INDICATIONS: TERESA CERVANTES Exhibition on view Aug 15 - Nov 29 Located on the first floor of Griffith Hall, University City campus Hours: Thursday 2 - 6 p.m., Friday 1 - 5 p.m., Saturday 12 - 4 p.m., and by appointment The Marvin Samson Museum for the History of Pharmacy presents work by Artist-in-Residence Teresa Cervantes. Drawing on traditions of apothecary craft, pharmaceutical marketing, and visual art, Cervantes’ compounded artistic approaches divulge the hope, fear, and purpose contained within the domestic medicine cabinet. As sites of ritual self-construction, medicine cabinets are porous spaces bridging the personal and political, the corporal and corporate. Indications invites viewers to consider the active ingredients of play, poetry, and touch as forms of resistance to today’s increasingly corporate health and wellness industries. More information: sju.edu/pharmacymuseum/exhibitions   Join us for an opening reception on Friday, Sept 5.  Students! Come by during SJU open hour (12:30-1:30 p.m.) for pizza and snacks.  Everyone else, join us from 5 to 7:30 p.m. to hear remarks from the artist and curator. Wine and beer will be served.  

Drexel Library will be closed from July 21st to August 8th while we bring items remaining in the JW England collection to Hawk Hill. The Post Learning Commons will be open during the move, and books can be placed on hold and picked up in the atrium. Please visit our Library Collections Guide to learn more, or reach out to us with questions. We appreciate your patience as we move into the final stages of this multi-year project!

SJU staff, faculty, and students are invited to join us for three discussions of The Young Adult Playbook as we explore challenges and opportunities facing young people today, particularly SJU students.  The Young Adult Playbook goes where other life design books refuse to go: it asks deep questions about what constitutes a happy life. After decades of listening to their students, Anna Moreland and Thomas Smith name the underlying desires in young adults: while searching for a lucrative career, they long for meaningful work; their social media and gaming practices point to a deeper yearning for intimacy; and their leisure habits have been crushed under the productivity machine. This book helps them unlock their deepest desires. It offers practical strategies to improve habits. And it leads them to recover activities lost from childhood. The book is threaded with the real voices of young adults who have found their way out of this rough terrain. These offer much needed models of hope, providing a concrete map through unprecedented challenges. We will discuss each section of the book with invited subject specialists:  Work with Lisa Hansinger of Career Services Leisure with Aimee Della Porta and Thom Nailer of CAPS Love with Young Adult Playbook author, Anna Bonta Moreland A free ebook copy of the book can be obtained via the library. Limited physical copies are available from the Faith-Justice Institute. To obtain a copy, please contact dcritell@sju.edu. Register Additional info on SJU Book Clubs