— April 16, 2007—

Contents

  1. Win $100 Target gift card with health assessment survey
  2. Arts & Sciences graduation tickets available beginning today
  3. Chapel open for Virginia Tech tragedy prayer, reflection
  4. Career Week giveaways, workshops and employer panels
  5. Simmons Lecture addresses cloning and stem cell research
  6. Baylor theology professor to present Schwartz Memorial Lecture
  7. Text chosen for 2007 First Year Reading Program
  8. Horn of Africa representative featured at Soup with Substance
  9. Growing Power founder to speak about the strength of farming
  10. University of Chicago professor presenting seminar
  11. Rex Ellis program cancelled
  12. Dittman Library Research Competition winners announced
  13. Haggerty to host Wisconsin Artists Biennial 2007
  14. Psychology Department hosting open house
  15. Biological Sciences, Chemistry and Math holding colloquiums
  16. Public relations executive to discuss corporate responsibility
  17. Top state bloggers participating in Law School forum
  18. Who is the most interesting May graduate you know of?
  19. Join Senior Week Staff
  20. $6 sale benefits Physical Therapy Scholarship Fund
  21. MARDI GRAS sponsoring trip, events, blanket collection
  22. Club Running holding program on marathon training
  23. What’s cooking at cuisine demonstrations?
  24. See, meet Jack’s Mannequin this week
  25. Bring brothers and sisters to RHA’s Lil’ Sibs Weekend
  26. Marquette Liturgical Choir to perform sixth annual concert
  27. Folk, jazz guitarist Mulvey to perform benefit
  28. Control asthma with management program
  29. Donate underwear for area homeless and shelters
  30. This Week in History

 

1. Win $100 Target gift card with health assessment survey

Undergraduate students are strongly encouraged to monitor their EMARQ mailbox for an e-mail today, Monday, April 16, requesting their participation in the National College Health Assessment from the American College Health Association. Everyone who returns a completed survey will be entered in a drawing to win prizes, including Target gift cards and MU Cash.

Random students will receive an email from NCHA-Web@acha.org.

The assessment is used to help college health providers, health educators, counselors and administrators collect data about students’ health habits, behaviors and perceptions. Your participation is strictly confidential.  
 
For more information about the assessment, call Amy Melichar in the Center for Health Education and Promotion at 8-5217. For more information about your health concerns, contact Student Health Service at 8-7184.

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2. Arts & Sciences graduation tickets available beginning today

For the first time ever, tickets will be needed to attend the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences graduation ceremony due to capacity limitations at the Al McGuire Center. The ceremony will take place on Sunday, May 20, following the university ceremony. Tickets are required for all guests. Graduates do not need tickets.

Graduates may obtain four complimentary tickets with their MU ID from today, April 16, to Friday, April 20, from noon to 11:30 p.m. at the Brooks Lounge, AMU first floor. After the initial distribution, unclaimed tickets will be released on a first-come, first-served basis on Wednesday, April 25, at the Brooks Lounge, beginning at noon. Tickets will not be available the day of the event and lost tickets cannot be replaced

3. Chapel open for Virginia Tech tragedy prayer, reflection

In light of this morning's violence at Virginia Tech, the Chapel of the Holy Family, AMU, will be open from 4 to 10 p.m. for quiet reflection and prayer. The 10 p.m. Mass at St. Joan of Arc Chapel will continue as scheduled.

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4. Career Week giveaways, workshops and employer panels

Take advantage of the Career Services Career Week event to help draft your resume, interview, find a job, and break into your field.

Students who attend four or more events win a free ticket to the Etiquette Dinner or a Marquette padfolio. Pick up a punch card at the Career Services Center or download it.

Employer panels will discuss job search techniques, interview tips and career advice. All panels are from noon to 1 p.m. on Holthusen Hall first floor:

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. 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.

6. Baylor theology professor to present Schwartz Memorial Lecture

Dr. Ralph C. Wood, professor of theology and religion at Baylor University, Waco, Texas, will present the second Joseph M. Schwartz Memorial Lecture at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 18, in Raynor Library conference rooms B&C. Wood’s free presentation is titled “God May Strike You Thisaway: Flannery O’Connor and Simone Weil on Affliction and Joy.” A reception will follow. 

