This Week at Baylor: Oct. 27-Nov. 2, 2019

October 24, 2019

Nancy Dana, Ph.D., professor of teaching and learning at the University of Florida, will give the lecture, 'When One Teaches, Two Learn: The Role of Inquiry in Inspired Teaching.'?' The lecture will start at 5:30 p.m. in Room 101 of Marrs McLean Science, 1214 S. Fourth Street.

2019 ethics forum — Baylor University's School of Music will host Leone Buyse, Mullen Professor of flute at Rice University, as part of the Lyceum Series. Performances will be Friday at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. in Jones Concert Hall in the Glennis McCrary Music Building, 110 Baylor Ave.

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by Cacey Vigil, student newswriter

WACO, Texas (Oct. 25, 2019) – This week, Baylor University will host guest speakers in a variety of academic disciplines, from chemistry and biology to education and entrepreneurship as well as multiple concerts. Baylor also will host the Dale P. Jones Business Ethics Forum, which engages students, faculty, alumni and business leaders in discussions of major ethical issues facing the business world today.

MONDAY, Oct. 28

Chapel Highlights - David Taylor, professor of theology and culture at Fuller Seminary, will speak during Chapel at 9:05, 10:10 and 11:15 a.m. in Waco Hall, 624 Speight Ave. For more information, visit the Spiritual Life website.
Cherry Award Lecture - Nancy Fichtman Dana, Ph.D., professor of teaching and learning at the University of Florida and a finalist for Baylor’s Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching, will give a public lecture, “When One Teaches, Two Learn: The Role of Inquiry in Inspired Teaching,” at 5:30 p.m. in Room 101 of Marrs McLean Science, 1214 S. Fourth Street. The lecture will discuss the systematic and intentional study of one’s own teaching practice as key to unleashing the potential that resides within every teacher. Whether helping students learn difficult content or fostering disciplinary investigation and intellectual growth, inspiring teachers inquire into their practices and the students they serve. For more information, visit the Cherry Award website.
Lyceum Series: Master Class with Bradley White - Baylor University’s School of Music will host trombonist Bradley White for Lyceum Series recital. White joined the Houston Symphony Orchestra in 2001 and has performed with the San Antonio Symphony, Hawaii Symphony, Houston Grand Opera orchestras, Ambient Brass and the Houston Ballet. The performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Jones Concert Hall in the Glennis McCrary Music Building, 110 Baylor Ave. The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, visit the School of Music website.
Movie Mondays - Movie Mondays will host a screening of “The Real Chernobyl,” a story about the worst nuclear power plant accident in history. The film introduces the audience to the real-life figures portrayed in the narrative series and offers their haunting first-person accounts at the Waco Hippodrome, 724 Austin Ave. Free tickets can be picked up at the Waco Hippodrome Box Office or online at Student Activities website.

TUESDAY, Oct. 29

World Cinema Series - The department of modern languages and cultures will show a screening of “Spirit of Evil,” a Russian horror film about a young priest ordered to preside over the wake of a witch in a small old wooden church of a remote village. The screening will begin at 6 p.m. in Bennett Auditorium, 1420 S. Seventh Street. The film will be shown with English subtitles and is open to the public. For the full film schedule, visit the World Cinema Series website.
Entrepreneurship Guest Speaker: David Sykora - Baylor alum David Sykora, restaurant operator of the Baylor University on Seventh Street Chick-fil-A, will speak at 12:30 p.m. in Room 141 and at 2 p.m. in Room 118 of the Paul L. Foster Campus for Business and Innovation, 1621 S. Third Street. For more information, visit the Business Entrepreneurship and Corporate Innovation website.
Business Ethics Forum Keynote Speaker: Ambassador Doug Silliman - Ambassador Doug Siliman, president of the Arab Gulf States Institute, will present “Business Ethics Across Cultures” as the fall 2019 business ethics forum keynote address. The lecture will start at 7:30 p.m. in McClinton Auditorium of the Paul L. Foster Campus for Business and Innovation, 1621 S. Third Street. For more information, visit the Business Ethics and Leadership website.
Women’s and Men’s Choir - The Women’s Choir, conducted by Stephen Gusukuma, D.M.A., lecturer in choral music, and the Men’s Choir, conducted by Randall Bradley, D.M.A., professor of music and director of the church music program, will perform at 7:30 p.m. in Jones Concert Hall in the Glennis McCrary Music Building, 110 Baylor Ave. The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, visit the School of Music website.

