Women's Tennis vs Rider
2025-01-31 19:45 - 22:45 (America/New_York) | Little Silver, NJ, Little Silver Tennis Club
Monmouth University Women’s Tennis vs Rider

Open Dodgeball Tournament
2025-01-31 20:00 - 22:00 | Boylan Gymnasium
Get ready for some high-energy fun at our Open Dodgeball Tournament, where teams compete for victory in this fast-paced, action-packed game! Gather your friends, and show off your skills, for an exciting and friendly competition!

Blue Hawk Records Rising DJ's Night
2025-01-31 21:00 - 23:00 | Anacon Hall, 2nd Floor, Student Center
Get ready to vibe all night at Rising DJ’s Night, where the freshest up-and-coming talent takes the stage to deliver electrifying beats and unforgettable energy. Don’t miss this chance to discover the next big names in electronic music and dance the night away!

Bowling at Multiple Teams
2025-02-01 00:00 - 23:59 | Deptford, NJ
Monmouth University Bowling at Multiple Teams

Men's Swimming at La Salle
2025-02-01 11:00 - 14:00 | Philadelphia, PA
Monmouth University Men’s Swimming at La Salle

Women's Swimming at La Salle
2025-02-01 11:00 - 14:00 | Philadelphia, PA
Monmouth University Women’s Swimming at La Salle

Men's Lacrosse vs Sacred Heart - Scrimmage
2025-02-01 13:00 - 16:00 | Kessler Stadium, 107 Larchwood Ave, West Long Branch, NJ, United States
Monmouth University Men’s Lacrosse vs Sacred Heart – Scrimmage

Alumni Day: Men’s Basketball vs. Delaware
2025-02-01 14:00 | OceanFirst Bank Center
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Men's Basketball vs Delaware - Alumni Day and Biergarten (129867)
2025-02-01 14:00 - 16:00 | OceanFirst Bank Center – West Long Branch, NJ
Monmouth University Men’s Basketball vs Delaware – Alumni Day and Biergarten (129867)
Streaming Video: https://go.flosports.tv/partner/caa?utm_campaign=caa&utm_medium=partner&utm_source=teams&utm_content=teams&rtid=monmouth&coverage_id=
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Winter Ball
2025-02-01 19:00 - 22:00 | The Great Hall
A night of elegance and mystery at the Winter Ball, with lights, music, and great company for an unforgettable evening. Dress to impress and enjoy a magical atmosphere filled with dancing, laughter, and memories that will last a lifetime!

Sweat it out Sunday: Yoga
2025-02-02 12:00 - 13:00 | Boylan Gymnasium
Get ready for Sweat It Out Sunday: Yoga Edition. Join us for a challenging and fun session that will leave you feeling strong, confident, and ready to take on the week!

Women's Basketball at Elon
2025-02-02 13:00 - 15:00 | Elon, NC
Monmouth University Women’s Basketball at Elon
Streaming Video: https://flosports.link/3IzwagG

Men's Tennis vs Saint Joseph's
2025-02-02 16:00 - 19:00 | Little Silver, NJ, Little Silver Tennis Club
Monmouth University Men’s Tennis vs Saint Joseph’s

Abs, Legs and Butt
2025-02-02 18:00 - 19:00 | Boylan Gym South
Sculpt your abs, legs, and butt with this moderate-intensity level class focusing on basic body weight movements such as squats and lunges. Work your core with planks, crunches, and other exercises for a total lower body/core workout.

Therapy Dogs
2025-02-03 12:30 - 14:00 | Student Center – 1st Floor
Come hang out with our furry friends and brighten your day!

Study Abroad Dinner
2025-02-03 16:00 - 18:00 | Magill Commons Dining Hall
Dreaming of studying abroad? Come enjoy an international-themed dinner while learning about exciting study abroad opportunities! Meet past participants, chat with advisors, and get inspired for your own global adventure—all while savoring delicious dishes from around the world. February 3, 2025 at 4 p.m. in Magill Commons Dining Hall

Study Abroad Italy
2025-02-03 16:00 - 20:30 | Magill Commons Dining Hall
Experience a taste of Italy with an authentic menu celebrating classic dishes!

