Events

Live Interview with President Patrick F. Leahy, Hosted by Award-Winning Journalist Jack Ford
2021-03-16 18:30 (America/New_York)
Join us for an exclusive live interview with President Patrick F. Leahy hosted by Emmy and Peabody award-winning journalist Jack Ford.

Virtual Spring Career Day
2021-03-17 16:00
Full-time, part-time and internship opportunities will be shared with students by attending employers. Students will receive the registration information via email in early February. It is open to all students from all majors. Students and alumni will be able to interact with employers in virtual chat rooms during the day.
We expect employers from business, technology, government, education, healthcare and non-profits to attend.

Insider Tips from a Recruiter: How to Stand Out
2021-03-24 12:30 | Virtual
From getting noticed on the job application to acing the interview, the hiring process can be daunting for many, especially in a virtual landscape. If you are wondering what you can do to stand out and really grab the attention of hiring managers, join us for this webinar to get the inside scoop from a recruiter on how to land your next position.
In this webinar, Erika Ortiz ’12, Human Resources lead for Talent Acquisition, Diversity Engagement, and Delivery at Johnson & Johnson, will share her advice on effective job searching techniques, strategies for preparing for the interview, and how to put your best foot forward.
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Work It! (Professional Empowerment Series)
2021-03-24 18:30 - 19:15 | Virtual
Sponsored by Career Services, the Educational Opportunity Fund, and Student Employment
In this 45-minute virtual session, you will learn to

Build a smarter search on LinkedIn
See LinkedIn from a recruiter’s perspective
Make your LinkedIn feed for you
Understand LinkedIn Premium

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The 2021 Institute for Global Understanding Biennial Symposium
2021-03-25
The symposium assembles experts from a wide range of disciplines in the government, nonprofit, academic, community, and private sectors to examine topics at the intersection of human rights and the environment and propose solutions for the future. Keynote speakers and panelists will address regulatory responses, litigation, academic and scientific discourse, and the activist movements that have shaped the intersection between human rights and the environment.

Monmouth Football Hosts the Spring Virtual Tailgate
2021-03-27 12:00
For the first time ever, Monmouth Football will be competing for the Big South Championship in the spring! At the moment, we do not know if Governor Murphy will lift the outdoor gathering restrictions in time for us to host fans in the stands but we have an alternative for you. Saturday, March 27, one hour before kick-off, Monmouth Football will be hosting a Virtual Tailgate for you to participate in!
Join us an hour before kick-off where we will hear from Coach Kevin Callahan about the upcoming season and how the team has prepared for this unprecedented time. This is a free event for all to attend.

A Conversation with Olivia Nuzzi: The Future of American Politics and the Press
2021-03-29 18:30 | Virtual
Join Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Poll, in a discussion with one of the nation’s highest profile political reporters about the state of the news media and how it covers political issues and players.
Olivia Nuzzi is currently New York magazine’s Washington correspondent. She grew up in Monmouth County, New Jersey, cutting her journalistic teeth with local outlets while still in high school. Olivia is known as a tenacious reporter who pursues the odd and unusual angles in today’s top political stories, writing with a unique, unfiltered voice. She once scored an impromptu exclusive Oval Office interview with Donald Trump and has written about the challenges of texting with Rudy Giuliani. She is currently working with Ryan Lizza on a book about the 2020 election.
Patrick Murray was named the Monmouth University Polling Institute’s founding director in 2005. He frequently appears as a commentator on polling and politics for regional and national outlets. During federal election years, Murray also serves as an exit poll analyst for the NBC News Decision Desk.

This free event is open to the public, but you must register.
For more information: polling@monmouth.edu
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Virtual Tuesday Night Book Club: Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
2021-03-30 19:30 - 21:30 | Virtual
Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack and Michael Thomas, each month we’ll explore a different novel. All you have to do is Zoom in and join the discussion!
This month’s novel is Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine: The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, which are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years
As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family—past and present—is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The story of modern medicine and bioethics—and, indeed, race relations—is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”—Entertainment Weekly

When you register you will be provided the meeting link to join the conversation. GET MORE INFORMATION ON HOW TO USE ZOOM

Virtual Tuesday Night Record Club: Depeche Mode: Violator
2021-04-06 19:30 - 21:30 | Virtual
We have decided to continue with Record Club in virtual format using the ZOOM app. When you register you will be provided the meeting link to join the conversation. CLICK HERE for more information on how to use ZOOM.
It’s just like book club but with albums! With new advances in technology, the way we consume music through our devices, apps and on demand streaming services like Pandora, Spotify and iTunes is making the idea of the “album” as an art form extinct. Get together with other music enthusiasts on Tuesday nights to discuss some of the greatest records of all-time! Listen to the album beforehand and then come prepared to discuss. This event will feature Depeche Mode: Violator.

