UTSA Roadrunner Days: Free, fun and spirited events to welcome new and returning students
(July 13, 2012) -- Roadrunner Days is the official kick-off for the new school year, running Aug. 24-31 with a wide selection of free, fun and spirited events to welcome new and returning students with a look at campus life.
Luis Alberto Urrea, author of "The Devil's Highway," will provide the keynote address at the UTSA Fall Convocation, which will launch the week. Urrea's book is a 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist, and he is a best-selling author and member of the Latino Literature Hall of Fame. The book is a non-fiction account of a group of Mexican immigrants lost in the Arizona desert and is the common reading for the Class of 2016.
The week also includes the ICE Block Party, where students from various backgrounds and shared cultures can meet, hosted by the UTSA Inclusion and Community Engagement (ICE) Center.
The week's events give new students opportunities to preview UTSA campus life, learn about resources to ease the transition to college, experience the excitement of the growing campuses and meet other new students.
Returning students will enjoy many of the activities as well and are welcome to participate in these free events. Faculty and staff also are invited to attend most of the events.
For more information, visit the Roadrunner Days new website.
Events
Learn to use the simple but powerful features of EndNote®, a citation management tool. In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn to setup an EndNote library, save references and PDFs, and automatically create and edit a bibliography.
Virtual EventLearn to use Zotero®, a citation manager that can help you store and organize citations you find during your research. Zotero can generate bibliographies in various styles, insert in-text citations and allow you to share sources with collaborators.
Virtual EventThis solo exhibition features the work of Delita Martin, a world-renowned master printmaker known for creating representations of black women in complex and luxuriant narrative portraits.
Russell Hill Rogers Galleries, UTSA Southwest CampusThis workshop will teach you how to explore, clean, and transform your data and reproduce the steps you have taken using OpenRefine. Required to install OpenRefine before attending the workshop.
John Peace Library (JPL 3.02.32,) Main CampusPressbooks is an open educational resource authoring platform for simple book publishing. This workshop will cover more advanced features in the platform and expands on what was learned in the Pressbooks Basic workshop.
Virtual EventThe UTS Bold Careers Interns and Ambassadors present historical and remarkable women to celebrate Womens History Month at The University of Texas at San Antonio.
Mesquite Room (SU 2.01.24,) Main CampusThis workshop will provide some basics of text analysis and introduce the underlying structure of Voyant Tools and its user interface.
John Peace Library (JPL 3.02.32,) Main Campus