Author: Cody Bryant

3/23 at 7.00 pm in Bell Hall Auditorium, Centerstage is hosting author Gish Jen.

https://www.tntech.edu/centerstage

A true Renaissance woman, Jen explores our changing world in her nonfiction as well. In The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap, Jen offers a provocative and essential look at the different ideas Eastern and Western cultures have about self and society. Drawing on personal experience, a wealth of illuminating anecdotes, and insights from cultural psychology, Jen enriches our understanding of ourselves and our world. Writing in The Washington Post, novelist Lisa See observed “Gish Jen has once again taken the universal and made it personal, and vice versa.”

Nobody’s having more fun with American diversity than Gish Jen.

—The Boston Globe

Center Stage and the Commission on the Status of Women are very excited to present “Medical Misogyny: A Conversation with Maya Dusenbery” on Tuesday, March 29, 2022 at 7:00 PM in the Derryberry Auditorium. The author will discuss her award-winning book Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leaves Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick followed by a Q&A with the audience, reception, and book signing.

https://www.tntech.edu/centerstage

About the Author:

Maya Dusenbery is a journalist, editor, and author. Her book Doing Harm was a New York Times Editors’ Choice pick and the winner of the 2019 Minnesota Book Award for general nonfiction. She has been a guest on NPR, Good Morning America, and a variety of podcasts and radio programs to discuss her book, medical misogyny, and reproductive issues. Formerly the editorial director of the feminist blog Feministing.com, Maya has written for publications including the New York Times Magazine, Scientific American, Slate, Mother Jones, and Pacific Standard. She regularly speaks about gender bias in medicine to students, health care providers, patient advocates, and researchers.

Join the Center for Career Development on Thursday, Mar. 24, beginning at 11 a.m. in the Roaden University Center Multipurpose Room (2nd floor) for this Purple Career Readiness Workshop. Scott Christen, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Communication Studies, will be showing the best ways to effectively communicate your message through a successful presentation.

This event is open to all students in all majors and counts towards the Purple Career Readiness Certificate for junior and senior students. Bring your Eagle Card for a quick sign-in.

To attend virtually, access the TEAMS link in Handshake Events.  To receive credit for attending toward Career Readiness Certification, please review the updated rules and guidelines listed in the event information located at:

https://tntech.joinhandshake.com/events/954159/share_preview

Career Readiness Workshops are hosted by the Center for Career Development

career@tntech.edu

931-372-3232

Sunday is Tennessee Tech’s Charter Day!

On March 27, 1915, a group of local officials came together to establish an institution of higher education in Cookeville. From Dixie College to Tennessee Polytechnic Institute to Tennessee Tech University, the place we fondly call “Tech” has come a long way in 107 years.

March 27 celebrates the 10,500 students who currently attend Tech. It celebrates the 80,000 alumni who call Tech their alma mater. It celebrates the 1,100 faculty and staff who dedicate their careers to helping students. It celebrates all the ways in which the City of Cookeville embraces the university. And it celebrates Tennessee Tech, a place that has changed so many lives.

Thank you, Tennessee Tech. Happy Charter Day.