African and African American studies marks 25 years
The department of African and African American studies marks its silver anniversary with plans for a graduate program and a reaffirmation of its impact on education. Formed in 1970, the program blends area and ethnic studies and has educated more than 500 students per semester across 45 plus courses on Africa, the African American experience, and the Caribbean.
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Campus blood drive and university events lineup
All day today through Thursday the campus blood drive runs in the Union building and Friday in Templin and Oliver halls. A series of lectures and seminars follow, including Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacts with Jupiter in 2074 Malott Hall at 4 p.m. coffee at 3:30, a Hall Center talk on civic image, a Quay brothers film night at Woodruff Auditorium, and multiple seminars by Jeff Osborn Cathy Preston Anton Rosenthal Brenda Crawley and Don Asmussen among others with locations at Kansas Union Haworth Hall 1005 Haworth Hall and the Spencer Museum of Art. Call 864-SHOW for Worldview lectures and SUA tickets.
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Worldview
Lesotho
Brenda Crawley
Social Welfare
Noon
Pine Room
Anton Rosenthal
Hall
Vermont St
Brooklyn
Woodruff Auditorium
KU Calendar and Talks at KU Union and Campus
Public notices list events at KU Union and campus venues including Haiti Today with Bryant Freeman and KU Haitian Studies Institute, a pharmacology seminar by Peter G. Smith, Earhart Lecture by William F. Shughart II on public policy and antitrust, a Tuba-Euphonium Fest recital, and a Gaslight screening. Also a Kansas Conference in Clinical Child Psychology, an Educational Equity lecture by Marge Bayer, and a KU Women’s Studies event with Q&A. Reservations and tickets via SUA office and listed numbers.
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Bryant C. Freeman
KU Haitian Studies Institute
ECM Center
Dread Ave
Peter G. Smith
KU Medical Center
Malott Hall
Earhart
William F. Shughart II
Henry C. Self
University of Mississippi, University
Green Hall
Law and Organizational Economics Center
Henry N. Butler
Swarthout
Murphy Hall
SUA Movie
Woodruff
Nsas Union
SUA
Kansas Union
Kansas
Division of Continuing Education
Paul
Marge Bayer
Alderson Auditorium
Friends of KU Women’s Studies
Anniversary events in African and African American studies program
A series of free lectures performances and talks mark the department anniversary. Readings include The Island directed by Peter Ukpokadu at 8 p.m. in 100 Smith Hall and What Museums Show and Do Not Show at noon October 31 in Alcove Kansas Union. Salikoko Mufwene speaks Friday at 4 15 p m Alderson Auditorium. Fred Wilson speaks October 31. Contact Ajayi or Wiley at 864 3054 for details.
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Peter Ukpokadu
Smith Hall
Tanzania
Marc Wilson
Hiawatha
Wilson
Salikoko S. Mufwene
University of Chicago
Alderson Auditorium
Kansas Union
Fred Wilson
New York City
Alcove
Call Akin Ajayi
Linda J.B. Wiley
Department of African and African-American Studies
Sociology gradwins Javits Fellowship at Princeton
Jacqueline Lisette Gordon of Hays KS, a 1993 Kansas University sociology graduate, won a Javits Fellowship to pursue doctoral studies at Princeton. The national program awards up to 14 400 a year in stipends and 9 243 to campuses for tuition. Gordon also earned a Mortar Board Graduate Fellowship and interned at St Elizabeth's Shelter for the Homeless in Santa Fe NM. She cites diverse homelessness causes and the need for varied solutions.
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Kansas University
Princeton University
Jacqueline Lisette Gordon
Hays
Jacob K. Javits
Gordon
Princeton
New York
Congress
National
Mortar Board
St. Elizabeth’s Shelter
Santa Fe
N.M
Union director adds student affairs post at KU
James A. Long, director of the Kansas and Burge unions, has been appointed associate vice chancellor for student affairs effective Oct. 1. He will represent the Division of Student Affairs in planning and construction of facilities, serve as liaison with Capital Programs and Design and Construction Management, monitor projects, help solve problems, develop policies for auxiliary operations, and continue directing the Kansas and Burge unions.
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