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| Senior Michele Godfrey |
The Canisius volleyball team hosts the University at Buffalo this evening at 6 p.m. in a Big 4 match. The Griffs enter this evening’s contest with a 10-13 record, while UB is 14-9. No admission charge.
And don’t forget to order your basketball season tickets. Faculty and staff are eligible for a discounted price. Please call Ext. 2885 for more information.
Submitted by: John Maddock, associate athletic director – external affairs, athletics
The Amberg Quartet, a flute, oboe, clarinet and piano ensemble, will perform tonight at 7:30 p.m in the Montante Cultural Center.
The Amberg Quartet includes Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra musicians Betsy Reeds, flute and John Fullam, clarinet; oboist Paul Schlossmann and Canisius College Composer-in-Residence Persis Parshall Vehar, piano. The program features works by Amberg, Schumann and Vehar. This performance is part one of a two part series for the Eighth Annual Student Composers’ Workshop and is free and open to the public.
Submitted by: Ellen Barnum, music events coordinator, ArtsCanisius
Gaylor Photography will be on campus taking seasonal photographs on Wednesday, October 28 and Thursday, October 29. The father and son team will be walking the campus capturing all that Canisius has to offer.
Submitted by: Kelly Showard, senior assistant director, admissions
Canisius welcomes Linda E. Thomas, PhD, professor of theology and anthropology at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, to campus on Thursday, October 29 at 7:30 p.m. in the Regis Room. The lecture, entitled “The African American Church and Politics in 2009,” is free and open to the public.
Thomas is professor of theological anthropology at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, Illinois. She has engaged students, scholars and communities for almost 20 years. Her work is grounded in a womanist perspective, and it focuses on the intersection and mutual influence of culture and religion.
Thomas’ lecture will be followed by responses from three clergy from prominent African American churches in the Buffalo area: Rev. Michael Chapman, senior pastor at St. Johns Baptist Church, Buffalo; Rev. Rodney Hennings, senior pastor at Zion Dominion Ministries in Amherst; and Rev. Richard Stenhouse, pastor of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
The event is co-sponsored by the Fitzpatrick Institute of Public Affairs and Leadership and The Institute for the Global Study of Religion. To read more about this event, click here.
Submitted by: Timothy Wadkins, PhD, professor of religious studies & theology
To help to keep unauthorized people from snooping around your computer when it’s connected to the Internet, enable the personal firewall on your computer. Information on turning on the firewall on your computer can be found at Microsoft or Apple’s web sites, depending on which operating system you are using.
Submitted by: Matthew Gracie, information security administrator, ITS
