'' WORLD SNAIL RACING CHAMPIONSHIPS! '' : LIFE & STYLE

TAYLOR SWIFT-inspired snail wins World Snail Racing Championships!

'Snailor Swift ' covers 13.5 inch course in three minutes, 13 seconds.

A snail named ' Snailor Swift ' has been crowned champion at the World Snail Racing Championships after emerging victorious in the animal competition held at Crimson Cricket Club in west Norfolk.

According to the BBC, 271 snails competed in this year's event before a crowd of around 600 spectators from the UK and overseas.

The competitors raced across 18 heats, with 15 snails taking part in each race for the chance to claim the world title.

Among the creatively named entrants were Christopher Slowlan and Snailifer Lopez, but it was '' Snailor Swift '' that crossed the finish line first to secure the championships.

Owned by Sam Pemberton, the winning snail covered the 13.5 inch [ 34 cm ] course in three minutes and 13 seconds, earning a prize of fresh lettuce.

The World Snail Racing Championships have been running since the 1960s and returned in 2023 after a pause during the Covid-19 pandemic. Event organiser and '' Snail Master '' Ian Haynes said the competition continues to attract visitors from around the world.

'' It was great to see people keeping a quirky, bonkers tradition alive,'' Haynes told the BBC.

Competitors also traveled from countries including France, Germany, Poland, the United States and Brazil. French snail racing champion Tom Peytoureau entered his snail, Coquiette, which won its opening heat before being eliminated later in the competition.

Haynes said snail owners often prepare their racers using different methods, including keeping them hydrated with cucumber or storing them in dark conditions before race day.

However, he noted that competitors are not allowed to temper their snails with cucumber during the race itself. 

Proceeds from the event support the local community and St. Andrew's Church, with organisers confirming the championship will return in 2027.

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92 year old Iraqi grandfather ties the knot with 22 year old girl

A 92-year-old Iraqi farmer married a woman 70 years his junior in a village north of Baghdad, he said Friday, voicing happiness at getting hitched alongside two teenage grandchildren who also tied the knot.

Musali Mohammed al-Mujamaie married 22-year-old Muna Mukhlif al-Juburi, three years after the death of his first wife of 58 years, with whom he raised 16 children in his home village of Gubban, which lies just south of the central Iraqi city of Samarra.

"I am so happy to get married with my grandsons," Mujamaie told after the ceremony.

"I feel like a 20-year-old!"

Mujamaie said the marriage of his two grandsons, aged 16 and 17, was repeatedly delayed while his own wedding was being arranged, so that the three could tie the knot on the same day.

The wedding carried on for four hours, with musical and dance performances and celebratory gunfire, and was attended by local tribal and religious leaders.

Goucher College Third Annual Collective Dance Showcase

The Goucher College Summer Arts Institute will feature a showcase of performances by local dance companies and independent artists on Saturday, July 14, at 7:30 p.m. in Kraushaar Auditorium.

The Collective Dance Showcase will feature established, Baltimore-based artists and dance companies - all of which will feature alumnae/i from Baltimore. The showcase will include Full Circle Dance Company, The Collective, Dance & BMore, Common Ground Dance Company, Effervescent Collective, Deep Vision Dance Company, and VTDance.

Tickets are $10 for general admission and $8 for students and seniors with ID. Tickets are available at the door or in advance at www.goucher.edu/tickets or by calling 410-337-6333.

The Goucher College Summer Arts Institute Collective Dance Showcase was started in 2010 to highlight the local dance scene, as well as Goucher graduates who chose to pursue dancing careers in Baltimore.

The showcase is a highlight of the Summer Arts Institute, an annual two-week program for students ages 12-18 that was created to expose young people to the professional art world through instruction, workshops, and performances.

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Sewanee Summer Music Festival schedule announced

The Sewanee Summer Music Festival is an internationally-acclaimed summer festival combining a month-long program for advanced music students and a professional concert series. The festival educates talented young musicians from around the world through close work with faculty mentors, intensive orchestral and chamber music study, and frequent performance. This year SSMF will present almost 30 concerts and performances concerts over four weeks, including special concerts at Sewanee Angel Park and Morgan’s Steep. Check out theSewanee Summer Music Festival schedule here.