Wood, the author of many books, essays, articles and reviews, is editor-at-large for The Christian Century. The printed version of Wood’s lecture appears in the spring issue of Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature.

The lecture honors Joseph M. Schwartz, who died in 2002. He was emeritus professor of English at Marquette and former editor and senior editor of Renascence, the 60-year-old scholarly journal published at Marquette since the 1950s.

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7. 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.

8. 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. 

9. 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.

10. University of Chicago professor presenting seminar

The Integrative Neuroscience Research Center will present a seminar featuring Dr. Paul Vezina, associate professor of psychiatry, neurobiology, pharmacology and physiology at the University of Chicago. He will speak on “Sensitization and drug taking: Exploring a role for enhanced dopamine and glutamate signaling” on Tuesday, April 17, from 4 to 5 p.m. in room 356 of Schroeder Complex.

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11. 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.

12. Dittman Library Research Competition winners announced

Three students will collect $200 at a Dittman Library Research Competition award ceremony and social open to the campus community on Thursday, April 19, at 2 p.m.in the Raynor Conference Center, Suite A.

Kaye Wierzbicki won the freshman/sophomore category with her English 171 (Krueger/Wiegand) paper, "Bridging the Gap between Subject and Object: Autobiographical Discourse in Fiction as a Means to Justice." James Conway won the junior/senior category for "A Legion of Heroes: The Return of Milwaukee's Union Veterans in the Gilded Age," written for History 196 (Jablonsky). Abby Mattson's paper, "Investigation of NO Formation in Internal Combustion Engines Using Laser-Induced Fluorescence for MEEN 159 (Koch) won the graduate/professional award.

The 10th annual competition is named for Maria Dittman (1931-2005), instruction librarian at Marquette for more than 25 years.

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13. Haggerty to host Wisconsin Artists Biennial 2007

The Haggerty Museum of Art will host the Wisconsin Artists Biennial 2007, an exhibition of works in all media by Wisconsin painters and sculptors, from April 19 through July 15. This juried exhibition features new works from more than 60 Wisconsin artists chosen from more than 400 entrants.

The exhibition opening will be on Sunday, April 22, featuring a 1 p.m. panel presentation discussing "Regional Art in a Period of Globalization." Panelists will include Lee Coppernoll, acting director of the Haggerty Museum of Art, Tom Lidtke, executive director of the Museum of Wisconsin Art, and Stephen Fleischman, director of the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. The presentation and reception are free and open to the public.

The Wisconsin Artists Biennial 2007 is coordinated by Wisconsin Painters and Sculptors, who invited Wisconsin artists to submit works created since 2003. They were selected by Marianne Richter, curator of the Union League Club of Chicago.

14. Psychology Department hosting open house

The Psychology Department, recently relocated to Cramer Hall third floor, will hold an open house on Friday, April 20, from 1 to 4 p.m. Refreshments will be served. A brief program, with remarks by Rev. Robert Wild, S.J., will begin at 3:30 p.m. in room 326.

Formerly located in Schroeder Complex, the Psychology Department office is located in Cramer Hall 317 and the department chair, Dr. Michael Wierzbicki, is in 317B.   

Contact Sherri Lex for more information.

15. Biological Sciences, Chemistry and Math holding colloquiums

Three departments will host colloquiums on Friday, April 20.

Dr. David Baker, assistant professor of biomedical sciences, will present “Probing Outside of the Synapse: Extrasynaptic Glutamate and Neural Disorders,” at 3:30 p.m. in Wehr Life Sciences, room 111.

Dr. Kathleen Carrado, Argonne National Laboratory, will present the Department of Chemistry’s colloquium at 4 p.m., in the Todd Wehr Chemistry Building, room 121. Dr. Carrado will speak on “Silicate-Based Catalysts and Nanocomposites for Energy Applications.”

The Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science is hosting a colloquium presented by Dr. Matt Insall, associate professor of mathematics at the University of Missouri, at 4 p.m. in Katharine Reed Cudahy Hall, room 401. The program topic is “Differentiation in Some Topological Structures.”

16. 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.

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17. Top state bloggers participating in Law School forum

The Law School will join WisPolitics.com in hosting the second Wisconsin Blog Summit on Saturday, April 28, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Sensenbrenner Hall, room 307.   

