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Date: Monday, Aug. 28
Location:

Need instant access to mental health care? The Student Health Center has partnered with TimelyCare for TalkNow emotional support, appointment-based counseling, health coaching and more. Visit timelycare.com/lamar or download the app for virtual care from anywhere.

Date: Wednesday, Sept. 13, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Location: Setzer Student Center

Improve your physical and mental health this semester by visiting the LU Health and Wellness Fair on Wednesday, Sept. 13. Come meet our partners from local and on-campus health and wellness organizations. You could win great prizes for attending.

Date: Thursday, Sept. 14, 12:45 - 1:30 p.m.
Location: Mary and John Gray Library 6th floor, or

If one skill promotes career success and interpersonal development above the others, it is active listening. Join Dr. Jim Mann to learn the essentials of active listening and related communication skills to help build rapport and trust, reduce conflict, and increase problem-solving skills. More information is available.

Date: Thursday, Sept. 21 - Saturday, Sept. 23, 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Sept. 24, 2 p.m.
Location: LU Studio Theatre

Mary Wallace and Athena are teenage fencers training for the Junior Olympics. They practice together, they compete against each other, they spend their lives together. They wish they were friends. Come join the LU Department of Theatre and Dance for a 75-minute comedy about friendship, competition, and embracing one’s true self.

Date: Monday, Sept. 25 - Wednesday, Nov. 8, Mondays & Wednesdays, 10 - 11 a.m.
Location: LU Speech and Hearing Sciences Building

Are you or someone you love living with a dementia diagnosis? The LU Speech-Language Pathology clinic is offering free group cognitive stimulation therapy this fall. Pre-screening is required. Please call our clinic for details about inclusion criteria, dates, and times at (409) 880-8171.

Date: Monday, Sept. 23, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Location: Social and Behavioral Sciences Building, Suite 200

The LU Psychology Department is offering a six-week series of group therapy sessions to address life stress specifically related to COVID-19. Space is limited, so interested individuals are encouraged to call the clinic at (409) 880-7783 to reserve a spot.

Come join us this week for . Don't forget that you can also watch the LU Cardinals on the road on ESPN+. Go Big Red!

ËÄ»¢Ó°ÊÓ will host the 3rd annual Red Day virtual giving campaign on Sept. 14 and 15. The university is “Rolling Out the Red Carpet for 100 Years” in celebration of this special centennial fundraising event. for more information.

This week on the , Dr. Golden Wright, dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communication at LU, sits down with us to discuss ËÄ»¢Ó°ÊÓ's upcoming 100th birthday celebration, CentennialFest, scheduled for Sunday, September 17 at 4 p.m.

Tune in to this week's episode or past episodes of the LU Moment on , or wherever you get your podcasts.

Location: Mary and John Gray Library, 1st Floor

ËÄ»¢Ó°ÊÓ provides loaner laptops to LU students as a courtesy and at no charge. Laptops are available for both short-term checkouts (up to three days) and long-term checkouts (up to eight weeks). You must be a current student at LU to be eligible for this program.

For more information, visit the Information Technology (I.T.) Service Desk on the 1st floor of the Mary and John Gray Library. You will need to present your LU Student Cardinal One card. No other forms of identification will be accepted. Laptops are available on a “first come, first served” basis.

Date: Thursday, Aug. 17 - Wednesday, Sept. 27

Students in their final thesis or dissertation course are required by the College of Graduate Studies to register for a workshop and participate in editing a final document for ProQuest upload with graduate editing staff.

On the latest episode of the podcast , KVLU is sharing a delightful conversation between Dishman Art Museum director and KVLU show host, Dennis Kiel, and renowned photographer and ËÄ»¢Ó°ÊÓ Walles Chair of Fine Arts, Keith Carter, which originally aired on the most recent episode of the Bayoulands radio show. You can find Bayoulands TALKS on the major podcast platforms.

Creative writers from the Department of English and Modern Languages recently won three of six categories awarded to students by the Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers. These authors will read at the TACWT conference in September, and they will be published in the conference journal, "Writing Texas," edited by John Schulze. The published work will be, “Feed the Baby, Fold the Laundry” by Reilly Smith, “Lupus,” by Tiffany Charleston and “Gaslight” by Mak F. Campbell

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All approved announcements must be received by Thursday at 3 p.m. to be included in the following week's campus update.

Dr. Golden Wright named dean of College of Fine Arts and Communication

Asian Business Student Association bridges cultural gap

LU Alumnus Christopher Bates named Constable of the Year

EIDS Shares Energy System Microbe Database with CMMS