Akhil Sharma - Visiting Writer
2025-02-03 18:00 - 19:00 | The Great Hall -104
Sharma is a highly decorated short-story writer and novelist; he’s been awarded many of the most prestigious prizes and recognitions that a fiction writer can receive. His first novel, An Obedient Father (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000), hailed in New York Magazine by Jonathan Franzen as “A great novel” and described by Hilary Mantel in the New York Review of Books as “uncompromising,” with a “first chapter . . . [that] blasts off the locks and splinters the wood,” received the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
Sharma’s second novel, the spectacular Family Life (Norton, 2014), received both the International Dublin Literary Award and the Folio Prize. Scholar and writer Edmund White called it “a terse, devastating account of growing up as a brilliant outsider in American culture” and described it as “a near perfect novel.”
Sharma’s third and most recent book, the story collection A Life of Adventure and Delight (Norton, 2017), prompted writer Yiyun Li to describe Sharma as “truly the Chekhov of our time.” His stories have been widely published and anthologized, appearing in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Best American Short Stories, and O. Henry Award Stories.
Indeed, Sharma is such an exacting and rigorous writer that, quite unusually, he recently published a revised and rewritten edition of An Obedient Father (McNally Editions, 2022) more than twenty years after it first appeared in print. The critic Wyatt Mason, reviewing the revised version in The New York Times Magazine, described this as “Something white-rhino rare in the history of literature”, adding, approvingly, “there is scarcely a paragraph that hasn’t been improved . . . ”
Born in Delhi, India, Sharma grew up in Edison, NJ. Before becoming a professor at Duke, where he now teaches, he was on the faculty at Rutgers. He is an engaging and surprising speaker and an excellent reader of his work
This event is sponsored by The Visiting Writers Series, with the Center for the Arts and the Intercultural Center.

Florence and the Uffizi Gallery
2025-02-03 19:30 - 21:00 | Pollak Theatre
Florence and the Uffizi Gallery is a journey into the Italian Renaissance through the most beautiful, representative works of art of the period. It is a totally immersive and unique experience and allows the audience t0 see, listen, feel and savor the most outstanding and celebrated breeding ground of creativity in the history of art.
The film follows a trail of over 10 museums and 150 artworks amongst the most well-known in the world. It is an artistic foray into Florence taking in everything from the Brancacci Chapel to the Bargello National Museum, from Palazzo Medici, to the narrow city streets and Brunelleschi’s Dome, from Palazzo Vecchio to the Uffizi Gallery and the Accademia Gallery, without neglecting picture postcard places such as the Ponte Vecchio and Piazza della Signoria.
Florence is the artistic home to legendary figures like Michelangelo, Brunelleschi, Raphael, Leonardo and Botticelli.

Breakfast Pop-Up at the Student Center
2025-02-04 08:00 - 11:00 | 1st floor of the Student Center
Start your morning with a delicious French Toast Casserole at our special breakfast pop-up!

Current Status and Future of the Global Plastics Treaty (Presented by UCI, Global Ocean Forum)
2025-02-04 11:00 | Virtual (Zoom)
The Monmouth University Urban Coast Institute (UCI) and Global Ocean Forum (GOF) will host the webinar “Current Status and Future of the Global Plastics Treaty” on Feb. 4 at 11 a.m. EST. The webinar will assemble an international group of experts to explore the progress, as well as the failures, toward addressing plastic pollution on a global scale while assessing its various implications.

Key points of action include identifying and addressing the stumbling blocks to treaty adoption, considering the implications of addressing the entire plastics life cycle, ensuring national commitments and transparency, forming explicit guidelines for establishing baselines, addressing international trade measures, respecting Indigenous rights and knowledge systems, and ensuring a science-based approach while endorsing a living treaty.

