1. Simmons Lecture addresses cloning and stem cell research
2. Baylor theology professor to present Schwartz Memorial Lecture
3. Chapel open for Virginia Tech tragedy prayer, reflection
4. Encourage students to attend Career Week events
5. Text chosen for 2007 First Year Reading Program
6. Horn of Africa representative featured at Soup with Substance
7. Growing Power founder to speak about the strength of farming
8. University of Chicago professor presenting seminar
9. Rex Ellis program cancelled
10. Dittman Library Research Competition winners announced
11. Haggerty to host Wisconsin Artists Biennial 2007
12. Psychology Department hosting open house
13. Biological Sciences, Chemistry and Math holding colloquiums
14. Public relations executive to discuss corporate responsibility
15. Top state bloggers participating in Law School forum
16. Who is the most interesting May graduate you know of?
17. Help serve as column marshal for Commencement
18. Gousha recognized by Associate Press, Wisconsin Alumni
19. $6 sale benefits Physical Therapy Scholarship Fund
20. MARDI GRAS sponsoring blanket collection
21. TIAA-CREF representatives available for financial counseling
22. Marquette Liturgical Choir to perform sixth annual concert
23. Folk, jazz guitarist Mulvey to perform benefit
24. Control asthma with management program
25. Donate underwear for area homeless and shelters
26. This Week in History
27. Marquette Interchange highlights for the week of April 16

1. Simmons Lecture addresses cloning and stem cell research

The annual Dr. Edward D. Simmons Lecture on Society and Human Values will feature Rev. Kevin T. FitzGerald, S.J., on Tuesday, April 17, at 4 p.m. in the Weasler Auditorium. This free, public lecture, “Human Cloning and Stem Cell Research: Prometheus or Pandora?” will explore how biomedical research raises philosophical and theological issues regarding human nature, health and the human good.
 
Father FitzGerald is the Dr. David Lauler Chair in Catholic Health Care Ethics and a research associate professor in the Georgetown University Medical Center’s Department of Oncology.

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4. Encourage students to attend Career Week events

The Career Services Center asks faculty and staff to encourage students to attend Career Week workshops, employer panels and an etiquette dinner from April 14 to 20. Topics will include breaking into career fields, job search techniques, interview tips, and career advice. Students can also earn prizes for attending 4 or more events. 

Engineering Employer Panel — Monday, April 16
Business Employer Panel — Tuesday, April 17
Arts & Sciences Employer Panel — Wednesday, April 18
Communication Employer Panel — Thursday, April 19
Nursing & Health Sciences Employer Panel — Friday, April 20

Workshops will be:
Monday, April 16 — Resume Writing 101, 4 to 5 p.m., Holthusen first floor
Tuesday, April 17 — Obtaining an Internship, 4 to 5 p.m., Raynor Library Room BC
Wednesday, April 18 — Interviewing for Success, 4 to 5 p.m., Holthusen first floor
Thursday, April 19 — First Year as a Professional, 4 to 5 p.m., Holthusen first floor
Thursday, April 19 — Etiquette Dinner, 6 to 8 p.m., Wisconsin Club

Pre-registration is required for the Etiquette Dinner. Call the CSC at 8-7423.

5. Text chosen for 2007 First Year Reading Program

The text for the 2007 First Year Reading Program will be Bombingham, by Anthony Grooms, a searing account of a key period in the civil rights movement, the massive non-violent demonstrations in Birmingham, Ala.

Told from the point of view of a young African-American boy in the spring and summer of 1963, the book describes children attacked by fire-hoses and police dogs, Martin Luther King’s dramatic arrest, and the bombing and murder of four young girls of the Sixteenth Street Baptist church by the KKK. It is a portrait of the wonder and the terror of childhood in a time when ordinary citizens risked their lives to change America.

In the Manresa Project's FYRP, all first-year students read a common text and discuss it with a faculty member during orientation. The book is often used in other fashions by faculty and alumni groups, as well. Students will receive their books at Preview in June and are expected to read it prior to arriving in August.
 
2007 is the 40th anniversary of a notable era in Milwaukee’s civil rights movement — the open housing marches of the fall of 1967 and the spring of 1968 led by Fr. James Groppi. Several events are being planned to commemorate these events, and the First Year Reading Program is honoring the occasion with this choice.

6. Horn of Africa representative featured at Soup with Substance

Scott LeFevre, Catholic Relief Services regional representative for the Horn of Africa, will speak at Soup with Substance, on Tuesday, April 17, in AMU 305, from noon to 1 p.m.

LeFevre leads Sudan-related advocacy work for C.R.S. in the United States, supporting grass-roots education and awareness-raising.

Soup with Substance is a noon-time social justice discussion series based on the model of the Catholic Worker Movement. Soup is provided. 

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7. Growing Power founder to speak about the strength of farming

Will Allen will share his life story and decision to leave his career in marketing to found Growing Power, a nonprofit training center in Milwaukee, and his work using the power of farming to shape lives. The “Real People, Real Stories” presentation will be Tuesday, April 17, at noon in AMU 227. Lunch will be served.

Growing Power has taught farming and food processing to more than 1,000 students and helped launch more than 25 urban gardens, some in the poorest counties in the United States.

The presentation is sponsored by the Manresa Project and OSD Intercultural Programs.

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9. Rex Ellis program cancelled

Weather conditions have prevented Dr. Rex Ellis, vice president of the Historic Area at Colonial Williamsburg, from traveling for his scheduled program today, Monday, April 16, at 7 p.m. in the Raynor Library Conference Center. Organizers hope to reschedule his visit for fall.

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14. Public relations executive to discuss corporate responsibility

John Paluszek, Visiting Diederich Professional-in-Residence, will discuss “Corporate Social Responsibility — Here and Around the World” on Monday, April 23, from 7 to 8 p.m. in Raynor Library Conference rooms B and C. A reception will follow.

Paluszek is senior counsel at Ketchum Communications, Inc. (New York and Washington, D.C.) specializing in reputation management.

16. Who is the most interesting May graduate you know of?

The Office of Marketing and Communication is seeking stories about graduates this May who overcame substantial obstacles in getting their degree, graduates who will be doing something unusual after graduation, a student with straight A’s, or anything else of interest. E-mail with your ideas.