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  • Virtual Tuesday Night Book Club: Joan Didion’s Play It as It Lays

    Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack and Michael Thomas, each month we’ll explore a different novel. All you have to do is Zoom in and join the discussion!

    This month’s novel is Joan Didion’s PLAY IT AS IT LAYS. A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion’s Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil—literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul—it remains more than three decades after its original publication a profoundly disturbing novel, riveting in its exploration of a woman and a society in crisis and stunning in the still-startling intensity of its prose.

    When you register you will be provided the meeting link to join the conversation. CLICK HERE for more information on how to use zoom

  • How to Find a Job When the World is on Pause

    Join Mary Quinlan, CEO of Career Prep Consultants for a webinar to discuss job search strategies during COVID-19.

    Join via Zoom at 7pm EDT on Thursday, April 30.

    Meeting ID: 919 8070 4240

    Password: 2x7B9z

    This is a co-sponsored event with Career Services and Alumni Engagement

    Mary Quinlan launched Career Prep Consultants in 2007 after over 25 years of career advising experience. Her firm specializes in job search coaching, professional re-branding and career planning. She is currently a professor at LIM College in New York teaching career management. Prior to her current career, Mary worked in publishing with clients such as the Wall Street Journal, Conde Nast, Family Circle and Cosmopolitan.

  • American Women and Royal Marriages: NJ’s Dollar Princesses 

    Hosted by Melissa Ziobro, Specialist Professor of Public History in the Department of History and Anthropology

    The topic of American women and royal marriage has been popularized since British Prince Harry wed American actress Meghan Markle in 2018- but did you know that marriages between American women and European nobles once happened by the hundreds? During the Gilded Age, wealthy American heiresses married impoverished European nobles by the score. The marriages secured social status for “new money” American families often slighted by the established elites in their own country; while the infusion of American dollars allowed the impoverished nobility across the Atlantic to continue to maintain the lifestyles to which their families had been accustomed for generations. There were literally hundreds of these marriages, some more famous than others- including several featuring brides with roots in NJ. Join us as we discuss the so-called “dollar princesses” of the Gilded Age, to include Lady Monson (nee Romaine Stone, daughter of General Roy Stone of Morristown NJ), Lady Roberts (nee Elizabeth Marie LaRoche, daughter of William Tell LaRoche of Harrington Park, NJ), and Princess Miguel de Braganza (nee Anita Stewart, born in Elberon, NJ), and more. 

    Join via Zoom at 7pm EDT on May 7. Email Stacey Ayers at sayers@monmouth.edu if you plan to attend!

  • Virtual Children’s Story Time

    Parents and children grades Pre-K through grade 2 are welcome to join Monmouth University students (virtually) to celebrate Earth Day with a special edition of story time.

    Please register here in advance! For more information, please contact Aimee Parks at aedmunds@monmouth.edu.

  • Creating Financial Freedom in Uncertain Times

    It is easy to postpone healthy decisions like eating right when times are great. But it is when times are not, we can use the opportunity to make changes that can help us for our lifetimes. This is a great time to work on various aspects of our lives. For many, personal finance tops the list.

    Join Monmouth University Chair and Specialist Professor, Jeffrey Christakos, as he shares tips on how to create financial freedom, particularly in trying and uncertain times.

    Join via Zoom at 7pm EDT on April 29.

    Reach out to the Office of Alumni Engagement and Annual Giving at alumni@monmouth.edu with any questions or if you prefer to call in.

  • How to Prepare for a Virtual Interview

    How can you make a great virtual impression? Many interviews are now held virtually, and the process can feel overwhelming. In this webinar, Sara Palughi ’12 will share on what to expect during the interview, how to test the technology beforehand, prepare questions for the interviewer, and follow up after the interview. Come with plenty of questions!

    Sara Palughi

    Sara Palughi

    iCIMS
    University Recruitment and Relations

    Since joining iCIMS in 2015, Sara has built and lead the company’s University Recruitment Program by identifying and partnering with top colleges and universities to hire the best intern and early career talent to support the company’s high growth. After graduating from Monmouth University in 2012 with a degree in Communications, Sara started her career at Citigroup as a Conference and Event Coordinator before joining their Campus Recruitment and Program Management Team in 2014.

    This is a co-sponsored event with Alumni Engagement and Career Services.

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  • ‘Five Years Later: What Can Animal Law Learn from Environmental Law?’

    Monmouth University Professor Randall Abate will moderate an online panel on May 12 exploring the themes from the second edition of his 2015 book, What Can Animal Law Learn from Environmental Law? (Environmental Law Institute Press, forthcoming May 2020). The webinar, hosted by the Environmental Law Institute (ELI), will run from noon to 1:30 p.m.

