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  • A Beginner’s Guide to Starting a Hydroponic Garden at Home

  • Homecoming 2020

  • The 2020 Election: Polls and Persuasion

  • Hispanic Heritage Month

  • Cancelled: Lives of the ‘Brows’: Autobiography, Taste, Ethics

    Photo of Dr. Max Cavitch, Associate Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
    Dr. Max Cavitch, Associate Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania

    Please join us for a guest lecture by Dr. Max Cavitch, Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is also an affiliated faculty member of the programs in Cinema Studies, Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, and Psychoanalytic Studies.

    Dr. Cavitch will be discussing literary taste and value in relation to autobiography—one of the world’s most popular and widely practiced genres. From “highbrow” triumphs of artistic intention to “middlebrow” narratives of historical significance to “lowbrow” tell-alls of gossipy celebrity, there are autobiographies to suit every taste. But what is “taste,” anyway? What does it have to do with “literary value”? And, moreover, what do either taste or literary value have to do with the question of whose lives and life-stories matter?

    Refreshments will be served. Students, faculty, and interested members of the public are warmly invited to attend.

    Free and open to the public.
    Sponsored by the Wayne D. McMurray Endowed Chair in the Humanities, Dr. Kristin Bluemel

  • Andrei Codrescu: My Body Is Home in America but My Mind Is Free to Be Everywhere: How I Make the World More Interesting

    Come see Andrei Codrescu for the inagural presenration from the Institute for Global Understanding

  • Robyn Crawford’s A Song For You: My Life with Whitney Houston – Book Signing

    Join us for a book signing with the author, Robyn Crawford, former member of the women’s basketball team

    About A Song For You

    Book Cover for A Song For You, by Robyn Crawford

    After decades of silence, Robyn Crawford, close friend, collaborator, and confidante of Whitney Houston, shares her story.

    Whitney Houston is as big a superstar as the music business has ever known. She exploded on the scene in 1985 with her debut album and spent the next two decades dominating the charts and capturing the hearts of fans around the world. One person was there by her side through it all—her best friend, Robyn Crawford.

    Since Whitney’s death in 2012, Robyn has stayed out of the limelight and held the great joys, wild adventures, and hard truths of her life with Whitney close to her heart. Now, for the first time ever, Crawford opens up in her new memoir, A Song for You.

    With warmth, candor, and an impressive recall of detail, Robyn describes the two meeting as teenagers in the 1980s, and how their lives and friendship evolved as Whitney recorded her first album and Robyn pursued her promising Division I basketball career. Together during countless sold-out world tours, behind the scenes as hit after hit was recorded, through Whitney’s marriage and the birth of her daughter, the two navigated often challenging families, great loves, and painful losses, always supporting each other with laughter and friendship.

    Deeply personal and heartfelt, A Song for You is the vital, honest, and previously untold story that provides an understanding of the complex life of Whitney Houston. Finally, the person who knew her best sets the record straight.

    About Robyn Crawford

    After a long career in the music industry, Robyn Crawford is now focused on mental and physical wellness and writing. She lives in New Jersey with her wife and children.

  • TechLaunch BullPen #15

    TechLaunch is a virtual business accelerator for tech startups. BullPen #15 is being hosted at Monmouth University

    The series of “BullPen” pitch events (similar in concept to “Shark Tank”) is where a select handful of 4 tech startup companies pitch their business plans to a panel of investors and mixed audience.

    Winner gets $15,000 of business services from our sponsors and the opportunity to present at Jumpstart NJ Angel Network.

    Each presenting team is screened, mentored and prepared to make a 10 minute Investor type presentation to a panel of 4 Investors and successful Entrepreneurs.

    The audience is encouraged to participate in the 7 minute Q & A session. Afterwards, the Investor panel will have 7 minutes to provide constructive feedback.

    BullPen is aimed at serious early stage tech startup companies with high growth potential, an experienced team, a demonstrated Minimum Viable Product (MVP), and at least one potential customer who is prepared to pay for your product.

    BullPen #15 Distinguished Judges Are:

    • Allen Fogel, Angel Investor…Member Golden Seeds & Robin Hood Ventures
    • Jeff Weinstein, Angel Investor and Managing Director at SpringSeed Ventures
    • Kimberly Weisul, Inc Magazine, Editor-at-Large
    • Mark Kolb, Investor…Entrepreneur in Residence at Tech Council Ventures

    Agenda:

    • 4:30 – 5:00 p.m. – Registration/Pizza/Networking
    • 5:00 – 5:15 p.m. – Introductions
    • 5:15 – 7:00 p.m. – BullPen Program (4 Investor Pitches)
    • 7:00 – 7:15 p.m. – Winners announced
    • 7:15 – TBD – Networking with Entrepreneurs and Investors

    This event is free but registration is required.
    Please use the available link to register online.

    Register for TechLaunch BullPen #15

  • Reproductive Justice 2019: Perils and Prospects

    The personal is the political has been a part of the American vocabulary since at least the 1960s. Initially this argument was a source of identity and politics-making in the male public arena, not the female domestic space. Recently, this personal has been targeted in both Western Europe and North America where varying nationalist resurgences have resulted in anti-choice legislation. In response, some American states have passed reproductive-specific protections through legislative acts of their own. Against the backdrop of culture war, what does this renewed attention to female agency and their bodies say about our broken, polarized present? What prospects lay ahead for women? And more importantly, what perils?

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    Opening Remarks

    Dr. Nancy Mezey – Dean of the Honors School

    Moderator

    Dr. Rekha Datta – Interim Provost

    Host and Organizer

    Dr. L. Benjamin Rolsky

    Panelists

    Anne C. Deepak – Associate Professor of Social Work

    Sasha N. Canan – Assistant Professor of Health and Physical Education

    Lazara G. Paz-Gonzalez – Adjunct Professor of Nursing and Health Studies

    Sponsored By:

    The Provost’s Office, The School of Humanities & Social Science and the Department of History & Anthropology in conjunction with the Program in Gender and Intersectionality Studies, The University Library, The Leon Hess Business School, The School of Education, The School of Social Work, and The Honors School.

  • Nurse Practitioner Skills Boot Camp

    Fee: $225/$200 MU Students/Alumni
    Instructional materials, continental breakfast and lunch are included in the program fee.

    8 contact hours for nurses will be provided. All participants receive a “Boot Camp” T-Shirt!

    Are you looking to enhance your advanced practice skills? Join us for an immersion program for Nurse Practitioners providing specialized training in key areas. The hands-on experience will be facilitated by content experts who will share knowledge, tips and techniques for practice.

    All participants will begin the program with Clinical Decision Making: Interpreting & Integrating Diagnostics (2 hour module) and select 2 from the following modules:

    • Radiographic Interpretation of Chest and Musculoskeletal System
    • Suturing and Wound Closure
    • Care of Common Orthopedic Injuries & Splinting Basics

    For more information, visit the School of Nursing and Health Studies Continuing Education site or contact Barbara Paskewich at bpaskewi@monmouth.edu  or 732-571-3694.