Speaker: Marcela Gaviria
Frontline Producer at Pandora’s Box
Tuesday November 17th at 12:30pm Katy CyberLounge
Podcast:
Award winning filmmaker, Marcela Gaviria has produced 15 documentaries for PBS Frontline, including five films on post war Iraq and two on the current war in Afghanistan. The latest, Obama’s War, aired October 13. On Tuesday, November 17, she will speak at Pandora’s Box and discuss and show segments of her films.
A native of Colombia, she graduated from Brown University and field-produced documentaries from Latin America for PBS and the BBC before joining RAINmedia in New York. Other films in clude The Madoff Affiar, Medicating Kids, The Storm (About Katrina and New Orleans for which she won an Emmy in 2005), and the four-hour series Drug Wars. Librarian Cindy Belmar will introduce the speaker.
For more information:
Registration for this free continuing education class is available right before the class starts at 12:30 p.m. in the Katy Cyber Lounge at 1550 Foxlake Drive, 77084. For more information please call 713-718-5750, contact michael.ronan@hccs.edu
Speaker: Nancy Barry
What Employers Want Graduates to Know
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 12:30pm, Katy Cyber Lounge
Employers are frustrated, according to Gen Y expert Nancy Barry. On Wednesday, November 4, at Pandora’s Box, the author of When Reality Hits: What Employers Want Recent College Graduates to Know, will discuss what managers say. Her talk will include the importance of “soft skills,” what drives bosses crazy, professional communication, and much more. English professor Michael Ronan will introduce the speaker.
HCC students, faculty, staff, and the public are invited. The event begins at 12:30 p.m. in the Katy Cyber Lounge at 1550 Foxlake Drive, 77084. For more information on the event, please call 713-718-5750, contact michael.ronan@hccs.edu.
Speaker: Dr. Roger Newman
Note: This talk has been archived and will soon be on reserve in the library. Check back here for details.
Tuesday October 13th at 12:30pm Katy Campus Cyber Lounge
Dr. Roger Newman, of Columbia University, speaking on “Civil Liberties, Surveillance, and Terrorism.”
Registration for this free continuing education class is available right before the class starts at 12:30 p.m. in the Katy Cyber Lounge at 1550 Foxlake Drive, 77084. For more information please call 713-718-5750, contact michael.ronan@hccs.edu
Speaker: Lilly Chu on “Life After School”
The Houston Job Market: Scary or for the Savvy?
Wednesday, Sept. 30th 12:30 p.m. Katy Campus CyberLounge
Podcast:
We read about the layoffs yet are told that Houston’s job market is better than most other city’s. What prospects do our students have? What jobs are out there? Pandora’s Box presents Lilly Chu of the Houston Better Business Bureau to discuss “Life after School” on Wednesday, September 30. The director of programming for the HBBB will appraise students of the job landscape and give them a practical look at the prospects and possibilities facing them after graduation. Criminal Justice professor Rudy Hardy will introduce the speaker.
HCC students, faculty, staff, and the public are invited. The free event, a Continuing Ed course with on site registration, begins at 12:30 p.m. in the Katy Cyber Lounge at 1550 Foxlake Drive, 77084. For more information please call 713-718-5750, contact michael.ronan@hccs.edu.