Alumni Weekend: A Summer Blockbuster Hit

Every year, hundreds of alumni return to Hiram College in June to reconnect with classmates and their alma mater. This year, Alumni Weekend will take place June 15-17, with activities planned for alumni and their families of any age. This year’s theme is “A Summer Blockbuster Hit.”

Over the three-day weekend event, planned activities range from nature excursions, to dinner and dancing, to intellectual conversations and lectures. There’s sure to be something for everyone.

Register online now.

Friday, June 15th

9 a.m. – 10 p.m.: Registration; Kennedy Center. Locations for all events will be shared at registration.

A Day with Hiram Golf Outing; Sugar Bush Golf Club. Join alumni, friends and community members for the 52nd annual Day with Hiram benefiting Hiram College athletics. For more information, click here to view the entire schedule and registration options. If you have further questions, contact Connie Skingel at 330.569.5279 or skingelcm@hiram.edu.

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Hendrix Village Hosts Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre Season Opener

CONWAY, Ark. (May 31, 2012) - Hendrix College will host the opening of the Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre's 2012 season with a production of Twelfth Night directed by Rebekah Scallet beginning June 7 at 7:30 p.m. at The Village at Hendrix.

There will be five shows at The Village - June 7, 9, 10, 15, and 17.

Seating is available on a first come basis. People are encouraged to bring lawn chairs or blankets to sit on. Families are welcome and there will be kids' activities before the show.

For more information, visit http://arkshakes.com/

Founded in 1876, Hendrix College is a national leader in engaged liberal arts and sciences education. Hendrix was named the country's #1 "Up and Coming" liberal arts college for the third consecutive year by U.S. News and World Report. Hendrix is featured in the 2011 edition of the Princeton Review as one of the country's best 376 colleges and is listed in the 2012 edition of the Fiske Guide to Colleges as one of 25 "Best Buy" private colleges included. Hendrix has been affiliated with the United Methodist Church since 1884.

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Writer-in-residence Offers Students Rare Glimpse into German History

This academic year, the German department welcomed award-winning writer Utz Rachowski to their staff. With a unique cultural background, Rachowski shared his first hand account as a political prisoner in East Germany with Gettysburg students. Rachowski designed German 306, Introduction to German Literature, to reflect his extensive knowledge on the subject of German social and political systems.

Several of his students have praised the course and teaching methodology. Carter McClintock ’12 believes that “Prof. Rachowski has helped to create a more vibrant discussion surrounding the East German government, focusing on modern issues and drawing students to German studies.”

The course focuses specifically on the literary representations of National Socialism and the German Democratic Republic and its impact on individual lives. Rachowski has offered eyewitness accounts and insight into the East German dictatorship and his experiences as a political prisoner in the East and exile in the West until the Fall of the Berlin Wall.

Sarah Hayes ’14 said Rachowski is “unlike most professors” due to his ability to provide first-hand accounts of the conflicts and historical issues examined in German 306. For instance, when discussing the Stasi in the German Democratic Republic, Hayes explains that “he isn’t just reading us a list of facts, but rather it’s his own life we’re discussing.”

Rachowski first visited Gettysburg College four years ago when he gave a public reading. The German department invited Rachowski to bring his personal knowledge of German literature “as a writer of contemporary German literature, as someone personally familiar with other contemporary writers, and as a critical reader of German literature,” according to German Prof. Laurel Cohen-Pfister.

Rachowski was a dissident writer in East Germany who spent one and a half years as a political prisoner in the former socialist state before he was released to West Germany through the efforts of Amnesty International. He is a vocal advocate for victims of East Germany’s secret police. As an award-winning writer and an eyewitness to East German history and culture, Rachowski enriches the cultural program of the German Department in a way that its academically trained faculty cannot. Students are excited at the opportunity to learn from his life story and his literature, and to learn about German literature of the twentieth and twenty-first century from his insider perspective.

Founded in 1832, Gettysburg College is a highly selective four-year residential college of liberal arts and sciences with a strong academic tradition. Alumni include Rhodes Scholars, a Nobel laureate, and other distinguished scholars. The college enrolls 2,600 undergraduate students and is located on a 200-acre campus adjacent to the Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania.