    The session is free and open to the public but registration is required by May 8.

    As editor of the book, Abate assembled an experienced team of 36 academics, advocates, and legal professionals from the environmental and animal law fields to examine the experiences of these two fields. Drawing on lessons from history, politics, and law, the 29-chapter book examines how environmental law’s successes and shortcomings can inform animal law, and how the two fields can work together to secure mutual gains in the future.

    How can animal law learn from environmental law in using creative administrative law theories to align enforcement with express protections? What role does wildlife protection play in mitigating climate change? How can state false advertising statutes be used to combat food industry practices that are simultaneously harmful to animals, human health, and the environment? Join the ELI, expert contributing author panelists, and Abate to explore these issues and more in this interactive workshop.

    Panelists:
    Prof. Randall S. Abate, Rechnitz Family and Urban Coast Institute Endowed Chair in Marine and Environmental Law and Policy and Director, Institute for Global Understanding, Monmouth University, Moderator
    Mackenzie Landa, Environmental Policy Congressional Staffer, U.S. House of Representatives
    Kim E. Richman, Founding Partner, Richman Law Group
    Daniel Waltz, Staff Attorney, Animal Legal Defense Fund

  • Earth Day Webinar: Shifting Fish Species

    An Earth Day Webinar moderated by Karl Vilacoba, Communications Director for the Urban Coast Institute.

    For planning purposes, please register to kvilacob@monmouth.edu

    Webinar link: https://monmouth.adobeconnect.com/earthday/

    Details:

    A series of maps recently published on the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Data Portal illustrates the shifts that have taken place over the last five decades by several commercially and recreationally important fish species living along the East Coast. Users can automatically animate or toggle through hundreds of maps representing fish distributions during the spring or fall seasons in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s or 2010s. The Portal also added a collection of maps projecting future shifts through the year 2100, based on data previously released by OceanAdapt.

    Members of the public can learn more about the shifting species data and the Portal in a free webinar on Earth Day, April 22, from 11 a.m. to noon. Chris Bruce and Marta Ribera of The Nature Conservancy will discuss the analysis in further detail, demonstrate the maps and participate in a Q&A session.

  • VIRTUAL Tuesday Night Book Club: Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn

    Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack and Michael Thomas, each month we’ll explore a different novel. All you have to do is Zoom in and join the discussion!

    Our first selection is Colm Toibin’s celebrated Brooklyn (2009). In the novel, Eilis Lacey comes of age in small-town Ireland in the hard years following World War Two. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn offers to sponsor Eilis in America, she decides she must go, leaving her fragile mother and her charismatic sister behind. Eilis finds work in a department store on Fulton Street, and when she least expects it, finds love. Tony, who loves the Dodgers and his big Italian family, slowly wins her over with patient charm. But just as Eilis begins to fall in love, devastating news from Ireland threatens the promise of her future.

    When you register you will be provided the meeting link to join the conversation. CLICK HERE for more information on how to use zoom

  • Resilience for The Long Run: Sustaining Psychological Well-being in Trying Times


    Join Jennifer Cory ’01, M.S., M.A.P.P., and Stacey Rose, Ph.D., L.C.S.W., for a webinar to discuss the importance of psychological well-being during trying times.

    Speakers

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    Jennifer Cory, M.S., M.A.P.P., is the founder and chief hope facilitator of HEART Initiative, a social impact organization dedicated to helping people with chronic conditions/diseases/stressors live with less fear and more joy, hope, and possibility. She also maintains a psychotherapy practice where, for the past 18 years, she has had the privilege of helping clients transform trauma, loss, and pain into meaning, purpose, and post-traumatic growth. Jennifer graduated from Monmouth University with a B.S.W. (’01), and has served as both an adjunct professor and on the Dean’s Council at the School of Social Work. She has also received her M.S. from Columbia University (’02) and a Master in Applied Positive Psychology degree from University of Pennsylvania (’15).

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    Stacey F. Rose, Ph.D., L.C.S.W. is a psychotherapist specializing in helping people to create and sustain fulfilling relationships. Her practice, ‘The Rose Relationship Learning Center’ helps people in all stages of relationships and life. Because Relationships Don’t Come with Directions. With over 25 years experience as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Psychotherapist, Rose graduated from Fordham University (1991) and continued her academic journey by earning a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology in 2013. She is also trained in Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing, a treatment to help people thrive after trauma. Rose has also presented at national conferences on topics including: improving marriage, parenting, self-care, thriving after trauma, and managing fear and stress, been a regular radio guest on 94.3 FM The Point, and has been a regular columnist in The Today Paper offering guidance on mental health issues and relationships.