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ACE Guest Speaker, John Kenrick on Leonard Bernstein
To kick off the start of the Wagner College Theatre 50th Anniversary Weekend John Kenrick, creator of the popular educational website Musicals101.com and music theatre historian, will give a lecture and presentation on composer Leonard Bernstein.
Mr. Kenrick has discussed theatre on TV and radio, including PBS, the BBC and NPR. His book Musical Theatre: A History has just been released in a revised 10th anniversary edition, acclaimed by "Publishers Weekly" as “the go-to text on this subject.”
This event is also sponsored by ACE.
Flu Vaccine
Flu Vaccine available in the Atrium while supplies last.
Students must pre-pay $25 by cash or check at the Bursar's Window at the Business Office and bring receipt with them to the Union.
Faculty and Staff may bring cash or check to the event.
Receipts for reimbursement from your insurance company will be provided!
Poet Lindsey Alexander
Poet Lindsey Alexander is the author of "Rodeo in Reverse," a collection of poetry that won the most recent the New Southern Voices Poetry Prize. Her poetry has also appeared in the Southern Review, Waxwing, Arts & Letters, and Devil’s Lake. She produces "Story of My Life," a podcast that features guests over the age of seventy. She lives in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
‘Women of Wagner’ discussion: Kavanaugh hearings
Women are welcome to be in fellowship for a meeting of Women of Wagner, a campus organization, as we share our reactions to the Kavanaugh hearings in the context of sexual assault.
Halloween Cards for S. June Smith Center
ASA welcomes everyone to come make Halloween cards for the S. June Smith Center, one of our four philanthropies.
Kaufman Repage Lecture
The annual Kaufman Repage Lecture will be delivered by Dr. Martin Picard of Columbia University.
Martin Picard, principal investigator at Columbia University’s Mitochondrial Signaling Lab, will give us “An Energetic View of the Brain-Body Connection.”
Picard asks, “How are our individuals experiences — what we feel, think, and imagine — translated into biological and physiological changes? Why does chronic life stress accelerate biological aging and predispose to disease? We will explore these questions from an energetic perspective involving the mitochondria: unique organelles that populate cells of the body and generate the energy necessary for life. The proposed view that mitochondria are an interface between the brain and body is a theoretical shift with important implications for medicine, and is currently the subject of active research.”
Dr. Picard received his BSc Honours in neuroimmunology at McGill University in 2007. He remained at McGill for his graduate work with Drs. Taivassalo, Hepple, and Burelle and obtained his PhD in mitochondrial biology of aging in 2012. Dr. Picard then moved to the University of Pennsylvania for a postdoctoral fellowship in the Center for Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine with Doug Wallace. There, he worked on mitochondria-mitochondria interactions, mitochondrial reprogramming of the nuclear transcriptome, and mitochondrial stress pathophysiology along with Bruce McEwen. In 2015, he joined the faculty at Columbia University.
Dr. Picard’s translational research program investigates the mechanisms by which acquired and inherited mitochondrial defects contribute to the damaging effects of metabolic and neuroendocrine stressors. His laboratory addresses this question by combining genetic and molecular manipulation of mitochondrial structure and functions, with systems biology approaches to capture meaningful patterns of (dys)regulation. Experimental systems used in his research include cellular, animal, and human disease models. Dr. Picard’s work integrates knowledge from basic mitochondrial biology, neuroscience, stress physiology, and mitochondrial medicine to explore conserved organizing principles of mitochondrial signal transduction, and examine the underlying mechanisms operating across levels of complexity – from organelle to organism