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SUMMARY:2025 Homecoming & Reunion
DESCRIPTION:Two Campus Traditions\, One Royal Weekend\nMore Details: View Event Page »
URL:https://seniorscholars.net/event/2025-homecoming-reunion/2025-02-08/
LOCATION:Sarah Belk Gambrell Center for the Arts\, 2319 Wellesley Ave\, Charlotte\, 28207\, United States
CATEGORIES:Queens University
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250212T131500
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SUMMARY:Curriculum Committee Meeting  - February 12
DESCRIPTION:Curriculum Committee Meetings are open to Membership.  \nJoin our monthly Curriculum Committee meetings\, via Zoom\, to hear about upcoming speakers/events or to suggest speakers you know (or have heard speak) and believe would be of interest to your fellow Senior Scholars. \nThese meetings are always held on the Zoom platform.
URL:https://seniorscholars.net/event/curriculum-committee-meeting-february-12/
LOCATION:Zoom Registration Required
CATEGORIES:Board/Committee Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250214T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250214T093000
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SUMMARY:New Member Orientation - February 14
DESCRIPTION:All members old and new are invited to attend our New Member Orientation meeting in person. \nLearn more about the organization including how to meet people\, join events and how you can help the organization – the best way to meet new people! \nIn person meeting\, in Room 106 in PUMC. \nClick the RSVP button for an email to tell us you’re coming!
URL:https://seniorscholars.net/event/new-member-orientation-february-14/
LOCATION:Providence United Methodist Church (PUMC) – Wolfe Hall\, 2810 Providence Rd\, Charlotte\, North Carolina\, 28211
CATEGORIES:New Member Orientation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250214T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250214T110000
DTSTAMP:20260406T210152
CREATED:20250219T170834Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250219T170913Z
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SUMMARY:Medicare Fraud with Austin Caton
DESCRIPTION:TOPIC: Medicare Fraud\nSPEAKER: Austin Caton\, Aging Program Coordinator\, Centralina Area Agency on Aging \nAustin is an Aging Program Coordinator for the Digital Navigation Program providing assistance with technology and training for older adults in our region. \n\n  \nNOTE: Attend in-person at PUMC\, no registration required. Attend via Zoom\, please register with the Zoom link above.
URL:https://seniorscholars.net/event/medicare-fraud-with-austin-caton/
LOCATION:Hybrid: In-Person at PUMC & via Zoom\, 2810 Providence Rd\, Charlotte\, NC\, 28211\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speaker Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250221T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250221T110000
DTSTAMP:20260406T210152
CREATED:20250219T170619Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250219T175523Z
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SUMMARY:America and Changing Economic World with Jay Bryson
DESCRIPTION:GREAT DECISIONS TOPIC:   America and Changing Economic World\nSPEAKER: Jay Bryson\, Managing Director\, Chief Economist\, Wells Fargo Corporate and Investment Bank \nDr. Bryson will present his annual analysis of financial markets and macroeconomic developments in the global economy. \nHe will also provide an outlook for the next two years including forecasts of GDP growth rates\, inflation rates\, and interest rates in the major economies of the world. \n\nBIOGRAPHY \nDetails coming soon. \n\nNOTE: Attend in-person at PUMC\, no registration required. Attend via Zoom\, please register with the Zoom link above.
URL:https://seniorscholars.net/event/america-and-changing-economic-world-with-jay-bryson/
LOCATION:Hybrid: In-Person at PUMC & via Zoom\, 2810 Providence Rd\, Charlotte\, NC\, 28211\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speaker Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250228T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250228T110000
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SUMMARY:How PBS Charlotte Shines the Spotlight on our Region with Amy Burkett
DESCRIPTION:GREAT DECISIONS TOPIC: How PBS Charlotte Shines the Spotlight on our Region\nSPEAKER: Amy Burkett\, PBS General Manager \nAmy will share interesting statistics and behind the scenes production details woven in and out of video clips of local documentaries as well as our signature Emmy winning news magazine Carolina Impact. \n\nBIOGRAPHY \nAmy has been honored to lead the renaissance of PBS Charlotte since 2013. She’s grateful that over that time the station has seen over a 400% increase in community support. In addition to the wonderful national content the station has five weekly local shows the newest Unspun is a political program that helps you know what politicians are often thinking but not saying hosted by former Charlotte mayor and governor Pat McCrory. Amy has led the station for five Emmy awards during her time year brining her total to 11 Emmys during her more than 30 years in broadcasting. She’s published two leadership books. \nThe 7D’s to Your Destiny and The Dirty F-Word: Lessons From our Failures \n\nNOTE: Attend in-person at PUMC\, no registration required. Attend via Zoom\, please register with the Zoom link above.