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Mulhenberg Holds Second Annual Entrepreneurial Studies Innovation Challenge

ALLENTOWN, Pa. – (April 24, 2012) – The third annual Muhlenberg College Entrepreneurial Studies Innovation Challenge will be held on April 24 from 6:15 – 8:00 p.m. in Seegers Union Room 113

The Office of Entrepreneurial Studies invited all current Muhlenberg students to develop and submit a comprehensive plan for an original, innovative idea that solves a current social or market problem or fills a gap in the marketplace. Any significant social issue or market opportunity can be addressed in this competition. Individuals and/or teams will compete for a chance to win "seed money" to help get their ideas off the ground.

Join judges: Cathy Bernard P'15, President of HCM Corporation and Member of Parents Council; Linda Freedman, Owner of Advanta Strategies in Allentown; Matt Tuerk, Assistant Director of the Allentown Economic Development Corporation; and Mark Margulies '14, winner of last year's Innovation Challenge. Students competing this year include sophomores, juniors and seniors, and representatives from business, finance, psychology and sustainability studies.

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International Students Organize To Add Cultural Diversity to Whitman Campus

Walla Walla is not a cultural Mecca, but Whitman’s international students want to change that. March 30-31, Whitman College’s international students hosted the first-ever United World Colleges (UWC) Davis Scholars Summit held on the west coast.

“The summit reminded us of who we are as UWC students: agents of change wherever we are,” said Thabo Liphoto ’14, an international student from Maseru, Lesotho. “We are going to foster international and intercultural understanding.”

Liphoto, a math and economics double major, is one of four Whitman students who organized the scholars summit, which drew UWC students from across the Northwest. “We were essentially replicating what was happening, and has been happening for a long time, on the East Coast, which is full of UWC students,” Liphoto said.

UWC schools are academic institutions located across the world. They are highly international, two-year International Baccalaureate programs in which many of the students attending have already earned a high school diploma or their country’s equivalent.

“American philanthropist Shelby Davis offers scholarship assistance to any UWC student graduate who chooses to go to one of a select group of United States institutions, of which Whitman is one,” said Jennifer Mouat, Whitman’ College’s Language Learning Center coordinator. Mouat helped guide the students in developing the event.

“The students who come to Whitman under this program are officially called Davis UWC scholars,” added Rachna Sinnott, the Director of Foundation and Corporate Relations for Whitman College. Sinnott also worked closely with the students in preparation for the event.

Eleven of Whitman’s 40 international students are Davis UWC scholars. ‘The UWC students carry with them these values,” Mouat stated, “Which include environmentalism, volunteerism, and the big one – world peace.”

Liphoto helped organize the summit to promote these ideals and address the issue of how UWC students can incorporate them into their lives on campus.

“We have seen that a lot of Whitman students are unaware when it comes to international matters where the U.S. is not concerned,” Liphoto said. “We hope to change that through a range of activities in our respective clubs and other projects that are soon to be put into place by Whitman Davis Scholars.”

The summit ended with student organizers and participants prepared to infuse more cultural awareness into their respective campuses. “The most rewarding thing about the experience was reviving the spirit that I can change anything; I can make the world a better place, to dream high no matter what,” Liphoto said.

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Westmont: April Concerts to Reveal Spring Colors

This April, the Westmont Music Department showers the community with several performances, including the Spring Orchestra Concert on Sunday, April 29, at First Presbyterian Church, 21 East Constance Avenue. General admission is $10 and students are free. To purchase tickets or for more information, please contact Trinity Hokama at (805) 565-6040. Seven other performances this month are free and open to the public.

The Instrumental Chamber Concert, directed by Philip Ficsor, is on Monday, April 16, at 8 p.m. in Westmont’s Deane Chapel. The performance features a quintet, consisting of Emily Rutherford (cello), Alex Ronne (violin), Erin LeVoir (violin), Allyson Fredrickson (viola) and Enoch Matsumura (clarinet), playing Mozart’s Quintet in A Major KV. 581 for clarinet, 2 violins, viola and cello. The concert also includes the Siloam Quartet, featuring Emily McClean (violin), Madison Martin (violin), Sarah Shasberger (viola) and Rebecca Shasberger (cello). The repertoire includes music by Schubert, Brahms and Dvorak.

