Representative of the nation's top liberal arts colleges and universities will gather at Trinity College on Thursday, Feb. 17, for a special workshop focusing on the success, satisfaction, and retention of students of color.
Best-selling novelist John Grisham, a devout Baptist and baseball fan, will combine those passions when he visits Baylor University on Friday, Feb. 25.
Historian Howard Zinn's lecture, "Bringing Democracy Alive," in the Vassar College Chapel is the keynote address for Equal Rights Awareness Week 2000 at Vassar.
Geraldine Laybourne, CEO of Oxygen Media, will deliver Vassar College's 136th commencement address in the outdoor amphitheater overlooking Sunset Lake.
The impact of tourism on the cultures of the American Southwest will be the focus of a symposium at Southern Methodist University, March 24-25.
Former national security adviser Anthony Lake will launch a series concerning U.S. foreign interventions with a lecture called "Foreign Humanitarian Intervention: Which Children to Save?" (Feb. 10, 2000).
The Economics Department of Mount Holyoke College is hosting a conference on "The World Economy in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities," Feb. 18 and 19, 2000.
Some of the nation's most prominent African-American political leaders and policy experts will speak at the "Black Political Issues Forum 2000" (2-4-00).
African-Americans' contributions to Chicago's rich heritage of commercial art and industrial design are the focus of a new symposium, hosted by UIC and the DuSable Museum (2-5-00).
Media covering the Iowa Caucuses are invited to two Des Moines events hosted by the University of Iowa. UI business professors will give demonstrations of the Iowa Electronic Markets Jan. 20 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at Invista Capital Management.
Civil rights activist and former Georgia legislator Julian Bond will discuss "2000: A Race Odyssey" at Rhodes College's celebration of the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
A Colgate University music professor's composition will have its world premiere by the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra.
Purdue University students will immortalize the 20th century's most significant inventions Feb. 12 during the 18th annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest.
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Mikhail Gorbachev made his mark on the world a decade ago by helping bring down Communism in the Soviet Union and end the Cold War. Today he is a man with another mission: saving the earth from environmental disaster.
There are 80 small Chernobyls waiting to happen, in the form of Russian nuclear submarines parked near the Arctic Circle. "Arms and Environment: The Perils of Nuclear Disarmament," an international symposium to be held December 9 - 10 at The University of Tulsa College of Law will feature this issue.
The University of Georgia's Center for the Study of Global Issues will host a delegation of top government advisers from North Korea who will visit Nov. 29 and 30.
Parents seeking quality education alternatives for kids enrolled in public schools can find what they're looking for at a small schools exhibition coming to the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Colgate University will host The Second Annual Joseph C. Woodford Forum on Critical Social and Political Issues on Wednesday December 1. The topic of this year's panel discussion will be "Feminism, Careers, and the Family: Who has gained? Who has lost?"
"I know that sweatshops exist in Chicago because I regularly see patients with the injuries and illnesses that are caused by sweatshop conditions," says Dr. Peter Orris, professor of environmental and occupational health sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The Great Lakes Center for Environmental and Occupational Safety and Health in UIC's School of Public Health is hosting "Sweatshops in Metropolitan Chicago: A Conference on Workers's Voices," Friday, Nov. 19.
Washington and Lee University's Mock Convention is a quadrennial tradition in which student delegates attempt to predict the presidential nominee of the political party currently out of the White House. W&L students have been right 11 of the last 12 times.
Cornell University and Ithaca, NY Sciencenter host a NASA-supported workshop for science teachers in middle and high schools from across the Northeast that will take advantage of Cornell's involvement in the space agency's Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission to explore a distant asteroid.
Boston University's Center for Millennial Studies will host their fourth annual conference, "NEW WORLD ORDERS: Millennialism in the Western Hemisphere," November 6-9.
The Senate's majority leader and the former U.S. agriculture secretary are among dignataries discussing Mississippi's legacy of Congressional leadership in a Nov. 11-12 Mississippi State University event.
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who helped dissolve Communism in his own country while leading a crusade for global peace, will speak at the University of Georgia Dec. 3.
Sidney Blumenthal, assistant to the president of the United States, will give a public lecture titled "Presidents and Democracy: An American History" at 8 p.m. on November 9 at Princeton University.
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health is bringing together key players from the international health arena to discuss the critical issues that affect health around the world.
The publishers of The Wall Street Journal and the Mexican independent newspaper El Norte will join international human rights activists and others at MSU to grapple with critical issues surrounding press rights and human freedom in Latin America.
