Workshop on finding and using Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) social science data!

Would you like to increase your skills at searching, downloading and analyzing ICPSR data? Are you looking to bring data analysis into the classroom? Would you simply like to become more familiar with what ICPSR has to offer?

Finding and using ICPSR social science data
Thursday, February 19th, 4 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Information Commons, Room 120

ICPSR is the world’s largest collection of digital social science data – www.icpsr.umich.edu. These data can be used for secondary research, instructional activities, and to write articles, papers or theses.

Data cover topics including sociology, political science, economics, demography, education, child care, health care, crime, minority populations, aging, terrorism, substance abuse, mental health, public policy, and international relations.

MacArthur “genius” Stuart Dybek and critically acclaimed master of the short story, will present “Loyola in Fiction”. He will read a few passages from a few of his short stories, “Seiche” and “Lunch at the Loyola Arms” and talk about the sense of place and the role of autobiography in fiction. Q & A and reception will follow.

Dybek’s work is heavily influence by his experiences growing up in Little Village-Pilsen, a diverse immigrant neighborhood on the southwest side of Chicago. The Chicago Tribune described his works as “Spellbinding stories that are, by turns, hilarious, stunning and tragic, but always deeply moving, genuine and compassionate.”

Mr. Dybek received a bachelor degree and later a M.A. in literature from Loyola University Chicago and a M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. He currently teaches at Northwestern University after more than 30 years teaching at Western Michigan University, where he remains an Adjunct Professor of English and a member of the permanent faculty of the renowned Prague Summer Program.

Date & Location:
Thursday, February 05, 2009 – 6:00 pm
Information Commons, 4th Floor
6525 North Sheridan Road
Lake Shore Campus

RSVP to Carol Franklin at 773.508.2641 or cfrankl@luc.edu.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Join social historian Ellen Skerrett for an illustrated slide lecture, as she highlights discoveries she made in researching and writing Loyola’s first published history.  Born in Chicago: A History of Chicago’s Jesuit University reclaims Loyola’s urban roots and explores the evolution of the university from its beginnings in 1870 on the city’s Near West Side. Immediately following her lecture, Ellen Skerrett, will be available to sign her book.  A reception will follow.

She is the co-author of Chicago, City of Neighborhoods (1986) and Catholicism, Chicago Style (1993). Ms. Skerrett has been a consultant for the Jane Addams Papers Project, Duke University; project coordinator & associate editor for the University of Illinois at Chicago’s “Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull House and its Neighborhoods” website; and the primary scholar advisor for “Catholic Chicago” exhibit at the Chicago History Museum.

Date & Location:
Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 6:00 pm
Information Commons, 4th Floor
6501 N. Kenmore Avenue
Lake Shore Campus

Free Admission. Book signing and reception to follow.
Reception co-sponsored by the Office of the President. 
RSVP to Carol Franklin at 773.508.2641 or cfrankl@luc.edu.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Join social historian Ellen Skerrett for an illustrated slide lecture, as she highlights discoveries she made in researching and writing Loyola’s first published history.  Born in Chicago: A History of Chicago’s Jesuit University reclaims Loyola’s urban roots and explores the evolution of the university from its beginnings in 1870 on the city’s Near West Side. Immediately following her lecture, Ellen Skerrett, will be available to sign her book.  A reception will follow.

She is the co-author of Chicago, City of Neighborhoods (1986) and Catholicism, Chicago Style (1993). Ms. Skerrett has been a consultant for the Jane Addams Papers Project, Duke University; project coordinator & associate editor for the University of Illinois at Chicago’s “Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull House and its Neighborhoods” website; and the primary scholar advisor for “Catholic Chicago” exhibit at the Chicago History Museum.

Date & Location:
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 6:00 pm
Kasbeer Hall, 15th Floor
25 East Pearson
Water Tower Campus

Free Admission. Book signing and reception to follow.
Reception co-sponsored by the Office of the President. 
RSVP to Carol Franklin at 773.508.2641 or cfrankl@luc.edu.

Loyola University Libraries will be hosting a Book Discussion on The Right Stuff at Lewis Library, 25 East Pearson, WTC on Thursday, October 16 at 2:00 pm in Room 713.  Janette Kopacz, a Loyola alumna and a librarian from Chicago Public Library, will be facilitating the event. Please join us as we take flight to discuss the early days of space travel and Tom Wolfe’s energetic reportorial style!    For more information, please contact Cathy Miesse at cmiesse@luc.edu or 773-508-2674.

Thursday, May 1, 2008 from 12-1pm, guest lecturer Ann Shanahan will be speaking in Piper Hall, Room 201 on:

“Blocking” Medea and Hedda: Applying Feminist Dramatic Theory to Staging Two Classic Plays About Women

You are welcomed to bring a bagged lunch. For more information on this event or the WLA Lecture Series, please e-mail: aeckhardt [at] luc.edu

The Loyola University Libraries will host a discussion on Raymond Chandler’s The Long Goodbye on Thursday, April 24th at 2:00p.m. at Lewis Library, WTC, 25 East Pearson, Room 713.  The Long Goodbye is the One Book, One Chicago program’s fourteenth featured book.  Janette Kopacz, a Loyola alumna and a Chicago Public Librarian will facilitate the discussion.  Join us!

“Chandler, who was born right here in Chicago, has been referred to by many critics as one of the most important writers of the 20th century. His distinct style has influenced fiction, film and more, well beyond just the crime genre. Not only did he create one of fiction’s most memorable portraits of a city — Los Angeles– in books like The Big Sleep, Farewell My Lovely, and The Long Goodbye, he created one of the most well-known heroes of his time or ours when he created private detective Philip Marlowe. ” –Richard M. Daley

Dr. Joseph E. Stiglitz from Columbia University will be at Loyola on April 17 to discuss his new book, The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict. The Department of Political Science will be sponsoring the lecture on Thursday, April 17th from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. in the Galvin Auditorium on the Loyola University Chicago Lake Shore Campus. Reception to follow.

Professor Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize winning economist. He was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1993-1995 and CEA chairperson from 1995-1997. To learn more about Professor Stiglitz and read a brief description of his new book, visit his website.

Contact Professors Vincent Mahler or Claudio Katz at 773-508-3047 for more information.

The Materials and Techniques of Book Production in the Middle Ages
Lecture By: Dr. Elizabeth Teviotdale, Assistant Director of the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University
Location: Regis Multipurpose Room (LSC Campus)
Sponsored by: Department of English and the EGSA (English Graduate Student Association)

The Frontiers in Life Sciences Symposium will be holding a seminar at the Crown Center Auditorium on the Loyola University Chicago Lake Shore Campus. It will take place on April 18th at 4:00 pm. The keynote speaker, Dr. Lynn Margulis, is a distinguished university professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1983. In 1999 she received the National Medal of Science from President Clinton and The Library of Congress announced it will permanently archive her papers. She was a faculty mentor at Boston University for 22 years.

Her publications span a wide range of scientific topics and she greatly furthered the study and understanding of cell biology and microbial evolution. She is best known for her theory of symbiogenesis, which challenges a central tenet of neo-Darwinism.