The Composers Concert will feature works by student composers on Wednesday, April 18, at 7 p.m. in Deane Chapel. The performance includes music by first-year students Rutherford, Jake Elliott, Steven Yoo, Emilee Letsinger, Nathan Frank and third-year student Alexander Quirk. “This will be a wonderful concert showcasing a wide variety of talent and musical styles,” Rutherford says. “The concert will feature string quartets, choral pieces, art songs and more.” Rutherford’s original piece will feature eight student vocalists performing C.S. Lewis’ poem “After Prayers, Lie Cold.” Yoo’s work utilizes 14 musicians performing “The Lord Answers Job.”

The Spring Choral Concert features a diverse selection of music showcasing the talents of three choral groups on Friday, April 20, at 8 p.m. in Trinity Episcopal Church. The performance features the Men’s Chorale directed by Grey Brothers, Women’s Chorale directed by Joanne Wasserman, and the Westmont College Choir directed by Michael Shasberger, Adams professor of music and worship. The College Choir will present a cycle of works ranging musically from the renaissance work of Jacobus Gallus, to the 19th century inspiration of Johannes Brahms and contemporary compositions of Rollo Dilworth.

Wind and brass ensembles, directed by Paul Mori, perform at the Wind Chamber Concert on Sunday, April 22, at 3 p.m. in Deane Chapel. The performance will highlight the talents of first-year students Bryanna Beauchamp (trumpet), Evan Ewert (tuba), Emily Hauck (French horn), Jeremy Kubiak (trombone), Matsumura (clarinet), Nicolas Robertson (French horn), Joseph Sidebotham (French horn) and Ryan Vande Wydeven (trumpet).

The Vocal Chamber Concert features the Chamber Singers and New Sounds, an 18 voice ensemble made up primarily of select first-year singers, on Sunday, April 22, at 8 p.m. in Trinity Episcopal Church, 1500 State Street. New Sounds will perform music for the Lenten and Easter seasons, as well as music from the Mexican cathedral tradition. The Chamber Singers’ repertoire includes some popular arrangements and spirituals.

Toes will be tapping at the Westmont Jazz Concert on Wednesday, April 25, at 8 p.m. in Deane Chapel. The Westmont Jazz Ensemble, directed by John Douglas, will perform an eclectic mix of compositions with genres ranging from bebop, straight-ahead and Brazilian. The repertoire includes a few jazz standards and an original song by Rutherford (vocals/cello). The ensemble also features Jaewoo Chung on trumpet, Matsumura on alto and tenor sax, Nathaniel Taylor on piano and Donny Brubaker on drums.

Westmont’s Siloam Quartet, featuring Martin, McClean, Sarah Shasberger and Rebecca Shasberger, performs its Spring Concert on Saturday, April 28, at 7 p.m. in Deane Chapel.

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Denison University : Big Red Lends A Hand

As the clock struck 10 a.m. on Saturday, two little boys burst through the doors of the Licking County Family YMCA screaming, “I want to do the bouncy thing!” They jumped up and down in the lobby and quickly dragged their mother into to the gymnasium.
Once inside, the boys scampered from one interactive, educational booth to the next, stopping only for a healthy snack and a quick pose with Denison’s very own Buzzard. The final destination was, of course, “the bouncy thing.”

It’d be to safe to say the boys enjoyed their morning at the second annual Health and Fitness Fest, part of Denison’s 2012 celebration of Big Red’s Big Day.

Each year, in observance of Big Red’s Big Day, students and faculty reach out to the Granville and Newark communities through a variety of service projects. This year, student volunteers took part in three events: the Health and Fitness Fest, a Community Blitz of the South and East sides of Newark, and preparatory gardening work at Newark’s 6th Street “Garden of Hope.”

A variety of student organizations and performance groups took part in the Health and Fitness Fest by hosting an info booth and running activities for kids. Luchen Peng ’15, a member of the Volunteer Medley organization, worked at her group’s face-painting table—drawing happy little suns and flowers and honoring the occasional request for a pirate face complete with eye patch—all in the belief that if you want to be healthy, start by being happy.

