Monday 2, 3:30 pm - West Hall, Bathish Auditorium
General meeting of the Women's League, with lecture by Mr. Tammam Salam, Minister of Culture: "Beirut's Cultural Role in the Middle East". Organized by Women's League. Coffee, tea and delicacies are served after the meeting. Come with your friends.

Monday 2 - Friday 6
Two activities organized by the AUB Wellness Program (see box overleaf).

Tuesday November 3, 8:30 pm - Assembly Hall
Concert: Exclusive live performance by Charles Davis with an eleven-piece band featuring Ziad Rahbani. Tickets sold at stand outside West Hall for 25,000 LL and 35,000 LL. Organized by the Civic Welfare League.

Wednesday 4, 4:30 pm - College Hall, Auditorium B1
Lecture by Sir Michael Atiyah: "Truth and Beauty in Mathematics and Physics". Organized by the Center for Advanced Mathematical Sciences (CAMS).

Wednesday 4, 5:00 pm - in front of the Cafeteria, Ada Dodge Hall
Informal meeting to reactivate the Animal Welfare Club.

Thursday 5, 5:00 pm - Issam Fares Auditorium
Web-conference (real video and talk followed by Q&A): "Bioethics In Theory and in Real Life:  Metamorphosis in Thinking About the End of Life", by Margaret Battin, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, University of Utah. Organized by the Ethics Matters Initiative at the Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center at AUB. All Are Welcome.

What's the case for and against physician-assisted suicide, or aid-in-dying, for the terminally ill and others with serious medical problems? The first part of this talk will examine the issue in theory, and then, with the aid of the short video "Metamorphosis", explore how events in real life can radically challenge one's previous intellectual commitments.

Philosopher and bioethicist Margaret Battin has long studied end-of-life issues and ethics. These now come into play in her real life--as a result of a tragedy that has befallen her husband, who suffered a spinal cord injury that left him paralyzed from the neck down.

Saturday 7, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, and Sunday 8, 9:30 am - 12:10 pm - Issam Fares Hall
Opening Ceremony of the conference: "The 10th Annual "Dermatology Update", under the patronage of the Minister of Public Health Dr. Mohammad Jawad Khalifeh.
Speakers: Chairman of Dermatology Dept. Dr. Abdul Ghani Kibbi, President of Lebanese Dermatological Society Dr. Edward Makkhoul, Vice President and Dean of Medicine at AUB Dr. Mohammad Sayegh, President of Lebanese Order of Physicians in Beirut Dr. George Aftimos, Minister of Public Health Dr. Mohammad Jawad Khalifeh. Organized by the Department of Dermatology at AUBMC and in collaboration with the Lebanese Dermatological Society. For further information contact derm@aub.edu.lb

Wednesday 11, 4:30 pm, West Hall-Bathsih Auditorium
Presentation by Mr. Maxime Chaya about his daring adventures. Organized by the Women's Auxiliary of AUBMC. All are welcome.

Maxime Chaya was born in Beirut.  Lebanon and he pursued his education overseas in Greece, France, Canada and the UK where he graduated with an Honors degree from the London School of Economics.

Wednesday 11 - 5:30 p.m. AUB Museum
Illustrated lecture by Professor Nota Kourou, Department of Archaeology - University of Athens: "Greeks and Phoenicians: Trying New Sea Routes in the First  Millennium BC". Organized by Friends of the AUB Museum Society. Hourly paying parking available, opposite CCCL.

Thursday 12, 6:00 pm - Charles Hostler Student Center
International swimming meet for men and women with the participation of the swim team of the AUC and other universities from Lebanon under the auspices of the Lebanese Federation of University Sports. Organized by University Sports, Student Affairs.

Thursday 12, 8:00 pm - Assembly Hall Concert - Duo "If Music be the food of love" by Anja Paulus (Soprano) and Sonja Kemnitzer (clavecin). Program includes: John Dowland, William Byrd, Gilles Farneby, William Randall, Johann S. Bach, Henry Purcell, Francois Couperin, Michel Lambert and Elisabeth-Claude. Organized by Kulturzentrum. All are welcome.

Founders' Day is the annual AUB commemoration celebrating the establishment of the University on December 3, 1866.

The celebration of the 143rd anniversary of the founding of the University will be held at the Assembly Hall on Monday, December 7, 2000, at 12:00 noon.

The ceremony will include the announcement of the winner of Founders' Day Student Essay Contest.
NO CLASSES WILL BE HELD BETWEEN 12:00 NOON AND 1:00 PM.

Everyone is welcome to Join!
-  A Taste of Fitness: "Try it you'll like it"

One free fitness activity will be offered each day at the Charles Hostler Student Center, Activity Room from 5 to 6 pm according to this schedule:
- Yoga: Monday, November 2, 2009
- Aerobics: Tuesday, November 3, 2009
- Pilates: Wednesday, November 4, 2009
- Pump: Thursday, November 5, 2009
- Fitness Cardio Health: Friday, November    6, 2009

AUB's first Fit-a-Thon
This is an activity where you can exercise, have fun, get a free T-shirt/cap, and stay healthy during a 1,300 meters (30 minutes) walk around campus, with several interesting booths  to visit.
Friday November 6, starting at Charles Hostler Student Center Plaza/ AUB Green Field, at 12:00 noon

For Registration, please visit: http://www.aub.edu.lb/sao/sports/chsc/
CHSC_Current_Events/Pages/
CHSC_Current_Events.aspx

For further information or inquiries: wellness@aub.edu.lb

To raise student awareness and participation in Founders' Day ceremony, AUB launched the Founders' Day Student Essay Contest in late 1999. This year's essay theme is: "AUB publicly upholds the ideal of tolerance of diversity. In your experience, is the AUB campus a place where all kinds of diversity are indeed accepted?"

