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The National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest unfurls with a salute to Old Glory as four collegiate and two high school teams compete to raise the American flag.

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To honor five volunteers who raised $85,000 climbing Mount McKinley, the Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture launches its first-ever benefit event.

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Food sustains our physical bodies, but it also has much to do with our metaphysical selves. A conference at Mississippi State University will explore the links between food and philosophy.

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Billy Collins, the current United States Poet Laureate, will headline this year's Beall Poetry Festival at Baylor University. Collins will be joined by four other acclaimed poets -- Scott Cairns, Jonathan Galassi, Jane Hirshfield and Marge Piercy -- at the four-day event, which is sponsored by Baylor's English department. The festival is free and open to the public.

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Four award-winning authors will be featured at Vanderbilt's spring writers symposium titled "Our Favorite Year: A Celebration of Nashville Writers." John Egerton, Ann Patchett, Alice Randall and Diann Blakely will read excerpts from their books and entertain questions from the audience.

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Swarthmore College will host a symposium, "Private Eye / Public "I": Female Crime Writers of the 21st Century," in the Scheuer Room of Kohlberg Hall on Saturday, April 6. Featured authors are Val McDermid, Barbara Neely, and S.J. Rozan. The event will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and is free and open to the public.

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A collection of 62 paintings by well-known American artists, most of which have rarely, if ever, been seen in public, will be exhibited from April 19 to June 9 at Hamilton College's Emerson Gallery. "Hamilton Collects American Art" provides a fresh look at the history of American painting from 1738 through 1960 and includes works by many recognized artists including Milton Avery, George Bellows, Alexander Calder, William de Kooning, Charles Demuth, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Norman Rockwell and Ben Shahn.

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The University of Illinois at Chicago and INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, a national planning group, will host a three-day conference entitled "Color of Violence II 2002: Building a Movement," March 15 - 17 at the UIC Chicago Circle Center, 750 S. Halsted St.

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Students interact with NASA researchers and find out how they can target a camera aboard the Mars Odyssey spacecraft! "Live from Mars 2002," an out-of-this-world interactive learning adventure debuts live at 13:00-14:00 Eastern, Tuesday March 19, 2002 on participating public television stations and educational networks.

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This April, nationally renowned scholars in the field of social psychology will try to figure out how to make you an offer you can't refuse. They'll participate in the Univ. of Arkansas Symposium on Resistance and Persuasion. Reporters are encouraged to register, attend and report on the research presented.

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Purdue "Mission to Mars" team will defend the university's national title in the 14th annual Theta Tau Fraternity's Rube Goldberg Machine Contest.

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For the 94th consecutive year, students at the University of Missouri-Rolla will host a weeklong celebration of St. Patrick, whom the students adopted as their patron saint in 1908.

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The University of Arizona library will host an international conference on organizational change, "Living the Future 4: Collaboratively Speaking." It will focus on how libraries can be effective, creative, and user focused.

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A group of UA engineering students has designed and built a radio-controlled airplane to fly at a national competition in April. The airplane isn't the usual off-the-shelf hobby plane that flies at radio control club fields.

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Dual-Language Series addresses the linguistic complexities of teaching and learning so that all children fully develop their primary language along with their second langauge. Careful "language engineering" is essential to two-way success.

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In the wake of President Bush's call to volunteer service, student engineering teams across the country will unite to partner with Habitat for Humanity International. A partnership led by Purdue University was signed in Americus, Ga., home of the faith-based volunteer housing provider.

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Students from eight leading MBA schools examined the marketing of HIV/AIDS drugs in South Africa at the 12th annual Babcock MBA Marketing Case Competition.

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Julieanna Preston's research-by-design project and exhibit entitled "Pinned Structure and Folded Surface: Sewing Operations on the Eiffel Tower," premiered at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Architecture Gallery.

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A group of acclaimed war correspondents, writers and broadcasters, including George Esper, Hugh Mulligan and David Sweeney, will offer West Virginia University students a detailed study of the evolution of war reporting and the role of the war correspondent.

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A symposium to discuss the relationships among race, justice and the environment. Speakers include Wangari Maathai (Greenbelt Movement), George Khaldun (Rheedlen Centers for Children and Families), Annette Dula (bioethics scholar), Vera Karam de Chueiri (legal scholar from Brazil), Tony Affigne (race and politics scholar), Edwardo Lao Rhodes (environmental affairs scholar).

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The goal of this conference is to provide an arena in which practitioners, college faculty, policy makers, and museum educators can meet to respond to the external pressures which have created a diminution of social studies teaching in the schools.

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The Florida State University School of Music will honor Ernst von Dohnanyi, a giant of 20th century composition and one of the finest virtuoso pianists of his time, with the first International Ernst von Dohnanyi Festival Jan. 31-Feb. 2.

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The world's foremost interpreters of the works of William Shakespeare-Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company-will bring the Bard to life at Davidson College during a twelve-day residency from February 18 through March 2, 2002.

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Faculty and staff from the West Virginia University Extension Service have teamed with Extension colleagues from the University of Maryland, Ohio State University and Pennsylvania State University to plan a conference for persons concerned with midlife issues.

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Washington and Lee University, embracing the nation's faith in the future, has launched an ambitious $225M capital campaign to broaden academic programs and strengthen its hold as one of the premier liberal arts universities in the country.