Student volunteers who worked the Community Blitz event partook in a door-to-door voter registration campaign, as well as a neighborhood cleanup project. A similar project was held earlier in the semester as part of the college’s celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King’s legacy.

The 6th Street Garden of Hope aims to provide the Newark community with healthy food, in addition to serving as a restorative-justice program for area youths. For Big Red’s Big Day 2012, students worked to ready the space for the upcoming growing season.

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Bookreading By Bestselling Author Sarah Vowell Scheduled For April 9

Penn State University

Sarah Vowell, The New York Times’ bestselling author of five nonfiction books on American history and culture, will perform a reading from her most recent book, "Unfamiliar Fishes," at 7:30 p.m. on April 9, in the Auditorium (Room 117) at the HUB-Robeson Center on Penn State's University Park campus. The reading will be followed by a question-and-answer session and book signing.

By examining the connections between the American past and present, Vowell offers personal and often humorous accounts of everything from presidents and their assassins to colonial religious fanatics, as well as thoughts on American Indians, utopian dreamers, pop music and the odd cranky cartographer.

Vowell’s most recent book is an intriguing history of Hawaii, which was annexed in 1898. Replete with a cast of beguiling and often tragic characters, including an overthrown Hawaiian queen, whalers, missionaries, sugar barons, Teddy Roosevelt, and assorted con men, "Unfamiliar Fishes" is another history lesson in Americana as only Vowell can tell it -- with brainy wit and droll humor.

The event is sponsored by the College of Education, the Paterno Fellow Program (in the College of the Liberal Arts), Schreyer Honors College, and the University Park Undergraduate Association.

Press release at University website here.

Brown University To Host Advanced Materials Conference

Brown University has organized a conference to explore the frontier of advanced materials. The all-day “Materials by Design” gathering on Thursday, March 29, 2012, features talks and discussions by leading innovators and scientists in industry, academia, and the federal government. The meeting stems from a call by President Obama for American companies to develop advanced materials at twice the speed as currently possible and at a fraction of the cost.

Last June, President Obama announced the Materials Genome Initiative, an ambitious effort to assist American companies to develop advanced materials at twice the speed as currently possible and at a fraction of the cost. The proposal stems in part from the startling losses in employment and technology that have beset the U.S. manufacturing sector and is intended to reposition America as a leader in producing advanced materials from safer, lighter vehicles to solar cells as cheap as paint. In a new funding request for next fiscal year, Obama seeks more than $100 million to continue the initiative.

Hoping to capitalize on the momentum, Brown University has organized a conference on March 29, 2012, to explore synergies and research opportunities in advanced materials. The all-day gathering, called “Materials by Design,” features talks and discussions by leading innovators and scientists in industry, academia, and the federal government.

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Festival Of Colors

Every year, thousands of Indians celebrate the Hindu festival of Holi, commonly known as “the festival of colors.” On March 23, with the help of SAS, The Hindu Society, Ekta, and the Office of the Chaplains, students from all of The Claremont Colleges— regardless of their religion or nationality—came together to join in the Holi festivities at Pomona College’s Walker Beach.

The Holi festival marks the beginning of spring, and has its origins in Hindu mythology, celebrating the triumph of good over evil. On this day, people unite, hug each other, wish each other “Happy Holi,” and smear each other with a multitude of colorful paints. Usually accompanied with music, dancing, and a feast, this festival is the most anticipated celebration on the Indian subcontinent.

At Walker Beach, it was clear that multicultural events like Holi are among the most popular events for students. Holi in particular encourages the students to abandon their fears of getting messy, throw on some old clothes, and enjoy a great big free-for-all of paint, water, and fun. “Holi is my favorite festival in Claremont!” said Kiley Lawrence ’14.

This joyful celebration continued until the students were unrecognizably smeared in shades of bright blue and purple. As students rinsed off in fountains and sunbathed on the lawn, it was observed by many that Holi was truly a successful 5C event.

