Join ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì President Beverly Warren as she introduces Haifa Jamal AlLail, Ph.D., president of Effat University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Allail is this year's keynote speaker who will be kicking off ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì's International Education Week. AlLail will speak Nov. 7, in the Kent Student Center Kiva at 5 p.m. Prior to the event, President Warren and President Allail will take part in a signing ceremony to establish a partnership between both universities.ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Dr. AlLailHaifa Jamal Allail joined Effat University in 1998 and began her tenure as President in May 2008. She ...
The Cook-Off is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 17 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm in the Kent Student Center Ballroom. Hosted by the Office of Global Education along with ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Dining Services, the Cook-Off features food and beverages from around the world. The event is free and open to all. Six student culinary teams – from Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Nepal, Saudi Arabia and South Korea – have been selected to compete and will each prepare and present a different cultural entrée and beverage from its home country. The teams will compete for first, second and third place a...
It could be argued that no science is more valuable to us than that which helps to ensure the survival of our species by solving the problems that challenge it. For many years, two ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University researchers in the College of Arts and Sciences have been toiling over this matter, and each has recently received new grants from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes of Health – collectively totaling more than $857,990 – to study reproductive biology, focusing on the cellular mechanisms that regulate the formation and functio...
The first phase of the Summit Street: Building a Better Way Improvement Project is almost complete. Work began nearly a year ago on the stretch of Summit Street from Fraternity Circle to just past Loop Road, and that section of the road is expected to be finished by mid-November. The segment of the project being completed this year has many new features to make the road safer for vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists. Some of the notable new features are: A new traffic signal at Loop Road that has more capabilities to move traffic more efficiently A sidewalk from Fraternity Circle to W...
