WednesDay, April 2 

FriDay, April 4 

4:00 p.m. | Sellinger Atrium
The Undergraduate Research and Scholarship Colloquium will feature poster and oral presentations by undergraduate students who have participated in original research and scholarship activities. A schedule of events is available at www.loyola.edu/usrsc.

Saturday, April 5 

11:00 a.m. | 4th Floor Program Room
The induction will include an introduction about Pi Mu Epsilon and guest speaker Michael Schneider, '97, will speak prior to the installation of new inductees.

Sunday, April 6 

2:00 p.m. | Humanities 324
Part of the film series dedicated to actress Bette Davis, who would have turned 100 this year. Davis plays an aging actress who takes in a gushing fan, only to discover the fan wants to take over her life. Watch for an early appearance of Marilyn Monroe. Directed by Joseph Mankiewicz in 1950.

MonDay - Tuesday, April 7 - 8 

11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. | McGuire Hall
A campus wide blood drive is coordinated with the American Red Cross once each semester. Volunteers help with publicizing these drives, signing up donors and working at the canteen on the day of the drive.

Tuesday, April 8 

5:00 p.m. | 4th Floor Program Room
Charles Martin’s most recent book of poems, Starting From Sleep: New and Selected Poems, was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Award of the Academy of American Poets. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, The Hudson Review, Boulevard and The Pushcart Prize anthology. Martin’s verse translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses received the 2004 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets; he has also translated the complete poems of Catullus. Martin has received fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as awards from The American Academy of Arts and Letters and Poetry magazine. In 2006, he was appointed Cathedral Poet-in-Residence at The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York City. He lives in Manhattan and Syracuse, New York. Part of the Modern Master's Reading Series.
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ThursDay, April 10 

FriDay, April 11 

8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. | Columbia Graduate Center
The Lattanze Spring Research Symposium will feature a collection of research findings that link the Lattanze Center with the Year of the City initiative. Topics include social networking in Baltimore, communications for virtual teams in emergencies, helping underprivileged children in India and improving IT education for women and minorities. Speakers include Jay Liebowitz from Johns Hopkins University, Michael Chuang from Towson University, Viswanath Venkatest from the University of Arkansas and John Nosek from Temple University.

FriDay - Sunday, April 11 - 13 and 18 - 20 

Saturday, April 12 

8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. | Fitness and Aquatic Center
This event, coordinated in conjunction with Loyola's Office of Recreational Sports, allows Special Olympics athletes from all over Maryland to take advantage of our wonderful athletic facility for a swimming event. Volunteers escort the athletes to their proper places, assist with timing, scorekeeping and announcing, and the presentation of the awards.

Thursday, April 17 

FriDay, April 18 

7:30 p.m. | Alumni Memorial Chapel
Proceeds from the concert will benefit Music Ministry Alive, a music ministry institute and formation program for high school and college-age students, designed to help form, educate, affirm and challenge young people who are presently involved or interested in serving the Church as liturgical musicians and leaders. Adult tickets are $13 in advance, tickets at the door are $15 for adults, $7 for students with ID and $5 for Loyola students.

WednesDay, April 23 

Loyola Chorale and Madrigal Singers

8:00 p.m. | Music Recital Room

ThursDay, April 24 

5:00 p.m. | 4th Floor Program Room
Ann Pancake's collection of short stories, Given Ground, won the 2000 Bakeless award. Other awards and prizes include a Whiting Award, an NEA Grant, a Pushcart Prize, the Glasgow Prize and Creative Writing Fellowships from the states of Washington, West 3 of 3 Virginia and Pennsylvania. Her fiction and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Glimmer Train, Virginia Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, and New Stories from the South. Her novel about mountaintop removal mining in southern West Virginia, Strange As This Weather Has Been, was published by Shoemaker & Hoard in 2007. Ann Pancake is a native of West Virginia and currently lives in Seattle, Washington. Part of the Modern Master's Reading Series.
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Friday, April 25 

8:00 p.m. | 4th Floor Program Room
Mark Crispin Miller speaks about media coverage in the upcoming (and past) election. Currently a professor at New York University in media studies, Miller is the former director of film studies at Johns Hopkins University and the author of The Bush Dyslexicon, Fooled Again, and his latest book, Loser Take All. Miller's analysis of the media covers the Ohio election controversy of 2004 as well as the current network coverage of the various primary debates. A reception and book signing will follow. Presented by the Writing Center and the Center for Humanities, this event is free an open to the public. Contact esleik@loyola.edu for more information.

FriDay - Saturday, April 25 - 26 

8:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. | Beans & Bread Center, 402 S. Bond St.
On the last Sunday of every month, Loyola students, faculty, staff, administration and their families can be found together in the kitchen of Beans & Bread preparing the meal for the day. It is a time of unity for the Loyola community and a chance to get to know other people on campus with the same interests, as well as people from the Baltimore community. Each last Sunday, the Loyola community takes full responsibility for funding, staffing and operating Beans & Bread Meal Program. If not for the Loyola community, Beans & Bread could not afford to be open on that Sunday.

MonDay, April 28