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01:00 AM EDT on Sunday, April 15, 2007

Brown University

Award: Biology Prof. Kenneth Miller received the Outstanding Educator Award from the Exploratorium, the San Francisco science and art museum, at its 30th annual awards dinner April 4. Miller is an expert in cell membrane structure and function, and an active proponent of the teaching of evolution as the organizing principle of biology. A prolific writer, Miller is the author of more than 50 scientific papers and reviews in leading journals, including CELL, Nature, and Scientific American. He also co-authored four high-school and college biology textbooks, which are used by millions of students nationwide. Miller did his undergraduate work at Brown University, and earned a Ph.D. in 1974 at the University of Colorado. He spent six years as assistant professor at Harvard University before returning to Brown in 1980.

Community College of Rhode Island

Theater benefit: Actors from Rhode Island’s five top theater companies will gather under one roof for a benefit performance at the Community College of Rhode Island on April 19. More Acting!... A Theatre Extravaganza will feature five short performances by actors representing the Gamm Theatre, Perishable Theatre, Providence Black Repertory Company, 2nd Story Theatre and Trinity Repertory Company. The event will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Bobby Hackett Theatre at the Knight Campus, 400 East Ave., Warwick. Tickets to the event cost $35 and proceeds will support the Charles Sullivan Fund for the Arts and Humanities, created in honor of longtime CCRI professor and arts advocate Charles Sullivan. The fund supports a variety of cultural opportunities at the community college’s four campuses. To order tickets, call (401) 333-7386.

Johnson & Wales University

New tradeshow lab donation: Mark Epstein became the 47th Distinguished Visiting Professor to The Hospitality College recently. He is the co-founder and current president and chief executive officer of Champion Nationwide Services Inc. The company is a leading general contractor, recognized for as superb show decorator.

Champion donated nearly $25,000 in goods and services to create a tradeshow lab for the college’s Sports, Entertainment and Event Management Department. Students can now hold “mock” tradeshows, complete with booths, materials and other elements that are used in professional environments. There are currently five students and one teacher’s assistant who are part of Champion’s China research team. These students are working with the company to provide research for a real trade show set to be launched later this year in Chongquing, China.

A Place at the Table: How can college students make a difference in their community? Johnson & Wales students will find out Tuesday when the university hosts a panel discussion that will feature refugees from Somalia, Ethiopia and Burundi and their J&W student mentors who have partnered with these newly arrived, displaced families to help them with a successful transition into American life. This event, part of Campus Compact’s Raise Your Voice, will take place from 9 to 11 a.m. in the Tyson Amphitheatre at the Harborside Campus.

The students will discuss how their interaction and involvement with refugees through the project, called “A Place at the Table,” has offered them a complex understanding of worldwide issues, and how these global concerns may be witnessed in individual lives. In doing so, the student volunteers will educate their fellow student audience on international questions of human rights, social justice and global citizenship, thereby generating ongoing student participation with refugee populations in Rhode Island.

In addition, the forum will examine the expectations, surprises and insights learned through aiding the families with cultural orientation, a first apartment, school enrollment and advocacy efforts. The panel will conclude with a Q&A session. The panel discussion will be moderated by Dr. Dorothy Abram, assistant professor in the School of Arts & Sciences, who has organized in-depth service-learning projects through her Culture & Food courses.

This event is open to the public. There is no fee, however space is very limited. For reservations or more information on this event, please contact Susan Connery at (401) 598-1265 or by e-mail at susan.connery@jwu.edu.

New England Institute of Technology

Donated: The Snap-On Co., manufacturers and distributors of automotive hand tools and electronics devices, has donated a Vantage Pro Graphing Multi Meter to the Automotive Technology Department. This device, valued at some $300,000 will be used by the college’s Automotive Technology faculty and students as a training aid.

Providence College

Music Performances: The Department of Music will present the following music performances this week on campus: Student performance, as part of the Fridays at Four series on Friday at 4 p.m.; Small Ensemble concert on Friday at 7 p.m.; senior voice recital by Deanna Cioppa, soprano, on Saturday at 1 p.m.; and jazz concert on Saturday at 7 p.m. The events will take place in the Ryan Concert Hall of the Smith Center for the Arts and are free and open to the public. For more information, call (401) 865-2183.

Reception: “Impartial Undifferentiated Indivisibilism,” an exhibit of drawings by Jonathan Sylvia, will be on display at the College’s Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery through Thursday. There will be an artist reception Thursday from 5 to 9 p.m. as part of Gallery Night Providence. Sponsored by the Department of Art and Art History, the exhibit is free and open to the public during normal Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery hours, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. when school is in session. For more information, call the gallery information line at (401) 865-2400.

Exhibit and lecture: The exhibit “The Holocaust: Images and Memories” will be on display at the Center for Catholic and Dominican Studies from Wednesday, April 18, to Friday, June 29, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The exhibit showcases memorabilia of the late Father Edward Paul Doyle, O.P., Ph.D, who was a Catholic chaplain with the Army’s 104th “Timberwolf” Infantry Division — the liberators of the Nazi’s Mittelbau Dora concentration camp near Nordhausen, Germany, on April 11, 1945.

In connection with the opening of the display Wednesday at noon, in the Center for Catholic and Dominican Studies, Jane Lunin Perel, professor of English and women’s studies and director of the Providence College women’s studies program, will speak on “The Post-Holocaust Mirror, Christians and Jews: Our Dominican Liberator.”

