November 17th, 2009 by newsroom
November 17, 2009
For Immediate Release
For more information: Maryna Storrs (801) 863-8897
University Marketing & Communications: Erin Spurgeon, (801) 863-6807
Written by: Chelsey Richardson (801) 863-8504
As part of its Global Engagement Week, Utah Valley University will host the Honorable Ezekial Lol Gatkuoth of the Southern Sudan Mission to address this crucial period in Sudan’s history in a lecture entitled “Sudan: Before and After 2011: Understanding the Critical Factors Shaping the Future of Sudan.”
“We have often heard of the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan, and now we can hear directly from one of the warriors who actually fought in that country,” said Rusty Butler, UVU associate vice president of international affairs and diplomacy. “This is a rare opportunity for students to engage with one of the architects of democracy in that war-torn part of the world.”
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November 16th, 2009 by newsroom
November 16, 2009
For Immediate Release
For more information: Rusty Butler (801) 863-8994
University Marketing & Communications: Erin Spurgeon, (801) 863-6807
Written by: Chelsey Richardson (801) 863-8504
The White House is wrestling with the future direction of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, and Utah Valley University is helping to keep its students and the local community informed. UVU will host a roundtable on the Afghanistan issues on Monday, Dec. 7, entitled “8th Anniversary of ‘Operation Enduring Freedom: Current Status and Prospects for the Future.”
“President Obama has yet to decide our nation’s future involvement in Afghanistan,” said Rusty Butler, associate vice president for international affairs and diplomacy at UVU. “We hope that the roundtable discussion will help the UVU community and Utah Valley to understand the challenges that face the region and how we might address those challenges.”
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November 16th, 2009 by newsroom
November 16, 2009
For Immediate Release
For more information: Marden Pond (801) 863-7282
University Marketing & Communications: Erin Spurgeon, (801) 863-6807
The Utah Valley University School of the Arts and Department of Music will showcase its up-and-coming talent this week in “New Notes,” a concert of new music by UVU student composers taking place at 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19.
“These student composers are working in a very eclectic assortment of styles,” said Marden Pond, UVU composition instructor. “From serialized percussion works to mainstream vocal solos, from choral works to symphonic compositions, and from jazz to film scoring.”
Participating composers range from first-time music creators to active composer whose works have already been performed in various settings.
“Each of these composers comes with a different set of goals and abilities, but they all have enthusiasm for creating music and a unique style and approach to the creative process,” Pond said.
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November 16th, 2009 by newsroom
November 16, 2009
For Immediate Release
For more information: Rusty Butler (801) 863-8994
University Marketing & Communications: Erin Spurgeon, (801) 863-6807
Written by: Alex Strickland (801) 863-6351
Everything that has ever flown in space or high in the sky from the former Soviet Union and Russia came out of the ultra-secret TsAGI, the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute. And at 11 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 20 in the new UVU Library lecture hall (LI120), the organization’s director general, Dr. Sergey Chernyshev, will offer a glimpse into the formerly clandestine agency when he presents “UFOs, Space Craft and Flying Giants: Untold Tales of Soviet/Russian Aerospace Work.”
Located near Moscow in the city of Zhukovsky, which was long shrouded in secrecy as the headquarters of Soviet and Russian aviation technology, TsAGI has no peer in advanced aerospace work. It has 65 wind tunnels, including one large enough to house a full-sized 757 and another capable of creating speeds of well over Mach 20, more than 20 times the speed of sound.
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November 16th, 2009 by newsroom
November 16, 2009
For Immediate Release
For more information: Steve Fullmer (801) 863-8788
University Marketing & Communications: Erin Spurgeon, (801) 863-6807
Written by: Alex Strickland (801) 863-6351
The lead singer from a heavy metal band will headline a concert to benefit a scholarship fund created to honor the memory of a pair of Utah Valley University students who died in a 2005 caving accident.
Mark Slaughter, who fronted the band Slaughter during its multi-platinum run in the early 1990s, will join local metal bands Broke City and Adjacent to Nothing for an acoustic set at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17 in the Ragan Theater.