COVID-19 and Systemic Racism in Education
2021-04-07 19:30 | Virtual
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How to Network and Build Rapport While Social Distancing
2021-04-13 18:30 | Virtual
Whether you are job searching, beginning a new career, or joining a new team, building relationships is key to your success. However, with little in-person, face-to-face interactions, networking and relationship building can feel a bit strange and stressful.
In this webinar, Pete Linn ’16, Human Resources Global Employee Support associate at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., will share advice on how to prepare for and host effective virtual networking meetings, ways to show value as a new employee, and qualities that make a strong teammate, both in the office or virtually.
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Human Rights and the Environment: Perspectives from India
2021-04-14 09:00 - 10:30
This panel features experts on a wide range of emerging challenges that India faces at the intersection of human rights and the environment including climate justice litigation, the interplay between sustainable development and the rights of indigenous communities, climate change communication and climate migration, and the relationship between climate migration and human trafficking.
Moderator: Prof. Randall S. Abate, Director, Institute for Global Understanding
The event is free and open to the public but registration is required. Please fill out and submit the available form to receive the Zoom link for this session.

Virtual Mixology Class with Philadelphia Area Alumni
2021-04-14 18:00
Join your fellow Philadelphia area Hawks for a Virtual Mixology Class! Alisha Miller ’96, alumna and Racks Pub and Grill owner and operator, will lead the virtual cocktail making from the comfort and safety of your own home! Alisha will share tips and techniques on how to make two perfect cocktails, a Lemon Drop cocktail and an Old-Fashioned. You can drink-along, build-along, or watch with your own concoction in hand. A Zoom link will be provided to registrants prior to the event, as well as a list of ingredients to make each cocktail! All participants will also receive a Monmouth-branded commemorative beer glass!

MU Players presents THE WEDDING SINGER
2021-04-16 - 2021-04-19 | Virtual
Tickets on sale APRIL 1. Streams available daily at 8 PM
It’s 1985, and rock star wannabe, Robbie Hart, is New Jersey’s favorite wedding singer. He’s the life of the party until his own fiancée leaves him at the altar. Shot through the heart, Robbie makes every wedding as disastrous as his own. Enter Julia, a winsome waitress who wins his affection. As luck would have it, Julia is about to be married to a Wall Street shark, and, unless Robbie can pull off the performance of a decade, the girl of his dreams will be gone forever.
MU Players Productions, formally known as Boom Roasted Productions, was founded in 2013. MU Players is Monmouth University’s student run theatre club that strives to bring theatre, arts, entertainment, and unity to our campus. The club has opened its arms to many loving and talented students on our campus and continues to grow each year.

Wonders of the Night Sky Virtual Planetarium with Liberty Science Center
2021-04-18 13:00
Liberty Science Center’s all-live signature show, Wonders of the Night Sky, is an exhilarating 35-minute experience that explores our stars and beyond. See the galaxy as it appears to the naked eye, as well as through the eyes of NASA’s robot probes, of the Hubble Space Telescope, and arrays of telescopes from around our planet. A portion of the show is set aside to include the latest breaking news in astronomy and aerospace, taking full advantage of Liberty Science Center’s new Digistar 6 full dome system, which allows seamless passage from the night sky to another planet to the heart of another galaxy.

Student Scholarship Week
2021-04-19 - 2021-04-23
Monmouth University’s 6th annual Student Scholarship Week: Celebrating the Research, Creative, and Service Accomplishments of MU Students will take place virtually April 19-23, 2021. Student Scholarship Week is a weeklong conference that showcases and celebrates students’ academic work inside and outside of the classroom, as well as highlights faculty-student collaboration, across the University. This includes highlighting students’ scholarly contributions in research, writing, service learning, clinical experiences (i.e. study abroad, internships), musical and theater productions, art exhibits, student development and leadership, student clubs, etc.
This year, Student Scholarship Week will be held virtually for the safety of our students and staff. Each day of the week will feature one theme with a variety of student projects showcased through a mix of live Zoom sessions and asynchronous posters and videos.
Please visit the website for a list of the daily live sessions and to view the students’ posters and videos.

Women in Leadership Symposium
2021-04-20 15:00 - 17:00
We are excited to announce the Women in Leadership Symposium on April 20, 2021 from 3 to 5 PM (zoom) aimed to reach all current or aspirational leaders/employees in P-12 education, higher education, and business. This FREE symposium is brought to you in partnership with New Jersey Association of School Administrators, Monmouth University, and Equitable.
The focus of this year’s symposium is on wellness and will feature author and educational advocate Tina H. Boogren, Ph.D. Boogren is the author of numerous books centered on her passion areas of quality instruction, coaching, mentoring, and wellness and hosts the weekly podcast “Self-Care for Educators with Dr. Tina H. Boogren.” A panel of multidisciplinary professionals will provide insights and strategies to help professionals integrate wellness activities into their professional lives.

Virtual Tuesday Night Book Club: Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad
2021-04-20 19:30
Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack and Michael Thomas, each month we’ll explore a different novel. All you have to do is Zoom in and join the discussion!
This month’s novel is Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave’s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. In Whitehead’s ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor—engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman’s ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share.
