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January 14, 2005

Coming Up


Belmont University will be closed on Monday, January 17 in observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday.

Belmont's MLK Week Events begin next week and celebrate Dr. King's legacy through a wide variety of educational and inspirational experiences that are planned to raise campus, community, and individual awareness about issues concerning diversity and action. For a complete list of MLK Week Events, click here.

The Vaughn Science Lecture will take place on January 31, 2005 at 7:00 pm in the Boardroom with a reception will follow. This annual event serves to highlight scientific research and its ramifications to both undergraduate science majors and the more general audience of non-science students and faculty. This year’s speaker is Dr. Tom Wenzel, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Chemistry at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. He won the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) Fellows Award in 2002, and he currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of CUR Quarterly, and he was given the J. Calvin Giddings Award for Excellence in Education, Analytical Division, American Chemical Society in 1999. Dr. Wenzel served as President of the Council on Undergraduate Research in 1996-1997. In addition to his active undergraduate research program in chemistry, Dr. Wenzel teaches in the Environmental Studies program at Bates, and he offers a course on women in science. His topic is "Right-handed Sugar Doughnuts: Nutritional Food for Undergraduates and their Faculty."


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