URL:https://seniorscholars.net/event/how-pbs-charlotte-shines-the-spotlight-on-our-region-with-amy-burkett/
LOCATION:Hybrid: In-Person at PUMC & via Zoom\, 2810 Providence Rd\, Charlotte\, NC\, 28211\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speaker Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250307T100000
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SUMMARY:The Shadow of Alzheimer's Disease with Dr. Adam Law
DESCRIPTION:TOPIC: The Shadow of Alzheimer’s Disease\nSPEAKER: Dr. Adam Law\, Visiting Scientist\, Cornell University \nThis talk will explore Alzheimer’s Disease from a personal\, professional and research perspective\, as a physician who\, in retirement\, is participating in a laboratory investigating its molecular mechanisms. \n\nBIOGRAPHY \nAdam Law is a Londoner by birth and emigrated to the USA at the age of thirty-one. He moved to Ithaca 34 years ago and has lived in the same home in North East Ithaca where he and his wife Jane Marie raised 3 Ithacan children. \nHe trained in medicine and molecular medicine at the University of London. He was a post-doctoral researcher at UCSF and Cornell University in molecular biology and genetics. He was the only endocrinologist in Tompkins County for most of his 28 year career in medical practice in Ithaca and also was a primary care physician. \nDuring this time when he was president of the medical staff at The Cayuga Medical Center\, he was responsible for bringing medical students and residents to Ithaca from Weill Cornell\, where he was a clinical assistant professor. \nHe has co-founded 2 non-profits. In 2010 Physicians\, Scientists and Engineers for Healthy Energy (PSE) in his living room\, currently board president and in 2021 Artists with Evidence (AwE)\, currently board treasurer. \nHe retired from clinical medicine in 2022. Currently\, he is a visiting scientist in the Lis lab in the Biotechnology Center at Cornell University researching Alzheimer’s disease. His hobbies are learning the guitar\, studying Brazilian Portuguese\, running and cycling. \n\nNOTE: Attend in-person at PUMC\, no registration required. Attend via Zoom\, please register with the Zoom link above.
URL:https://seniorscholars.net/event/the-shadow-of-alzheimers-disease-with-dr-adam-law/
LOCATION:Hybrid: In-Person at PUMC & via Zoom\, 2810 Providence Rd\, Charlotte\, NC\, 28211\, United States
CATEGORIES:Hybrid: In-person & Zoom,Speaker Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250312T131500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250312T140000
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SUMMARY:Curriculum Committee Meeting  - March 12
DESCRIPTION:Curriculum Committee Meetings are open to Membership.  \nJoin our monthly Curriculum Committee meetings\, via Zoom\, to hear about upcoming speakers/events or to suggest speakers you know (or have heard speak) and believe would be of interest to your fellow Senior Scholars. \nThese meetings are always held on the Zoom platform.
URL:https://seniorscholars.net/event/curriculum-committee-meeting-march-12/
LOCATION:Zoom Registration Required
CATEGORIES:Board/Committee Meetings,Zoom Presentation Only
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250314T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250314T110000
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SUMMARY:Critical Thinking – A Quick Course
DESCRIPTION:TOPIC:   Critical Thinking – A Quick Course\nSPEAKER: Pierce Howard\, Ph.D \nBeginning with a definition of critical thinking–and in the spirit of critical thinking\, Pierce will offer several definitions. What it is\, and what it is not. \nThe core is questioning\, so we will explore the world of asking questions that most support critical thinking. Then Pierce will identify obstacles to thinking critically\, followed by qualities that foster critical thinking. \nThis all leads up to identifying System I (instincts) and System II (processes) mental functions\, what Daniel Kahneman described in his Thinking\, Fast and Slow (2013). We will close with a daily tool bag that includes five basic skills of critical thinking. \nNOTE: This meeting is Zoom only. PUMC is closed on 3/14/2025.\n\nBIOGRAPHY \nPierce J. Howard\, PhD\, was born in Kinston\, North Carolina. Making his way through public schools\, he learned to love reading\, writing\, mathematics\, music\, and nature. Four years at Davidson College stoked his passion for literature\, music\, philosophy\, and psychology. Three years in the U.S. Army as a Military Intelligence Specialist molded his penchant for research and investigation. During graduate school at East Carolina University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, he changed his major from literature to educational psychology. \nHis first job was with the North Carolina Advancement School in Winston-Salem. Moving to Charlotte in 1977 to teach at West Charlotte\, Pierce then co-founded LEAD (long E) Associates in 1979. Between arriving in Charlotte and retiring\, Pierce also served as an adjunct professor at UNC–Charlotte\, Pfeiffer University\, and most recently the McColl School of Business at Queens University. \nIn 1986\, along with his wife\, Jane\, he started a consulting company\, now named Paradigm Personality Labs. Over 32 years\, they offered training\, team building\, coaching\, and personnel research to clients on six continents. In 1994\, Pierce wrote and published The Owner’s Manual for the Brain\, now in its 4th edition and published by William Morrow. He even appeared as a guest on “Oprah” in1995. Subsequently\, he wrote more than 20 books. The Howards’ core service has been through several personality assessments that they developed: the WorkPlace Big Five Profile\, the SchoolPlace Big Five Profile\, the WorkPlace Values Profile\, and the WorkPlace Performance 360. In 2018\, Pierce retired as the Chief Innovations Officer at Paradigm\, but in retirement\, he’s now writing The Owner’s Manual for Critical Thinking. \n 
