Jennifer Roach

Cora Marrett, deputy director of the National Science Foundation, will give a talk on “Research and Education in a Data Intensive Era” Wednesday, Nov. 28.

The Rochester Center for Community Leadership is hosting its final Leadership Luncheon of the semester from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 27, in the Stackel Room, Wilson Commons. The luncheon will focus on Students with Disabilities: Advocacy and Awareness.

Learn about the master of science degree program in technical entrepreneurship and management (TEAM) at an upcoming information session set for 5 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14, in the Center for Entrepreneurship, 1-211 Carol Simon Hall.

University IT Computer Sales is offering $100 off their remaining inventory of last-generation Apple iPads (3rd generation).

Take a guided bus tour of Waste Management’s High Acres Landfill to learn about how it was engineered to protect the air, water, soil, and environmental integrity of the surrounding area.

The Hindu Students’ Association and ADITI are hosting a Diwali Dinner on Saturday, Nov. 17. The event, which celebrates the Festival of Lights, will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in Douglass Dining Center.

Juniors (and 4th-year T5/Key students) majoring in arts, humanities, and social science fields can apply for the Beinecke Scholarship, which provides a $34,000 scholarship for future graduate study in those disciplines.

If you have a record of campus leadership, civic engagement, and community service and are also committed to a career with a public-service orientation, then you may be a good candidate for the Truman Scholarship Program, which provides a $30K scholarship for future graduate study, a paid summer internship, policy training seminars, leadership development, and professional networking.

Active Minds, a campus group dedicated to reducing stigma surrounding mental illness, asks that you answer a survey question about your own experience with stigma and how it has affected you.

The inaugural meeting of the Inclusive Possibilities Cluster (formerly the Interdisciplinary Disabilities Cluster) will feature guest speakers Diane Coleman and Stephen Drake from Not Dead Yet, a grassroots disability rights group. Their talk will be held from 10 a.m. to noon Tuesday, Nov. 13, in the Evarts Lounge at Helen Wood Hall, at the Medical Center.

Join Louvre Performance Ensemble, a small group of advanced, technically trained dancers, for its fall production, “Impact,” at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 10, and 5 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 11, in Spurrier Dance Studio.

Interested in running or attending an alternative spring break trip to do community service? Email CSN.UofR@gmail.com for more information, and be on the lookout for future interest meetings.