1 February 2007 Issue 8/2006-2007   ARCHIVE
			Dated Events Thursday, February 1, 8:00 pm sharp - Assembly Hall "Baladi Habibi" (My Country, My Beloved), the annual fundraising concert celebrating Zaki Nassif's musical heritage. It will be given by the Lebanese National Oriental Arabic Orchestra, conducted By Dr. Walid Gholmieh, President of the Lebanese Higher Conservatory of Music. All proceeds will go to support the Zaki Nassif Music Program at AUB. Tickets are on sale at: AUB, Office of Development, College Hall, 01-366445; West Hall; L'Arche de Noé library, Sadat Street, Hamra, 01- 740477. Prices: VIP, LL50,000, LL30,000, special price for students (LL 15,000). "…Keeping Zaki Nassif's Music Alive". Thursday 1 from 2:30 to 5: 30 pm, and Friday 2, from 8:30 am to 2:00 pm - West Hall, Room 315 Orientation Program for New Faculty. Friday 2, 8:00 am - Bathish Auditorium, West Hall New Students Orientation Program. Monday 5, 3:30 pm - West Hall, Bathish Auditorium Lecture by Fateh Azzam, Regional Representative in the Middle East of the High Commissioner of human Rights: "The Rights Idea: Human Rights in the Modern World". Coffee and tea is served after the lecture. Come with your friend. Organized by Women's League. Monday 12, 3:00 pm - West Hall Bathish Auditorium Chinese Cultural Week. Organized by the Embassy of the People's Republic of China, and Office of Student Affairs-International Student Services, in Collaboration with Office of Information and Public Relations, Ciné Club, Photography Club, and International Students Club. (see below). Tuesday 13, 7:00 pm - Assembly Hall Concert by Professor Klaus Baessler, Pianist from Berlin, Germany. Program includes: Mozart, Beethoven, Bartók, and Schumann. Organized by German-Lebanese Cultural Center, in collaboration with AUB. All are welcome.   Coming Soon Wednesday Feb. 28, 3:00 pm - CAMS, College Hall, Room 416 Seminar: "An Introduction to the Estimation of Models with Asymmetric Information" by Professor Alban Thomas (INRA, Toulouse School of Economics, France). Organized by Center for Advanced Mathematical Sciences (CAMS) and The Economics Department.     Join the 2007 Folk Dance Group Want to dance, have fun, and meet friends and nice people? Then join the Folk Dance Festival club. Be part of the AUB dance group in this year's 34th Folk Dance Festival that will be held on May 20, 2007. Do you want to know more? A number of schools and universities will be participating and performing different dances: Mexican, French, American, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Egyptian and others from countries all over the world, not to forget the Lebanese dabke. Of course you'll be taught all these dances. No need for you to have any prior dancing skills. At the Festival day AUB will shine with the colorful cultural costumes by AUB students and the other participating groups. Just join and you'll be having a very enjoyable time away from stress, papers, and exams! Send us your name, phone number, email address, and ID number to: hfs06@aub.edu.lb or lh05@aub.edu.lb For further questions please e-mail us at the above address or call us at extension is 3197. When and where? The training takes place every Friday at 6:00 pm in Mary Dodge Hall     Healthy Basket Good, Clean and Fair Organic products at your doorstep Everyday, food scandals and nutritional illnesses shake the world. People are becoming increasingly aware of the need to eat well. This new food consciousness has resulted in the growth of the organic food sector worldwide. Healthy Basket (HB), an AUB-owned company for the marketing of organic produce, is one of the main stakeholders in the organic sector in Lebanon. Healthy Basket started in 2001 as a project by AUB to improve Lebanese farmers livelihood in rural areas, preserving the environment and protecting human health by adopting organic agriculture as a key strategy. Fresh, certified organic fruits and vegetables sold by HB are produced by small farmers throughout Lebanon, closely supervised by two certification bodies: the Lebanese LibanCert and the Swiss Bio inspecta. Since 2005, HB has become a self-sustainable business with social responsibility. It is specialized in home deliveries through its Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. By