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At this week's meeting, the Alphabet Center is holding nominations for officers, including President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Public Relations Officer. Those who are interested in a leadership role can tell the group why they'd be a good officer for a specific position. Elections will be held on February 6.

Event Date: January 308:00 p.m.  Location: Roark 10  Cost: Free

Sponsor: The Alphabet Center


Next up at EKU Chautauqua: African historian Toyin Falola of the University of Texas at Austin gives the annual Black History Month Keynote Address on the topic, "Sustainable Development: African Perspectives." Thurs. Feb. 13, 7:30 PM. Free and open to the public. Full details at www.chautauqua.eku.edu. Dr. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair Professor in the Humanities and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin and a Fellow of the Historical Society of Nigerian Academy of Letters. He has received various awards and honors for teaching and scholarship, and he is the author of numerous books, including Key Events in African History: A Reference Guide and Nationalism and African Intellectuals, as well as dozens of edited collections, including Tradition and Change in Africa and African Writers and Readers.

Event Date: February 137:30 PM  Location: O'Donnell Hall  Cost: Free

Sponsor: Chautauqua Lecture Series
Contact Information: Erik Liddell, 622-2267
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Have you ever wanted to gain leadership experience or support the rights of the LGBTQIA+ community? Now you can by nominating yourself to become an officer of the Alphabet Center! The available positions are Public Resources, Vice President, and President. The roles will be explained before the nominations begin!

Event Date: January 308:00PM-10:00PM  Location: Roark 10  Cost: Free

Sponsor: The Alphabet Center
Contact Information: Michael Dukes


Join the EKU women’s and men’s basketball teams Thursday night (TONIGHT!!) at Alumni Coliseum! The women’s basketball team tips at 5 pm for its annual Pink Out game. Free t-shirts will be available while supplies last, and the Madison County Breast Cancer Outreach program will be honored at halftime.
The men’s team tips at 7:30 pm, with a commemorative event honoring EKU fan and ball boy, Jared Chitwood, starting at 6:30 pm in the Auxiliary Gym. Free pizza and t-shirts honoring Chitwood will be available while supplies last. Thursday is also EKU RSO Night, with the highest attended student organization receiving a prize from EKU Athletics. Go Colonels!

Event Date: January 305pm and 7:30pm   Location: Alumni Coliseum   Cost: Free for students

Sponsor: EKU Athletics
Contact Information: Rachel Slone, (859) 622-2039
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Spend part of your summer in Italy by studying "Gender and Class in Southern Italy" with Dr. Lisa Day in Salerno, Rome, Naples, Pompeii, the Amalfi Coast, and other areas of Italy, June 25-July 25, 2020. Housing is provided with your program fee, and you'll be living and learning with other EKU students. You'll also take a beginners' course in Italian language for a total of 6 credit hours that also fulfill Gen Ed Element 6. Scholarships are available. For more information, contact Dr. Day!

Event Date: June 25  Location: Southern Italy  Cost: Scholarships Available!

Sponsor: EKU Education Abroad
Contact Information: Dr. Lisa Day, 622-7235
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Are you an out-of-state student that can rarely go home on weekends or breaks? Looking for a community of similar students for support an encouragement? We are currently in the process of creating a registered student organization (RS0) to serve as a home for food, fun, and friends for out-of-state students. For more information on how to help, contact Ashlyn Briscoe (ashlyn_briscoe1@mymail.eku.edu)!



Sponsor: Student Life & First-Year Experience
Contact Information: Ashlyn Briscoe


It is the mission of Dance Maroon: Dance Marathon at Eastern Kentucky University to create a multi-faceted program that raises money to enhances the lives of children treated at Cincinnati Children's Hospital (CCH), including patients throughout the Bluegrass. Furthermore, Dance Maroon strives to establish a continued campus tradition, invoke appreciation and involvement, and ultimately create something greater than oneself. Our goal is to open team registrations in Fall 2020, and host our first marathon in Spring of 2021. If this sounds interesting to you, please take a moment to complete this general interest survey! https://forms.gle/UTiWuH1mARxMg5V78



Sponsor: Dance Maroon Committee
Contact Information: Les Mackey, 2709034725
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The Department of Mathematics & Statistics will hold its first Coffee Time talk of the semester with Dr. Atilla Sit, who will present "Singular Value Decomposition." Singular value decomposition (SVD) is one of the most useful methods in linear algebra with many applications in science, engineering, and statistics. It is defined for all matrices—rectangular or square—unlike the more commonly used spectral decomposition in linear algebra. It generalizes the eigendecomposition of a square matrix to any m × n matrix by factorizing it into the product of three matrices, where the one in the middle is a diagonal matrix containing the singular values. We introduce the SVD method and show examples of calculating the SVD by hand or a computer. We also demonstrate applications of SVD to image compression, linear regression, and molecular distance geometry. Coffee and cookies will be provided.

Event Date: January 312:30 p.m.  Location: Wallace 344  Cost: Free

Sponsor: Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Contact Information: Lisa Kay, 622-1621
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TODAY at 5pm, Artfully Yours will be leading a 1 hour canvas painting class with a winter themed design! Hot cocoa, snacks, and lots of fun will also be provided. Don't miss out! Spots are limited to the first 100 students so be sure and show up before our 5pm start!

Event Date: January 305pm  Location: Keen Johnson Ballroom  Cost: Free

Sponsor: Student Life & First-Year Experience, Artfully Yours
Contact Information: Andrew Pendleton, 8596223855
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