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 30

Chapel Highlights - Tim Muehlhoff, author, speaker and co-host of The Art of Relationships podcast, and Rick Langer, director of the office of faith and learning at Biola University, will speak during Chapel at 9:05, 10:10 and 11:15 a.m. in Waco Hall, 624 Speight Ave. For more information, visit the Spiritual Life website.
Institute for Studies of Religion Lecture - Beth Barton Schweiger, Ph.D., will present the lecture “The Rest Are All Singing: Literacy, Print and Sacred Song in the American South.” The lecture will discuss how print was crucial to the creation of black and white sacred music in the South, how revival songs were circulated in pamphlets and hymnbooks before the Civil War and its importance to the history of American culture. The lecture is free and will start at 3:30 p.m. in Cox Lecture Hall in Armstrong Browning Library, 710 Speight Ave. For more information, call 254-710-7555.

THURSDAY, Oct. 31

Baylor Game Day - All classes and events scheduled after 12:30 p.m. are cancelled.

FRIDAY, Nov. 1

Halloween Organ Concert - Students will perform Baylor University’s 29th annual Halloween Organ Concert. The program is directed by Isabell Demers, Ph.D., associate professor of organ at Baylor University. The performance begins at 7:30 p.m. in Jones Concert Hall in the Glennis McCrary Music Building, 110 Baylor Ave. For more information, visit the School of Music website.
Film on Fridays: German - The department of modern languages and cultures will host a screening of the German film “Good Bye, Lenin.” It is a story about a young man who goes to great lengths to keep his mother, who recently came out of a coma, from learning that East Germany has disappeared following the fall of the Berlin Wall. The screening will start at 6 p.m. in Hawkins German Lounge in Room 271 in Old Main, 1411 S. Fifth Street. For more information, contact .
Business Ethics Forum Panel – Interstate Battery - The Hankamer School of Business will host representatives of Interstate Batteries, who will present the lecture, “Energized by Faith at Interstate Battery.” Panelists include Walt Holmes, chief partner results officer, Elisabeth Ballinger, accountant, and Michele Roden, director of tax and risk. The lecture panel will start at 1:30 p.m. in McClinton Auditorium, Room 240, of the Paul L. Foster Campus for Business and Innovation, 1621 S. Third Street. For more information, visit the Business Ethics and Leadership website.
Lyceum Series: Master Class with Leone Buyse - Baylor University’s School of Music will host Leone Buyse, Mullen Professor of flute at Rice University, as part of the Lyceum Series. Buyse spent 22 years as an orchestral musician before pursuing a more active teaching and solo career. The performance will begin at 7 p.m. in Jones Concert Hall in the Glennis McCrary Music Building, 110 Baylor Ave. The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, visit the School of Music website.
Biology Seminar - Peter Ly, Ph.D., assistant professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center, will present “Breaking Bad: Mechanisms of Genome Rearrangements in Cancer.” The lecture will begin at 3:35 p.m. in Room B.110 of the Baylor Sciences Building, 110 Bagby Ave. For more information, visit the Department of Biology website.
Chemistry Colloquium - Alexander Korienko, Ph.D., professor at Texas State, will present the lecture, “A Photoactivatable Microtubule-targeting Rigidin Prodrug.” The lecture will begin at 3:30 p.m. in Room C.105 of the Baylor Sciences Building, 101 Bagby Ave. For more information, contact Kevin Pinney.

SATURDAY, Nov. 2

Lyceum Series: Master Class with Leone Buyse - Baylor University’s School of Music will host Leone Buyse, Mullen Professor of Flute at Rice University, as part of the Lyceum Series. Buyse spent 22 years as an orchestral musician before pursuing a more active teaching and solo career. Performances will be at 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. in Jones Concert Hall in the Glennis McCrary Music Building, 110 Baylor Ave. The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, visit the School of Music website.
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