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Event: Transgressing Borders of Science and Scenes of Life

Nanyang Technology University

Date: Friday, 2 March 2012

Time: 3 – 5 pm

Venue: Nanyang Executive Centre

Address: 60 Nanyang View, S(639673)

Speaker: Prof. Erling Norrby
Center for the History of Science, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Title: Transgressing borders of science and scenes of life

Abstract:
George de Hevesy was an Hungarian physicist, who received a Nobel Prize in chemistry for 1943, awarded in 1944. He is the father of the indicator method in which isotope labeling of parts of a molecule allow studies of its metabolic processing in synthesis, degradation and association with other components. The introduction of the revolutionary isotope labeling technique has been compared by Peter Medawar to the introduction of the microscope. The major application of the technique is in the life sciences and medicine and it is described with the prefix radio, like in radiobiology or radiomedicine. Hevesy was a true multidisciplinary scientist, a physicist receiving a Nobel Prize in chemistry for findings of particular relevance to biology and medicine.

His first major contribution in science was to identify the element hafnium in 1922 in Niels Bohr’s Institute in Copenhagen. This discovery was repeatedly discussed to possibly be recognized by a Nobel Prize, but this never came to be. However the discovery was important in consolidating the atomic model proposed by Bohr, which was recognized by a Nobel Prize in physics in 1922. After Hevesy’s discovery of hafnium only a few elements remained to identify to complete the periodic table containing 92 naturally occurring elements.

Hevesy had his early training in Ernest Rutherford’s laboratory. Rutherford proposed that he should separate the lead isotope Radon D from non-radioactive lead. This turned out to be impossible. Hevesy then turned the problem around and proposed that the radioactive compound could be used to trace its mother substance lead. He referred to this as the indicator method. It took considerable time before this method could find a broad application. In the early phase the only isotopes that were available were toxic and short lived and emitted destructive energy particles. The situation changed in the 1930s when Harold Urey discovered the heavy hydrogen isotope deuterium and soon thereafter Frederick and Irène Joliot-Curie demonstrated that bombardment of aluminum by alpha particles led to the formation of radioactive material. Both these advances were recognized by Nobel prizes in chemistry in 1934 and 1935. Very soon a range of isotopes became available – 32-P, 14-C etc. Blood volume and the turnover of fluids could be readily determined by dilution techniques and the turnover of solid substances like bone and of different kinds of intact cells, dispersed in blood, representing tissues in intestines etcetera could also be determined. New methods for diagnostics and treatments in medicine using radioisotopes were developed.

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Event:: 'Green Campus: Think Global - Act Local'

Trinity College Dublin.

Senator David Norris with the support of the College’s Day Nursery Play Group class will launch Green Week 2012 Green Campus: Think Global - Act Local on Monday 20th February at 1.15pm on the steps of the Examinations Hall on Front Square.

An exciting programme of events is planned for the 10th Annual Green Week, 20 – 24 February, including a variety of talks, displays, walks, and a number of competitions. Events include the Green Fair in the Arts Building on Tuesday 21st February showcasing ethically produced goods, services and products to ensure sustainable living, a talk arranged by the Trinity Centre for Biodiversity Research titled Urban Biodiversity: What does Dublin’s wildlife do for us? by well-known environmental commentator, Éanna Ní Lamhna and a debate on nuclear energy hosted by the College Environmental Society. Wednesday 22nd February will be ‘Alternative Transport Day’ encouraging staff and students to use more environmentally friendly transport.

The 10th Simon Perry Memorial Forum focussing on the theme Think Global – Act Local, in association with Engineers Ireland & Young Engineers Society, will be chaired by comedian Abie Philbin-Bowman and include speakers such as Minister for the Environment, Phil Hogan TD, Managing Director of Kingspan, Gerard Whelan and Joe Borza of EnergyElephant.com. Other events include an environmental photography and art competition, an energy competition and a pub quiz with all prizes sponsored by Kingspan as well as guided walks highlighting Trinity College’s trees, bird life and buildings, workshops on growing your own vegetables and advice on ‘Bee-keeping’.

The theme of Green Week 2012 Green Campus: Think Global - Act Local is aimed at highlighting to the College Community the importance of how individual actions impact on our environment. The collective impact of small individual actions can be very significant in terms of the local environment. Individuals do make a real difference and Green Week 2012 will be challenging every member of the College Community to make a contribution to achieving the aim of creating a ‘Green Campus’ where sustainability will be a part of every aspect of College life.

