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May 2008

05.07.08 Autism Conference at Fairfield University

05.07.08 Autism Conference at Fairfield University

05.06.08 One Day University returns to University College at Fairfield University on June 1 with a bonus course

05.05.08 Fairfield University offering a diverse range of summer programs for young people and adults

05.01.08 Lifelong Learning continues with Summer Institute and a bonus at University College at Fairfield University

05.01.08 Auditions for Fairfield University's 15th Anniversary Annual Summer Festival Chorus

05.01.08 Fairfield University President commits to 'climate neutral' campus

April 2008

04.25.08 CineFest - Fairfield 2008 - Fairfield University's student film festival with red carpet arrivals, stops traffic at Community Theatre of Fairfield

04.23.08 Green energy panelists tell Dolan School students of great opportunities

04.22.08 'The Reluctant Environmentalist,' a blog about humanity helping the planet, debuts

04.21.08 Fairfield University announces commencement plans

04.21.08 Fairfield University's Dolan School graduate students to participate in First Annual 5K 'Walk for Wishes' at Fairfield's Jennings Beach as part of National JesuitMBA Service Day

04.17.08 Quartetto Gelato plays Fairfield University's Quick Center for the Arts

04.17.08 Jesuit Community Center groundbreaking ceremony set for Earth Day

04.17.08 Record-breaking $1.1 million raised by Fairfield University for drive to increase diversity

04.16.08 "Max and Ruby," Theatreworks/USA Musical at Fairfield University's Quick Center for the Arts

04.16.08 Fairfield University to hold first "Jail 'N' Bail" for Special Olympics

04.15.08 Holocaust Remembrance at Fairfield University

04.15.08 Shen Wei Dance Arts performs at Fairfield University's Quick Center for the Arts

04.14.08 Fairfield University Glee Club's annual Pops Concert with The Pops Band is all about cupid

04.14.08 Young audiences invited to experience The Acting Company's The Tempest at Fairfield University's Quick Center for the Arts

04.14.08 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center premieres composer Tower's Piano Trio at Fairfield University's Quick Center for the Arts April 26

04.14.08 Fairfield University's DiMenna-Nyselius Library's Top 10 (or make that Top 13)  favorite books in honor of National Library Week

04.14.08 Fairfield University's Green Team spearheads celebration of Earth Week 2008 with multiple campus events

04.11.08 Guantánamo Bay attorney to speak at Fairfield University

04.11.08 Documentary, "The Calling," explores call to religious life

04.10.08 Director's Choice Gallery Talk April 18 at Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery

04.10.08 Fairfield University's DiMenna-Nyselius Library awarded conservation resources to help care for and preserve special collections and archives

04.08.08 Legends of the blues come to Fairfield University's Quick Center for the Arts

04.08.08 Fairfield University studio art students exhibitions "Salon 2008" at the Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery

04.08.08 Fairfield University students erect symbols of Iraq war casualties

04.04.08 Second City comes to Fairfield University's Quick Center for the Arts

04.04.08 Fairfield Awards Dinner, benefiting The Alumni Multicultural Scholarship Fund, features keynote speaker Geoffrey Canada, president and chief executive officer of Harlem Children's Zone

04.04.08 32nd Pews Conference at Fairfield University attracts scholars from around the globe

04.03.08 July/August 2008 Calendar of Events

04.03.08 June 2008 Calendar of Events

04.03.08 Fairfield University's Jazz Ensemble spring concert - John Fumasoli and The Jones Factor Guest with Donnelly award winner

04.02.08 Catholic Professors comment on Pope Benedict XVI's upcoming visit to the United States

04.02.08 Fairfield University announces new low residency MFA in Creative Writing

04.01.08 Fairfield University's Theatre Fairfield presents "dis/connect" - An original collaborative theatrical venture

March 2008

03.31.08 Fairfield University announces Bridgeport Tuition Plan for students with family incomes under $50,000

03.31.08 The Family Counseling Center at Fairfield University offers therapeutic assistance to all in need within the community

03.27.08 Newsweek editor/author Jon Meacham to speak at Fairfield University

03.27.08 The Fairfield University Glee Club rocks

03.26.08 Internationally acclaimed Borromeo String Quartet comes to Fairfield University's Quick Center for the Arts

03.26.08 School of Nursing awarded $100,000 grant from the Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority (CHEFA) to assist state-of-the-art Women's Health Simulation Expansion Project

03.25.08 The TEAM - 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Festival winner at the Quick Center for the Arts

03.24.08 Sharpen your foreign language skills: Weekend Immersion Program in Arabic, French, Italian, Spanish

03.20.08 One Day University at Fairfield University

03.19.08 Full-day counseling workshop with credit: "Legal and Ethical Challenges in Counseling"

03.19.08 Afro-Cuban jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval returns to Fairfield University and the Quick Center for the Arts

03.18.08 NCAA tabs eight teams to play at Arena at Harbor Yard

03.18.08 St. Petersburg Ballet Theatre brings "Swan Lake" to Fairfield University and the Quick Center for the Arts

03.18.08 Fairfield University's Green Energy Night to feature a roundtable of Connecticut business people talking about renewable energy

03.18.08 Vital Voices speaker at Fairfield University: "Why Investing in Women Improves our World"

03.17.08 "The Insatiable Critic" Gael Greene to Lecture at Fairfield University

03.17.08 College credit courses offered during summer at Fairfield University

03.17.08 Fairfield University names Alija Pittenger head coach for volleyball program

03.14.08 Senator Joseph Lieberman answers questions about faith and politics posed by Fairfield University students

03.14.08 Fairfield University receives gift of photographs from Socratis Mavrommatis

03.13.08 Newly elected Phi Beta Kappa members announced at Fairfield University

03.12.08 Nicaraguan literary giant and revolutionary Sergio Ramírez to lecture during visit to Fairfield University (Click here for the Spanish version)

