The Valpo Core

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.

The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures

and

The Office of International Studies

Valparaiso University

present

A Lecture by

Professor Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga

“Pyrenean Women and Immigration into the United States in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries”

Thursday, December 6

7:00 pm

Kade-Duesenberg German House and Cultural Center

822 Mound Street, Valparaiso

Refreshments to follow

Professor Arrizalabaga is Maître de conférences and Chair of the Department of Applied Languages at the University of Cergy-Pontoise, VU’s partner university in France. She is a specialist in Basque history and immigration issues.

You are cordially invited to help us celebrate the VU-Cergy partnership.

Flyer for Arrizabalaga talk

Here’s an interesting film that ties in with current Core readings and discussions of Elias Chacour’s book Blood Brothers. A discussion will follow the screening.

Promises, a film by Justine Shapiro, B.Z. Goldberg and co-director and editor Carlos Bolado

Tuesday, 11/13 at 7 pm in CCLIR 205
Wednesday, 11/14 at 8 pm in VUCA 1412

Sponsored by the Core Program

Promises follows the journey of one of the filmmakers, Israeli-American B.Z. Goldberg. B.Z. travels to a Palestinian refugee camp and to an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, and to the more familiar neighborhoods of Jerusalem where he meets seven Palestinian and Israeli children.

Though the children live only 20 minutes apart, they exist in completely separate worlds; the physical, historical and emotional obstacles between them run deep.

Promises explores the nature of these boundaries and tells the story of a few children who dared to cross the lines to meet their neighbors. Rather than focusing on political events, the seven children featured in PROMISES offer a refreshing, human and sometimes humorous portrait of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Running time, 106 minutes.
Arabic, Hebrew and English dialogue with English subtitles.

(This description of the film is taken from: http://www.promisesproject.org/film.html. See this website for more information. See also http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0282864/.)

“It’s about fear, death, and technology. A comedy, of course.”

Thus spoke Don DeLillo about his prize winning novel, White Noise. Has he got it right? Come find out.

John Duvall
Lecture on White Noise
Monday the 12th at 8 pm
VUCA–Duesenberg Recital Hall
Refreshments to Follow
CORE approved

A Wordfest event… and you know you like those!