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January 30, 2009

COMING UP


Saturday, January 31, 7 p.m.
Rock Showcase
Curb Event Center

Monday, February 2, 6 p.m.
17th Annual Commercial Music Showcase
Students Lauren Wedertz, Brianne Angarole, Annalise Emerick and Brett McLaughlin will be performing.
Massey Concert Hall

Tuesday, February 3, 7:30 p.m.
Graduate Performers' Recital
Belmont Mansion

Wednesday, February 4, 10 a.m.
Marian Wright Edelman
Co-sponsored by the College of Arts & Sciences and the School of Religion, Marian is founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund. A graduate of Yale Law School, she began her career in the mid-'60s as the first black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar. She served as director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund in Jackson, before moving to Washington, D.C. in 1968 as counsel for Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Poor People’s Campaign.”
MPAC

Wednesday, February 4, 10 a.m.
Meeting the Opportunities and Challenges of Global Health in 2009
Dr. Sten H. Vermund, the Amos Christie Professor of Global Health and director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health, will discuss the Institute’s global health initiatives, specifically the research, training and service projects that aim to advance health and development in resource-limited regions.
MBC 103

Friday, February 6, 10 a.m.
Challenges to Teaching Darwin’s Idea
This is the first in a series of lectures honoring Charles Darwin’s 200th Birthday. Sponsored by Belmont University School of Sciences and the Society for the Study of Evolution, presentations will continue Feb. 6-16. Click here to download a PDF file with the full schedule of activities.
HSB 408

Friday, February 6, 10 a.m.
From the Laboratory to the Legislature: Why Climate Change is Fundamentally a Multidisciplinary Issue
The speaker will be Dr. Jonathan Gilligan from Vanderbilt University's Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences.
LCVA 117

Tuesday, February 10, 7:30 p.m.
Faculty Brass
Belmont Heights Baptist Church


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