Auburn monitoring swine influenza situation
Monday, April 27th, 2009
Auburn University is aware of the current situation involving several human cases of swine influenza in the U.S., and has an initial response plan in place. The Auburn University Medical Clinic has been participating in routine influenza monitoring for several years, and reports weekly to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH). No cases of influenza (seasonal or other) have been confirmed at Auburn University since March 27, 2009. Auburn University will continue to operate as normal as we monitor this situation closely. If you think you have contracted the flu, please schedule an appointment with the AU Medical Clinic (844-4416) right away. This will help the university monitor the situation locally, identify potential cases quickly, and ensure that you get prompt treatment. Given the developing situation, the Auburn University Department of Public Safety and Security would also like to emphasize the importance of basic, everyday actions you should take to minimize your likelihood of contracting the flu or other viruses. Remember to practice the following basic infection control measures:
- Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash immediately after use. If you don't have a tissue, then cough or sneeze into your upper sleeve;
- Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 15-20 seconds, especially after you cough or sneeze. Alcohol-based hand cleaners are also effective;
- Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread that way;
- Clean and sterilize contaminated surfaces; and
- Try to avoid close contact with sick people. Influenza is thought to spread mainly through coughing or sneezing of infected people.
We recommend checking the CDC Web site at http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/investigation.htm daily for up-to-date information on this rapidly evolving situation. For additional information on infection control and flu preparedness, visit the ADPH Web site at http://www.adph.org/.
Do you love Auburn football? Are you interested in networking? Come join the Executive Suite Ambassadors for Tigers Unlimited at our informational meeting tomorrow, April 28, at 7 p.m. in the Athletic Complex Auditorium on North Donahue Drive (across from Sewell Hall). Qualifying students should be hardworking, enthusiastic and responsible. For more information, contact Jessica Turner at 
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will have its 24th annual Kosolapoff Award Lecture tomorrow, April 28, at 8 p.m. in the Science Center Auditorium. The lecture will be presented by Koji Nakanishi from Columbia University and is titled "Science Research in US/Japan: Physiologically Active Compounds from Nature.” An additional lecture, "Bio-organic Studies on Vision," will be presented at 4 p.m. in room 134 of the Chemistry Building. The lecture series was started to honor Gannady M. Kosolapoff, an early member of the Chemistry Department at Auburn.
UPC's songwriting contest will be held Thursday, April 28, at 7 p.m. in 2222/2223 Student Center. Come hear your fellow classmates compete to win prizes. UPC presents Ben Harper and the Relentless Seven with opener Citizen Cope on the last day of classes, Wednesday, April 29. The concert will be held at Beard-Eaves Memorial Coliseum and doors will open at 6:30 p.m. with the show beginning at 7 p.m. Come get your tickets now between the Student Center and Haley Center from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Tickets are available until the day of the show. For more information about either event, visit 
End of term grades for Spring 2009 will be available online in Tiger i beginning Wednesday, April 29. Please keep in mind that once a faculty member submits the grades from a course, those grades must be "rolled" to your academic history before they can be viewed in Tiger i. Normally grades are rolled twice daily, at 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. A complete schedule of when grades roll and when GPAs are recalculated as a result is available in your Targeted Announcements channel in AU Access. For additional information, contact the Registrar's Office at 
Can't choose between classes and traveling this summer? Study online with distance learning. The Auburn University Distance Learning & Outreach Technology Office manages Auburn faculty college-level independent learning courses for credit. With the Independent Learning Program, you may enroll via Banner, study at your own pace—on the beach, in flight, at home or any other location—and the grade figures into your GPA. The following course offerings are currently available: CMDS 2503 Communication Disorders in Society (2 credit hours) with James Fitch; COMP 1003 Personal Computer Applications (2 credit hours) with Daniela Marghitu; ENTM 2043 Insects: An Introduction to Entomology (3 credit hours) with Wayne Brewer; KINE 1103 Wellness (2 credit hours) with Robert Stauffer; RTVF 2353 Introduction to Film Study (3 credit hours) with Jennifer Johnson; and RTVF 4383 History of Film Studies (3 credit hours) with Jennifer Johnson. For more information, visit 
The Graduate School announces that Kim Walls has been named the Distinguished Graduate Faculty Lecturer for 2008-09. Selected by a panel of previous winners of the award, Walls is professor and program coordinator of music education in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching. Her research specialty is applications of technology in music learning. Walls designed and leads Auburn’s innovative graduate distance learning program for practicing music education professionals. Walls has chaired the committees of 71 music graduate students and served as graduate program officer for the Department of Curriculum and Teaching (one of Auburn’s largest graduate programs) from 2004-08. Walls’ expertise in music technology and music teacher education has been recognized by election to the offices of vice president of the Association of Technology in Music Instruction; chair of the Music Educators National Conference Music Teacher Education Special Research Interest Group; President of Alabama Music Educators Association Higher Education Division; appointment to the National Advisory Board of Technology Institute for Music Educators; and selection as recipient of the College of Education Emily and Gerald Leischuck Outstanding Graduate Faculty Teaching Award. Walls, the 35th recipient of this award, will give the Distinguished Graduate Faculty Lecture in fall 2009 and will be honored with a reception following the lecture.
