(January 14, 2008)
With classes set to resume next week, students will have ample opportunity totake advantage of the many campus events and activities, including theatre productions, concerts, Division I athletics, films and lectures. The fun starts immediately when the men's basketball team takes on America East rival Maine at 7:30 p.m. on January 23 at SEFCU Arena.
Some other highlights coming in 2008 include:
Feb. 2
11th Annual Big Purple Growl and Ferocious Feast 5-7 p.m.
Featuring a pre-game party and feast and men's and women's basketball games against Stony Brook. The women play at 4:30 p.m.; the men at 7 p.m. in UAlbany's SEFCU Arena.
Feb. 7
Martin Luther King Jr. Black History Month Luncheon, 12 p.m. Campus Center Ballroom
Featuring civil rights activist and writer Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
Feb. 8
Plays in Process 7:30 p.m., Performing Arts Center
Readings of new works to nurture and encourage student playwrights
Feb. 26
Men's Lacrosse vs. Siena
2 p.m. at John Fallon Field
March 5
Dangerous Music Project - Clogs
7 p.m., Performing Arts Center
This Aussie-American alt-classical quartet, which composes and improvises using sounds, textures and influences from across the musical spectrum, presents a demonstration.
March 11
Visiting Writers Series Seminar & Reading
4:15 p.m. Seminar
8 p.m. Reading
Poet Marie Howe's newest collection is The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (2008); Prize-winning poet Campbell McGrath's latest poetry collection is Seven Notebooks (2008).
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Visiting Writers Series author Gregory Maguire visits March 13. |
Visiting Writers Series
7 p.m., Performing Arts Center
Reading/talk by the much acclaimed, Albany-born Gregory Maguire, revisionist fairy tale writer and UAlbany graduate, who is best-known for Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (1995), which was adapted as a Broadway musical in 2003.
March 21
Men's Lacrosse vs. Princeton
1 p.m., John Fallon Field
April 3
Capital Trio
7:30 p.m., Performing Arts Center
Pianist Duncan Cumming, violinist Hilary Cumming and cellist Solen Dikener comprise this new chamber ensemble in residence at UAlbany.
April 5-6
Relay for Life
3:00 p.m., Collins Circle
Join the Students of Albany Against Cancer in an overnight benefit for the American Cancer Society including multiple activities/events.
April 18
Japanese Student Association Japan Night
6:30-9:30 p.m., Campus Center Ballroom
Japanese tradition and culture with dancing, singing, food and activities.
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Fountain Day, an annual rite of spring, is set for April 27 at the Main Fountain. |
Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition
10 a.m.-5 p.m., University Art Museum
The Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition features work produced by candidates for the University at Albany Art Department's three-year, 60-credit-hour program of intensive training and study in traditional and contemporary fine arts practices.
May 17
Graduate Commencement
9-11 a.m., SEFCU Arena
May 18
Undergraduate Commencement
10-11 a.m., Science Library Lawn University-wide degree-granting ceremony for those receiving bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees and certificates of advanced study.
Related Links:
UAlbany Events Calendar
Big Purple Growl and Ferocious Feast
Performing Arts Center
Great Danes Athletics
New York State Writers Institute
University Art Museum
Student Involvement & Leadership