Panelists will include: Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution Executive Secretary Jyoti Mathur-Filipp; Monterey Bay Aquarium Chief Conservation and Science Officer Margaret Spring; Ocean Voices Programme Head of Science Policy Research Marjo Vierros; and Center for International Environmental Law Senior Legal Campaigner (Upstream Plastics Treaty) Daniela Durán. The session will be moderated by UCI Director Tony MacDonald and GOF Executive Director Miriam Balgos. Scroll below for speaker bios.

The webinar will be the second installment of an Ocean and Climate Action series that the UCI and GOF are jointly organizing in alignment with the U.N. Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development Vision 2030. The webinars aim to mobilize civil society around critical ocean and climate action identified in the report on Assessing Progress on Ocean and Climate Action 2022-2023 (“ROCA” report). The ROCA report reviews progress made on climate and ocean initiatives, making it a useful tool for discussion of strategies for achieving climate goals moving forward. Click here to watch the first webinar, “Catalyzing Party and Community Action on Ocean, Climate and BBNJ,” held in April.

The ROCA Report identified plastics as a key issue impacting global marine systems. Thus, the second webinar will discuss the Global Plastics Treaty and explore its implications for the management of land-based marine pollution.

The webinar is free and open to the public. A Zoom link will be provided upon registration. For questions about the event, contact Aliya Satku at asatku@monmouth.edu.

Panelist Bios

Jyoti Mathur-Filipp

Jyoti Mathur-Filipp is the executive secretary of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution and head of the secretariat. Prior to this assignment, she served as director at the secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity. She has held key roles in inter-governmental processes, leading the work on the new global biodiversity framework. With over 25 years of experience in international environmental diplomacy, she possesses extensive knowledge in environment, climate, and sustainable development networks. She began her career with UNDP and managed groundbreaking partnerships. Her diverse roles include consulting for UNFCCC and senior advisory positions at UNDP. Mathur-Filipp holds an MS and MBA and is an alumnus of esteemed educational institutions.

Margaret Spring

Margaret Spring joined the Monterey Bay Aquarium in 2013 to oversee its many conservation and science initiatives, including all ocean science policy work, the Seafood Watch sustainable seafood initiative and conservation research programs, including MBARI. From 2009 to 2013, she held leadership roles at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, first as chief of staff and then as principal deputy undersecretary for oceans and atmosphere. Prior to her tenure in the Obama Administration, Margaret led The Nature Conservancy’s California coastal and marine program. From 1999 to 2007, she served on Capitol Hill as senior counsel, then general counsel, to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, where she advised members of Congress on ocean and climate issues and helped develop legislation on major science and policy topics. She is a graduate of Duke University Law School and Dartmouth College.

Marjo Vierros

Marjo Vierros is the Ocean Voices Programme’s director of coastal policy and humanities research, which undertakes interdisciplinary research on oceans issues. She is also a senior associate with the Global Oceans Forum and a Research Associate with the University of British Columbia Nereus Program. Previously she coordinated the Global Marine Governance Project at United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability and undertook research with its Traditional Knowledge Initiative. With degrees in biology, oceanography and marine biology, her career has included work with research, conservation and United Nations organizations in countries in the Caribbean, North and Central America, Bermuda and the Pacific. Her research interests include ocean governance and marine biocultural diversity.

Daniela Durán

Daniela Durán is a senior legal campaigner focused on the upstream parts of the plastics treaty for the Center for International Environmental Law’s Environmental Health program. She is a Colombian campaigner, with relevant experience influencing national and international plastic policy. She worked as a public policy specialist for The Nature Conservancy, where she helped enhance the voices of Indigenous Peoples in international climate policy. She also served as a policy advocacy manager for MarViva Foundation, where she co-drafted and advocated for the approval of Colombia’s first law to reduce single-use plastic production. Daniela holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the Rosario University in Colombia, and a master’s degree in environment and development from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where she was awarded the Chevening Scholarship for global leaders and researched the frames used for plastic pollution in national policies.

