This Week at Baylor: Oct. 28 – Nov. 3, 2018

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by Jessie Jilovec, student newswriter

WACO, Texas (Oct. 26, 2018) – This week, Baylor University will host a variety of special events to celebrate the University’s 109th Anniversary Homecoming Nov. 1-3, as well as lectures focusing on the fields of religion, chemistry, environmental science, music, business, art, psychology, biology, mathematics and philosophy. The week also will include movie screenings and concerts.

MONDAY, Oct. 29

Chapel Highlights – Chapel will celebrate Homecoming with a special service to emphasize Baylor’s past and all who have called it home since 1845. Students and faculty will lead worship and reflection at 9:05, 10:10 and 11 a.m. in Waco Hall, 624 Speight Ave., as students remember alumni who came before them and helped build Baylor For more information, visit the Spiritual Life website.

Movie Mondays at the Hippodrome – Movie Mondays will continue this week with a screening of “Chesley Bonestell: A Brush with the Future,” presented by film co-producer and lifelong Bonestell enthusiast Melvin Schuetz, assistant to the curators for Baylor’s Armstrong Browning Library. Bonestell first worked as an architect, creating projects like the Golden Gate Bridge, became a Hollywood motion picture matte artist, working on films like “War of the Worlds” and “Hunchback of Notre Dame” and later became famous for his space paintings. The screening will begin at 7 p.m. at the Waco Hippodrome, 724 Austin Ave. Tickets are free and can be picked up at the Waco Hippodrome box office, the Bill Daniel Student Center ticket office or online. (Sold out.)

A Cappella Choir – Baylor’s A Cappella choir will present a concert at 7:30 p.m. in Jones Concert Hall in Glennis McCrary Music Building, 110 Baylor Ave. The 47-voice choir is conducted by Brian A. Schmidt, D.M.A, associate professor of choral music, and assistant conductors Parker Bowen, The Hugh Sanders Choral Fellow and a master’s candidate in conducting, and Andy Eaton, a master’s candidate in conducting. Benji Stegner, a doctoral candidate in church music, will be the accompanist. The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, call the School of Music at 254-710-3991.

TUESDAY, Oct. 30

World Cinema Series – Baylor’s department of modern languages and cultures will screen “Majo no Takkyubin,” or “Kiki’s Delivery Service,” an Japanese animated film, for this week’s World Cinema Series at 6 p.m. in Bennett Auditorium in the Draper Academic Building, 1420 S. Seventh St. For more information, visit Baylor’s modern languages and cultures website.

Men’s Choir and Women’s Choir Concert – The Men’s Choir and Women’s Choir will perform at 7:30 p.m. in Jones Concert Hall in the Glennis McCrary Music Building, 110 Baylor Ave. The Men’s Choir is conducted by C. Randall Bradley, D.M.A., The Ben H. Williams Professor of Music and director of the church music program, and the Women’s Choir is conducted by Amy Allibon, M.M., visiting lecturer in choral music. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call the School of Music at 254-710-3991.

McGee Endowed Lecture Series – Randall Balmer, Ph.D., M.Div., John Philips Chair in Religion at Dartmouth College, will present the McGee Endowed Lecture Series on “The Death of Evangelicalism” from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Kayser Auditorium, Room 101, of Cashion Academic Center, 1401 S. Fourth St. Balmer is a prize-wining historian and Emmy Award nominee. For more information, visit department of religion website.

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 31

Chapel Highlights – Chapel will feature award-winning producer, writer and director Steve Riach at 9:05, 10:10 and 11 a.m. in Waco Hall, 624 Speight Ave. Riach is the CEO of Eterne Films and producer and writer of “One Heart” feature film. He is the co-founder of the One Heart Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping incarcerated and at-risk youth nationwide. For more information, visit the Spiritual Life website.

Chemistry and Biochemistry Colloquium – Michael Gross, Ph.D., professor of chemistry at Washington University in St. Louis and professor of immunology and internal medicine at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, will speak at a colloquium from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Room C.105 of the Baylor Sciences Building, 101 Bagby Ave. He will present “Mass Spectrometry-Based Structural Proteomics Solves Problems in Protein Higher Order Structure.” For more information, visit the chemistry website.

Environmental Science Seminar – Bekah Burket, B.S., environmental science graduate student at Baylor, will speak during a seminar presented by Baylor’s department of environmental science at 4 p.m. in Room A.108 of the Baylor Sciences Building, 101 Bagby Ave. For more information, visit the environmental science website.

Lyceum Lecture Series – The Lyceum Lecture Series will feature a master class by Canadian pianist Angela Cheng, a Hong Kong native who has performed as a soloist with more than 100 orchestras and serves as professor of piano at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. The event will be from 4 to 6 p.m. at Roxy Grove Hall in Waco Hall, 624 Speight Ave. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit the School of Music website.

Halloween Organ Concert – The School of Music will host its annual Halloween Organ Concert at 9 p.m. in Jones Concert Hall of the Glennis McCrary Music Building, 110 Baylor Ave. Performers will be students of Isabelle Demers, D.M.A., associate professor of organ. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, call the School of Music at 254-710-3991.