joining this program, customers receive a weekly basket of fresh organic fruits and vegetables of the season at their doorstep. In addition to the CSA program, HB operates a retail shop in Hamra and a weekly stand in Beirut farmer market Souk El Tayeb. Join our CSA program to support AUB and the small farmers! Baskets can be picked up from the HB shop in Hamra or delivered to your office or home in Greater Beirut. Come and visit our shop located opposite St. Rita Church off Sadat St. (the street facing Smith supermarket). Contact us on 01-747831 or 03-794438 or phone: 01-350000, Extension: 4500 Physical Plant Help Desk Call 2015 or e-mail: pphd@aub.edu.lb		Ebooks at Saab Medical Library Free Trial for the Taylor and Francis ebooks Collection (Medicine, Dentistry and Allied Health eCollection). Go to SML Homepage under Trials or go directly to: http://aub.etailer.dpsl.net Saab Medical Library, Ext. 5900     Financial Aid Online Application for Academic Year 2007-08 Previous financial aid applicants, continuing students, may now apply online for AY/2007-08. Deadline to submit application & documents is March 31. Online application is accessible on AUB-SIS from within AND outside AUB. For details & instructions click How to Access the Online Application - Go to AUB Home Page - Log in to AUB SIS - Key in the ID number and the Pin Code - Follow the instructions and start filling in   your application Procedures for Online Application In order to avoid problems in the application process or the cancellation of your application, proper procedures must be followed: • All fields within the application must be filled. Missing information will render your application as incomplete. • Make sure you "SAVE" AND "SUBMIT" your application. If you don't submit your application, it will not reach the financial aid office. • Make a printout of your filled on-line application and submit along with a passport-size photograph and all required documents. • All documents that you submit must be recent except for the certificate of ownership. The required documents are listed within the application; it is your responsibility to make sure that your application is complete. • Start as early as possible to fill your application and don't wait till the deadline period to submit your file, otherwise you will have to wait in long queues. • Do not hesitate to ask the staff of the Financial Aid Office for any clarification.     XIV Al Bustan Festival   21 February - 25 March, 2007 (Theme: Spain) All performances take place in the Emile Bustani Auditorium unless otherwise stated. All performances start at 8:30 pm unless otherwise stated. We would like to hear from visitors to the Festival as well as guests who have visited our site: http://www.albustanfestival.com/ contact.htm Tickets for Al Bustan Festival, 2007 are now available for sale online. E-mail us in London or in Beirut. Beirut Festival Administration Office P. O. Box 11-3764 Riad El Solh-Beirut 1107 2150, Lebanon Telephone +961-3-752000 (10 lines) +961-4-972980/1/2 Fax +961-4-972439 E-mail BEIRUT: festival@albustan-lb.com London Al Bustan Festival Mail Box 343 56 Gloucester Road London SW7 4UB United Kingdom Fax +44-207-937 2633 E-mail LONDON: festival@albustan.co.uk Past Festivals No. Date Theme I. 17 February - 3 April 1994 Love II. 22 February - 26 March 1995 Influences from East to West III. 21 February - 24 March 1996 The Russian Spirit IV. 19 February - 23 March 1997 Romantic Vienna V. 18 February - 22 March 1998 France VI. 17 February - 21 March 1999 Poland VII. 23 February - 26 March 2000 The Millennium - Rising Stars of the 21st Century VIII. 20 February - 25 March 2001 From Venice to Amsterdam - A Musical Journey IX. 19 February - 24 March 2002 Prague X. 18 February - 23 March 2003 Festival 10-year Jubilee XI. 17 February - 21 March 2004 Hungary XII. 15 February - 20 March 2005 Music from the North XIII. 22 February - 26 March 2006 Mozart		Chinese Cultural Week Monday 12 February Words of Welcome, Bathish Auditorium, 3pm - Acting President Peter Heath - Ambassador Liu Zhiming - Presentation of books from Ambassador   Zhiming to Dr. Heath for Jafet library - Short documentary on China Opening of Exhibition (cutting of ribbon) 4pm, Common Room - Photography Exhibition (60-70 slides) - Chinese