1 May 2007 Issue 14/2006-2007   ARCHIVE  
Dated Events
Tuesday 1
Van Dyck Courtyard becomes a smoke free space. (See below).

Tuesday 1
Labor Day (holiday).

Wednesday, May 2, 12:00-1:00 pm - Van Dyck Auditorium
Seminar: "Hypovitaminosis D: Musculoskeletal and Pleotropic Manifestations", presented by: Dr. Ghada El-Hajj Fuleihan Director, Calcium Metabolism and Osteoporosis Program, AUBMC. Organized by FHS.

Wednesday 2, 3:00 pm - Nicely Hall 409
Lecture: "Bahrain's Membership in the UN Security Council (1988-99): the Lessons learned", by Dr. Kassim M. Buallay. Organized by Dept. of Political Studies and Public Administration (PSPA).

Wednesday 2, 5:30 pm - Van Dyck Amphitheater
Lecture by Dr. Ali Galaydh: "Somalia, the Middle East and the World: The Wider Strategic Implications of the Conflict in the Horn of Africa". Presented by the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at AUB.
Dr. Galaydh is former Prime Minister of Somalia (2000-2001) and currently Professor of Public Policy at the
University of Minnesota.

Wednesday 2-Sunday 6, 8:30 pm - West Hall Bathish Auditorium
Sophocles' Tragedy: "Oedipus Rex". Presented by the Fine Arts and Art History Department in collaboration with the Civilization Sequence Program.

Thursday May 3, 12:00 noon - Charles W. Hostler Student Center
Dedication of the Charles W. Hostler Student Center, and awarding the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters to Ambassador Hostler.

Thursday 3, 6:00 pm - College Hall Aud B 1
Lecture by Dr. Sayed Mohammad Marandi, University of Tehran. Organized by CASAR.

Thursday 3 and Friday 4
AUB ANNUAL JOB FAIR 2007. Organized by AUB to expose job-seekers to more than 150 multinational, regional and local firms. (See below).

Friday 4, 8:30 pm - Assembly Hall
Organ recital by Freddy Eichelberger, organist, with improvisations by Mr. Eichelberger and works by Bruhns, Boehm, Buxtehude, Scheidt, and Weckmann. All are welcome.

Monday 7, 3:30 pm - West Hall Bathish Auditorium
Women's League general meeting, with a lecture by HE the Ambassador of India Mrs. Nengcha Lhouvum: "Indian democracy, diversity and development: 1 Billion People at 9% Growth Rate". Coffee, tea and delicacies served after the meeting.

Monday 7, 8:00 pm - Assembly Hall
"The Music of Italy", a concert by the AUB Choir and Choral Society, with the Lebanese National Chamber Orchestra. Works by Palestrina, Monteverdi, Isabella Leonarda, and Antonio Vivaldi. All Are Welcome.

Tuesday 8, 6:00 pm - West Hall Auditorium B
Lecture: "Race and Militarization on the US Home Front" by Dr. Catherine Lutz, Watson Institute for International studies and Brown University. Organized by CASAR.

Wednesday 9, 8:00 pm - West Hall 204
Film projection: "Super Size Me".
What would happen if you ate nothing but fast food for an entire month? Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock does just that and embarks on the most perilous journey of his life.
The rules? For 30 days he can't eat or drink anything that isn't on McDonald's menu; he must wolf three squares a day; he must consume everything on the menu at least once and supersize his meal if asked.
Spurlock treks across the country interviewing a host of experts on fast food and an equal number of regular folk while chowing down at the Golden Arches. Spurlock's grueling drive-through diet spirals him into a physical and emotional metamorphosis that will make you think twice about picking up another Big Mac.
Join us after each movie, for a discussion of how McDonald's and Starbucks affect our lives.

Thursday 10, 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm - Auditorium B1, College Hall
Presentation on the European Commission's new funding program: "Understanding the 7th Framework Program (FP7)". Organized by Office of Grants and Contracts. For more information please call OGC at ext. 2977

Thursday 10, 5:30 pm - Assembly Hall
Opening ceremony of the XLI Middle East Medical Assembly (MEMA). Followed by the opening of the Medical Exhibition at Issam Fares Hall.
Organized by AUBMC and Medical Chapter of the AUB Alumni Association. (see below)

Saturday 12, 8:30 pm - Phoenicia Intercontinental Hotel
Gala Diner. Organized by Social Committee of the XLI Middle East Medical Assembly (MEMA). All proceeds go to the Medical Students' Scholarship Fund.