Moderator Bios

Tony MacDonald

Tony MacDonald is director of the Monmouth University Urban Coast Institute (UCI). He was previously the executive director of the Coastal States Organization (CSO) from 1998-2005. CSO, based in Washington, DC, represents the interests of the governors of the nation’s 35 coastal states and territories on coastal and ocean policy matters. Prior to joining CSO, Tony was the special counsel and director of environmental affairs at the American Association of Port Authorities, where he represented the International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH) at the International Maritime Organization on negotiations on the London Convention. Tony also practiced law with a private firm in Washington, DC, and served as the environmental legislative representative for the Mayor of the City of New York.

Miriam Balgos, Ph.D.

Miriam Balgos is executive director of the Global Ocean Forum and concurrent project manager-capacity development specialist of a GEF-funded project on Building and Enhancing Sectoral and Cross-Sectoral Capacity to Support Sustainable Resource Use and Biodiversity Conservation in Marine Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction. Formerly associate scientist at the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, University of Delaware and the program coordinator of the Global Ocean Forum, Balgos led the Gerard J. Mangone Center for Marine Policy team in the organization and conduct of multi-stakeholder dialogues in integrated ocean and coastal management. Her research focused on integrated ocean and coastal management, marine protected areas, marine areas beyond national jurisdiction, and climate change adaptation. She co-authored and contributed to various publications including “A Comparative Analysis of Ocean Po

Zumba
2025-02-04 18:30 - 19:30, 2025-02-06 18:30 - 19:30 | Boylan Gym South
This class takes the “work” out of workout, by mixing low-intensity and high-intensity moves for an interval-style, calorie-burning dance fitness party.

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
2025-02-04 19:30 - 21:00 | The Great Hall Auditorium/Virtual, 400 Cedar Ave, West Long Branch, NJ, 07720, United States
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 The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.
This event is offered BOTH in person and via Zoom. Join us in person at the Great Hall Auditorium on the Campus of Monmouth University or join us via zoom. When you register you will be provided the ZOOM meeting link to join the conversation.
Free and open to the public, but registration is required.

Wellness Wednesdays
2025-02-05 00:00 - 23:59 | Magill Commons Dining Hall
Boost your well-being every Wednesday with our featured “Feel Good Food,” focusing on Omega-3s to keep you feeling your best!

Black History Month Blues Café
2025-02-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Great Hall Auditorium
Celebrate Black History Month at the Blues Café, where soulful tunes meet powerful history in an unforgettable evening of music and culture. Enjoy live performances, coffee, and games.