New Year decorations - Chinese Music - Free magazines and books - Green tea Chinese Film, Bathish, 5pm: "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" Tuesday 13 February Exhibition, Common Room, all day Chinese Film, Bathish, 5pm: "Guasha- The Treatment" Wednesday 14 February Exhibition, Common Room, all day Chinese Film, Bathish, 5pm: "The Road Home" Thursday 15 February Exhibition, Common Room, all day Chinese Film, Bathish, 5pm: "Cell Phone" Friday 16 February Exhibition, Common Room, all day Chinese Film, Bathish, 5pm: "Together" Saturday 17 February CHINESE NEW YEAR Exhibition, Common Room, all day Chinese Film, Bathish, 5pm: "Not One Less" End of Exhibition Entrance to the exhibition and the films are free of charge. All are welcome.   The AUB Yoga Club The AUB Yoga Club welcomes new and old members in Mary Dodge Hall--beneath Murex dorms. Come and relax, stretch, tone and harmonize body, mind, and spirit with the yoga club every Wednesday from 4 to 5:30 pm and every Friday from 3:30 to 5 pm. register at West Hall.     Off Campus January 31, 6:00 pm - Masrah al Madina Theatre, Saroula building, Hamra. Tel: 01-753010. Website: www.almadinathesatre.com. Opening of "Homeland Lost": Photo exhibition by Alan Gignoux featuring portraits of individual Palestinian exiles and their families, juxtaposed with present day images of the places they left in 1948. The exhibition will continue from February 1 to 14, opening daily from 6 to 9 pm. Until February 4. Opening hour: 11 am to 9 pm - Russian Culture Center, Verdun. Tel: 03-720133: Russian Crystal Exhibition Thursday Feb. 22, 5 pm - Near East School of Theology (NEST) Public lecture by Dr. Gordon T. Smith, USA: " What can Protestants learn from Jesuit spirituality?" Lecture followed by refreshments. All are welcome.     Accreditation- Third Party Comments   AUB School of Nursing Accreditation by CCNE, Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education. CCNE is a voluntary US accreditation program through the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. The School of Nursing at the American University of Beirut (AUB) is currently engaged in preparing for a regularly scheduled review, which will take place May 21-23, 2007. As part of this review, interested parties including students, alumni, faculty and the practice community are invited to provide written input into the deliberations of the evaluation team by sending comments to CCNE about AUB SON. These comments must be received by April 20, 2007. Only signed comments received by April 20, 2007 will be accepted, and these comments will only be shared with the evaluation team. More information on the AUB SON self-study can be found on the SON website http://staff.aub.edu.lb/~webson Send comments to: Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education. One Dupont Circle NW Suite 530 Washington, DC 20036-1120 Attn: Ms. Sarah Jameson, Accreditation Assistant Phone: 202-887-6791 Fax: 202-887-8476 Dr. Huda Abu-Saad Huijer RN, PhD, FEANS Professor of Nursing Science Director School of Nursing American University of Beirut Tel: +961-1-374374 extension 5952/3 fax : +961-1-744476 E-Mail: huda.huijer@aub.edu.lb http:/www.aub.edu.lb/~webson/     Embassy of the Republic of Korea Scholarships   The Embassy of Korea is awarding full scholarships to Lebanese students to pursue Masters and Doctoral degrees in the Republic of Korea. Deadline to apply is February 5th 2007. For more information contact: Mr. Samer Abu Said Embassy of The Republic of Korea Camelia 3 Bldg., 5th floor, Said Freiaha St. Hazmieh P.O.Box 40-290 Baabda, Lebanon Tel: 961-5-953167/9 Fax: 961-5-953170 Email: shandaweel@hotmail.com
			Did You Know! The first oceanography course was given in AUB in the academic year 1964-1965 and included three topics: general oceanography course, natural history of invertebrates and non-vascular plants, i.e. algae. In late 1968, AUB's Department of Biology bought a 20-foot fiber glass research boat for the conduct of marine biological research, including echo-sounding to establish bottom topography, water sampling to identify the local water masses, and other uses. The boat was powered by twin 60-hp engines and could stay at sea for a full day.
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