The Honorable Jeb Bush, former two-term governor of Florida, will address the 2012 graduating class of Ave Maria University on May 5, 2012, at 10 AM in the Tom Golisano Fieldhouse. Click here for more information
All but one of the recent signings for the 2012 AMU football team hail from Florida, Head Football Coach Kevin Joyce announced recently. Click here for more information
End–of–Semester Recital FRIDAY, April 27 The Music Department presents its end–of–semester recital, featuring organists, pianists and singers who have performed optimally on their juries. The recital begins at 7pm in the Oratory for the organists and continues in the Private Dining Room for the singers and pianists. Come and support our talented students as they perform the music of Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninov and others.
Chamber Music SUNDAY, April 29 The Music Department and Professor Lan Lam’s Chamber Music Class present Johannes Brahms’s Liebeslieder ( Love Song ) Waltzes, performed by a vocal quartet and piano four-hands, and the music of Handel, Mozart and Debussy at 4 pm in the Private Dining Room. Come and share this intimate music-making that is chamber music.
The Department of History is sponsoring a lecture entitled The Berlin Wall: 1961-1989 by Dr. Gerald Franz of Hodges University on Wednesday, April 25, at 6 p.m. in the Henkels Academic Building, Demetree Auditorium, room 1001. Dr. Franz will be joined by two former residents of Berlin, Ekkehard Grampp and Heidemarie Klimt.
AMU Professor, Thomas Smith, will teach two Biology classes (Natural History Field Studies and Environmental Science) at AMU’s Nicaragua campus this summer from May 6 - June 7. Both classes will fulfill the natural sciences core curriculum requirement for AMU students.
Jon Scharfenberger just wanted to help people, his mother said at a gathering in Ave Maria. Now, a scholarship fund being established in the name of the young man who died in a car accident last fall may help many others attend the university where he was such an active part of the campus life for four years.
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This event is presented by the students of Ave Maria University and features selections from Wicked, Les Miserables, The Phantom of the Opera, and more. This is event is open to the public.
On February 11, as the debate over the Obama administration’s rule forcing religious institutions to provide insurance for contraceptive and abortifacient drugs to their employees was reaching fever pitch…
LATIN COURSES (upper level) at Ave Maria University, Fall Semester 2012
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LATN 203 - Golden Age Prose (Intermediate Latin Readings)
Instructor: Dr. Bradley Ritter
Meeting Times: T-Th 10:10-11:50AM
Description: LATN 203 is for those students who found both success and enjoyment in their…
The obituary of Leigh Fermor, war-hero and travel-writer, which appeared in The Telegraph (UK) last year (June 10, 2011), contains the following account of an incident on the island of Crete in April 1944:
‘Dressed as German police corporals, the pair [Fermor and Bill Stanley Moss]…
