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Create custom print and/or digital invitations for your next event. Bring your lunch and laptop to follow along as you learn the basics of Adobe InDesign.  January 17th | 11:30 a.m.-12:50 p.m. | Innovation Foundry
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Join the Office of Alumni Relations on Sunday, Feb. 23, as we honor our 2020 Alumni Award winners: Wes Kittley (’81), Outstanding Alumnus of the Year, and Joel Wells, M.D. (’06), Young Alumnus of the Year. Lunch is at 12:15 p.m. in the McCaleb Conference Center, Hunter Welcome Center. Tickets are now available, and you can click here to purchase tickets/a table using a FOAP

Applications and abstracts for the 2020 Undergraduate Research Festival are due on Friday, Jan. 24, by 5 p.m.

The ACU Undergraduate Research Festival, scheduled for Tuesday, April 7th, gives students an opportunity to present their research during concurrent sessions or as a poster. Students who present their research compete for Outstanding Presentation Awards in several categories. This year at the festival there will be a creative arts category for presentations focusing on digital, vocal, theatrical, and creative expression, as well as entries from the Images of Aging photography contest.

Submit here for Images of Aging entries.  All other festival proposals should be submitted here.

If you have questions, you may contact the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
at orsp@acu.edu or the Office of Undergraduate Research at uresearch@acu.edu.

WACU is hosting its Christmas Bake and Craft Sale this Friday, Dec. 13. Stop by the WACU museum from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. to choose from a selection of pies, sweet treats, crafts and items from the museum. All proceeds from the sale will go to the WACU Endowed Scholarship Fund.

Have you ever experienced virtual reality? Come by the Innovation Foundry on Dead Day and play Beat Saber in virtual reality! This is a come and go event from 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 9th.

Join Family First on January 29th for a free lunch on a topic all of us can relate to: finances. Dr. Kyle Tippens will speak on Family Finances Across the Life Cycle: Preparing for Marriage, Parenthood, and Retirement. Lunch will begin at 11:45 and conclude by 1 in the Core Classroom across from the ACU Library. Please RSVP by emailing familyfirst@acu.edu

Pruett Gerontology Center and Innovation Foundry Invite the ACU community to a Dementia Virtual Reality Experience. On Wednesday, Dec. 4th, we will have VR programs that help you put yourself in the shoes of someone with dementia to better understand the challenging symptoms they face. The programs are self-guided, and we will have an optional reflection space available. The event is come and go from 11:00am-1:00pm. Please RSVP to gero@acu.edu so we can have enough snacks and supplies available.  For more information, visit the Pruett Gerontology Center blog.

The Annual Christmas Vespers presented by the Department of Music will be this Sunday, December 8th beginning at 7:30 p.m. at First Baptist Church of Abilene. This year’s theme is “Hope for All the World,” and it will be a beautiful evening of music, scripture, prayer, and readings celebrating the season. Admission is Free.

The ACU Foundation would like to invite current and retired members of the ACU faculty and staff to a holiday reception on Tuesday, December 17th from 2:00-4:00 p.m. in the Hunter Welcome Center atrium around the Christmas tree. It will be a come -and-go reception with coffee, cocoa, cookies and live Christmas music. We hope to see you there!

Join Family First on January 29th for a free lunch on a topic all of us can relate to: finances. Dr. Kyle Tippens will speak on Family Finances Across the Life Cycle: Preparing for Marriage, Parenthood, and Retirement. Lunch will begin at 11:45 and conclude by 1 in the Core Classroom across from the ACU Library. Please RSVP by emailing familyfirst@acu.edu