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Visiting Scholar Series to Feature Celebrated Authors, Scholars


“TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE" AUTHOR MITCH ALBOM AND PULITZER PRIZE RECIPIENT DR. JARED DIAMOND ARE AMONG THIS YEAR'S VISITING SCHOLARS!

Building on the success of our Visiting Scholar Series and the Inaugural Scholars’ Day, MCC is extremely pleased to announce this coming academic year’s itinerary of outstanding guests.

Developed by the Campus Center in partnership with MCC’s academic departments, this series is meant to engage our students. We hope, therefore, that you will encourage them to attend – to take advantage of the kind of diverse opportunities that will broaden their learning experiences outside the classroom. We also hope you’ll find these presentations to be resources that will stimulate creative thinking and conversation.

Please mark your calendars now.

AUTHOR LOIS LOWRY
Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009
Noon and 7:00pm
Reading and Book Signing
Theatre, Building 4
Free to MCC students, faculty and staff
$10.00 General Public (noon presentation not open to the public)
Tickets are required

Known for her versatility and invention as a writer, Lowry is the author of more than 30 books for young adults, including the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader’s Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. Lowry received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, Number the Stars and The Giver. Her first novel, A Summer to Die, was awarded the International Reading Association’s Children’s Book Award. Ms. Lowry now divides her time between Cambridge and a 1840s farmhouse in Maine.

AUTHOR MITCH ALBOM
Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009
7:30 p.m.
Stabins Physical Education Complex (Bldg. 10)
$3.00 to MCC students, faculty and staff
$15.00 General Public
Tickets are required

Albom’s “Tuesdays with Morrie” became an international phenomenon with over 14 million copies sold and is now the bestselling memoir of all time. In 2003 Albom’s first novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, debuted at #1 on “The New York Times” bestseller list and sold nearly five million copies in its first year.

His newest book, “Have a Little Faith: A True Story,”  is being released in September 2009 by Hyperion. Mitch Albom talks about why faith is still needed and embraced in a modern world where we think we know all the answers. Rather than divide us, Albom found - through time spent with an inner-city pastor of a poor church and an aging rabbi of a wealthy suburban synagogue - that faith can pull us together. That it unites us in our humanity.
https://mitchalbom.com/home/

AUTHOR ANN PATCHETT
Friday, March 26, 2010
Noon
If All of Rochester Read the Same Book
Warshof Conference Center in the Flynn Campus Center
Monroe A and B
Free and open to the public

In 1990 Ann Patchett won a residential fellowship to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where she wrote her first novel, The Patron Saint of Liars. It was named a New York Times Notable Book for 1992.

Patchett's second novel, Taft, was awarded the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for the best work of fiction in 1994. Her third novel, The Magician's Assistant, was short-listed for England's Orange Prize and earned her a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Bel Canto won the PEN/Faulkner Award, the UK’s Orange Prize, and the Book Sense Book of the Year Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. It has been translated into 30 languages. Nashville, Tennessee-based Patchett is a multiple award-winning author of several novels and two nonfiction books, many of which are book group favorites.
https://www.annpatchett.com/

2nd Annual Scholars’ Day

PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR, RENOWNED AMERICAN SCIENTIST DR. JARED DIAMOND
Saturday, April 3, 2010
10:00 am
Theatre, Bldg. 4
Free to MCC students, faculty and staff
Tickets are required for the event

Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse,” Diamond is the epitome of the celebrity scientist. His lectures routinely draw thousands of rapt listeners who walk away with a deeper and more nuanced view of the development of human civilization and the continued gulf between rich and poor in the global community

His lectures tackle the giant questions. Why do some societies thrive and prosper, while others shrivel and die? How can humanity maximize the opportunity for human happiness, while saving the planet from ecological ruin and collapse? Are there lessons we can learn from other great civilizations who have grown to world dominance?

Currently a professor of geography at UCLA, Diamond is also the author of two other bestselling books, “The Third Chimpanzee” and “Why Is Sex Fun?” He has received some of the world's most prestigious awards, including a MacArthur Genius Grant and the National Medal of Science, America's highest civilian award in science. 
https://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/about/jared.html

Tickets for all events will be available beginning Friday, September 4, 2009 online at "
http://www.monroecctickets.com", at the Campus Center Service Desk in the R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center, Building 3, or at the Damon City Campus Bookstore.  For further information, call the Campus Center office at 585-292-2534. 

Jodi Oriel
Campus Center
09/14/2009