Participants will include top state bloggers and commentators Jay Bullock, Tim Cuprisin, Brian Fraley, Ed Garvey, Eugene Kane, Jessica McBride, Owen Robinson and Charlie Sykes. They will analyze the impact bloggers are having on politics and journalism. Mike Gousha, distinguished fellow in law and public policy, will moderate.

Attendance is free but advanced registration is required. Refreshments will be served.
   
For more information contact Christine Wilczynski-Vogel at 8-3167.

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18. 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.

19. Join Senior Week Staff

Consider giving back to the graduating seniors by staffing events during MUSG Senior Week, May 14 to 19. Interested freshman, sophomores and juniors must be willing to help out at any events during MUSG Senior Week. Applications are available in the MUSG office, AMU.

Contact Stephen Ryan for more information.

20. $6 sale benefits Physical Therapy Scholarship Fund

Stop by the Physical Therapy Faculty Student Scholarship Fund $6 sale in AMU from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday to check out the merchandise. Twenty percent of sales benefit the doctoral program scholarship fund. Marquette cash and credit cards are accepted.

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21. MARDI GRAS sponsoring trip, events, blanket collection

Help hurricane victims in the town of Bayou La Batre, Ala., by donating new and gently used blankets this week. MARDI GRAS volunteers who went to the Gulf Region over spring break witnessed the great need for supplies even a year and a half after Hurricane Katrina. Collection boxes will be located in the residence halls and the union from today, April 16, to Saturday, April 21. E-mail to arrange for a pick-up or for more information.

SPAARK WEEK, Students Promoting Action and Awareness in Response to Katrina sponsored by MARDI GRAS, will feature several events this week, April 17 to 20:

Tuesday — Bake Sale in Straz Business Tower; Open Mic Night in the Brew Bayou, AMU, at 7 p.m.

Wednesday and Thursday — Spike Lee's "When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts," in Johnston Hall 103 from 7 to 9 p.m.

Friday — Cajun dinner commemorating the victims of Hurricane Katrina, from 5 to 7 p.m. in AMU 227.

MARDI GRAS will sponsor another trip to New Orleans from Sunday, May 13, to Sunday, May 20. The group will aid a relief organization in clean-up and rebuilding, including gutting homes, cleaning up lots and spreading disaster preparedness awareness. Applications are due Wednesday, April 18. Spots will be filled by the first 20 applicatants. Contact Dan Lindberg for an application.  

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22. Club Running holding program on marathon training
  
Dr. Carolyn Smith, a seasoned marathon and ultramarathon runner, will share her experiences and answer questions about marathon training on Wednesday, April 18, at 6 p.m. in Lalumiere Language Hall 175. She will cover training programs, improving your time, fueling for the race and staying injury-free.

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23. What’s cooking at cuisine demonstrations?
 
The Pacific Islands Student Organization and OSD Intercultural Programs will sponsor a cooking demonstration featuring Asian and Pacific Island cuisine at noon Thursday, April 19, as part of April’s Asian & Pacific Islander Heritage Celebration. They will also host a Make Your Own Sushi Night at 5 p.m. Friday, April 20.

Stop by the Multicultural Center, AMU 121, for either event to enjoy and learn how to make a dish or two.

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24. See, meet Jack’s Mannequin this week

Tickets for Jack’s Mannequin, a rock band from Orange, Calif., are on sale in Brooks Lounge, first floor of AMU. Tickets for the April 19 performance at the Varsity Theatre are $15 for Marquette students and $20 for the general public (must be age 18 or older to attend). The opening act will be Treaty of Paris. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for the 7:30 p.m. concert, which is sponsored by MUSG.


Marquette Radio and MUSG will also host a Meet & Greet with Jack’s Mannequin for 10 winners on Thursday April 19. To enter, just sign up for the Friends of Marquette Radio mailing list.

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25. Bring brothers and sisters to RHA’s Lil’ Sibs Weekend

Invite little siblings, cousins, or family friends interested in solving the Marquette Mystery to Marquette from April 20 to 22 for Residence Hall Association’s annual Lil’ Sibs Weekend. Events include an opening picnic, a trip to the Milwaukee Museum, a campus game of Clue, and more. Register online.

