The Valpo Core

Wednesday, April 23, at 7 pm in CCLIR 205

The Core Program will offer a screening and discussion of the one-hour PBS Frontline video _The Undertaking_. It is an insightful documentary made about funeral director and author Thomas Lynch and his sons. In this film, you’ll get behind-the-scenes access to the business and meaning of serving the living by caring for the dead.

Link to official website:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/undertaking/

The Cercle français (French Club) cordially invites you to the second annual “Foire au fromages” or cheese tasting event. The event takes place on April 16 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm in the Lumina room of Huegli Hall. Come sample a variety of French cheeses, learn about their history, and play a cheese trivia game.

Tickets are $5 in advance (available at the Union front desk or from any French Club officer or French faculty member) or $6 at the door. A portion of the ticket sales will be donated to SALT’s EdJakarta campaign.

Ronne Hartfield–renowned scholar, essayist and poet–will read from her family memoir, Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family and will discuss the importance of combating and counteracting skewed histories of race relations with “first-voice” narratives and supportive, intimate families and communities.  She’ll also bookend her talk with some of her own poetry that touches on these or similar themes.  The lecture will be followed by a Q and A.

Thursday, March 27th
7-8 p.m.
Neils Science Center, room 234

Hartfield has encouraged people to read a brief excerpt from her book.  Please email  Allison.Schuette-Hoffman@valpo.edu for a copy or for further information.

This event is generously co-sponsored by:
~ the Committee to Enhance Learning and Technology
~ the Project on Civic Reflection
~ the Christopher Center
~ Gus Sponberg, recipient of the Kapfer grant
~ Multicultural Programs
~ Christ College
~ the Department of Athletics

This event is free and open to the public.

Valparaiso University Department of Physics and Astronomy
Kress Lecture Series

Thursday, April 3, 2008
Neils Science Center 234
7:00 pm

“Science and Religion: How to End Their Unnecessary Conflict”

Dr. Murray Peshkin

Argonne National Laboratory

The destructive conflict over the teaching of evolution in American public
schools is illogical and unnecessary. One of its causes has been the failure
of the scientific community to address students and the general public about
what science is and does, what a scientific theory is and how we know when
to believe it, and especially about the strengths and limitations of science.
In this talk I will try to do better.

About the speaker:

Dr. Peshkin received the Ph.D. from Cornell University.  He was Associate or
Acting Director of the Physics Division at Argonne National Laboratory for
twenty years and is a Fellow of both the American Physical Society and
th American Association for the Advancement of Science.  He has also been a
Fellow of the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Wordfest event: the Accabellas open for award-winning fiction writer, Margaret McMullan

When: Thurs, Feb 21st at 6 pm

Where: Brauer Museum

What: music, art, literature, refreshments, book signing

COME OUT OF CURIOSITY; STAY FOR THE CULTURE.

McMullan has most recently published When I Crossed No-Bob (2007), the sequel to her first young-adult novel about a Southern family during the Civil War. When I Crossed No-Bob shares some of the same characters but occurs during the period of Reconstruction. McMullan also writes adult novels, short stories, and essays. She is currently a professor of English at the University of Evansville, in Evansville, Indiana, where she lives with her husband, Patrick O’Connor and their son, James.The three of them have work in an upcoming issue of National Geographic for Kids.

Check her work out at: http://www.margaretmcmullan.com/index.html

All Core students are required to attend and respond to a screening of the film Dead Man Walking. The screenings take place this week:

Tues, 1/29, 8 pm

Thurs, 1/31, 8 pm

Sun, 2/3, 3 pm

Sun, 2/3, 8 pm

All screenings take place in Neils Science Center, Room 234.

Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures:

An audience-participation Quiz Bowl will be held on Tuesday, February 5th, at 7:00 pm, in the Union Great Hall. All students are welcome; they will form teams who will answer questions about European history, current events, arts, literature, geography, politics, etc. There will be European prizes for the winners!

LINK to Quiz Bowl information page:

http://www.valpo.edu/foreignlang/quizbowl.html

Student organists in Valparaiso University’s chapter of the American Guild of Organists and a faculty guest will perform during a Jan. 14 recital at the Chapel of the Resurrection.

The annual student recital features performances on the University’s renowned Reddel Memorial Organ and begins at 7:30 p.m. The public is invited to attend and a freewill offering will support the activities of the University’s AGO student chapter. A reception will follow the recital.

For more information:
http://www.valpo.edu/news/index.php?action=display&newsid=3338&sy=2007

Wednesday, December 5th, at 8 pm in Neils Science Center 234

Panelists:

Prof. Craig Clark (Meteorology)

Prof. Nirupama Devaraj (Ecomomics)

Prof. Laurie Eberhardt (Biology)

Prof. Gary Morris (Physics and Astronomy)

This event, sponsored by the Core Program, is a good chance for students to ask questions of some of the members of our own academic community about the issues surrounding climate change/global warming. It will primarily be a question-and-answer session. Come deepen your understanding with the aid of some of our own experts!

Thursday, Dec 6, 2007     7:00 pm
Brauer Museum of Art

Student Coffee Hour

Voices with Vision:  Student Poetry Reading

Students from the English Department’s Poetry Writing course present a
reading of their original poetry including poems inspired by the
artworks in the Brauer Museum of Art.

Everyone is invited to attend.  Refreshments will be served.  This
activity has been approved  for 5th hour for Freshman Core.

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Saturday, December  8, 2007   2 pm
Brauer Museum of Art

Opening Reception

Japanese Prints
from the Brauer Museum of Art’s Permanent Collection
Curated by Dr. Sandy Kita

Weeds: Recent Work by Sarah Jantzi

Everyone is welcome to attend.  Admission is free.  This event has been
approved for CORE 5th hour credit.