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Opening Convocation
Opening Convocation
Constructing the Self: A Personal and Intellectual Journey
Constructing the Self: A Personal and Intellectual Journey
Leading the Race: Building Culture, Elevating People, and Winning Together
Leading the Race: Building Culture, Elevating People, and Winning Together
President Stacy Young and the Otho Winger Experience Aaron Cook '06, Medical Editor | Navigating college and starting a career arrives with challenges, opportunities and many questions. What would you tell your younger self to prepare for what you do not know? How to adjust? What are key recommendations or lessons you would like us to take away? Be ready to be enlightened. Brian Cashdollar, Director of MU Cross Country/Track & Field | Coach Cashdollar will discuss his coaching philosophy, which has demonstrated remarkable success by setting achievable expectations with his athletes, with applications to the larger campus community. Markus Gilliar, founder of Sports Agency (GES) and photojournalist presents his journey across his career as one of the most notable sports photographers. His presentation will highlight covering the Olympic Games, the World Cups across the past four decades. What does it take to reach such success in a very competitive career path? Irene Miller, Social Psychologist, a Holocaust survivor, will take you on a survival journey little written and known about. You will sleep in the winter under an open sky on the no man’s land; you will freeze in a Siberian labor camp where the bears come to your door front. In Uzbekistan, you will live on boiled grass or broiled onions, and shiver with malaria. You will spend years in orphanages. When this is over you will wonder how a child with this background grows up to become a positive, creative, accomplished woman with a joy of living and love to share. Ella Brown, University of Michigan Researcher at Dian Fossey Gorrilla Fund Ella Brown will share the results of her NSF-funded research with wild male mountain gorillas; specifically, how male gorillas become silverbacks, and why individuals may mature at different rates. Her talk will feature original footage of wild mountain gorillas nearly 12,000ft high in the volcanoes of Rwanda. On a broader level, understanding how different primates grow and develop brings us closer to understanding our shared evolutionary lineage, and if these trends may (or may not) have been present in direct human ancestors.  Looking forward to seeing you October 11-12, 2025 Dr. Lizbette Ocasio-Russe, Professor of Creative Writing, Southern New Hampshire University | The power of comics and graphic novels and their role of problematizing canonic literature foregrounds Prof. Ocasio-Russe's presentation. Her webcomic Xcommunicada uses fictional storylines set in nonfictional places to critique heteropatriarchal hegemony that shaped political, economic, and social forces by colonizing and eradicating indigenous natives and their beliefs. Xcommunicada celebrates humanity and embraces diverse beliefs, as demonstrated by the protagonist who must get in touch with her ancestors’ native beliefs in order to defeat the evil plaguing her home. Dr. Stacy Erickson-Pesetski, Professor of English & Associate Dean of Academic Affairs | Professor Stacy Erickson-Pesetski shares her experiences reading Shakespeare with incarcerated adults and juveniles in Indiana prisons and jails for the past 12 years. Stacy suggests that programs like this are an important and needed piece of the criminal justice system and gives evidence that they increase literacy; promote community; and offer emotional outlets for those recovering from trauma and addiction.   Dr. Stacy Erickson-Pesetski, Professor of English & Associate Dean of Academic Affairs MBA applications must be received no later than Nov 1
Opening Convocation
Cordier Auditorium
Constructing the Self: A Personal and Intellectual Journey
Wine Recital Hall
Leading the Race: Building Culture, Elevating People, and Winning Together
Wine Recital Hall
Constitution Day
Wine Recital Hall
In the Frame of Life – Life as an International Photojournalist
Wine Recital Hall
My Survival Journey
Cordier Auditorium
Gorillas in our Midst
Wine Recital Hall
Homecoming 2025
Xcommunicada: Comics and Graphic Novels as Social Critique
Wine Recital Hall
Community and Shakespeare in an Indiana Prison
Wine Recital Hall
Sing Sing Film Viewing
Wine Recital Hall
Spring 2026 MBA Application Deadline