All AUB undergraduate students, regardless of class year, faculty, or major, are encouraged to compete/ Essays should not exceed 1,000 words in length and may be jointly prepared by two or more students. A special selection committee appointed by President Peter Dorman will evaluate the submitted essays and recommend up to three awards. Entrants should submit a typed essay, on CD, to the office of Dean of Student Affairs in West Hall, room 112C no later than Friday, November 20, 2009 and they should make sure to obtain a receipt for their submission.

AUB has allocated three awards in 2009: $750, $500 and $250 for first, second and third places. In line with tradition, the author of the first-place entry will read his or her essay at the Founders' Day Ceremony on December 7, and his or her name will be inscribed on a plaque in the entrance to Assembly Hall.

For further information contact marounk@aub.edu.lb

Sunday November 1, 2009 - BIEL
Bike Rally Paper. Organized by Beirut Association for Social Development. For more details, call: 71-181737.

Saturday November 7, from 9:00 am till 2:00 pm Souk El-Tayyeb (Saifi Area - Facing Burj El Ghazal)
Signing of a book on preventive health care "A Toast to Your Health!" by Eleanor Aboussouan (published in French and English) and invitation to an experiment to test the freshness of your eggs.

Continuing until 14 November, 10:00 am - 7:00 pm - Galerie Surface Libre <www.surfacelibre.com> or <info@surfacelibre.com> tel. 04-715500
*Engage yourself into the World of Art and enjoy an Exquisite Painting Exhibition by Hratch Aintablian: "Invisible Waves of Heat". For more details Hratch art studio: 70-795332, or www.hratchstudio

Continuing until November 15 - Crypt of Saint-Joseph's Church, Saint-Joseph University Street, next to Theatre Monnot. For more details call: 01 202422 - 03 224614
*VOYAGE. Installation by Samir Khaddaje. Opening hours: 11am - 8pm. Closed on Mondays. Samir Khaddaje is a painter and visual artist whose work has been exhibited in Beirut, Paris, Brussels and London.

At this time of year, I have the pleasure of asking the AUB community to nominate candidates for the President's Service Excellence Award, a distinction that is reserved for non-academic employees. This award is presented to AUB personnel who show excellence in the performance of their duties and have fulfilled their responsibilities beyond the call of duty. Ten groups of award recipients have been recognized so far, with their names appearing on the Wall of Honor at College Hall.

In order to begin the 2010 awards selection process, I invite you to nominate an AUB employee who demonstrates extraordinary service quality. Your nominee could be an employee from any level and any area (other than teaching faculty and clinicians), and should be someone who has demonstrated superior "customer" service leading to increased "customer" satisfaction, efficiency of operations and/or effectiveness of processes. This means that these employees have excelled when dealing with "customers" who include students, hospital patients and any internal AUB users.

Your nomination should be supported by appropriate justification, and delivered prior to January 31, 2010 to Andre Nahas, on the 5th Floor of College Hall. Nomination forms can be printed directly from the web:
http://www.aub.edu.lb/osm/documents/
awards/forms/nomination_form.pdf
If you feel that you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact Andre Nahas, Director, Office of Strategy Management, at extension 3570.

The AUB Ring
On April 18, 1967 the secretary of AUB's New Men's Dormitory's Student Council Mr. Abdallah Dabbagh informed the university administration of the Council's initiative to suggest that an AUB ring be made available. This suggestion was accepted by the Board of Deans and the first AUB rings were ready in January 1968.
In designing the AUB ring, Director of Alumni Affairs Nabeel Ashkar consulted with Professor Arthur Frick of the Department of Fine Arts who had designed the Coat of Arms of the university faculties.
The AUB ring featured the name of the university; a red stone; the cedar tree as used on the university seal with the date of the founding of the university under the tree; and the dolphin and trident (symbol of Neptune who was the god of the city of Berytus and the guardian of knowledge, as adopted by the university faculties for their coat of arms).
The 12 karat gold ring was manufactured by Artine Karageuzian and was sold at the AUB College Store.

The AUB Calendar is a semi-monthly publication, issued by the Office of Communications and covering extra-curricular activities on AUB Campus. For information, contact Mrs. Hassana Tabbara, Office of Communications, Ada Dodge Hall, ext. 2670, 2671, tel: 01-353228, fax: 01-363234, email: information@aub.edu.lb or ht10@aub.edu.lb.  
Pick up your AUB Calendar at your Department or at the following locations: Office of Communications, Post Office, AUH Coffee Shop, Alumni Club, AUB Museum, Faculty Lounge (Ada Dodge Hall) and Visitors' Bureau. You can view the AUB Calendar on the World Wide Web at the following http://wwwlb.aub.edu.lb/~webinfo/calendar/.
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