Her presentation will explore the turning and returning toward one another of Christians and Jews in their mutual attempts to comprehend and reject the moral depravity of the Holocaust and the centuries of anti-Semitism that led to it. It will deconstruct stereotypes based on religion, race, nationality, culture and ethnicity. Highlighted will be the 104th’s liberation of the Mittelbau Dora concentration camp near Nordhausen as viewed through the lens of Father Doyle’s memorabilia.

Jane Lunin Perel has published four collections of poetry as well as book reviews and poems concerning the Holocaust.

A light luncheon will be served in conjunction with Wednesday’s presentation. All are invited, although reservations are required. Call the Office of Mission and Ministry at (401) 865-1210 by noon Tuesday.

Lecture: As part of its Speaker Series, the Feinstein Institute for Public Service will sponsor the guest lecture, “New Strategies for Worker Justice,” by Kim Bobo, director of Interfaith Worker Justice, Chicago, Ill., on Monday at 7:30 p.m. Slavin Center, Soft Lounge.

Bobo is the founder and executive director of Interfaith Worker Justice, a national organization that mobilizes religious support for low-wage workers and rebuilds partnerships with the labor movement. Since its founding in 1996, the organization has built a network of 60 religion-labor groups around the country; originated the “Labor in the Pulpits” program in which a hundred cities participate; started the Seminary Summer program, a joint program with the labor movement, placing seminary and rabbinical students with unions for summer internships; and created dozens of congregational resources on economic justice. Prior to Interfaith Worker Justice, Bobo was a trainer for the Midwest Academy and director of organizing for Bread for the World. She is co-author of Organizing for Social Change, the best-selling organizing manual. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Feinstein Institute at (401) 865-2786.

Roger Williams University

Visit: In the 1940s, the Pepsi-Cola Co. made a bold business decision by hiring black marketers to promote its product to black consumers across a racially intolerant America. This landmark initiative, one of the first examples of segmented marketing, is chronicled in a new book by Wall Street Journal reporter Stephanie Capparell. The author and a member of the original Pepsi marketing team will visit Roger Williams University to discuss this part of American business history.

The lecture will take place Tuesday, April 24, at 6 p.m. in Room 283 of the Ralph R. Papitto School of Law on the University’s Bristol Campus. Although free and open to the public, space for the event is limited; reserve your spot by calling the Office of Special Events and Conferences at (401) 254-3154. Copies of the book are on sale in the Roger Williams University Bookstore.

This event is co-sponsored by the Gabelli School of Business, the Intercultural Center, the Multicultural Student Union, the Student Senate, Delta Sigma Pi and the campus chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America. For more information on Capparell’s visit, call the Roger Williams Office of Public Affairs at (401) 254-3178.

Aging on memory: With millions of Americans suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and others forms of memory loss, psychologist Dr. John Reeder will visit Roger Williams University to discuss the relationship between aging and cognitive decline. Part of the university’s Psychology Department Colloquium Series, Reeder’s lecture, “Aging and Memory: The Good News and the Bad News,” will take place Wednesday at 5 p.m. The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place in Room 157 of the Feinstein College of Arts and Sciences building on the Bristol campus at One Old Ferry Road. For more information on the event, call (401) 254-5333.

Salve Regina University

Items: Hundreds of items with appeal to all walks of life will be featured in the university’s second Wine Tasting & Auction to be held Thursday at 5 p.m. in Ochre Court. All proceeds from the event will benefit the university’s student scholarship fund. The public is invited to sample fine wines from throughout the region while placing a bid at the silent and live auctions, which features professional auctioneer Kathy Kingston of CAI Auction Co. A South African photo safari, theater and diner packages, golf outings, clothing accessories, computer software, athletic club memberships, restaurant gift certificates, vacation getaways, sports memorabilia and professional services are among the scores of items to be featured. Visit www.salve.edu/srugift for details.

Admission to the event begins at 5 p.m. for “connoisseurs” who pay $100 to gain access to an exclusive wine tasting from 5 to 6 p.m. Connoisseurs will also be permitted to make advance bids on silent auction items and will be given reserved seating for the live auction. Admission for “enthusiasts” begins at 6 p.m. “Enthusiasts” pay $45, which includes the main wine tasting and admission to the entire event. Hors d’oeuvres, dessert and valet parking are included. The silent auction will begin at 6 p.m. and will close at 7:30 p.m. The live auction will begin at 8 p.m. Pre-registration is necessary by calling (401) 341-2608.

Lecture: Radical historian Howard Zinn, whose landmark book A People’s History of the United States provides an eye-opening summary of the nation from the perspective of the disenfranchised, will give a free public talk at Salve Regina Wednesday. Zinn will present “Voices of a People’s History of the United States” at 6 p.m. in the Bazarsky Lecture Hall. Zinn’s lecture will address how the “human story” has evolved, most especially in light of the extraordinary change that has taken place since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Notably, his presentation will center on the voices of Americans themselves — their courage, their fears, their humanity. Reservations are required to attend the lecture, which is part of the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy’s “Ideas into Action” lecture series.

As a key activist in the civil-rights and anti-war movements, Zinn has chronicled and participated in some of the most important social and political upheavals of recent history. He took a leading role in the early civil-rights movement, supported the antiwar movement during Vietnam and is a critic of the invasion and occupation of Iraq. To reserve a seat for the lecture, call the Pell Center at 341-2927 or e-mail pellcenter@salve.edu. "Ideas into Action" is made possible through major financing support from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, an independent state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any view, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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