Tuesday 15, 6:00 pm - West Hall Auditorium B
Lecture by Dr. Ira Chernus, University of Colorado: "The US, Israel, and the Myth of national Insecurity". Organized by CASAR.
  
Dedication of the Charles W. Hostler Student Center and Awarding the Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters to Ambassador Hostler
Thursday May 3, 12:00 noon at the Charles W. Hostler Student Center  
 
AUB Annual Job Fair 2007
Opening ceremony by President Waterbury on Thursday, May 3, 2007 at 11:00 a.m. in front of West Hall main entrance.
The Fair will take place on Thursday, May 3, from 12:00 noon until 7:00 pm and Friday, May 4, 2007 from 11:00 am until 6:00 pm on campus.

For further information contact:
Dr. Maryam Ghandour
American University of Beirut
Career and Placement Services
West Hall, Room 115
Tel/fax: +961 1 744 488
Tel: +961 1 350000/374444 Ext: 3172
E-mail: mg03@aub.edu.lb
Website: http://staff.aub.edu.lb/~websao/
cps/index.html
 		 
 
34th Annual Folk Dance Festival
May 20, 2007 at 6:00 pm
AUB Green Oval
The AUB Folk Dance Festival Committee is glad to invite you to the 34th AUB Folk Dance Festival on Sunday 20th of May 2007 at 6:00 pm in AUB Green Oval. The festival brings students from different schools, and different areas together in a spirit of cooperation and friendship to make the festival a continuous success. Come, bring your friends and loved ones and participate in dancing the sit dance and the Korobushka. Enjoy many dances from around the world.

Ticket is at 5000 LL.
For further information please call:
Ext: 3197 or 2514.		  
 
Coming Soon
  
Thursday May 25, 8:00 pm - Assembly Hall
Piano concert by Fernando Cruz Robledillo. Organized by Instituto Cervantes. All are welcome.

Wednesday 30, 7:30 pm - Assembly Hall
Concert. Organized by University of Balamand. All are welcome.
  
 
Smoke free Van Dyck Courtyard  
We are pleased to inform you that we are declaring the Van Dyck Courtyard a smoke free space in an effort to present you with a healthy working and relaxation environment. This will be effective May 1, 2007.

Making the Van Dyck Courtyard smoke free is consistent with AUB policy on smoking which prohibits smoking in the vicinity of windows and doorways of university buildings to prevent contamination of smoke free areas by secondhand smoke.

We have been encouraged to take this step by the Wellness Committee Tobacco Free Campus Initiative which is seeking to increase smoke free spaces at AUB.

We trust that you will abide with this policy and help us in ensuring that the Van Dyck Courtyard becomes smoke free.

Thank you.

Huda Zurayk, Dean, FHS
  
 
41st MEMA  
The 41st Middle East Medical Assembly (MEMA) will take place on May 10-13, 2007. It will feature a program of medical topics for both the specialist and the generalist.
Topics will include basic and advanced life support, basic sciences, breast cancer, coagulopathies, infectious diseases, liver disease and transplantation, hemo-oncology in adults and children and bone marrow transplant, obesity, orthopedic, pancreatic diseases, pediatrics, plastic surgery, and primary care.

For information:
Dr. Aghiad Al-Kutoubi, Chairperson, 41st MENS.
E-mail: mema@aub.edu.lb
http://mema.aub.edu.lb
PO Box: 11-0236, Riad El Solh, Beirut 1107 2020, Lebanon.
Tel: +961-1-350000
Fax: +961-1-744467

Objectives
The MEMA offers a panoply of high standard educational activities for participants. Attendees can enhance their clinical skills, explore practice performance issues, present their own research or clinical experience, benefit from new and most advanced techniques, participate in sessions addressing specialty and multidisciplinary topics and interact with internationally renowned experts. 		 
 