After a national search, Auburn University President Jay Gogue has announced that Ainsley Carry has been named Vice President for Student Affairs. Carry comes to Auburn from Temple University, where he served as associate vice president for student affairs and dean of students. Carry, who will begin his new position June 15, has an extensive background in student affairs and is a strong advocate for student leadership and personal development. As Auburn's Vice President for Student Affairs, Carry will be responsible for the formulation, development, management and delivery of services and programs to enhance the academic, physical and social welfare for the entire university student population. He will oversee the office of the dean of students, student government, student publications and media, career development services, campus recreation and sports, student organizations, Greek life, international student life, judicial affairs, student residence life, student orientation and retention, the parents’ association, student community services, the student recreation center, the university student center, the university medical clinic and the student leadership institute. For more information, view the news release at 
Because of the excitement surrounding the opening of the new Village housing this fall, parents and students are asking whether all of the buildings will be ready for occupancy. Auburn University Housing and Residence Life anticipates having six of the eight buildings ready for occupancy when check-ins begin for fall. Housing officials are hopeful that the remaining two buildings will be ready for occupancy as well, but should there be a delay, temporary accommodations will be provided for the students who will be living in those two buildings. Any delay should last no more than a month, and assistance will be provided when these students make the move from their temporary accommodations to their assigned residence hall. More specific information will be communicated to the students assigned to these two buildings when they receive their housing assignment packets in early June.
Do you like to laugh? The University Program Council presents comedians Tim and Eric from Adult Swim with special guest Dan Mintz tonight in the Student Activities Center. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the show starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are still available on the Haley concourse from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. beside the Coca-Cola truck. UPC is also presenting a songwriting contest Thursday, April 28, at 7 p.m. in Student Center 2222/2223. Applications are available now and are due Wednesday, April 22, by 4 p.m. to Student Center 3130. Participants will be competing for cash prizes: 1st place $150, 2nd place $100, and 3rd place $50.
Jeremy Samolesky, assistant professor of piano, will present a solo piano recital tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Goodwin Recital Hall. The program will feature the music of Chopin and Prokofiev, including Prokofiev's monumental and barbaric 6th Sonata of 1943, composed in Russia at the height of World War II. The event is free and open to the public.
Kathryn Floyd will present the lecture "Photographs of Art Exhibitions” Tuesday, April 21, at 2:30 p.m. in the museum auditorium. Floyd is an assistant professor of art history at Auburn University specializing in modern and contemporary art in Europe, the United States and Africa. She has a particular interest in the history of art exhibitions and museums. Her dissertation, "Between Change and Continuity: Documenta 1955-2005," chronicles the history of the German periodic exhibition "Documenta." She received her Ph.D. in 2006 from the University of Iowa. This lecture is in conjunction with the Auburn University Faculty Exhibition, which will be on display in the museum’s Bill L. Harbert Gallery and Gallery C until May 30. For more information, visit 
The Auburn Department of Art announces The B.F.A. in Fine Arts Candidates Senior Project Exhibition to be held at Biggin Gallery, 101 Biggin Hall. The exhibition opens April 21 and runs through May 1. The public is invited to attend the opening reception Tuesday, April 21, from 4-6 p.m. at Biggin Gallery. The exhibition features printmaking and painting by seven B.F.A. in Fine Art candidates: Michael Acuff, Katie Stroecker, Allison Cleveland, Leah Thornton, J. Morgan, Geoffrey Topping and Sara Woodard. Biggin Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., or by appointment (844-3483). Biggin Gallery is wheelchair accessible, free of admission and open to the public. For more information, contact Barb Bondy, exhibitions and lectures coordinator, Department of Art, at 844-3483 or 
The Auburn University Bookstore's second poetry reading is scheduled for Wednesday, April 22. We're inviting those who write poems to come between 11:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. and share some of their works and those who simply love and enjoy poetry to come and listen. Faculty or students who would like to read should contact Margaret Hendricks at 
Physics professor Michael J. Bozack will be signing copies of his recently released book, "Street-Smart Advice to Christian College Students," Wednesday, April 22, from 2-4 p.m. at the Jan Dempsey Community Arts Center, 222 E. Drake Rd, Auburn. The event is sponsored by J & M Bookstore. The book seeks to help Christian students navigate the difficult transition from high school to college by offering proven, effective strategies to ensure academic, social and spiritual success in college. It is currently available through most online booksellers such as Barnes and Noble, Amazon and Borders, and locally at the Auburn University Bookstore, J & M Bookstore and Gnu's Room.
