Hilltop Happenings

Country music megastar Luke Bryan has created the Luke Bryan Farm Tour Annual Scholarship at Bradley University. Four Bradley students will receive a one-time $2,000 scholarship. Applications are being accepted now by the Office of Donor Relations. To be considered, students must be enrolled full-time and in good academic standing at Bradley; must demonstrate financial need as determined by the Bradley University Office of Financial Assistance; must have a personal background or connection in agriculture and/or farming; must complete the online application (https://www.bradley.edu/offices/student/sfs/financial-assistance/special-scholarship/) which includes a personal essay/statement by May 31, 2022.

The Registrar’s Office will be temporarily relocating from Swords Hall 11 to Bradley Hall 200 beginning on Friday, April 15. Some office operations may be limited during the duration of the move, which should conclude on Thursday, April 21. If you need assistance, please email registrar@bradley.edu.

Beginning on Monday, April 18 all students, faculty and staff should visit the Registrar’s Office's new temporary location in Bradley Hall 200 for any needed in-person services. Office hours will be Monday – Friday, 8:00 am to 4:30 pm (closed from 12:00 -1:00 pm).

The Registrar's Office is expected to move back to its permanent office location in Swords Hall 11 by early to mid May, which will be shared with campus, once a moving plan is in place.
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We appreciate your patience and understanding during this move. Thank you.

Please join the Lewis J. Burger Center and Bradley SERVE for National Volunteer Week!
2022 Schedule:
Monday- Community Service at Bradley
4:30pm Marty Theatre

Tuesday- Earth Day Sign Making
7pm Westlake 116

Wednesday- Volunteering at Boys and Girls Club
2:30pm Student Center Atrium

Thursday- Guest Speaker from EasterSeals
6pm Executive Suite

Friday- Whittier Elem. Earth Day Parade
2pm Alumni Quad

Sign up at: volunteer.bradley.edu

Join History Club on Monday, April 18th, to listen to our guest speaker, Dr. Libby Tronnes, Head of Special Collections in the Cullom-Davis Library and North American Indigenous history specialist!
Anyone is welcome to attend!
Where: BR 100
When: 7:30pm-8:30pm

Hello Bradley Braves! Join Active Minds on Monday, April 18th at 5:00 in BECC 3001 for an open study hall. Let's be productive together! We hope to see you there! For more information or if you have questions check out our Instagram @activemindsbradley.

Let's beat the heat together! Come out and support SHPE in our Agua Fresca and Chicharrones sale on Monday, April 18th from 11-2 pm in the Student Center! Can't wait to see you all there.

Join the Black Student Alliance and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for the first event of Garrett Week, a talent show! Sign up today by clicking the link in either organization's Instagram bio (@bradleybsa or @bu_naacp). This is a fundraiser; entry to the talent show is $5. All proceeds will go towards our fall programs and service projects. All are welcome to participate and watch.

For the first time ever, Gamma Phi Beta is hosting a philanthropy week: Monday April 18th to Thursday April 21th! Building Strong Girls all week long!

Join us to learn about Fashion Revolution Week and the impacts we have as consumers! We will be in the student center April 19 from 10 AM to 2 PM.

Join BSEA on Tuesday, April 19th for a discussion with Beth Crider, the Regional Superintendent for Peoria County! She will be talking about Trauma Informed Teaching and how to work with students who've experienced trauma in order to help them learn how to cope. Everyone regardless of major is encouraged to attend!

The Meeting will be Tuesday, 4/19 @ 7:15, in WES 214A. Hope to see you there!

Stop by Alumni Quad at 3:30pm on 4/19 to learn about nature, climate change, and outdoor organizations you can get involved with! Then, join us for a guided hike through Laura Bradley Park and a scavenger hunt! This is a great chance to take a study break, get some fresh air, and get off campus! And, come for your chance to win an adventure backpack complete with a hammock, water bottle, and more!

Connect with fellow AMA members as we: learn about upcoming events, participate in group bonding activities, highlight internships or jobs that may interest you, see what alumni are up to, highlight our member of the month, show off AMA resources, and so much more!

Our next meeting will be Tuesday, April 19th from 5-6 pm in BR 120! This week, we will be learning how to sign the song "We Don't Talk About Bruno" from Encanto as well as learning some basic ASL grammar when signing songs! If you have any questions or want to be added to our email list, email us at bradleysignlanguage@gmail.com

Join us this Thursday, April 21st @ 9pm in Garrett Center as we have a competitive night playing "What's in the Box". It will be a last general meeting of the semester run by our NEW Exec Board so we hope to see you all there!

