin American world
O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library
iv Tuesday, October 1 – “…don’t mean a thing…” Noon to 1pm
brings you the art and music of the Jazz Era
O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library
About the Artists:
Christopher Kachian, guitarist, and professor of Music at the University of St. Thomas, has performed throughout Europe, the Americas, South and Central America and the Far East, as recitalist, chamber musician and concerto soloist. His American performances have included a significant number of works written in the last twenty-five years, many of them commissions. These include over thirty works for guitar including 20 concerti. He has written Composer’s Desk Reference for the Classic Guitar in consultation with over 25 composers, published by Mel Bay Publications. He has been heard on Minnesota Public Radio, National Public Radio and American Public Media (including several appearances on A Prairie Home Companion).
Notable premiere recordings include Conrad Susa’s Carols and Lullabies (RCA 1995), David Baker’s Images, Shadows and Dreams (Collins Classics 1996 and Clarion as Dance Like the Wind, Music of Today’s Black Composers), Woodwind Music (Innova 1997), phoenix ensemble#1 (Valve-Hearts [Germany] 1998), Falls Flyer (10,000 Lakes 2002), Cyprus, First Impressions (Innova 2006), The J.S. Bach Sonatas for Gamba and Harpsichord for Guitar and Harpsichord by Chris Kachian and David Jenkins (2007), A Night in Vienna, (10, 000 Lakes 2011). With the Arpeggione Duo he has recorded Wanderer Sonata and Folklore (Ars Nova [Stockholm] 2006, 2009). Numerous other recordings of music ranging from blues to Christmas music are in his discography.
Since 1984, Dr. Kachian has directed one of the largest guitar programs in the USA at the University of St Thomas. He has lectured in music of Europe, the Americas, the Twentieth-Century, the World, the United States, Film, Protest, Mathematics, and Guitar Pedagogy and Guitar Literature. He is the founder of the UST Music Business, Recording Arts, and the Popular Music degrees. 2001 – 2005, he served as Director of Guitar Studies for MMTA for whom he lead – authored and edited the nation’s first comprehensive, multi-genre guitar pedagogy syllabus. In 2011, he wrote the film score for Per Bianca, which won Best Film at the Minnesota 48-Hour Film Festival and won a screening at the Cannes Film Festival.
Recent notable USA premiere performances are Astor Piazzolla’s Double Concerto and Franz Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata. The ongoing series of Baroque concerts, with keyboardist, David Jenkins, with the Society for the Doctrinal Affectation of Baroque Music, an early music ensemble and the Arpeggione Duo, a Stockholm-based cello and guitar duo specializing in new folk music, round out his concert career.
To round out his biography, in 2012 Dr. Kachian received national recognition by the Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity as a National Arts Associate and Distinguished Member.
Shelly Nordtorp-Madson is the chief curator and clinical faculty in the Department of Art History.
She holds an MA in Medieval Art History, a PhD in Design History, and a technical diploma in dress design and draping. At UST she designs and mounts exhibits in OEC and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in medieval art and dress history.
After spending four years on a nine-month language immersion program in Denmark, she moved to Minnesota, where she wandered around accumulating degrees and returning to Scandinavia whenever possible. Having worked at UST in a possibly record-setting number of positions, she now, as well as curatorial work and teaching, presents papers annually on medieval dress and her most recent obsession: shape-shifting in the medieval period, particularly relating to otters.
We invite you to join us!
Thursday, March 14, Dr. Jill Manske of the Biology Department will be presenting in the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library, Room 309, over Convo hour, from 12-1pm.
Dr. Manske received her Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota.
Professional Interests:
Her broad research interest centers on the intersection between immunology, infectious disease, and community health. Currently, Dr. Manske is collaborating with the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) on projects related to influenza, influenza vaccine and science policy.
In addition, she has an ongoing (three year) project performing surveillance of Borrelia burgdorfei, the Lyme disease agent, in small mammals at Macalester College’s Katherine Ordway Natural History Study. This project involves a field component (animal trapping) followed by PCR analysis of tissue samples for presence of the specific disease-causing agent.
Please note the room change from our typical location. We will be meeting in Room 309 instead of the O’Shaughnessy Room, Rm 108.
All students are invited to participate in discussion this Thursday, and every Thursday, at noon, in the library, Rm 108. For more information and weekly updates, visit The Telos Project Facebook group, follow us on Twitter, email TheTelosProjectUST@gmail.com, or visit our website:
We at UST Libraries are excited to welcome our President-Elect and share with her our tradition as ”the intellectual and technological crossroads of information resources, teaching, and learning at UST.”
To get started, here are some highlights we hope Dr. Sullivan will find helpful and interesting as she transitions into her new position (and that we thought you library-lovers out there might like to check out, too!):
Our Newly-Designed Website and Online Resources
Providing easy-to-use mini research portals to through our Google-like Summon search engine, catalog, research Subject Guides, and more. Read more about it here.
Great Scholarship
UST Research Online, our online reseach repository, is a wonderful place to familiarize yourself with the work being done by faculty and students
Virtual Tours and Histories of St Thomas
University Archives Photograph Collection contains a fascinating array of images related to the school’s history
Historic Walking Tour of the Saint Paul campus is a great way to get oriented with the history of the campus – can you find the pictures of Lake Mennith?
Written Histories of St. Thomas and the Saint Paul Seminary:
There have been many books written about UST. Here are two of the most popular: More can be found in the University Archives.
*For more information about our President-Elect, Dr Julie Sullivan, please visit the St Thomas Newsroom.
Tired of the Same Old Relationships?
Need Something New and Exciting?
How about a blind date with a book?
It’s that time of year when many of us are looking to add a bit of adventure and fun to our lives. As Valentine’s Day approaches, a bit of romance would be fun, too, wouldn’t it?
Well have no fear – UST Libraries have you covered! If you haven’t stopped by yet, come by the OSF Library to have a blind date with a “Mystery Book” we’ve wrapped up just for you! Take it home, unwrap it, read it, and enjoy! If you don’t like the book, simply return it to the library – its feelings won’t be hurt.
Sure you might be disappointed; but then again … you may end up having a great read with something you wouldn’t have chosen for yourself.
It’s exciting. It’s fun.
And who knows? It could be romantic! (or fascinating, or about zombies, or a mystery, or….!)
Join the conversation over the noon hour, Thursday, February 14 in the O’Shaughnessy Room of the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library.
This week, all are invited to hear from Dr. Amy Muse of the English Department. She will answer your questions and tell you why she loves her work in the English Department.
Refreshments will be provided.
If you have questions, please visit the Telos Project site for more details.
