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President Young to Speak at Hartland Head Start Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

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University of Utah President Michael Young is scheduled to offer congratulatory remarks during a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 celebrating the opening of a new Head Start Center located at the Hartland Apartment Complex, a primary resettlement site for refugee agencies in Salt Lake. The ceremony, held from 4:00 pm to 5:00pm, will include Hartland Head Start families and residents, west Salt Lake community leaders, and other University members.

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March 25, 2011

A Book Bonanza: Salt Lake schoolchildren receive a year’s worth of children’s books

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This year, 800 Salt Lake schoolchildren from low-income families will receive 5,000 books through a partnership between First Book and Cheerios Spoonfuls of Stories. First Book, an international nonprofit organization that gives children from low-income families their first new books, is partnering with Cheerios Spoonfuls of Stories to provide a year’s worth of books to children in one select program in every state. Their select program in Utah is the Bennion Center’s America Reads Program at the University of Utah.

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March 25, 2011

Learn About Middle Eastern People through Film

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The Middle East and the people who live there are unfamiliar and hard to understand for the average American. In an attempt to bring a better understanding to this ever more important part of the world, the University of Utah Middle East Center and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, in collaboration with the Salt Lake City Film Center are sponsoring a series of films from the region. The Middle East through its Films-2007 will be shown at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, every other Wednesday, 6:00-9:00 p.m. beginning January 31.

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March 25, 2011

Kingsbury Hall, Salt Lake City School District and Youth Theatre at the U selected for Kennedy Center’s Partners in Education program

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Kingsbury Hall, on the University of Utah campus, has been selected by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, along with the Salt Lake City School District and Youth Theatre at the U, to be one of 14 teams of arts organizations and school systems from across the nation to participate in the Partners in Education Institute, May 9-12, 2007. The Institute, funded by the U.S. Department of Education; the National Committee for the Performing Arts; the Kennedy Center Corporate Fund; and the Bank of America Foundation, promotes partnerships in communities across the nation between arts organizations and local schools, focusing on the development of education programs for teachers. Robin Wilks-Dunn, education and outreach coordinator for Kingsbury Hall, Rosanne Henderson, arts coordinator for the Salt Lake City School District and Penelope Caywood, artistic director of Youth Theatre at the U, will be attending the Institute in May, with subsequent conferences and training through 2009.

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March 25, 2011

U Library Receives $5 Million Pledge for Renovation

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The Marriott Library at the University of Utah recently received a $5 million pledge for its Renovation-Innovation capital campaign from the J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation. This is the second major pledge the Marriott family has granted to the library’s renovation project, which broke ground in June of 2005. Pledges from the Marriott family total over $12 million to date.

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March 25, 2011

The University of Utah Announces 2006 Diversity Awards

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The University of Utah is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2006 Diversity Awards. Four individuals at the University of Utah will be presented with awards and recognition at the 11th annual Diversity Awards luncheon on December 5. The awards are given each year to outstanding individuals or organizations that demonstrate an active commitment to promoting and enhancing diversity at the University of Utah. According to Karen Dace, University of Utah, Senior Associate Vice President for Diversity, “These awards recognize continuous and consistent efforts of the individuals and campus units to foster a more inclusive climate and create greater access and opportunities for diverse students, staff, and faculty.” This year’s award recipients are Dan Edwards, Steve Nygaard, David Pershing and Wilfred Samuels.

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March 25, 2011

UNP’s Adelante Students to Perform on Campus

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Eighteen first-graders enrolled in Adelante’s ballet folklorico class will perform in the Student Union on Thursday, Nov. 16 during their next field trip to campus. They have been invited to be a part of the 12th Annual MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán) High School Conference “Uniting Communities: Our Education, Our Liberation / Uniendo Comunidades: Nuestra Educacion, Nuestra Liberacion” because of the relationships MEChA students have developed as mentors for these students, said Luciano Marzuli, MEChA supervisor. They will perform during lunch at 12:30p in the Union Ballroom for over 400 high school students attending the conference.

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March 25, 2011

Immigration Expert to Discuss Shifting Patterns of Immigration in the West and Throughout the United States

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“Contemporary Immigration: Trends and New Destinations” will be the topic of a presentation by Charles Hirschman, Boeing International Professor in the Department of Sociology, and Professor at the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington. Hirschman will describe the shifting patterns of immigrant settlement to new destination areas, including here in the Rocky Mountain West. He will speak on Friday, November 10, at Noon, in the Hinckley Caucus Room, OSH 255, on the campus of the University of Utah. His appearance is made possible by the Department of Sociology, the Department of Political Science, the Department of Economics, and the University of Utah Institute of Public and International Affairs (IPIA), and is part of the year-long “Integrating the Immigrants” Brown Bag series.

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March 25, 2011