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Faculty, deans and presidents from 33 colleges will gather at Ursinus College in Pennsylvania this weekend to work with other academics, architects and planners on ideas for renovating or building new science and math facilities on their own campuses.

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Some of the country's leading researchers on aging will gather at Southern Methodist University on Friday, Dec. 7 to participate in a symposium on the molecular mechanisms of aging.

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Wake Forest University will dedicate the second day of the nation's largest collegiate debate tournament to a public debate focusing on the issues surrounding the attacks on America and their aftermath. The nation's top colleges and universities will lead more than 25 public debates on issues ranging from U.S. foreign policy to hip-hop music's role in terrorism.

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A novelist and English professor at LSU sees the re-issue of Robert Penn Warren's "All the King's Men" as the perfect time for Louisiana State University to make posthumous peace with the novelist.

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The Johns Hopkins Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) will hold a daylong conference, "Globalization and Infectious Diseases: Institutions, Policies, and the Threat of Bioterrorism," in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Nov. 6.

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The heroic efforts of intended victims and would-be onlookers to oppose the Nazis' attempted genocide of the Jews will be examined through film, song and discussion during the 2001 Holocaust Lecture Series at Vanderbilt Oct. 25-Nov. 10.

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Five Smith alumnae, including Ms. Magazine founder Gloria Steinem, will share with students things they wished they had known about money and finance when starting out and the importance of financial savvy regardless of one's life goals.

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As U.S. begins war on terrorism, retired NATO Commander Wesley Clark to speak at Temple on 'America's Global Strategy'.

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Students from across the nation will gather at Rhodes College Oct. 18-21 for the 14th Annual Conference on Hunger and Homelessness. About 400 students and activists are expected to attend.

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The Savannah River Ecology Laboratory (SREL), a research unit of The University of Georgia located on the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River Site, is observing 50 years of environmental research with various events from October 17 through the October 19th of this year. A symposium is the highlight of the celebration.

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The University at Buffalo will sponsor a major international forum on Nov. 2-3 at which leading figures in medicine, psychology, sociology, physiology and technology development will discuss the effects of digital technologies on our lives.

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Lord Byron's battle with manic-depression will be considered when scholars from around the world interested in the famous 19th-century Romantic poet gather for the 27th International Byron Conference, to be held Aug. 4-13, in three locations including the University of Delaware.

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Universities of the future must be connected globally, yet be locally accountable. That's the overall message from key speakers at the Global Consortium of Higher Education and Research for Agriculture Conference taking place in San Francisco through Saturday (7/14).

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ASU's Joan and David Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics will host a major national conference entitled "Ethics and the Arts" October 28 to 30. The conference is aimed at being the first large scale intellectual and practical discussion of the topic. Keynoters: Sherman Alexie, Anna Deavere Smith; Rory Kennedy

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In a year when "America's Main Street" celebrates its 75th anniversary, as many as 40 solar-powered cars will retrace historic Route 66 as they compete in the American Solar Challenge, which begins July 15 in Chicago and ends July 25 in Claremont, Calif., just outside of Los Angeles. Among those competing will be SunTiger IV, the University of Missouri-Columbia's solar car.

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Full Text of Speeches: Bowdoin's commencement includes a speech by the oldest graduating senior, Christine DeTroy, who is 72. She graduates from Bowdoin 51 years after her husband did (and 31 years after her son). South African activist and Managing Director of the World Bank Mamphela Ramphele speaks at the Baccaulaureate service. Five others also give speeches.

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Robert E. Rubin, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, will be principal speaker at Williams College's 212th Commencement on Sunday, June 3.

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Gustavus Adolphus College President Axel Steuer will deliver the college's commencement address Sunday, May 27 on Hollingsworth Field. After 10 years as president, Steuer will share reflections and dreams with the graduating class, whose members were first-year students when the storm (March 1998 tornadoes) changed the look and life of the campus.

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Bowdoin's commencement includes speeches by the oldest graduating senior, Christine DeTroy, who is 72. South African activist and Managing Director of the World Bank Mamphela Ramphele speaks at the Baccaulaureate service. Five others also give speeches.

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William T. Close, a surgeon who served as one of only three physicians in a 2,000-bed hospital in Africa and later supervised the logistics for the international medical team investigating the Ebola fever outbreak in the mid-1970s, will deliver this year's School of Medicine commencement address.

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Swarthmore College President Alfred H. Bloom will award honorary degrees to bioethicist and civil rights advocate Adrienne Asch, author Ken Hechler of the Class of 1935, and author and physician Abraham Verghese at the College's 129th commencement on Monday, June 4.

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Al Hunt, executive Washington editor of The Wall Street Journal, will address seniors at Johns Hopkins University on Thursday, May 24. Noteworthy speakers at other commencement events include the Dalai Lama, Surgeon General David Satcher, and violinist Isaac Stern.

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W. Richard West, director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian, will be the commencement speaker and receive an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree at the 2 p.m. June 10 graduation ceremonies at UAB Bartow Arena.

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Cornell University Higher Education Research Institute will address funding challenges in a downside economy during its annual policy research conference, "Financing Higher Education Institutions in the 21st Century," May 22-23, 2001.

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Fifty graduating seniors will receive their bachelor's degrees during Marlboro College's 54th Commencement at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, May 20. Joseph Sebarenzi, former parliamentary speaker of the Republic of Rwanda, will deliver the commencement address.