The Valpo Core

This Wednesday, April 24, the campus community celebrates the work of more than 150 students during the Celebration of Undergraduate Scholarship.

Student poster presentations will be on display from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in the Union, Ballrooms A and B. Oral presentations will take place in 1-hour increments in the Union between 8:00 a.m. and 12:40 p.m.

Later in the day, from 3:00 to 5:15 p.m., eight groups of students, chosen by the deans of their colleges, will give oral presentations on their research in Ballroom C.

A schedule of the day’s events as well as a list of the Dean’s Choice presentations, is located at:

http://www.valpo.edu/research/celebration2013/schedule.php

Mark Mustian, novelist and attorney on tour with the Lutheran Writers Project, will read from his international bestseller and award-winning novel, The Gendarme. In this novel, Emmett Conn, at 92, begins to remember traumatic events from his former life as a gendarme leading a group of Armenian deportees out of Turkey during World War I. As the most horrific moments of this forced march return to Emmett, Mustian explores the haunting and complicated story of a man in search of redemption.

Mustian will also speak at Morning Prayer and give an afternoon talk on how he researched the novel. All events are free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by the English Department, the Chapel of the Resurrection, the Office of Church Relations, and the Lilly Fellows Program.

Mon, April 22nd

Morning Prayer, Chapel of the Resurrection
11:15 a.m.

Reading from the novel, Brauer Museum of Art
7:00 p.m.

You can find out more about the novel and the Lutheran Writers Project online.

THE DREAM IS NOW!
Film and student led discussion.

When: Friday, April 19,

Where: Harre Union 2nd Floor

CORE 5th hour approved

Check out the trailer!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch? feature=player_embedded&v= tUx62UBoOoU

Want to meet a world-renowned graphic designer, whose work has received commendations from the Smithsonian and the White House? How about a professional photographer, a former Fulbright Scholar, who teaches at the Art Institute of Chicago? Just generally curious about what it’s like to work in the art industry? Then come to “Creative Careers: Part II – ART,” hosted by the Career Center and the Art Department!

A panel of successful industry professionals will be on hand to share their career stories and answer YOUR questions.

The event is TODAY (Thursday), April 11 at 7pm! (Harre Union, Ballroom C). Light snacks provided.

Panelists include:

- Rick Valicenti, world-renowned graphic designer (www.rickvalicenti.com)
- Regina Mamou, fine art photographer and instructor at the Art Institute of Chicago
- Rok Teasley, former art gallery owner and painter, who now works for the Peace Corps
- Jp Avila, Valpo alumnus who is now the Chair of the Art & Graphic Design Department at Pacific Lutheran University in Seattle.

Don’t miss this informative networking opportunity!

Every year, the English Department brings noted writers to campus through Wordfest, our annual reading series. This year, for the first time, we have extended a special invitation to alumni and others to join us in reading a book by one of our visiting writers.

Wordfest reading: Dinty W. Moore, memoirist
Monday, April 1st
6:30-8:30 pm
Duesenberg Recital Hall and VUCA lobby

We selected Dinty W. Moore’s Between Panic and Desire, a not quite conventional memoir of fatherhood, television, and U.S. politics in the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s. Both personal and cultural, Moore’s memoir “documents the disorienting experience of growing up in a postmodern world” through a variety of forms and not without a healthy dose of humor.

But you won’t have to have read the book to enjoy the roundtable discussion of his work and life as a writer and the 40-minute reading from Between Panic and Desire. Book signing and reception will follow in the VUCA lobby.