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Raising the rafters with instruments that rarely see center stage: Trio ImpertinAnce and Christof Lauer play a stellar set on saxophone, tuba, vibraphone and drums
Michel Godard's performance on in Assembly Hall took the tuba into a new domain of flamboyance.
The Daily Star 12/12/09
UAE assembles health experts to map out risks
The UAE is assembling some of the world’s “best minds” at UAE University in Al Ain next month to discuss health risks and help set the country’s research agenda. Dr. Iman Nuwayhid, the dean of FHS at AUB, will present work on how Arab nations are particularly vulnerable to climate change and its health consequences.
The National 12/13/09
Redefining "healthy children": IAEA helps member states investigate adolescent obesity
Obesity is a major public health problem in all industrialized countries and a burgeoning problem in developing countries. "... There are indications that childhood and adolescent obesity is becoming a serious problem," says Nahla Hwalla, dean of FAFS at AUB. "In some countries, childhood obesity has doubled, in others it has tripled over the last 10 years."
IAEA.org 12/11/09
Bone marrow transplant 'gets rid of' sickle cell anemia
In a study of 10 adults with the blood disease, the procedure cures nine. More tests are needed, but the treatment could be used on other diseases as well. Marrow transplantation "is the only curative treatment for sickle cell disease" wrote Dr. Miguel Abboud of AUBMC in an editorial accompanying a new report.
LA Times 12/10/09
Swiss minaret ban may yield negative reactions similar to Danish cartoon uproar
The muted reaction throughout the Muslim world to Swiss voters approved a ban on the construction of new minarets atop mosques seems to be changing."The problem is that there is a very dangerous precedent that has been set here," says Sari Hanafi, AUB professor of sociology.
The Media Line 12/3/09
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Medical students help in the community
“Families of disabled children often worry about what people will think and say and thus prefer to hide their kids, denying them the care and specialized attention they deserve and need," says Fadia Safi, president of the center for Social Service for the Welfare of Lebanese Children (SESOBEL). This year medical students have sought to improve community awareness and educate parents of disabled children by working with SESOBEL, a leading NGO devoted to caring for the handicapped in Lebanon since its founding in 1976 at the beginning of the Lebanese civil war.
History of US Constitution featured in CASAR lecture
Donald Sharpes, PhD tackled the age-old conflict between civil law and religion in a lecture on November 26 in West Hall. Entitled "The History of US Constitutional Principles: Civil Law versus Religious Imperatives," Sharpes shed light on the cornerstone of the US constitution, which represents "nothing more than the establishment of the federal government" based on the rule of the people and not on religion.
Listen or watch the lecture
Jabbur awarded Excellence in Science Award 2009
AUB's Dr. Suhayl Jabbur of the Faculty of Medicine's Department of Physiology received the Excellence in Science Award 2009 from the Lebanese Association for the Advancement of Science (LAAS) on November 13.
For its 143rd anniversary, AUB embraces diversity and tolerance
Embracing and enhancing diversity on campus was the theme for this year's Founders Day ceremony, which was held on December 7 at Assembly Hall.
The ceremony, which marked the 143rd year since the University's founding in 1866, also proved to be an opportunity to promote a number of AUB's prominent scholars as well as announcing the winners of the student essay contest on tolerance and diversity.
Read the winning essays online.
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