Dec
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Free English Communications Workshop in January
December 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment
The highly effective English communications workshop will be back in January. This is a very good opportunity to pick up your ’soft’ skill.
Dr. Chrstine Paul of the UHCL foreign language institute will host another English communications workshop in January (6th, 7th, 8th, 13th, 14th, 15th : Tuesday to Thursday) at UHCL Bayou Building 1235, 1:30-3:30PM for a total of 12 hours total.
The workshop is free to UHCL students. It has been well received by the participants in the past. Most workshop activities are games and role playing that encourage communications. You can read about past offerings here and here. Past participants can attend the workshop again.
The workshop should especially be interesting to international students who want to learn more about the American culture.
Information and registration and be obtained from UHCL Bayou Room 1618. You may also call 281-283-3033, email paul@uhcl.edu, or go to http://www.uhcl.edu/fl. Seats are limited to 20 in a first come first served basis.
The workshop is sponsored by the UHCL NSF Scholar program.
Sep
5
UHCL Career Week 9/9-11/2008
September 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment
The UHCL Career Week is a very useful event to help you find jobs after your graduation.
I include some information for you. To register: contact Career Services: SSCB 3109, 281.283.2590 or visit us online at http://www.uhcl.edu/jobfairs
Good luck job hunting.
Career Week
SEPTEMBER 9-11, 2008
All sessions in SSCB 3303
Tuesday, September 9, 5:30-6:30 PM
How to Work a Job Fair
George Akra, Corporate Recruiter, Reynolds and Reynolds
Wednesday, September 10, 5:30-6:30 PM
Resume Writing
Matt Hartleib, Recruiter, Reliant Energy
Thursday, September 11, 5:00-6:00 PM
Winning Interviews
Julie Johnston, City Administrator, City
Jul
17
Free Communications Workshop back in August
July 17, 2008 | 1 Comment
Dr. Chrstine Paul of the UHCL foreign language institute will host another English communications workshop in August (12th, 13th, 19th and 20th: Tuesdays and Wednesday) at UHCL Bayou Building 1235, 1:30-4:30PM for a total of 12 hours total.
The workshop is free to UHCL students. It has been well received by the participants in the past. Most workshop activities are games and role playing that encourage communications. You can read about past offerings here and here. Past participants can attend the workshop again.
The workshop should especially be interesting to international students who want to learn more about the American culture.
Information and registration and be obtained from UHCL Bayou Room 1618. You may also call 281-283-3033, email paul@uhcl.edu, or go to http://www.uhcl.edu/fl. Seats are limited to 20 in a first come first served basis.
The workshop is sponsored by the UHCL NSF Scholar program.
Jul
1
More on NSF STEM Scholarship
July 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment
We have blogged on UHCL NSF STEM Scholarship. There are still time to apply. Several scholars have graduated and so we have additional scholarship awards to give out. This is a prestigious award with a strong support infrastructure to help scholars to be successful in their future academic and work career. Consider asking your friends to apply. Better yet, apply yourself if you are eligible.
May
14
Star Summit
May 14, 2008 | 1 Comment
The first Star Summit was held successfully yesterday (5/14/2008) in the garden room of UHCL. Star (Success Through Academic Recognition) is the brainchild of Ms. Krishani Abeysekera, lecturer and systems administration in our CS/CIS programs:
We have partnered with colleagues in the San Jacinto Community College in the STAR program. Their professors nominated students with high potential to be successful in computing areas so they can apply to become a STAR scholar. Scholars enjoy many benefits, such as award and recognition, scholarship, dedicated faculty adviseing, industrial mentoring, peer mentoring, etc.
The Star Summit was the first one for the gatherings of future Star scholars for awards and introduction to the UHCL programs and environment. 14 future scholars and their families attended the ceremony and seminar.
Several professors from San Jacinto Community College have nominated Star scholars. Professors Pamela Betts and Robert Tehnoryk of San Jacinto South attended the summit.
Krishani started the summit by congratulating and welcoming the scholars.
I followed with an introduction to the Star program.
This was followed by Dr. Sadegh Davari, the interim dean of the school. He talked about the benefits of studying in our school. Dr. Anthony Jenkins, the dean of students, then detailed the rich student services provided by UHCL to enhance student success.
Dr. Billy Satterfield, the assistant director of financial aid, discussed various financial options at UHCL.
Dr. Sharon Hall, chair of the Computer Science program, gave an overview of the CS and CIS programs at UHCL.
Ms. Barbara Coleman, our academic adviser, then discussed our curricula and advising.
Afterward, Dr. Davari presented an award and a flash drive to each nominee. The 12 students receiving the award are Rebecca Havard, Bryan Ellis, Ian Fleming, Amelia Hahn, Zhiyi Chen, Hesamttehadieh,Thientam Nguyen, Thomas Boatman, Matt Hall, John-Michael Hawley, Alex Craig and Oscar Pena. They have a chance to becoming inaugurating Star scholars.
Among our faculty, Drs. Hisham Al-Mubaid, Dan Kim and Morris Liaw attended the summit and chatted with the Star scholars. Ms. Kim Edwards, our suite secretary, helped out during the entire summit. She also served as the photographer, taken photos like the one below.
