Celebrate Spirit! and Mercy Day, Sept. 24
Celebrate Spirit! is the official welcome to the new school year for UDM faculty, staff and students. This year, Celebrate Spirit! will take place Thursday, Sept. 24, beginning at 11:30 a.m. in Gesu Church, one short block north of McNichols Road (between Oak and Quincy). After the service in Gesu, a picnic and student organization fair will take place on McNichols Campus around Fisher Fountain.
New students and new employees: you are asked to be part of the opening procession. Please gather in the Maureen A. Fay, O.P., Center, on the first floor of the Health Professions Facility, as soon as possible after morning classes end, at 11:20 a.m. See the Celebrate Spirit! web site for more information, including McNichols Campus class schedule changes for the day.
September 24 is also Mercy Day, celebrating the founding of the Religious Sisters of Mercy. Mercy Day commemorates the opening of the first House of Mercy by Catherine McAuley in Dublin, Ireland, in 1827. Find out more about the early Mercy community on the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas site.
African American Studies lecture, Sept. 22
Professor of History Roy Finkenbine will give the presentation, "Contextualizing Obama," tonight at 6:40 p.m. in the Ford Life Sciences Building, Room 115. The presentation is the first in a series of lectures, films and other events sponsored by the UDM African American Studies Program. See more on the Program's upcoming events page.
Theatre Company season begins
Enjoy the live theater experience as the UDM Theatre Company kicks off its 2009-2010 season this weekend with a production of The Winning Streak. The opening performance takes place Friday, Sept. 25 in the Marygrove Theatre and the show runs weekends through Oct. 10. Get your tickets now! A preview video of The Winning Streak is available on the Theatre Company's Facebook page.
Constitution Day observed
UDM observed Constitution Day, Sept. 17, on the anniversary of the day the U.S. Constitutional Convention signed the Constitution in 1787. You can learn about the day as well as the history and importance of the Constitution via the UDM Libraries Constitution Day web page. Constitution-related materials were also put on display in the McNichols Campus Library lobby.
Architecture events
The School of Architecture will hold a reception and exhibition of student work from the summer 2009 program in Volterra, Italy, on Monday, Sept. 28 at 5:30 p.m. in the Genevieve Fisk Loranger Architecture Center.
Also, information on the 2009-2010 Architecture lecture series is available on the Architecture events page.
Thumbs Up!
Associate Professor of Counseling & Addiction Studies Nancy Calley is author of "Promoting a contextual perspective in the application of the American Counseling Association's Code of Ethics: the ethics into action map," published in this fall's Journal of Counseling and Development.
Professor of Mechanical Engineering Shuvra Das authored the book, Mechatronics Modeling and Simulation Using Bond Graphs, which was published earlier this year by CRC Press.
UDM's Language & Cultural Training Program was featured in the August 2009 issue of The Language Educator. Adjunct Instructor of Spanish Carlos Quiñones and Language Instructors Emiko Kelley (Japanese) and Hildegard Spencer (German) were mentioned as helping coworkers in international organizations communicate across languages and cultures.