THURSDAY, Nov. 1

Homecoming – Baylor’s 109th Anniversary Homecoming weekend will be held from Nov. 1-3, featuring events such as Pigskin Revue, reunion dinners, Extravaganza for the community, Singspiration, a pep rally and bonfire, a parade and football game. For a full list of events, visit the Homecoming website.

2018 Dale P. Jones Business Ethics Forum – Business 1101 students will compete Nov. 1-2 in the Ethics SLAM Competition as a part of the Dale P. Jones Business Ethics Forum. The competition serves to make students aware of the importance of being prepared for everyday ethical challenges and to develop useful skills to handle those situations. The final days of “The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence” forum will be Nov. 6-16. For more information, visit the Business Ethics and Leadership website.

Martin Museum Lecture – Tish Brewer, owner and paper conservator of The Center for Art Conservation in Dallas, will discuss her recent work conserving five works on paper for the Martin Museum of Art’s current exhibition, “John James Audubon: Life, Work and Legacy.” She will lecture from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in the Martin Museum in the Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center, 60 Baylor Ave. For more information, visit the Martin Museum website.

Lyceum Lecture Series – The Lyceum Lecture Series will feature a master class by Canadian pianist Angela Cheng, a Hong Kong native who has performed as a soloist with more than 100 orchestras and serves as professor of piano at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Cheng will perform at 7:30 p.m. in Roxy Grove Hall in Waco Hall, 624 Speight Ave. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit the School of Music website.

FRIDAY, Nov. 2

Homecoming – Friday’s events for Baylor’s 109th Anniversary Homecoming weekend include Extravaganza!, an outdoor event open to the community from 6 to 10 p.m. on Fountain Mall that features rides, food, music, Friday Night Flashback, the football pep rally and lighting of the bonfire; Singspiration, a worship tradition from 7 to 8:15 p.m. at Seventh and James Baptist Church; and Pigskin Revue performances at 6:30 and 10:30 p.m. in Waco Hall. For a full list of events, visit the Homecoming website.

Psychology and Neuroscience Speaker Series – Eric Meyer, Ph.D., clinical research psychologist for U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs’ VISN 17 Center of Excellence for Research on War Veterans, will lecture at 12:20 p.m. in Room C.105 of the Baylor Sciences Building, 101 Bagby Ave. He also is an associate professor in psychiatry and behavioral science at Texas A&M and associate research professor in psychology and neuroscience at Baylor. For more information, visit the psychology and neuroscience website.

CASPER Seminar – Baylor University and the Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics and Engineering Research (CASPER) will host Julienne Kabre, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow of mathematics at Baylor, who will present “Energy-Preserving Numerical Scheme for the Poisson-Nerst-Planck Equations” at 2:30 p.m. in Room 2160 at the Baylor Research and Innovation Collaborative, 100 Research Pky. For more information, call 254-710-1271.

Biology Seminar Series – The department of biology will host Tracy Johnson, Ph.D., professor of molecular, cell and developmental biology at the University of California Los Angeles, for a lecture on “Gene expression and regulatory mechanisms” from 2:30 to 4 p.m. in Room B.110 of the Baylor Sciences Building, 101 Bagby Ave. For more information, visit the biology website.

John Lippitt Lecture – The Baylor Center for Christian Philosophy, department of philosophy and Institute for Studies of Religion will host John Lippitt, Ph.D., professor of ethics and philosophy of religion at Deakin University Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, and professor of philosophy at Deakin University, Australia, for a homecoming lecture on “Forgiveness, Resentment and Agapic Love” at 3:30 p.m. in Room 152 of Draper Hall, 1420 S. Seventh St.

Chemistry and Biochemistry Colloquium – Tomas Hudlicky, Ph.D., professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair at Brock University in Canada, will present “Recent Progress in Chemoenzymatic synthesis of Amaryllidaceae and Morphine Alkaloids and Other Natural Products” at a colloquium from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Room C.105 of the Baylor Sciences Building, 101 Bagby Ave. For more information, visit the chemistry website.

2018 Dale P. Jones Business Ethics Forum – Business 1101 students will compete Nov. 1-2 in the Ethics SLAM Competition as a part of the Dale P. Jones Business Ethics Forum. The competition serves to make students aware of the importance of being prepared for everyday ethical challenges and to develop useful skills to handle those situations. The final days of “The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence” forum will be Nov. 6-16. For more information, visit the Business Ethics and Leadership website.

SATURDAY, Nov. 3

Homecoming – Saturday’s events for Baylor’s 109th Anniversary Homecoming weekend include the annual Homecoming Parade, one of the oldest and largest collegiate homecoming parades in the nation. Baylor University and KCEN-TV Ch. 6 will team up to broadcast the parade with live coverage from 7:30 to 9 a.m. from Fifth Street on the Baylor campus. The parade broadcast is made possible by the generous support of the Sadie Jo Black Family Foundation. Following the parade, the Baylor Bears will host Oklahoma State with kickoff at 11 a.m. in McLane Stadium. Game tickets are available at bthere.baylorbears.com. In addition, fans are encouraged to #StripeMcLane in green and gold. See the map for section colors: here. For a full list of Homecoming events, visit the Homecoming website.

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