Night for Day - A Film by Dr. Michael S. Brophy

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President Brophy Biography
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President Brophy - Installation Address
"Night for Day" - A Film by Dr. Michael S. Brophy

Presidential Info

• Fall 2023 Semester Start Up Remarks
• Presentation at the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (2/27/2019) Challenges Facing Private Colleges in the Decade Ahead
• Earlier Writings
• Dr. Brophy's Installation Address
• Spring 2020 Start Up Meeting Address
• "Night for Day" A Film by Dr. Michael S. Brophy
• Piano Performance
• New Science Lab

In his 2005 film "Night for Day: The XP Story," Hilbert College President Michael S. Brophy, Ph.D., M.F.A., an award-winning writer and director, examines the dramatic and unusual ways patients afflicted with xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) around the world cope with the disease. XP is a debilitating disease characterized by extreme sensitivity to ultraviolet (sun) light that can lead to cancer and death. Film participants include citizens from Cuba, Peru, the United Kingdom and the United States.