The Department of Art announces a public lecture by Jeannine A. O'Grody, chief curator and curator of European art at the Birmingham Museum of Art (BMA), Wednesday, April 22, at 4 p.m. in 005 Biggin Hall. O'Grody's talk, "Leonardo da Vinci: The Evolution of an Exhibition at the Birmingham Museum of Art," will relate how the BMA came to organize last fall’s exhibition titled "Leonardo da Vinci: Drawings from the Biblioteca Reale in Turin," which featured 11 drawings and one codex that had never been allowed to leave Italy as a group. O'Grody will offer curatorial perspectives on the many issues that arose when borrowing drawings by the most famous draftsman in the history of art. O'Grody received her doctorate from Case Western Reserve University and prior to arriving at the BMA in 2000, she worked at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Cleveland Museum of Art and was a National Endowment for the Arts Curatorial Fellow at the Harvard Art Museum's Fogg Museum. Her area of expertise is Italian Renaissance art and her research interests include old master drawings, prints, the creative process, patronage and 15th through 18th century European sculpture. O'Grody has lectured widely in the field of Renaissance and Baroque Art, including the popular lecture "The Art of Leonardo: The Da Vinci Code Deciphered," which has been presented at numerous museums throughout the country. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Joyce de Vries at 
The Auburn Asian Association and the International Student Organization will be co-hosting Iris Leu Friday, April 24, from 4-6 p.m. at the Student Center Starbucks. Come join us for social hour, light refreshments, coffee and the relaxing music of Iris Leu of Dallas, TX. Leu has released two studio albums: “Permanent Transient” and “Hushaboo” and has performed around the country. For more information, e-mail 
Tiger Dining will have special hours of operation this weekend to coincide with the construction on campus. The Student Center will close at 2:30 p.m. on Friday, April 24, and will re-open with normal hours on Monday, April 27. For your convenience, Terrell Dining Hall on The Hill will be open Saturday, April 25, and Sunday, April 26, from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Lupton Deli will be open Friday, April 24, from 10 a.m.-7:30 p.m.; Saturday, April 25, from 11:30 a.m.-6 p.m.; and Sunday, April 26, from 11:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Terrell Hall and Lupton Deli will resume normal hours of operation Monday, April 27.
A free, half-day workshop where gardeners can learn the how-tos of growing vegetables the organic way is set for Saturday, May 2, from 9 a.m.-noon at a farm south of Auburn in Macon County. The workshop is sponsored by the Auburn University Organic Production Research program and will be led by Jan Garrett, a Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology doctoral fellow who works with Auburn's organic research program. In the workshop, Garrett will cover how to make compost, enrich the soil, prepare beds for planting and control weeds. She also will offer advice on the best ways to set out plants and plant seeds, how to trellis plants and how to build an inexpensive greenhouse. The workshop is open to all interested, but participants are asked to register on or before April 25. To register, contact Garrett at 
The inaugural European University Hunger Summit will be held in Rome, Italy, April 23-24. Conference sponsors are Universities Fighting World Hunger (UFWH), the American Association of College and University Programs in Italy (AACUPI), the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and Sodexo, one of the leading international food and facilities management services companies with operations in over 80 countries. The theme for the two-day event is “Universities Fighting World Hunger: New Directions for Students around the Globe.” Summit highlights include a visit to WFP headquarters and a debriefing by WFP staff on Thursday afternoon. Jay Gogue, Auburn University president, and June Henton, dean, Auburn University College of Human Sciences, will be participants in the opening session. In attendance will be students, faculty and administrators from AACUPI-affiliated universities including representatives from Joseph S. Bruno Auburn Abroad in Italy and the Auburn School of Architecture Study Abroad program. In addition, several universities across Europe and beyond will participate. Partnered with the World Food Programme, Universities Fighting World Hunger is an alliance of more than 80 higher education institutions around the globe committed to implementing short-term grassroots approaches and long-term solutions academic solutions to ending hunger. The inaugural European hunger summit is being held in conjunction with the 30th anniversary celebration of AACUPI. For more information, visit 
The Office of Information Technology (OIT) urges students and faculty to use caution in responding to unsolicited e-mail. Offers of employment, credit cards, travel or vacation deals and the like may be suspect. If you didn't initiate the conversation it is best not to respond to such e-mail offers. Your first defense is common sense. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is and may be a phishing scam or other malicious attempt to take advantage of you. Before you respond to any unsolicited e-mail offer, confirm the information through outside sources; conduct a web search for more information or research the offer on the Department of Justice's Web site at 