URL:https://seniorscholars.net/event/critical-thinking-a-quick-course/
LOCATION:Zoom Only
CATEGORIES:Speaker Presentations,Zoom Presentation Only
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250314T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250314T210000
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SUMMARY:SPOTLIGHT SERIES: Passion for Bach & Coltrane
DESCRIPTION:The Grammy Award winning Passion for Bach and Coltrane pairs Imani Winds\, the poet A.B. Spellman\, Harlem Quartet\, and a jazz piano trio to synthesize classical and jazz styles\, highlighting the gifts of all the performers onstage.  Inspired by and featuring Spellman’s poetry\, Passion interweaves orated poems with music\, in a manner inspired by J.S. Bach’s Passion settings. Jeff Scott selected one masterwork by each composer — Bach’s Goldberg Variations and John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme — and used each as source material to construct a mosaic tapestry around the drama and imagery in Spellman’s text. Pensive\, ethereal moments are punctuated by Bach\, while the tone for moody\, dark passages is set by Coltrane’s work. Winner of the 2024 Grammy for Best Classical Compendium Album. 
URL:https://seniorscholars.net/event/spotlight-series-passion-for-bach-coltrane/
LOCATION:Sarah Belk Gambrell Center for the Arts\, 2319 Wellesley Ave\, Charlotte\, 28207\, United States
CATEGORIES:Queens University
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250321T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250321T100000
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SUMMARY:Spring Expo: March 21
DESCRIPTION:Spring Expo! \nMarch 21\, 2025\n9-10 am before speaker event \nExhibitors include: \n\nThe Connery on Providence – a newly built apartment community for seniors (55+)\nMcIntyre Elder Law Firm – information about asset protection\, veteran benefits\, Medicaid and wills.
URL:https://seniorscholars.net/event/spring-expo-march-21/
LOCATION:Providence United Methodist Church (PUMC) – Wolfe Hall\, 2810 Providence Rd\, Charlotte\, North Carolina\, 28211
CATEGORIES:In-person
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250321T110000
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SUMMARY:International Climate Cooperation in an Era of Geopolitical Turmoil with Mark Kelso
DESCRIPTION:GREAT DECISIONS TOPIC: International Climate Cooperation in an Era of Geopolitical Turmoil \nSPEAKER: Mark Kelso\, Professor\, Political Science\, International Studies & Sociology Department\, Queens University \nAn overview of international efforts to enhance global environmental protection\, with a focus on recent efforts to address climate change.  Discussion of where these efforts have succeeded. \nDiscussion of key challenges that lie ahead. \n\nBIOGRAPHY \nMark Kelso is Professor of Political Science at Queens University of Charlotte. His research interests focus on environmental policy and political leadership. \nHis most recent publication is “A Green Presidency? Barack Obama and the Environment” in Meena Bose and Paul Fritz\, Evaluating the Obama Presidency (2024). \nHe has also published in Congress and the Presidency and Presidential Studies Quarterly. He is the 2017 winner of the Hunter-Hamilton Love of Teaching Award. \n\nNOTE: Attend in-person at PUMC\, no registration required. Attend via Zoom\, please register with the Zoom link above.
URL:https://seniorscholars.net/event/international-climate-cooperation-in-an-era-of-geopolitical-turmoil-with-mark-kelso/
LOCATION:Providence United Methodist Church (PUMC) – Wolfe Hall\, 2810 Providence Rd\, Charlotte\, North Carolina\, 28211
CATEGORIES:Hybrid: In-person & Zoom,Speaker Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250325T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250325T203000
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SUMMARY:Seelbinder Literary Arts Series: "North Putnam"
DESCRIPTION:The English & Writing Studies Department\, in partnership with The Independent Picture House\, is pleased to present Director Joel Fendelman and Producer James Chase Sanchez\, who will share and discuss their film North Putnam. This documentary depicts a year in the life of a rural Indiana school district and the community it serves. Crafted with empathy\, a hyper-real reporting lens\, and skillfully lush cinematography\, the film aims to reach across divides and to spark action-oriented conversations about the interdependence between public schools and community development.
URL:https://seniorscholars.net/event/seelbinder-literary-arts-series-north-putnam/
LOCATION:Ketner Auditorium\, 1900 Selwyn Ave\, Charlotte\, NC\, 28274
CATEGORIES:Queens University
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