This Week At Baylor: March 25-31, 2018

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WACO, Texas (March 23, 2018) — This week at Baylor, renowned scholars, musicians and departments will offer lectures, concerts and events including a screening of "Farmland", a film by Academy Award®-winning director James Moll.

SUNDAY, March 25
Brazos Analysis Seminar — The goal of this regional, semi-annual seminar series is to bring together analysts at academic institutions within the South-Central region of the United States on a regular basis to communicate their research, with an emphasis on providing an opportunity for young researchers and graduate students to meet, collaborate and disseminate their work during the academic year. The Saturday session will be held on the ground floor of the Armstrong Browning Library. Saturday’s lunch will be at McMullen Faculty Center. Sunday session will occur in the Sid Richardson building, Room 340, 1416 S. 3rd St. For more information and a tentative schedule, visit the Brazos Analysis Seminar website.

Violinist Kevork Mardirossian in guest recital — Kevork Mardirossian, professor of violin at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, will perform a recital at Baylor University at 3 p.m. in Roxy Grove Hall, 624 Speight Ave. This recital is free and open to the public. For more information, call the Baylor University School of Music at 254-710-3991.

MONDAY, March 26
Chapel Highlights — Tim McKenzie, president and founder of On Every Word, will share a message through his multimedia presentations and gift for Scripture memorization in Waco Hall, 698 Speight Ave., at 9:05, 10:10 and 11:15 a.m. For more information, visit the chapel website.

Movie Mondays at the Hippodrome — The Waco Hippodrome will screen “SELMA,” a film following Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s campaign to secure equal voting rights through the iconic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965. The film will be followed by a tribute to Dr. King and a discussion with Baylor Missions at 7 p.m. at the Hippodrome, 724 Austin Ave. Free tickets can be picked up at the Bill Daniel Student Center ticket office.

TUESDAY, March 27
Voices & Vinyl — The third annual Voices & Vinyl concert, featuring Baylor's own Heavenly Voices Gospel Choir, will take place from 1 to 2 p.m. in the Allbritton Foyer at Moody Library. The concert will highlight selections of black gospel music inspired by the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project with a modern style. For more information, visit the Gospel Music Restoration Project website.

FARMLAND: A Documentary about the Next Generation of Farmers & Ranchers — The Baylor University Nutrition Sciences Program will host a screening of "Farmland", a film by Academy Award®-winning director James Moll, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Mary Gibbs Jones Building, Room 101 1224 S. Eighth Street (corner of Eighth and Daniels). Farmland takes the viewer inside the world of farming for a firsthand glimpse into the lives of six young farmers and ranchers in their 20’s. After the film, a few short Udder Truth videos will be shown to sort out what’s fact and what’s fiction when it comes to the dairy industry. This will be followed by a panel discussion with three agricultural experts to answer questions and promote dialogue about modern farming and ranching. For more information, visit the Baylor Family & Consumer Sciences website.

A Cappella Choir — Baylor’s A Capella choir will present a concert from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. in Jones Concert Hall in the Glennis McCrary Music Building, 110 Baylor Ave. Associate Professor of Choral Music Brian A. Schmidt conducts this choir of mixed voices. The concert is free of charge and open to the public. For more information, call the Baylor University School of Music at 254-710-3991.

Hugh Wamble Lecture Church— State Studies is bringing Melissa Rogers, a nonresident senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, to campus for the Hugh Wamble Lecture from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Kayser Auditorium in Hankamer Academic Building at the corner of Fifth Street and Speight Avenue. Rogers previously served as special assistant to President Obama and executive director of the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. For more information, visit the Church-State Studies website.

Fuzzy Bible References— Baylor Libraries will host a hands-on workshop in which participants will learn how to automatically identify fuzzy quotations (fuzzy = not word-for-word) from one text (or group of texts) to the Bible (or any other text). Workshop participants will learn how to calculate the Levenshtein distance (difference or distance between two phrases) to identify possible Bible references. No prior experience with any text analysis techniques or Bible research is required. The workshop will take place from 10:30 a.m. to noon at the Visualization Studio. The Visualization Studio is on the second floor of Poage Library. The entrance to Poage Library is accessible on the Castellaw side of Baylor Avenue between Moody and Jones Libraries. This event is open to the entire Baylor community. For more information, visit the Baylor Digital Scholarship website.

W.C. Dobbs Lecture: Craig Blomberg — George W. Truett Theological Seminary will host the W.C. Dobbs Endowed Lecture at 11 a.m. in Paul W. Powell Chapel, 1100 S. Third St. Craig Blomberg, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Denver Seminary, will present “Christians in an Age of Wealth.” For more information, visit the Truett Seminary website.

WEDNESDAY, March 28
FROM BARRIERS TO BELONGING: THE CHURCH AND PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES —Baylor’s department of religion and the J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies will host a public disabilities initiative lecture from 10 to 11 a.m. in Miller Chapel of Tidwell Bible Building, 600 Speight Ave. Eric Carter, Ph.D., Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor in the department of education at Vanderbilt University, will deliver his lecture “From Barriers to Belonging: The Church and People With Disabilities. For more information, visit the Baylor Religion website.

EHS Seminar - Dr. Paul Westerhoff, Arizona State University — Paul Westerhoff, Ph.D., Regents professor at Arizona State University, will present an environmental health seminar from 4 to 5 p.m. in Baylor Sciences Building (BSB) Room A.108, 101 Bagby Ave.

2018 Spring Physics Colloquium Series — Baylor’s College of Arts & Sciences will host the 2018 Spring Physics Colloquium Series from 4 to 5 p.m. in Baylor Sciences Building (BSB), Room E.125, 101 Bagby Ave. Jun Lou, Ph.D., professor and associate department chair or Materials Science and NanoEngineering at Rice University, will speak on “The Emergence of the Flatlands: Synthesis, Characterization and Application of Two-Dimensional Materials.” For more information contact: Dr. Anzhong Wang at 254-710-2276.

THURSDAY, March 29
Science Thursdays at the Mayborn Museum Complex — Organized and sponsored by the department of physics at Baylor University, Science Thursdays is a series of one-hour talks on various scientific topics. Touradj Solouki, Ph.D., department of chemistry and biochemistry, will speak at 7 p.m. in Mayborn Museum Complex, 1300 S. University Parks Drive. He will discuss the search for potential disease markers and the instruments and methodologies that are being used to study molecular sizes and shapes. Guests may join the speaker for coffee and cookies before the lecture at 6:30 pm. Science Thursdays lectures are free and open to the public; however, admission to the museum is not included. For more information, visit the Mayborn Museum website.

by Joy Moton , student newswriter, (254) 710-6805

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