Etiquette lessons
Graduate students sometimes need more than book knowledge and a degree to get a good job. Now they're getting tips on networking at receptions and conferences and learning how to overcome anxieties related to meeting new people and making first impressions. Graduate Career Services (GCS) recently organized a workshop designed to help graduate students avoid social embarrassment, and invited Deborah Cucinotta, head of the consulting firm Global Etiquette, to speak to students embarking on the job market. "Keep your right hand free, clean, and dry at all times, so you can shake hands," advised Cucinotta, whose usual clients are businessmen and women being groomed for upper-level positions. The workshop featured a cocktail hour (minus the alcohol, but with plenty of food and soda), and a chance for students to practice introducing themselves and mingling with strangers. "As graduate students, we are constantly attending colloquia, going to conferences, and meeting speakers. We have only a few minutes of their time and we want to maximize this," said GCS fellow Amelia Aldo (psychology), who coordinated the event with Victoria Blodgett, director of GCS.
American studies scholar wins writing prize
Carlo Rotella ’94PhD (American studies) has been chosen as a recipient of the Whiting Writers' Award for his outstanding work in nonfiction. A professor of English and director of American studies at Boston College, Rotella has published three books of nonfiction:October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature (1998), Good with their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen and other Characters from the Rust Belt (2002), and Cut Time: An Education at the Fights (2003), which won the L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He has published many essays and magazine pieces, including the title chapter from Cut Time, which was selected for inclusion in Best American Essays 2001 and chosen by the American Scholar as "Best Essay" and "Best Work by a Younger Writer" in 2000. The Whiting Writers' Award, which carries a $50,000 prize, is awarded annually by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation to emerging writers of exceptional talent and promise.
Music professor discusses Industrial Revolution
The music of the nineteenth century and its influence on the Industrial Revolution is the topic of the third installment in the dean's lecture series, In the Company of Scholars. Leon Plantinga, the Henry L. & Lucy G. Moses Professor Emeritus of Music, will present his talk, "Music and the Industrial Revolution," on February 26 in the Hall of Graduate Studies Common Room. The year-long lecture series comprises four talks, each given by an outstanding faculty member who explains his or her research to a general audience.
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