Week of November 17, 2008

• Classroom "Clickers" Introduced on Campus
  More than 350 Personal Response System handheld "clickers" are being used by a number of PC faculty members. more
• PC's Branham to be Featured in PBS Documentary
  Dr. Joan R. Branham, associate professor of art history, will appear as a scholarly consultant in a PBS NOVA documentary, The Bible's Buried Secrets, on Tuesday, November 18, at 8:00 p.m. more
• Inaugural Parents Leadership Council Convenes
  The PC Parents for Providence Association's new Parents Leadership Council gathered for the first time during Freshman Family Weekend. more
  
• Read more headlines in PC News.

• Dugan '95 Producing Sci-Fi "Ghost Hunters" Series
  Jim Dugan '95 returned to PC to speak to students about his job as supervising producer of Ghost Hunters. more
  

• Dr. James M. Carlson, professor of political science, and Dr. Joseph P. Cammarano, assistant professor of political science, were interviewed for the October 27 - November 2 edition of The Providence Business News. The story, "Debates help to extend the classroom," focused on election-related events on college campuses in Rhode Island. more
  

• Friars’ Cross Country Teams Qualify for NCAA Championships
  BRONX, N.Y. – Providence College won the women’s race and placed second in the men’s race at the NCAA Division I Northeast Regional Cross Country Championships on November 15 at Van Cortlandt Park. Both teams automatically qualified for the NCAA Division I Championships on November 24 in Terre Haute, Ind.  more
• Joyce Murphy Soccer Suite Opens in Alumni Hall
  More than 130 people were on hand for the dedication of the new Joyce Murphy Soccer Suite for men's soccer. more

Featured events:

• Tuesday, November 18, 7:00 p.m.
  Men's basketball vs. Dartmouth
• Thursday, November 20, 7:00 p.m.
  Men's basketball vs. Sacred Heart
• Friday, November 21, 7:00 p.m.
  Women's hockey vs. Mercyhurst
• Saturday, November 22, 2:00 p.m.
  Men's basketball vs. Maine
• Saturday, November 22, 7:00 p.m.
  Women's hockey vs. Niagara

Featured event:

• Rev. Robert J. Randall Distinguished Professor of Christian Culture Lecture, "The Stigmata of St. Francis: Where was Brother Leo?"
  Dr. Robert Kiely will present his second lecture as the 2008-09 Rev. Robert J. Randall Distinguished Professor of Christian Culture on Tuesday, November 18, at 3:30 p.m. in Moore Hall III on campus. more

• November 17, 5:45 p.m.
  "Careers and the Current Economy"
• November 19, 4:00 p.m.
  St. Albert the Great Lecture, "Religion and the Constitution"
• November 19, 4:30 p.m.
  "After Obama: Conversation on Race and Gender"
• November 20, 12:15 p.m. 
  "Just Lunch: Globalization and Catholic Social Teaching"
• November 21, 8:00 p.m. & November 22, 2:00 p.m.
  Blackfriars Dance Concert 

View more events in PC's Event Calendar.

• Rev. John C. Vidmar, O.P., associate professor of theology, has been appointed as the College's new faculty athletics representative to the NCAA. He succeeds Rev. Robert A. Morris, O.P. '44. The representative oversees the academic integrity of the College's athletics program and serves as a liaison between the student-athletes and the faculty.
  
   

Stacy Bronec '09
Biology / Women's Studies Major
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