1. Tickets for Mission Week keynote speaker available Monday
2. Gospel service to celebrate Martin Luther King is today
3. Haggerty Museum book features Marquette faculty
4. E-teaching workshop series enhances teaching skills
5. Faculty, staff asked to join “Supper for 12 Strangers”
6. Director for new Office of International Education named
7. Buy-one-get-one-free women’s basketball tickets for staff
8. Healthy children discussion course begins Jan. 24
9. Rec Plex class sign-ups begin next week
10. Women’s Spirituality Discussion to focus on Parker Palmer book
11. Rec Plex swim classes begin Jan. 30
12. Marquette saddened by death of Dr. Esther Hudgins
13. Department of Math to hold logarithm colloquium
14. Marquette recognized with CASE awards
15. Business mileage reimbursement now 48.5 cents

 

1. Tickets for Mission Week keynote speaker available Monday

Tickets to attend the Mission Week keynote presentation by Enron whistleblower Lynn Brewer are available beginning Monday, Jan. 22. The tickets are free, with a limit of two per MU ID. Tickets will be available in Brooks Lounge on the lower level of the Alumni Memorial Union from noon to 11:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and 2 to 11:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday while available. Brewer will speak on Thursday, Feb. 8, at 4 p.m. in the Varsity Theatre.

Lynn Brewer, former Enron executive and whistleblower on corporate corruption, personifies this year’s Mission Week theme of “Challenged to Choose: the Courage to Act.” During her tenure at Enron, where she was responsible for risk management in energy operations, e-commerce for Enron’s water subsidiary and competitive intelligence for broadband services, she witnessed illegal and corrupt dealings including bank fraud, espionage, power price manipulation and gross overstatements to the media, public and financial world. Since leaving Enron, she became the founding chairman and CEO of The Integrity Institute, which independently assesses and certifies corporate integrity at the request of organizations for the benefit of their stakeholders.

Mission Week, Feb. 2-10, 2007, focuses on the ethical dimensions of our decisions as we manifest our core values of Faith, Excellence, Leadership and Service. For more information about Mission Week events, go online.

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3. Haggerty Museum book features Marquette faculty

In celebration of the university’s 125th Anniversary, 27 faculty and staff selected and wrote about their favorite works in the permanent collection of the university’s Haggerty Museum of Art. The illustrated, 60-page booklet includes reflections on works by Salvador Dali, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec and Andy Warhol. The publication may be viewed online and is available for $15.

4. E-teaching workshop series enhances teaching skills

The e-teaching certificate workshop series beginning Jan. 26 is open to regular and adjunct faculty as well as graduate students in the Preparing Future Faculty Program. Participants should have taken the basic D2L workshop or have learned to use D2L in some other fashion.

To earn the e-teaching certificate, participants must attend all seven sessions, not necessarily in the same semester, and prepare and present a project that uses some aspect of the technology covered in the workshops.

All sessions are 1 to 4 p.m. in Raynor 320H except the first, which is in 320A.

•  Jan. 26, Introduction and foundational principles

•  Feb. 16, Teaching blended and online courses with D2L

•  March 2, Digital imaging and scanning

•  March 9, Copyright, plagiarism and information literacy

•  March 23, Video and audio production 

•  April 13, Podcasting and media in D2L

•  April 27, Project presentations

For more information call 8-0268 or 8-6395.

5. Faculty, staff asked to join “Supper for 12 Strangers”

The Association of Marquette University Women invites faculty and staff to join its annual “Supper for 12 Strangers.” In the spirit of Jesus’ last supper with his 12 apostles, this “supper” matches current students with Marquette alumni, faculty, administrators and friends in a social setting for food, camaraderie and fun, Saturday, Feb. 24, and Sunday, Feb. 25.

Host homes are needed for two to 12 students, for either date, for lunch or dinner (your choice). Your dinner can be as formal as a gourmet meal or as casual as brats and burgers. Hosts may need to help coordinate transportation for some guests, if students do not have access to transportation.

For more information or to register, call 8-0347 or e-mail.

6. Director for new Office of International Education named

Terence (Terry) Miller joined Marquette this week as the director of the new Office of International Education. The office will bring together the previously successful but separate functions of international student support, undergraduate international student recruitment, study abroad advising and program development, and international partnership development and coordination.

Miller was previously the director of Overseas Programs and Partnerships in the Center for International Education at UW-Milwaukee. He received his bachelor’s degree in Government and Peace Studies from Manhattan College and subsequently his juris doctorate from St. John's University. After working for the Legal Aid Society in New York and the Vicaria de Solidaridad in Chile as a human rights attorney, he joined the Maryknoll Society in 1991.

Miller served the Maryknolls as the associate director and director for Africa and the Middle East for six years before moving to Ramapo College of New Jersey in 1997 as director of International and Intercultural Education until his move to UWM in 2000.

Miller’s office is temporarily in room 202 of O’Hara Hall, until renovations on the fourth floor of the AMU are complete sometime next month.

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8. Healthy children discussion course begins Jan. 24

University Ministry will begin a seven-week discussion course on healthy children on Wednesday, Jan. 24, at noon in AMU 313.

The course is a discussion forum to promote healthy and holistic values for our children and to understand the effects of advertising, media and consumer culture on children.

E-mail for more information.

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13. Department of Math to hold logarithm colloquium

The Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science is hosting a colloquium tomorrow, Friday, Jan. 19. The presentation, “Towards Effective Teaching: The Case for Logarithms,” begins at 1 p.m. in Katharine Reed Cudahy Hall, room 401.

15. Business mileage reimbursement now 48.5 cents

The business mileage reimbursement has been changed, effective Jan. 1, 2007, to 48.5 cents per mile, up four cents from the 2006 rate of 44.5. The Travel Expense Reimbursement Form on the Comptroller’s website has been adjusted to reflect this change.