Off-Campus  
From Tuesday May 8 till Tuesday May 22 - Goethe-Institut Beirut, Manara
Photography exhibition. By Bassam Lahoud (LAU) on "Mobile Art". Opening and Lecture on Tuesday 8 at 6:00 pm.

For more information: 01-740524/745058.
  
Be Kind to Animals Week
May 6-12, 2007  
The Moore Collection Book  
The Moore Collection book, featuring the Franklin T. Moore photographs (1892-1902) is now available at:

The AUB Press: Diana Tamari Sabbagh Bldg., Room 408
Tel.: 961 1 340460 ext. 2516
Fax: 961 1 363234
Email: aubpress@aub.edu.lb
Web: www.aub.edu.lb/php/aubpress/
site/index.html

Dr. Franklin T. Moore began photographing the campus in 1892, as it was in those years. He showed the upper campus buildings in various stages of completion:

Dodge Hall before the addition of its extension, the Lee Observatory in its lonely seaside location, the Assembly Hall before Post Hall was built (1897). His camera captured the vast size of the new campus, the undeveloped northeastern mountains, the unpaved Bliss Street, the illustrated history of growth that intrigues and attracts for its beauty and because of the changes which have taken place over the last century.		  
 
6th FEA Student Conference: May 23-24 ,2007
  
The 6th FEA Student Conference will be held in the Bechtel Engineering Building and the Architecture Building, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture.
Enquiries: feasc@aub.edu.lb
Website: http://webfea.fea.aub.edu.lb/feasc/
  
 
Fulbright Student Scholarships Offered
by the American Embassy
  
Lebanese professionals and students wishing to pursue a Master's degree at a university in the USA are eligible

Application deadline:
Friday, June 1, _2007

For further information and full details about the scholarship, contact
AMIDEAST-Lebanon
Phone: 01-989901 ext 162
Visit: Bazerkan Building, Nijmeh Square		  
 
The Art Center at AUB
Presents
  
The Lebanese Comic Books Exhibition
Opening: Monday, May 21, 2007, at 6:00 pm in West Hall.

The exhibition will continue until Monday, May 28, from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm
On Wednesday May 24, at 5:00 pm in West Hall Room 204, there will be a panel discussion about Lebanese comic books.

Participants will be Jad Khoury, Amin Rihani and Henry Matthews.
  
 
New Telephone Features  
This is to inform you of some new features that were acquired to enhance our telecommunication system.

1. 1242 - A new 4 digit E1 incoming line, number 1242, was added to allow direct dialing from any city line, MTC or Alfa GSM cellular. When dialed, you will be connected to an automated attendant at which time you can either wait for the AUB Operator or dial the desired AUB/AUBMC extension. Regular city or cellular telephone rate charges apply.
2. 1234 - A new 4 digit E1 incoming line, number 1234, was added to allow direct dialing from any city line. Dial the desired AUB/AUBMC extension after you hear the dial tone. Regular telephone rate charges apply. Cellular service is not available with this number.
3. 1313 - An existing feature and as a reminder, this 4 digit number allows direct dialing from MTC Touch Subscribers followed by AUB/AUBMC extension. Alfa Subscribers have to dial 03-791313 followed by AUB/AUBMC extension after the dial tone. Regular cellular rate charges apply. This feature is not available from city lines.
4. 01-350000 - 20 additional hunting city lines were added to our golden number series to facilitate accessibility from outside the AUB and AUBMC.


Marcelino Romanos, PE FMA
Physical Plant Director, Ext. 2010		  
 
Learning Garden Design Competition  
The Winner of the Garden Design
Competition for Landscape Design and Eco Management 3rd year students of Professor Julie Weltzien will be announced on Thursday May 24, 2007.

The five finalists are:
Haniya Abi Khuzam
Sanaa Khalil
Sarah Mabsout
Aida Nsouli
Mounia Chaoul		  
Do You Know!
In 1862, American Missionaries in Lebanon and Syria, under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, asked Dr. Daniel Bliss to found a college of higher learning which would include medical training.
It was felt that this college should have an American educational character, should be administered independently from the Mission, and should be maintained by its own funds. Dr. Bliss chose the location of the new campus himself, in undeveloped Ras Beirut.		  
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