Ocean Bodies, A Solo Exhibit by Kimberly Callas
2025-02-06 00:00 - 2025-04-27 23:59 | Rotary Ice House Gallery
Monmouth University’s Ice House Gallery presents Ocean Bodies, a powerful solo exhibition by multimedia artist Kimberly Callas. The exhibition will open on February 6, 2025, with an evening reception from 5:30 to 7:30 PM, and will run through April 27, 2025. Ocean Bodies offers an immersive exploration of humanity’s interconnectedness with the ocean, drawing on symbols, archetypes, and ecological narratives to invite contemplation and action.
Through sculptures, large-scale drawings, and mixed-media works, Callas examines the “crisis of meaning” at the heart of the climate crisis and advocates for a shift in consciousness toward an “ecological self.” This concept, central to her work, reflects humanity’s integral role within nature rather than apart from it. In Ocean Bodies, she uses water-based materials, such as dyed fabrics, India ink, and water-soluble graphite, to invoke the sea’s physical presence while exploring the symbolic depth of whales, the horizon, and the ocean itself as metaphors for the psyche and cosmos.
Among the featured works is a series of 10-foot mixed-media drawings inspired by historical nautical charts, which pair psychological journeys with the migration of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales. Complementing these works are colorful life-size figurative sculptures and reliefs, 3D-printed using bio-filament, that further explore themes of renewal and interconnection. Through these works, Callas poses urgent questions about the loss of meaning, wisdom, and biodiversity in the Anthropocene.
“The ocean has a unique way to connect with people in an immediate and emotional way. Science and data can only tell us so much; art can speak to each of us in a way that is both uniquely personal and universal. Having Kimberly as the Urban Coast Institute artist-in-residence provided inspiration for some of the artwork in the Ocean Bodies exhibit, which will in turn inspire others. She was also able to share her creative process with her students, conducting lectures and using her art and sculpture as a pathway to ‘discovering the ecological self.’ This work reminds us that the worlds of art and science are two sides of the same coin,” said Tony MacDonald, J.D., Director, Urban Coast Institute.
Callas created much of the work in Ocean Bodies during an artist residency with Monmouth University’s Urban Coast Institute, with additional research conducted at the Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism (ARAS) and an artist residency at the Arts Quarter Budapest. This body of work seeks to merge art, science, and archetypal symbols to foster a deeper understanding of humanity’s place within the natural world and inspire meaningful environmental action.
About the Artist
Kimberly Callas is a multimedia artist, sculptor, and the lead artist of the Social Practice project Discovering the Ecological Self. Her work delves into the human/nature relationship, focusing on the concept of the ecological self. Recently, she has incorporated cutting-edge technologies, such as 3D printing with bio-filaments and CNC, into her life-size sculptures. Art New England described her series Portrait of the Ecological Self as “unforgettable.”
Callas’s work often involves community engagement. With her Discovering the Ecological Self social practice project, featured in The Huffington Post, she has led workshops across the U.S. and internationally. Her art has been showcased in prestigious galleries and museums worldwide, earning her numerous awards and grants, including the Pollination Project Grant, the Urban Coast Artist-in-Residence award, and the Puffin Foundation Grant. Her accolades include First Place in Sculpture at the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club’s Annual Exhibit in New York City.
Callas’s recent exhibitions include the International New Media Exhibit at the CICA Museum in South Korea, Crossing Boundaries: Art and the Future of Energy at the Pensacola Museum of Art, and Ocean Swimmers (Entanglement), a solo exhibition in Budapest. In May 2025, she will unveil a public art commission for the Lambert Castle Renovation in Paterson, New Jersey.
Callas holds an MFA from the New York Academy of Art and a BFA from the University of Michigan. She is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Monmouth University and maintains studios in Maine and New Jersey.
Event Details:
Exhibition: Ocean Bodies
Location: Ice House Gallery, Monmouth University, 400 Cedar Ave # 600, West Long Branch, NJ 07764
Opening Reception: February 6, 2025, 5:30–7:30 PM
Exhibition Dates: February 6, 2025 – April 27, 2025
Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 10am-5pm,
For additional information, please contact Scott Knauer, 732.923.4786 or visit https://kimberlycallas.com/.