The race for the White House, the New Hampshire Primary and working with the national media will be among the topics explored by Marlin Fitzwater and Mike McCurry Monday November 8th as Franklin Pierce College hosts the duo in a good-natured evening of opposing political sides.
As genetic research comes closer to making it possible to select a child's eye color or I.Q., or find out if cancer is likely to kill a family member, medical and legal experts are wrestling with the implications for society.
Rhodes College Professor Andrew Michta will be one of the featured experts at the Woodrow Wilson Center in DC speaking on "Borders and Ethnicity: Solutions in the Balkans
Elie Wiesel will speak in Bailey Hall on the Cornell University campus Nov. 4 at 8 p.m.
The University at Buffalo will host a major international meeting of policy experts and researchers in higher-education finance on Nov. 14-16 to discuss the critical worldwide shift of higher-education costs from governments and taxpayers to students and their parents.
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader will kick off The Summit on Philanthropy on Oct. 24 with his assessment of Americans' charitable giving at the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia.
Douglas Massey, co-author of Worlds in Motion: Understanding International Migration at Century's End, will speak on "Reasonable Immigration Policies for a Globalizing Economy" at Colgate University on Wednesday, November 17 at 7:30 p.m.
Leading Internet industry pioneers who are University of Virginia alumni will lead e-summit@virginia, a free public forum about the Internet, Nov. 12 and 13 at the University of Virginia. Key topics of debate include: ethics, privacy and personal security, the changing economy, free expression, censorship, and the common good.
More than 800 students from across North America will meet in Chicago for the third annual Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization (CEO!) conference Oct. 22-24.
On October 28 Hofstra University students enrolled in the class "An American Odyssey" will embark on a trip through America and Canada for a unique study of the countries and their people at the turn of the century. They will travel through more than 30 North American cities.
Danny Greenberg, president and attorney-in-chief/CEO of The Legal Aid Society of New York City, the nation's largest private public service law firm, will deliver the University of Georgia School of Law's 90th Sibley Lecture "Pursuing Economic Justice: Agendas for the New Millennium," Wednesday, Oct. 20 at 3:30 p.m.
The nation's leading corporate law scholars will share tools of the trade with their peers during a two-day conference aimed at better preparing law students for the realities of corporate practice Oct. 15-16 at the University of Georgia School of Law.
National Book Award winner Tim O'Brien, called the only major American writer with a coherent body of work that addresses the American experience in Vietnam, will deliver an inaugural reading for the newly endowed James McConkey Reading Series at Cornell University Friday, Oct. 22.
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution I. Michael Heyman will be guest speaker Tuesday, Oct. 12, at the annual Rhodes College Frank M. Gilliland Symposium. Heyman's lecture is titled "Museums at the Millenium."
The University of Idaho and Society of Environmental Journalists will draw working journalists and scientists together Nov. 6 and 7 to consider some of the leading issues facing the Northwest and the nation.
On Oct. 14-16, Middlebury College will hold the Bicentennial "Celebration of the Sciences," featuring the dedication of Bicentennial Hall, a new 220,000-square-foot science facility. The event will also include a symposium with nationally renowned scientists and science journalists.
In a rare U.S. appearance, the president of Somaliland, Muhammad Ibrahim Egal, will give a public talk at Princeton University on Oct. 13.
Louisiana State University will host a high-tech summit Oct. 11, featuring speakers from some of the world's most prominent computer-software and telecommunications companies, including Microsoft and WorldGate, who will address the impact of technology on commerce and education.
Journalists are invited to cover two events in conjunction with Purdue University's reunion of 18 of its 19 living alumni astronauts on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 22 and 23. Among those planning to attend are Neil Armstrong and Gene Cernan, the first and last men to walk on the moon.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu will speak at Southern Methodist University in Dallas on October 12, 1999, as part of the Willis M. Tate Distinguished Lecture Series. The topic of Archbishop Tutu's lecture will be "The Search for Spiritual Values in Today's World."
The 1999-2000 season of Southern Methodist University's Willis M. Tate Distinguished Lecture Series features a best-selling author and historian, a ground-breaking scientist, an award-winning composer, Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners and internationally renowned political leaders and commentators.
From disappearing frogs and Alaskan fisheries to Gypsy herbs and West African deforestation, filmmakers will talk about their artistic passions at the third annual Environmental Film Festival Oct. 22-28 at Cornell University.
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