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26. Marquette Liturgical Choir to perform sixth annual concert

Join the Marquette Liturgical Choir, the ensemble that sings for the 4 p.m. Sunday Mass at Gesu Church, for its sixth annual spring concert, "Holy God, We Praise Thy Name." The free concert will be held Saturday, April 21, at Gesu Church at 7:30 p.m. The evening will include scripture and a variety of songs ranging from Mozart to Gospel to contemporary composers. Audience members will be invited to sing along on various pieces, including the final selection, a contemporary setting to the traditional hymn, “Holy God, We Praise Thy Name.” The concert is free and open to the public.

For more information contact Rachelle Kramer at 8-3695.

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27. Folk, jazz guitarist Mulvey to perform benefit

Jazz and folk guitarist Peter Mulvey will perform a benefit concert on Sunday, April 22, at 7 p.m. in the Helfaer Theatre.

Tickets are a minimum $25 donation to the Marquette University Department of Performing Arts “Dublin Project,” which is an intensive student workshop abroad with Patrick Sutton, artistic director of Ireland’s premier drama school, the Gaiety School of Acting. Tickets will also be available to Marquette students for $10, with ID, starting at 6:30 p.m. prior to the show.

Contact the box office at 8-7504.

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28. Control asthma with management program

Dennis Sobush, associate professor physical therapy, will coordinate an asthma management program on Monday, April 23, and Monday, April 30, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. in Cramer Hall, room 267D.

Sobush will present the “Breathe Well, Live Well” program of the American Lung Association, teaching adults how to control asthma symptoms and enhance their enjoyment of daily living activities. Content will include identifying and avoiding triggers, recognizing warning signs of an asthma attack, developing a medication schedule, measure peak flow, creating an asthma management action plan, and getting the most from healthcare providers.

Attendees must be at both sessions and register at 8-7161 by April 19. Participation and all training materials are free. Refreshments will be provided.

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29. Donate underwear for area homeless and shelters

The Marquette University Volunteers are collecting new undergarments for Undie Monday, April 30, in celebration of National Volunteer Week, April 15-21. All underwear will be given to area homeless or shelters.

Half of the available gift tags, similar to those distributed during the holiday giving tree celebration, are still available to help select the sizes and type of underwear and ensure that a wide variety of sizes from children to adults will be donated. All undies should be returned with the tag attached by April 30 to the AMU Information Desk or Lalumiere 340. Financial contributions are also accepted.

Contact Kathleen Hawkins at 8-5500 for gift tags or more information.

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30. This Week in History

In This Week in Marquette History, the United States Navy named a cargo ship for Marquette, and a sculpture got a new home.

Want to know more?  Go to the 125th Anniversary Web site.

This Week in History is sponsored by the Marquette University Department of History.  Research and writing was conducted by graduate students Gilbert Cervelli, Christopher Chan, Jess McCullough and Amanda Schmeider, with help from James Marten, professor and history department chair, and Carla Hay, associate professor and chair, 125th Anniversary Committee.  Special thanks to Thomas Jablonsky, associate professor of history, Harry G. John Professor of Urban Studies and director, Institute for Urban Life, who provided access to the manuscript of his forthcoming history of Marquette University.

31. Marquette Interchange highlights for the week of April 16

•  The daytime drilling at 10th and Tory Hill will be complete early this week.

•  Daytime piling/sheeting will be driven on Tory Hill, west of 10th St. this week.

•  Daytime pile driving will take place south and east of 6th and Michigan, on the new westbound I-794.

•  Daytime demolition work continues this week at 13th St. south of Clybourn, and on the High Rise Bridge over the Menomonee River Valley.

•  St. Paul Ave. between 5th and 13th streets will be closed to through traffic in both directions on Monday, April 16. This closure will begin at 5:30 p.m. and will end at 6 a.m. the following morning.

•  There will be a full closure of northbound I-43 at National Ave. on Monday, April 16, from 11:59 p.m. to 5 a.m. the following morning.

•  The Plankinton off-ramp from northbound I-43 will be closed on Tuesday, April 17, from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. on Wednesday morning.

News Briefs is published Mondays and Thursdays, except in summer when only the Monday edition is published, and as news warrants by the Office of Marketing and Communication for Marquette students. The deadline for the Monday edition is noon Friday. The deadline for the Thursday edition is noon Wednesday.

Comments? Questions? Is there news you would like to share? E-mail, call 8-6712, fax 8-7197 or send your note in campus mail to News Briefs, Office of Marketing and Communication.