Ocean Bodies, A Solo Exhibit by Kimberly Callas
2025-02-06 17:30 - 19:30 | Rotary Ice House Gallery
Monmouth University’s Ice House Gallery presents Ocean Bodies, a powerful solo exhibition by multimedia artist Kimberly Callas. The exhibition will open on February 6, 2025, with an evening reception from 5:30 to 7:30 PM, and will run through April 4, 2025. Ocean Bodies offers an immersive exploration of humanity’s interconnectedness with the ocean, drawing on symbols, archetypes, and ecological narratives to invite contemplation and action.
Through sculptures, large-scale drawings, and mixed-media works, Callas examines the “crisis of meaning” at the heart of the climate crisis and advocates for a shift in consciousness toward an “ecological self.” This concept, central to her work, reflects humanity’s integral role within nature rather than apart from it. In Ocean Bodies, she uses water-based materials, such as dyed fabrics, India ink, and water-soluble graphite, to invoke the sea’s physical presence while exploring the symbolic depth of whales, the horizon, and the ocean itself as metaphors for the psyche and cosmos.
Among the featured works is a series of 10-foot mixed-media drawings inspired by historical nautical charts, which pair psychological journeys with the migration of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales. Complementing these works are colorful life-size figurative sculptures and reliefs, 3D-printed using bio-filament, that further explore themes of renewal and interconnection. Through these works, Callas poses urgent questions about the loss of meaning, wisdom, and biodiversity in the Anthropocene.
“The ocean has a unique way to connect with people in an immediate and emotional way. Science and data can only tell us so much; art can speak to each of us in a way that is both uniquely personal and universal. Having Kimberly as the Urban Coast Institute artist-in-residence provided inspiration for some of the artwork in the Ocean Bodies exhibit, which will in turn inspire others. She was also able to share her creative process with her students, conducting lectures and using her art and sculpture as a pathway to ‘discovering the ecological self.’ This work reminds us that the worlds of art and science are two sides of the same coin,” said Tony MacDonald, J.D., Director, Urban Coast Institute.
Callas created much of the work in Ocean Bodies during an artist residency with Monmouth University’s Urban Coast Institute, with additional research conducted at the Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism (ARAS) and an artist residency at the Arts Quarter Budapest. This body of work seeks to merge art, science, and archetypal symbols to foster a deeper understanding of humanity’s place within the natural world and inspire meaningful environmental action.
About the Artist
Kimberly Callas is a multimedia artist, sculptor, and the lead artist of the Social Practice project Discovering the Ecological Self. Her work delves into the human/nature relationship, focusing on the concept of the ecological self. Recently, she has incorporated cutting-edge technologies, such as 3D printing with bio-filaments and CNC, into her life-size sculptures. Art New England described her series Portrait of the Ecological Self as “unforgettable.”
Callas’s work often involves community engagement. With her Discovering the Ecological Self social practice project, featured in The Huffington Post, she has led workshops across the U.S. and internationally. Her art has been showcased in prestigious galleries and museums worldwide, earning her numerous awards and grants, including the Pollination Project Grant, the Urban Coast Artist-in-Residence award, and the Puffin Foundation Grant. Her accolades include First Place in Sculpture at the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club’s Annual Exhibit in New York City.
Callas’s recent exhibitions include the International New Media Exhibit at the CICA Museum in South Korea, Crossing Boundaries: Art and the Future of Energy at the Pensacola Museum of Art, and Ocean Swimmers (Entanglement), a solo exhibition in Budapest. In May 2025, she will unveil a public art commission for the Lambert Castle Renovation in Paterson, New Jersey.
Callas holds an MFA from the New York Academy of Art and a BFA from the University of Michigan. She is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Monmouth University and maintains studios in Maine and New Jersey.
Event Details:
Exhibition: Ocean Bodies
Location: Ice House Gallery, Monmouth University, 400 Cedar Ave # 600, West Long Branch, NJ 07764
Opening Reception: February 6, 2025, 5:30–7:30 PM
Exhibition Dates: February 6, 2025 – March 23, 2025
Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 10am-5pm,
For additional information, please contact Scott Knauer, 732.923.4786 or visit https://kimberlycallas.com/.

Men's Basketball vs Hampton - Black History Night
2025-02-06 19:00 - 21:00 | OceanFirst Bank Center – West Long Branch, NJ
Monmouth University Men’s Basketball vs Hampton – Black History Night
Streaming Video: https://go.flosports.tv/partner/caa?utm_campaign=caa&utm_medium=partner&utm_source=teams&utm_content=teams&rtid=monmouth&coverage_id=
Tickets: https://mpv.tickets.com/?agency=MNMV_PLAGENCY_MPV&orgid=44869&eventId=119777#/event/E119777

Trivia Thursday - Black History Month
2025-02-06 21:00 - 22:00 | Intercultural Center (Magill Commons)
Celebrate Black History Month with Trivia Thursday – Black History Month edition. Test your knowledge, win prizes, and honor the Black and African American trailblazers who have helped shaped the world—join the fun!