Need to cool off from the warm weather? Come out and support ALAS in our Paleta Sale on Wednesday, April 20th from 11-2 pm at the Founder's Circle! We will have an array of delicious flavors for you to choose from!

4/20 : 12-2 IN STUDENT CENTER
RANA PLAZA PRESENTATION

All experiences with gender, race, ability, sexuality, and/or other constructs are welcome. Feel free to write an original piece or share a slam poem that has already been published. No performance experience needed. All you need is a desire to be heard.

Please refer to the flyer for time and location as well as contact information. See you there!

Come join APICS on Olin Quad from 5:30-6:30pm on Wednesday, April 20th to hang out with friends, play some games, and eat free ice cream! All engineering and business students are welcome. We can't wait to see you there!

Women in Business currently has some open exec positions for the 2022-2023 school year. We are an organization that aims to empower women and learn about women in the workplace. If you were not able to be an active member this past year, that is not a problem because we know there were some conflicts with our meeting times this year. If you are at all interested in a position please email us by 4/20 at buwomeninbusiness@gmail.com

Come out and join FMA for a FCB event on Wednesday, April 20th at 7pm in BECC 4160 where we'll be hosting Eric Scoville. He'll be speaking on his cryptocurrency hedge fund among other topics, so be sure to attend!

Join us on Wednesday, April 20th in Bradley Hall 235 from 4-5pm!

Come join Dr. Val for a presentation with Mark Meurer, Asst. Director of Recruitment & Public Relations for the University of Illinois College of Medicine’s Rural Medical Education Program (RMED). All are welcome to attend and learn more about the challenges and rewards of rural practice as well as resources, programs, scholarships and incentives available to students.

BU Theatre presents THE REVOLUTIONISTS, playwright Lauren Gunderson's surreal, feminist comedy set during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror. Four fierce women of vision-- assassin Charlotte Corday, deposed queen Marie Antoinette, playwright Olympe de Gouges, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle, forge solidarity, discover their destinies, and and change the world. Five performances only, at the Hartmann Center: Wed-Sat April 20-23 at 7:30pm and Sun April 24 at 2pm. Student tickets $7.00 / and Quickcash is accepted at the box office. Tickets and info: Bradley.edu/theatre/

Coffee With a Cop will be held 9a.m.- 12p.m. on April 21 in the student center. This months Coffee With a Cop is to support Sexual Assault awareness month. There will be teal donuts from Trefzger's bakery, coffee and hot chocolate.

Milwaukee Tool Demo Day: Thursday, April 21st at 3pm in front of BECC. There will be various tool demonstrations done by Milwaukee Tool (drivers, drills, rivet tools, pipe cutters, etc.) Stop by to try out some different tools and for some free Jimmy John's!

Gathering strangers who want to become an entrepreneurial community! The national Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization (C.E.O.) is hosting four inaugural meetings this month in preparation for an August launch and the fall conference in Tampa, Florida. Join us April 7, 14, and 21 for planning sessions. Officer elections are April 28. We meet in the library in the Idea Factory Room 229 from 5:00-5:30 pm.

Special guest speakers: April 14, Dr. Gribbs, Dean of Caterpillar College of Engineering and Technology and the Foster College of Business and April 21, Mr. Andrew Ngui, Catalyst from Innovation Communities & Movements. ALL MAJORS WELCOME!

Thursday, 4/21, 5 PM to 7 PM, WES 116 Registration is required: https://bradley.12twenty.com/events/30006101110278 Seats are limited. Start Smart prepares college students who are approaching the job market with the confidence, knowledge, and skills they need to negotiate salaries and benefits. For additional information, please visit https://salary.aauw.org/start-smart/
When students leave the two (2) hour Start Smart campus workshop, they learn
* how the gender wage gap affects their lives
* how to develop a personal budget to determine salary needs
* how to benchmark salary and benefits
* how to negotiate for their first salary out of college

Join Women in Business for our last event of the semester! We are going to be doing a social event playing trivia at the Fieldhouse this Thursday, April 21st at 7pm! Hope to see everyone there!

Join ACBU in the BECC Quad on April 22 from 2 pm-4 pm for our Thrift-A-Plant event. At our event, students can stop by and adopt a plant, up-cycle clothing, or just shop in our "homemade thrift shop".

Do you like LAN parties? Well, come join Valorant Club in Bradley 180. We meet every Friday from 5:30 - 9pm. We mainly play Valorant, which is a first-person shooter game made by Riot Games. We hope to see you there! No experience is necessary. Follow us on Twitter: @BradleyValorant For future updates join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fVF2FzZP

Please join us for a special dedication to honor the National Pan-Hellenic Council and Multicultural Greek Organizations on Bradley's campus.

