When Franco Met Faulkner
What? James Franco directing and starring in his film adaptation of William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, one of the best novels of the modernist period and one of my favorite novels to teach? I…
Monthly Archives: November 2013
My JFK
I don’t remember much about the afternoon of the announcement of Kennedy’s death other than the antics of one of my senior year classmates. While most of us sat dumbstruck, Ray Graffia, he of the…
Another Chinese Revolution: The Children
The Communist Party Leadership conference which took place over this last weekend was the first time that we have seen the President of China, Xi Jinping, in office for a year, reveal what his term…
Chicago: Never a City So Real
“Yet once you’ve come to be part of this particular patch, you’ll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never…
The Humanities in the Age of Globalization
Historians tell tales. Tales begin with “once upon a time.” Once upon a time, some 650 years ago, an enormous disaster engulfed the population of Europe. In the year of our Lord 1348, the plague…
An Almost Full Plate: Art and Appetite (A New Art Institute of Chicago Exhibit)
This review of a current exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago is an extension of the year-long Arts and Ideas series (2011-2012) Food for Thought, a program in which Lewis faculty and off-campus experts…
Computer Science Hosts IT Career Preparation Seminar
The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science was honored to host a career preparation and leadership seminar for future IT professionals and entrepreneurs on Saturday, November 9. The all-day seminar, which was designed and presented…
Communications and Computer Science Students Visit Chicago Startup
Students from Lewis University’s Department of Communications and Department of Mathematics and Computer Science visited Internet start up Belly, an innovative social shopping site that rewards customers’ loyalty to brands and businesses. Belly supports stores by…
Working IT on the Front Lines Of Science
On Thursday, November 7, 2013, the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science welcomed Jay Johnson of Argonne National Laboratory to campus to talk with students about working in Information Technology (IT) at a national laboratory.…
Guest Speaker Talks to Computer Science Students About Linux
The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Lewis University had the honor of welcoming Computer Science alumnus Nathan Adams back to campus to speak to Prof. Joe Ninh’s Linux classes this week. Nathan, who…