03.12.08 Inaugural Commonweal Lecture at Fairfield University presents George Dennis O'Brien

03.10.08 Ambassador's lecture marks 60th anniversary of Israel

03.06.08 Irish dance contest winners announced by Quick Center for the Arts for Leahy's performance

03.05.08 The Metropolitan Opera: Live in High-Definition series coming to Fairfield University's Quick Center for the Arts

03.05.08 Irish literature scholar to lecture on Yeats at the Quick Center for the Arts

03.04.08 Fairfield University to host United Nations Global Compact Event

03.04.08 Hip-hop political activists at Fairfield University

03.03.08 The latest 'Buzz' to hit the airwaves (and web)

03.03.08 Author and former child slave Jean-Robert Cadet to speak at Fairfield University

February 2008

02.28.08 School of Engineering honor society inducts students and honorary members, UI president and CEO Anthony Vallillo and ASML Executive Timothy O'Neil

02.27.08 Fairfield University hosts symposium based on resident Kress Study Collection

02.26.08 Spring Break: a learning and service adventure for Fairfield University students

02.25.08 Radio Dramas return to Fairfield University's Quick Center for the Arts with Shakespeare's "Richard II"

02.21.08 Scholar for Warsaw Ghetto Archives to speak at Fairfield University

2.14.08 Fairfield University business students helping Connecticut working families by assisting with free tax preparation and financial education services

02.14.08 "Italian American Storytellers" lecture by Anthony Riccio

02.13.08 Bellarmine Lecture presents "The Church in the 21st Century: Evangelical and Catholic"

02.12.08 "Doctor Dolittle," the musical, comes to the Quick Center for the Arts

02.12.08 Clergy and media address how voters become informed

02.12.08 University College Dean role expanded to include Global Relationships and Academic Program Engagement with area communities

02.08.08 Classical pianist Garrick Ohlsson plays the Quick Center for the Arts

02.08.08 Fairfield University finance student takes second place in global currency trading competition

02.07.08 Acclaimed Axis of Evil comedy team at Fairfield University

02.07.08 February 29 concert cancelled at The Quick Center for the Arts

02.07.08 Fairfield University professor Kathleen Wheeler's new book lauded for being "a major contribution to the discipline of nursing"

02.06.08 Men's & Women's basketball games offer fun for families with special promotions

02.06.08 Author and filmmaker Roya Hakakian to speak on growing up Jewish in post-revolutionary Iran

02.05.08 Leahy and The Quick Center for the Arts issue a "Call to Dancers" for the chance to perform an Irish dance

02.04.08 One Day University returns to Fairfield University

02.04.08 Robert Royal is St. Thomas More inaugural lecturer at Fairfield University

02.01.08 President Jeffrey von Arx, S.J. on CBS Evening News

02.01.08 Dr. Kurt Schlichting on PBS

02.01.08 Super Tuesday - religion, media, values, women, politics

January 2008

01.31.08 Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills comes to Fairfield University as guest of the Author's Forum of University College and the Center for Catholic Studies

01.29.08 Theatre Fairfield at Fairfield University begins 2008 with a "New Works Festival"

01.29.08 Fairfield University now offers study abroad program at prestigious business school in France

01.28.08 Religious issues and the election topic of Fairfield University workshop

01.26.08 President Jeffrey P. von Arx, S.J., statement upon learning of the passing of John Klein, president and chief executive officer of People's United Financial

01.24.08 Congressman Harold Ford, Jr. to speak at Open VISIONS Forum of University College on the Fairfield University campus

01.24.08 Fairfield University engineering student receives award from Cisco Systems, Inc. for academic and NYPD career achievements

01.24.08 "Neil Berg's 100 Years of Broadway" showcases great white way classics at Fairfield University's Quick Center for the Arts

01.23.08 Members of Fairfield University reflect on election of Superior General of the Society of Jesus

01.18.08 Blues rocker Marcia Ball and BeauSoleil take the stage at the Quick Center for the Arts

01.17.08 "Director's Choice" lecture features current exhibition artist Donald Vaccino at Fairfield University's Walsh Art Gallery

01.16.08 Becoming an informed electorate: Issues and values and the role of media

01.16.08 Fairfield University's Quick Center for the Arts presents Live Music Project's "Jewish Themes"

01.15.08 Lecture on "The Impact of Islam on America and the Catholic Church"

01.14.08 Fairfield University receives $2.3 million grant for CHP power plant

01.14.08 University College at Fairfield University presents One Day University

01.11.08 "Winnie the Pooh" next Young Audience Sunday Series at the Quick Center

01.10.08 "The Emperor's New Clothes" - Contemporary art by Donald Vaccino opens at Fairfield University's Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery

01.10.08 Theme of Fairfield University three-day Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration: A Man of Peace, A Man of Justice

01.08.08 Fairfield University's Theresa Tavella Quell, Ph. D., "an ordinary nurse trying to make a difference," named president of the Connecticut Nurses' Association

01.08.08 The Acting Company's "Moby Dick Rehearsed" comes to Fairfield University's Quick Center for the Arts

01.07.08 Fairfield University's popular Irish Studies film series returns

01.04.08 New dean named for College of Arts and Sciences

01.03.08 Fairfield University economist's book on e-Commerce draws interest from China

01.03.08 University College presents Open VISIONS Forum with author Joyce Carol Oates

01.02.08 "Live Radio Dramas" are back onstage at Fairfield University's Quick Center for the Arts - "Swashbuckling Heroes"

01.02.08 Learning for a Lifetime at Fairfield University's University College - registration begins at January 4 Open House

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