Becoming a Reviewer for the NSF-GRFPWednesday, September 251:00PM-2:00PM The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (https://nsfgrfp.org/) (GRFP) helps ensure the quality, vitality, and diversity of the scientific and engineering workforce of the United States. A goal of the program is to broaden participation of the full spectrum of diverse talents in STEM.  Join NSF staff at this 1-hour session for an overview of NSF-GRFP.  Participants will learn about the requirements of becoming a reviewer and staff will provide an overview of the National Science Board's Merit Review Criteria. The hour begins with a presentation, followed by an interactive Q & A. Interested reviewers are encouraged to attend and to ask questions. To learn more about the NSF-GRFP, and to pre-register for this and other upcoming webinars, visit https://www.nsfgrfp.org/events/ (https://www.nsfgrfp.org/events/).

Introduction to Mindfulness SHaW's Introduction to Mindfulness is a skill-based workshop meant to support stress reduction and overall wellbeing. Skills and Concepts Introduced: • Definition and benefits of mindfulness • Present moment awareness • Noticing • Accepting DROP-IN (no appointment required)

Sponsored by CT Sea Grant and the UConn Center for Land Use Education and Research (CLEAR). Guest speaker will be Judy Huynh, project manager at Rebuild by Design. More information at: https://seagrant.uconn.edu/?p=12219 (https://seagrant.uconn.edu/?p=12219)

Exercise, nutrition and weight loss all contribute to effective prevention and management of Type 2 Diabetes. Join us in exploring emerging research and best practice for improved clinical outcomes. Current exercise and nutrition recommendations as well as an overview of pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical weight loss strategies are discussed.

Understanding Unfreedom Much political philosophy theorizes ideals of justice, freedom, equality. But our current world is in many ways not ideal. When we look around us, we see injustice, unfreedom, inequality. These phenomena do not merely seem temporary blips on our way toward achieving ideals. They seem, instead, relatively permanent features of our world. What might a political philosophy look like that began from those phenomena, from the shape of our existing world? Beginning from unfreedom, I argue, directs philosophical theorizing toward a) explanation of the forces that keep things as they are, and b) imagination of how things might be changed, through c) the exercise of collective agency. Political philosophy in this way becomes more closely connected to issues in moral psychology and to existential questions about the relation of human beings to each other and to the world.