Academics

Nico Aiello, PhD Software Engineering Manager, Bloomberg

Creating Opportunity: How to Align Outside Skills and Interests with Your Career

In this talk, I will share my path to Bloomberg’s Engineering department and how the experiences and interests I developed before I joined the company have influenced my subsequent career journey. We’ll talk about my starting as an entry-level software engineer, recognizing opportunities to grow inside and outside my role, getting involved with philanthropy and DEI initiatives at Bloomberg, and transitioning to people leadership. We will conclude with a fun segment about the Bloomberg Puzzle Team, what makes a good puzzle, and tips on both solving and creating one.

January 23, 2023 4:30-5:30 PM Steitz Hall 102

Nico will also lead a Pizza & Puzzle Session on Jan. 23, 2023 12:30-1:30 pm in Briggs 419. Interested in the Puzzle session? RSVP to ranaj@lawrence.edu by 1:00 pm on Jan. 19^th.

The Spoerl Lecture Series in Science and Society will present Cedar Creek Revisited: 100 Years of Old Field Succession from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 11 in Youngchild Hall 121.

The lecture will be given by Adam Clark, assistant professor at the Institute for Biology, University of Graz.

The old field experiment at Cedar Creek in central Minnesota is one of the largest and longest running grassland successional studies on earth.

The Latin American and Spanish Film Festival returns to Lawrence Oct. 13-16 after a two-year absence. It comes during Hispanic Heritage Month.

Rosa Tapia, professor of Spanish, shares details of the film festival:

-The film festival is an independent event that is organized by professors Rosa Tapia and Cecilia Herrera. Admission is free and the films are in Spanish language with English subtitles.

– LULASFF was born in 2012, so this is its tenth anniversary. To celebrate this milestone, we are bringing special guest Dr. Javier Guerrero from Princeton University, a leading scholar in Latin American and Film Studies. Dr. Guerrero will give a talk about famous Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar (Oct 14, 4:30 pm) before the screening of his latest film, Parallel Mothers. Dr. Guerrero is the author of many important books about Latin American cinema and literature, and he was the 2017 winner of the Latin American Studies Association’s Sylvia Molloy Award. Before coming to the United States, he was the President of the Venezuelan Cinemateca Nacional, a position in which he curated over twenty-five international film series and festivals. Dr. Guerrero was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Lawrence University in 2011-2012 and he was one of the original organizers of LULASFF, so this is a very special homecoming and anniversary for all of us.

-The five films featured this year represent different Spanish-speaking countries: Argentina, México, Spain, Costa Rica, and Peru. The movies have won numerous international awards and almost all are from 2021. And here’s another cool Lawrence connection: Lawrence alumna and member of the Board of Trustees Francesca Romero-Siekman was part of the production team for the highly acclaimed Mexican film Prayers For The Stolen (Oct 13, 8 pm). This film won awards in Cannes, San Sebastian, Los Angeles, and other major film competitions.

Below is the lineup for this year’s LULASFF (you can find additional information by clicking on the film titles in the event’s web page, https://go.lawrence.edu/lasf) :

Warch Campus Center Cinema, Lawrence University, 711 E. Boldt Way, Appleton, WI

Free admission. All films are rated “R” (Restricted) or “NR” (Not rated for US audiences). Viewer discretion is advised.

Thursday, October 13

5:00 PM          THE WEASELS’ TALE / El cuento de las comadrejas  (Argentina, 2019)

8:00 PM          PRAYERS FOR THE STOLEN / Noche de fuego  (Mexico, 2021)

Friday, October 14

4:30 PM          “Almodóvar: A Critical Take.” Javier Guerrero (Princeton University)

5:30 PM          PARALLEL MOTHERS / Madres paralelas (Spain, 2021)

Saturday, October 15

5:00 PM          CLARA SOLA ( Costa Rica, 2021)

8:00 PM          THE GOOD BOSS / El buen patrón  (Spain, 2021)

Sunday, October 16

2:00 PM       A  WORLD FOR JULIUS / Un mundo para Julius (Peru, 2021)

SPONSORS:

Siekman Foundation

Helen Barr Rudin Fund

Department of Spanish

Film Studies

CONTACT

cecilia.herrera@lawrence.edu

rosa.tapia@lawrence.edu

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