By Cara Echols, Bluffton University PR student writer
Bluffton University business students jumpstarted their career search during the Employer Expo networking event held on campus Sept. 27.
“At this event, students are able to interact with representatives from companies in the area that are actively looking to hire interns and full-time employees. The interactions are a great learning experience that they don’t get in the classroom,” said John Burkhart, assistant professor of accounting.
Dr. Gerald J. Mast, professor of communication at Bluffton University will present “What Suffering Martyrs Teach Us about Christian Mission: Lessons from the Passau Songs of the ‘Ausbund,’” at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 8 in Marbeck Center’s Kreider Room.
Dr. Andrea Motto ’97, manager of public and youth engagement at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, will present the Alumni Forum, “Privilege, Resilience and Equity in Science Education," at 11 a.m. on Oct. 10 in Yoder Recital Hall.
Bluffton University will host a concert featuring its Concert Band at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 8, in Yoder Recital Hall.
The performance, part of Homecoming weekend activities at Bluffton, is free and open to the public. A free-will offering will be taken for music scholarships during intermission.
Kala Jilani-Pritchett, a Blufton University psychology major from Dayton, took part in an experience this summer that offered insight into her future.
Jilani-Pritchett, alongside other college students from across the country, spent a month at Harvard Medical School exploring the areas of neuroscience and neuropsychology, sciences involving the study of the brain.
“I ran across this program, and it was exactly what I wanted to do,” she said. “It opened a door that I didn’t know I could open.”
RICHMOND, Ind. - The Bluffton University men's soccer team dropped its HCAC opener at Earlham College by a 3-1 count on Saturday, Sept. 30. Bluffton slipped to 0-9 overall and 0-1 in the HCAC, while Earlham improved to 1-8 and 1-0 in the Heartland Conference.