On April 23, at 10:30 a.m., we will host a dedication ceremony for the new Recognition Plots in the Alumni Quad. There are multiple plots designated for each organization chartered at Bradley. Each plot will consist of a limestone monument with the organization's description, an engraved placard and the organizational crest or coat of arms on the front.

The Alumni Quad was chosen as the site for these plots because the first organization was chartered at Bradley in 1948, and the organizations have touched generations of Bradley students since. These plots serve as a physical representation of the significance of these Greek letter organizations throughout Bradley's history.

Members are very involved alumni who have a life-long commitment to their organizations and continue to be strong and important social, service, academic, and values-based organizations today.

Come out and 'Join the Groovement' on Olin Quad on Saturday, April 23. Five local Peoria bands will perform a concert while the Peoria County Election Commission presents their new voting system, helps attendees register to vote, and/or checks current registration status. This event is free & open to the public!

Considering coming out to listen to music & register to vote? We can't wait to see you! If you'd like to fill out our pre-event survey before attending, you can find it here. Survey Link: https://bradley.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8J1cHBqvfL88t4q

Peoria Reads: Volunteer Fair
Saturday | April 23
11 a.m. - 2 p.m. | Peoria Public Library/North Branch
Every March, Peoria Reads* selects a book of the year, and this year's is This Is Where You Belong: Finding Home Wherever You Are by Melody Warnick. The book describes how volunteering helps to connect us to our community and aids in happiness. Are you or your student group looking for volunteer opportunities? During this event, participants will hear from local nonprofits that are accepting volunteers at this time. This event is free and open to the general public.
https://peoriapubliclibrary.org/peoria-reads/

Write House is a resource and community for both routine and aspiring writers, lyricists, editors, and readers. Our purpose is towards cultivating a local creative community and dedicating a space for the writing process. All are welcome regardless of major, forms of writing, and levels of experience.
This community meets everyday Saturday @4:30pm in BECC 1240 unless otherwise stated. The meetings are run in a 5 week cycle. Week 1 and two consists of writing workshops, week 3 and 4 consists of editing workshops (which include constructive and respectful feedback) , and the 5th week is community day (sharing your work in open mics, etc.)

Join ACBU Cinema Saturday April 23rd as we celebrate AAPI Heritage with Minari at 2pm and The Big Sick at 7pm! Both showings will be in Marty Theatre.

Do you love money? Come and join ACBU to get a chance to play for a prize money up to $1,250. You can also come to watch others play for cash prizes as well! Be there at Marty Theater on April 27th at 6pm to have a chance! Hope to see you there!

We're excited to announce our annual Cinco de Mayo Celebration! Join us at our end of the year event where we will celebrate this important Mexican holiday through various activities! Food will also be provided! We'll have this celebration Friday, April 29th from 2-5 pm on Alumni Quad! Hope to see you there!!

Are you looking for service hours or a way to give back to the Peoria community? Come join Bradley SERVE on Saturday, April 30th for our last Service on Saturday of the semester! We will be volunteering with EP!C, East Bluff Community Center, Luthy Botanical Garden, and Western Avenue Greenway Project. Transportation and lunch will be provided. Please visit volunteer.bradley.edu to sign up today!

The Nurse Practitioner Skills Workshop is geared toward meeting the needs of NP students and NP's working in Primary Care settings. Learn skills including suturing, splinting/casting, skin biopsies, incision/drainage, joint injections, cerumen lavage, IUD/implant insertion, as well as coding and billing. Includes course materials/supplies and 16 CE's and Digital Badge.
This workshop will be held Tuesday, May 17 - Wednesday, May 18 from 8:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. in Westlake 116 at Bradley University. Deadline to register is Friday, May 6.
https://bradley.eventsair.com/22npskills/reg

The Bradley University Men's Basketball team has started looking for new managers to join the team for the upcoming summer and season. We are looking for any and all applicants who have an interest in working for a sports team, coaching or just want an unrivaled behind the scenes college basketball experience. Those who apply should keep in mind that the most important qualities we are looking for are availability, great communication, good work ethic, and willingness to learn and adapt to changing situations. However those who are experienced in playing basketball may also have the chance to play on the practice team.

Expectations for managers include but are not limited to:
- Attend all practices and home games that your schedule permits
- Help set up the practice gym and drills
- Other miscellaneous jobs

Please email Head Manager Garrett Forsythe gforsythe@mail.bradley.edu with questions and if you are interested

Audio/Visual is looking for students this fall to work in our department. Are you the one that your family turns to when hooking up technical things? Do you like working or building computers? Did you help out with events or productions in high school? Do you have any video recording experience? If any of these interest you send me an email and we'll set you up with an interview. Email Mike at mgallas@fsmail.bradley.edu

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