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• Mosaic Theater "Young John Lewis" Reflection Series: Dec 2025

  • Start
    December 01, 2025
  • End
    December 24, 2025
  • Location
    Various

  

  Mosaic Theater Company of DC is proud to announce the Young John Lewis Reflection Series, a season-long slate of community conversations, performances and special events leading up to and surrounding the world premiere of Young John Lewis. Running March 26-April 26, 2026, Young John Lewis is a new musical celebrating the life and legacy of the late Congressman and Civil Rights leader. The Reflection Series extends the play’s themes into the community with events across all eight wards of Washington, DC, honoring Lewis’ commitment to “good trouble” while celebrating the city’s rich cultural, artistic and civic life.

  The Power of Knowing: John Lewis, Poetry & Hip-Hop

  Ongoing | Wards 5, 7 and 8 | Capitol View Neighborhood Library, Francis A. Gregory Neighborhood Library and Woodridge Neighborhood Library

  “The Power of Knowing” is an interactive workshop that brings together the legacy of civil rights leader John Lewis and the expressive energy of hip-hop and spoken word. Led by poet, spoken-word artist, and hip-hop educational leader Tony Keith Jr. in partnership with DC Public Library.
  

  A Celebration of DC Home Rule

  Date TBD | Ward 2 | MLK Library

  December 24, 2025, marks 52 years of home rule in Washington, DC. Mosaic heads to MLK Library–the first major project DC built independently–for a celebration of DC artistry, identity and community. Programmed in partnership with the DC Public Library and the DC History Center.

  See the complete series schedule on the play's website (scroll down)

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• Examining the Health Consequences of Carceral Knowledge for Black American Adults

  • When
    December 01, 2025
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    UMD-College Park and hybrid

  From the Maryland Population Research Center

  Demar Lewis, UMD Criminology and Criminal Justice

  Examining the Health Consequences of Carceral Knowledge for Black American Adults

  Monday, Dec 01, 2025
  from 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM
  2208 LeFrak Hall / Online 

  "Although research demonstrates that there are seasonal periods when people might be exposed to more than one police killing at a time that is associated with negative changes in health, less is known about the multiplicative health impacts of these exposures on the self-reported stress and sleep of Black men and women. This study analyses cross-sectional survey data from 2021 to examine how increasing levels of knowledge about the murders of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd are independently and conjointly associated with negative changes in self-reported stress and sleep experienced from March 2020-March 2021 among a sample of Black adults. Results from independent models with our full sample yield distinct results from gender-stratified interactive models, pointing to the importance of measuring the interactive knowledge of specific fatal police encounters as a proxy for vicarious exposure and determinant of health."

  Demar F. Lewis IV is an Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland and a Faculty Associate of the Maryland Population Research Center. 

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• Introduction to Mapping and Visualizing Social Data with R

  • When
    December 03, 2025
  •  
    11:00 AM
  • Location
    Virtual

  From the Institute for Geospatial Understanding through an Integrative Discovery Environment (I-GUIDE)

  Introduction to Mapping and Visualizing Social Data with R

  December 3, 2025 11:00 am (Central Time)

  "This talk will focus on developing reproducible, R-based workflows for creating maps and other visualizations for research and data analysis projects. The session will include a demonstration using code notebooks from the R Spatial Notebooks project on the I-GUIDE Platform and will focus on using data from IPUMS and other open-source social and spatial data. Attendees will gain experience with commonly used mapping and visualization packages including ggplot2, ggmap, tmap, and sf. We will also touch on fundamental cartographic principles including color choice, projections, labels, map layout, and other things to consider when making beautiful maps. All skill-levels and backgrounds are welcome!"

  Presenter: Kate Vavra-Musser, University of Minnesota

  Register on the I-GUIDE website

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• Beyond the PUMA: Supplemental Geography in ACS Microdata from IPUMS USA

  • When
    December 10, 2025
  •  
    2:00 PM
  • Location
    Virtual

  Beyond the PUMA: Supplemental Geography in ACS Microdata from IPUMS USA

  Wednesday, December 10; 1:00-2:00pm CT

  "The only sub-state units identified in the publicly available microdata from the American Community Survey are Public Use Microdata Areas (PUMAs). The correspondence between PUMAs and other standard geographies is often inexact and PUMA definitions are updated after each decennial census, causing inconsistencies in geographic correspondences across time. IPUMS USA translates PUMA information into a range of supplementary geographic variables, including identifiers for counties, cities, and metro areas, multiple indicators of urban/rural status, and “consistent PUMAs,” which capture consistent geographic footprints across time. Join us for a webinar that will describe these PUMA-based variables, highlighting their key features, the methods we use to produce them, and other important considerations for their use."

  Register for the webinar using Zoom

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• Workshop: Teaching with AI

  • Start
    February 02, 2026
  •  
    2:00 PM
  • End
    March 02, 2026
  •  
    3:00 PM
  • Location
    Virtual

  From the American Association of Colleges and Universities

  Teaching with AI

  A series of workshops designed to prepare faculty for a new era of human learning

  Four Workshops, February 2 – March 2, 2026
  Online
  All workshops will be held from 2:00–3:00 p.m. ET.
  

  "The emergence of powerful generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools is having a significant and disruptive impact on higher education today. Almost immediately after the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, students began leveraging it to help with a variety of course-related tasks, often including the completion of writing and other types of assignments. At the same time, nearly all business sectors now anticipate using generative AI in the workplace, and many are already reporting challenges filling roles that now require AI skills.
  
  "While the initial inclination may have been to limit AI’s influence in the classroom, higher education now has the companion challenge of preparing students for a world where working with AI is increasingly likely to be a job expectation and a sought-after competency. How can we ensure that our students achieve the learning outcomes we have designed for our courses while also preparing them for a world where collaborating with AI is increasingly expected? Responding to this question is the key purpose of this workshop series.
  
  "Led by authors José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson, based on the soon-to-be published second edition of their book Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025)."

  See complete details and register on the AAC&U website

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