1. Forward Thinking Poster Session and Colloquy planned
2. Sexual Violence Awareness Week 2006: Steps Toward Change
3. Les Aspin Center honors Congressman and civil rights leader
4. Al’s Run will necessitate closure of Wells Street
   
5. Retreat for busy people and 19th Annotation offered
6. Biological Sciences hosts Friday Seminar
7. College of Nursing honored
8. Is your information correct? Check it out!
9. Diversity Meet and Greet today
10. Raynor Memorial Library to host Fall Colloquium
11. Best practices for managing your junk e-mail
12. Gesu offers new ministry for those dealing with mental illness
13. Enjoy Campus Town fall fest 2006 today
14. Group Fitness classes still have openings
15. University Events
    

1. Forward Thinking Poster Session and Colloquy planned

The Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Office of Research and Sponsored Programs are inviting faculty members to participate in a Forward Thinking Poster Session and Colloquy.

For each project, presenters may choose the presentation format that best suits their discipline or project: poster or colloquy.

This goal of this event is to celebrate and encourage faculty research that involves students, including research in the humanities; behavioral and cognitive sciences; social and economic sciences; engineering; computer and information sciences; education; math and physical sciences; medical and health sciences; nursing; law; business; biological and biomedical sciences; and interdisciplinary research.

Important Dates:

• October 2, 2006:  Submit “Intent to Participate” form to ORSP by 4:00 p.m.
• November 6, 2006:  Submit Letter and Abstract to Karen.Welniak@marquette.edu by 4 p.m.
• December 5, 2006:  Poster Session and Colloquy 1-3:30 p.m.  Reception to follow from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.

This event is unique: Presentations will focus on projects that will take place in the next 12 months.  The projects being presented may still be in the planning phase.  Presenters might have preliminary results, or they might not.  A project being presented may be the next logical step in a well-established research program, or it may explore an entirely new path.  Indeed, posters and presentations might well resemble proposals.

Three grants of up to $1,000 each will be awarded to faculty researchers.

Please go online for further information and guidelines.

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2. Sexual Violence Awareness Week 2006: Steps Toward Change

A weeklong series of events is being planned Sept. 17-22 in connection with Sexual Violence Awareness Week.

Students are invited to gather in the Central Mall at 5 p.m. Sunday to participate in the kickoff event, creation of the largest human awareness ribbon. The Men of O’Donnell Hall will also begin the fourth annual Teeter Totter Marathon to raise funds for the Task Force on Family Violence.

On Monday, Sept. 18, a Soup with Substance lunch at noon in the Henke Lounge will feature Carmen Pitre, a local expert on family violence, and Kasey Ollie, health educator in Marquette’s Center for Health Education and Promotion. Their topic is: Human Rights and Social Justice – A New Way to Look at Family Violence.

Informational tables and the Clothesline Project will be at the AMU all week. The clothesline includes t-shirts designed by survivors of sexual violence.

Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to wear purple and teal, the colors of activism to end sexual violence. Purple and teal ribbons will be handed out at various events.

For further details surrounding the events and/or how to get your group involved, please call the Center for Health Education and Promotion at 288-5217 or visit the Website.

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3. Les Aspin Center honors Congressman and civil rights leader

Noted civil rights leader U.S. Rep. John Lewis of Georgia will receive the Les Aspin Democracy Award from Marquette’s Les Aspin Center for Government Monday.

Lewis will be recognized for his leadership during the Civil Rights Movement and for his tireless efforts on the issues of race relations, poverty, and the problems that plague cities. He was a lead organizer and keynote speaker at the historic March on Washington in August 1963. In 1964, Lewis coordinated voter registration drives and community action programs during the Mississippi Freedom Summer. The following year, Lewis led more than 600 peaceful protestors across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on Mar. 7, 1965. They intended to march from Selma to Montgomery to demonstrate the need for voting rights in the state. The marchers were attacked by Alabama state troopers in a confrontation that became known as "Bloody Sunday." News broadcasts and photographs revealing the cruelty of the segregated South helped hasten the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

After serving on the Atlanta City Council, Lewis was elected to Congress in November 1986 and has served as U.S. Representative of Georgia's Fifth Congressional District since then.

Past Aspin Center honorees have included Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, U.S. Senators Robert and Elizabeth Dole, U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye and General Brent Scowcroft.

More information on the Les Aspin Center for Government is available online.

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4. Al’s Run will necessitate closure of Wells Street
 
Briggs & Al’s Run & Walk for Children’s Hospital on Saturday will necessitate the closure of Wells Street between 10th and 16th Streets from approximately 7 to 11 a.m. Therefore, there will be no access to parking lots A and D.
 
The Wells Street structure will be accessible only from Kilbourn, and lot F will be reached only from Wisconsin Avenue.
 
Those participating the run or coming to campus Saturday morning are encouraged to use Parking Structure #1. Both the 16th and 17th Street gates will be open, and there will be no visitor charge or permit requirement.
 
Haven’t register for the run and walk? You can still do so online. Be sure you indicate that you are a Marquette participant!

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5. Retreat for busy people and 19th Annotation offered

The Faber Center for Ignatian Spirituality is offering two different retreats in daily life.  You should have received a flyer about the retreat for busy people that lasts about eight weeks where participants commit to prayer and spiritual direction.  The retreat begins on Tuesday, Sept. 19, from 12:15 to 1 p.m. in the Chapel of the Holy Family. To sign up, contact the Faber Center at 8-5059.

The 19th Annotation is a much greater commitment to prayer, some silence and seeing a retreat director once a week. It lasts six to eight months, with sessions individually scheduled.  In the 19th Annotation, or the 19th note in the Spiritual Exercises, Ignatius said the Exercises could be modified for people who could not go away for 30 days so that they could experience the Exercises.  A person starting this endeavor should already have some experience with prayer and be able to commit to an hour or an hour and a half each day.

Mike Hogan, Director of the Faber Center, will be leading participants in this form of the Spiritual Exercises.  If you are interested or just curious about the 19th Annotation, call Mike at 8-5059.

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6. Biological Sciences hosts Friday Seminar

The featured speaker at this week’s Friday Seminar, hosted by the Department of Biological Sciences, is Dr. John E. Speich from the Mechanical Engineering Department at Virginia Commonwealth University. He will speak about the “Characterization and Modeling of Adjustable Passive Stiffness in Smooth Muscle.”

The session begins at 3:30 p.m. in room 111 of the Wehr Life Sciences Building.
The seminars are free and open to the public as well as students, faculty and staff. They are supported by the School Endowment and the Wehr Foundation.

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7. College of Nursing honored

Dean Lea Acord accepted the 2006 Hope & Spirit Award from Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital Wednesday on behalf of the College of Nursing.

Hope & Spirit Award winners are selected for demonstrating a dedication to improving the health status of the community; resolve to address a serious healthcare challenge;passion and courage; and the ability to inspire others. 

Pamela Maxson-Cooper, chief nursing officer and vice president of patient care services at Froedert Hospital, said, "Your present and former students make incredible things happen at Froedtert everyday."

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• Cardio Tone – Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7 to 8 a.m. AND Mondays and Wednesdays from 11 a.m. to noon
• Stability Ball – Mondays and Wednesdays from 8 to 8:45 a.m.
• Intense Body Conditioning – Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.
• Spinning – Mondays and Wednesdays from 12:30 to 1:15 p.m.
• Circuit Exercise - Variety of days/times available 

For more details, pick up a brochure at the Helfaer Recreation Center.