Maxwell State Dinner: PAIRA 1st Annual Spring Formal Event Details
Please join us for PAIRA’s First Annual Spring Formal on April 18th at 6:00pm at the Horizon Ballroom, Crowne Plaza. Tickets are $25/person or $50/couple via CASH or CHECK. The Social Committee will be in the AV everyday (Monday thru Friday) from 11am to 4pm selling tickets. The deadline to RSVP is Friday, April 4th at 4:00pm.
We have an exciting night planned for our class. Here are some important event details and list of deadlines to keep note of:
1. It is very important that you purchase your ticket or your potential dates ticket by the April 4th, 4:00pm deadline. We will not be making any exceptions to late ticket purchases, since Crowne Plaza needs all attendee information two weeks prior to the event. For clarification purposes, your date can be either a PAIA student or non-PAIA student.
2. The dress attire for the evening is Black Tie Optional. This means a tuxedo is not required, however, it may be worn. Proper dressy attire such as a suit (not sport coat) is necessary. Women have the option of either wearing a formal long or short dress.
3. Call for Maxwell State Dinner Superlative Nominations: We invite you to nominate your PAIA classmates for this year’s Maxwell State Dinner Superlatives! Please only nominate one person per superlative unless where noted that two people can be nominated. Nominations are open until 11:59 AM on April 4. We will then collect the nominations and send a document for final votes and announce the winners at formal.
4. Call for PAIA Class Photos: The committee requests submission of photos for the Maxwell State Dinner Spring Formal. The photos are for a slideshow to be shown during the reception hour at formal. Please send any and all photos to paira.maxwell@gmail.com with “Spring Formal Photos” as the subject line. Group photos are preferred. Please send all submissions by April 14th.
We have an exciting night planned for you all. Some event details include: Professional Photographer, Cultural Talent Show Performances (by your very own Maxwellians!), Superlative Winner Announcements, Full Course Dinner (Starter, Entree & Dessert), Announcement of Maxwell Citizen Award Winners and live DJ & dancing.
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact Sheila Koohpai (sheilamkoohpai@gmail.com) or Hema Maharj (h.maharaj187@gmail.com).
We hope you all are excited as we are!
Regards,
The Social Committee
(Sheila, Hema, Lauren, Eliza, Devaki, Marc)
Register for the Maxwell Conference 2014: Managing Wicked Problems in the 21st Century
Registration details (please register for each separately):
Friday Networking Event and Saturday Conference
In the 21st century the boundaries of our cities and nations are becoming ever more porous. In many instances, it’s not clear where a national government’s authority begins and ends and where problems become international in nature. Environmental issues cross borders with impunity. To address national security challenges requires international cooperation and managing health and education deficiencies among the poor and disadvantaged are now international endeavors.
These large, international problems are increasingly being thought of as wicked problems – complex, boundary-spanning issues which require the engagement of a wide variety of stakeholders in devising multi-faceted solutions. We will explore the nature of wicked problems and what solutions public administration and international relations can offer. We will engage a number of topics, including but not limited to those outlined above.
For more information, including the conference schedule, list of speakers and topics, etc.,
please refer to the Conference Website.
Nominate a fellow Maxwellian for the Maxwell Citizen Award!
Have you nominated a fellow classmate(s) yet? Call for Maxwell Citizen Award Nominations! Deadline is THIS Friday, March 21st by midnight. It only takes 5 minutes!
Please follow this link to fill out the nomination form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1pssC2qeCijXZKQGfhl7dukdr8Zy4sayGeKgu6ed58rs/viewform
Submit your logo design for the Conference on Managing Wicked Problems in the 21st Century
Get creative – submit a logo design for the upcoming conference on wicked problems! Your logo (yes you – this is open to everyone!) could be featured on all of the conference communications, flyers, and swag! The design should include the title “Managing Wicked Problems in the 21st Century”. Send your submissions to paira.maxwell@gmail.com (Put “Maxwell Conference Logo” in the subject line) by Friday, January 31st at 5pm!
Come meet the returning second year IR/PA students!
Have you been in the AV recently and wondered who some of the strange new people are? Chances are that it was one of the second-year IR/PA students who returned from various internships across the globe for their last semester in use.
This Tuesday, Jan 21, from 5-7pm (Maxwell 204) we would like to give you an opportunity to get to know them – and of course them the chance to get to know us! They would love to share their knowledge with us as well as give us the valuable information they wish they had known a year ago!
Most of them have spent the summer and/or the fall term in one of Maxwell’s Global Programs and in various internships. They would be happy to share their experiences with you and answer any questions you bring with you.
The department will sponsor pizza and beverages (big thanks at this point!). Please RSVP by Monday, Jan 20, 6pm if you are sure that you will attend:
http://www.doodle.com/vrr8w53gwmvi3un2
This meetup can be a great resource for first-year IR students who are pursuing their internship options, but is of course open to all Maxwell graduate students!
2nd PAIRA General Meeting
Announcing the agenda for our next general meeting:
Agenda for 2nd PAIRA General Meeting
November 18, 5:15pm
Academic Village
- Call to Order
- Roll Call and Committee Signup (please sign in at entrance)
- Approval of General Meeting Minutes Monday, October 15th
- Reports
- Maxwell Gear – VanTiel Duncan
- Community Service – Lacey White
- Networking – Rebeccah Lystash
- Social Events – Marc Mason
- Cultural Committee – Cameron Reed
- Conference – Alex Paul
- Online Communications Plan – Sheila Koohpai
- No Business Items
- Announcements
- Women’s Caucus: 16 Days Against Violence – Sharisse Grimes
- Open Discussion
- Adjournment
Last Day to get your Maxwell Gear!
Hey Maxwellians!
Do not forget to place your last-minute orders for this season’s fabulous Maxwell gear! It’s super easy to pay and order online through a Google Form and Paypal.
Here’s the Gear Guide and the Online Ordering Form!
Maxwell Gear makes for great Christmas gifts…Only 43 days until Christmas!
PAIRA Events Calendar is online!
As our first step in streamlining communications about events, we have set up a calendar to publicize events organized by PAIRA committees and PAIA student organizations. Here’s how you subscribe:
For Google Calendar users:
- Log into your google calendar.
- On the left side of the page, click the drop-down menu option for “Other calendars”
- Choose “Add a friend’s calendar”
- Put “paira.maxwell@gmail.com” as the email address in the prompt that appears
For Outlook Web App users:
- Log into your Outlook Web App calendar.
- On the left side of the page, right-click “Other Calendars”
- Choose “open calendar” from the menu that appears
- Fill in “Internet calendar:” with “https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/paira.maxwell%40gmail.com/public/basic.ics” in the prompt that appears
Have an event you are organizing on behalf of PAIRA or another PAIA-associated student organization? Email the what, when, where details to paira.maxwell@gmail.com so we can get it on the calendar.
We hope to supplement our PAIA-centered event listings soon with data from Maxwell’s career office and the school’s events calendar. Stay tuned!
PAIRA Meeting Poll
In order to better serve the Maxwell community, the Executive Board is looking for input as to what time works best for those interested to attend the monthly PAIRA meetings and how important attendance at these meetings is to to students. Please take the time to take the Survey Monkey Poll below! (It’s short, I promise!)
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TYHMRZ8
Thank you on behalf of PAIRA’s Executive Board.
Maxwell PAIRA 