Green Week 2012 will see Trinity College continue the work required for the College’s Green Campus Flag campaign to which the College signed up to in 2011. The Green Campus programme, run by the Environmental Education Unit at An Tasice, is a seven step programme for fostering environmental awareness in third level institutions which links to everyday activities and study, and ties in with the operational requirements of complex multi-use facilities. The College aims to have secured the Green Campus Flag by Green Week 2013.

TCD Green Week is a unique opportunity for the entire College Community as well as visitors to the College to celebrate nature and it provides a forum to encourage the exchange of experience and tips on best practice for reducing carbon output and other ways to protect the environment both within and outside College.

Attend the launch and be in with a chance to win a top of the range city bike - make sure you get your ticket for the raffle at the event to win on the day! Also there will be spot prizes for the best dressed 'Green' male and female at the launch.

[Exhibition] Dutch Magic Realism: Past toward Contemporary

Event : Seoul National University, Korea.

This exhibition features 71 representative works from IG Bank's collection in the Netherlands. It is the first time that the works of Dutch Realism, one of the most interesting European art movements of the twentieth century, are shown in Korea.

Title: Dutch Magic Realism: Past toward Contemporary

Venue: SNU Museum of Art (MoA: building #151), Galleries 1 & 3

Dates: Feb.10 ~ April 12, 2012

Opening Reception: Thursday 9, February, 2012, 5 pm.

Event : "The invisible connectedness of things"

“The invisible connectedness of things” is a multi-faceted art/science/transportation exhibit in the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History. Created by Los Angeles-based visual artist Kim Abeles, the exhibit explores the impacts that our transportation choices have on Boulder’s air quality and includes a 16-foot video wall with photographs of Boulder’s lichens, puzzles, stickers, and “smog collector” plates. Smog collector plates are a process Abeles invented that reveal images made from smog and have been described as “footprints of the sky.” Abeles’ created the exhibition through on-site Boulder research and with the assistance of atmospheric scientists, emissions specialists, lichenologists, and transportation professionals.

The exhibit was commissioned by EcoArts Connections (EAC) and is co-presented by the Museum and EAC in collaboration with Envirotest—Air Care Colorado, Manhattan Middle School and Spark: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) Science Education at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

Additionaly, the museum offers a wide variety of K–12 and adult educational programs and activities throughout the year, including lectures, family days, and guided tours. The museum's collections number more than four million objects in anthropology/archaeology, botany, entomology, paleontology, and zoology. The exhibition galleries are open to the public seven days a week, free of charge.

The University of Colorado Museum of Natural History is an academic unit of the CU-Boulder Graduate School with a mission to contribute to knowledge of the natural world and the humanities through research, teaching, and public education. The Museum and Field Studies Graduate Program offers students an opportunity to earn a Master of Science degree or a certificate in Museum Studies.

Abeles’ exhibition, “the invisible connectedness of things,” is on display through August 8, 2012.

Read article at the University website here.

Tulane University Students Go Bald To Serve A Cause

Tulane University, US 

‘It makes all the difference in the world’

Every year, Tulane medical students organize a St. Baldrick’s Day event in which students and other participants shave their heads to raise money and awareness for childhood cancer research. The St. Baldrick’s Foundation helps Tulane doctors, nurses and support staff treat their patients’ disease and walk with them, hand-in-hand, through the arduous process of dealing with cancer.

“I could not do what I’m doing here, for the kids that come here, without St. Baldrick’s,” says Dr. Tammuella Singleton, chief of pediatric hematology-oncology at the Tulane School of Medicine. “Dollar for dollar, penny for penny, you can see [the impact].”

In this video, two doctors with the pediatric hematology-oncology section discuss what St. Baldrick’s events do for patients and healthcare providers.


Watch video here.

‘Same Difference’ at the University Junior College

Event: University of Matla

The Junior College recently held an activity entitled ‘Same Difference’ organised by SOS Malta. During the event, staff and students had the opportunity to interact with and sample ethnic food prepared by migrants having refugee, humanitarian or subsidiary status. This team of cultural ambassadors are traveling to various locations and events in Malta using food as a medium to facilitate interaction with local communities. The project is part-financed by the European Union and forms part of the General Programme Solidarity and Management of Migration flows.

Read details at the University website here.