The show is organized by UVU Professor Stephen Fullmer’s English 276R class, which examines the language and culture of heavy metal music, and is produced by Carnegie Entertainment.
Fullmer said the concert was born out of a successful heavy metal show his class hosted last year and the needs of the Donner-Galbraith Scholarship Fund, whose endowment took a hit in the recession. The scholarship was formed in memory of UVU students Blake Donner and Jenn Galbraith, who along with two friends, drowned while swimming through a submerged underground tunnel in 2005. Donner and Galbraith were also the children of UVU employees.
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November 16th, 2009 by newsroom
November 16, 2009
For Immediate Release
For more information: Farah Chase-Dunn (801) 863-6794
University Marketing & Communications: Erin Spurgeon, (801) 863-6807
Written by: Lara Johnson
Utah Valley University’s Public Relations Club will be hosting Janet Meiners Thaeler as she discusses her new book, “I Need a Killer Press Release – Now What???: A Guide to Online PR,” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17 in the Grande Ballroom of the UVU Sorensen Student Center. Thaeler’s address will be followed by a performance by local bluegrass artist Matt Williams.
“[The audience] will learn another way to assist their clients by helping them gain more visibility,” Thaeler said. “They will see that press releases are more than just media attention, but are tools to get directly to the consumer.”
Thaeler will discuss tools to effectively promote press releases online, as well as using online services and social networking to track trends and research search engine optimization.
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November 12th, 2009 by newsroom
November 12, 2009
For Immediate Release
For more information: Michael Minch (801) 863-7482
University Marketing & Communications: Erin Spurgeon, (801) 863-6807
Written by: Chelsey Richardson (801) 863-8504
Is the death penalty the best way to respond to crime? This is a central question that lies at the heart of the fifth annual Symposium on Restorative Justice, Punishment and the Death Penalty. The symposium will take place Thursday, Nov. 19. The symposium is co-sponsored by UVU Integrated Studies and Peace and Justice Studies. Among other noted scholars, UVU will host Dr. Howard Zehr, known in his field as “the grandfather of restorative justice.”
The conference was created in an effort to educate the public on the status of capital punishment as a human rights issue and to provide an opportunity to learn about restorative justice. Restorative justice is a growing movement in the U.S. and around the world that finds creative ways to allow victims to receive justice from the criminals who have harmed them. It also allows the criminals some opportunity to restore a measure of justice to their victims. This dynamic works to heal the sense of loss within the victim and to restore a sense of accountability and dignity to the perpetrator of the crime.
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November 12th, 2009 by newsroom
November 12, 2009
For Immediate Release
For more information: Glendon Parker (801) 863-6907
University Marketing & Communications: Erin Spurgeon, (801) 863-6807
Written by: Alex Strickland (801) 863-6351
Few people could hope to understand Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution in the way Utah Valley University’s Dan Fairbanks does. Fairbanks, the associate dean of UVU’s School of Science and Health and a geneticist who has written multiple books about DNA evidence for evolution, has peered into the building blocks of life and determined Darwin was right.
Fairbanks will give a presentation titled “The Many Faces of Charles Darwin” at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 15, at St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral in Salt Lake City as part of a series of presentations the church is hosting by academic and religious scholars.
In addition to discussing Darwin’s life and faith – something Fairbanks has done many times this year to help mark the bicentennial celebration of Darwin’s birth and the sesquicentennial (150 years) celebration of the publication of “The Origin of Species” – Fairbanks will sculpt a bust of the 18th century scientist while he speaks.
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November 10th, 2009 by newsroom
November 10, 2009
For Immediate Release
For more information: Shayla Bott (801) 863-6758
University Marketing & Communications: Erin Spurgeon, (801) 863-6807
Written by: Lara Johnson
The Utah Valley University Department of Dance’s Repertory Ballet Ensemble will present an informal showing for the community, featuring choreography ranging from classical to contemporary ballet, at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 19-21.
Excerpts from “Dulcinea’s Garden,” “Don Quixote” and others will be performed, as well as a new contemporary piece from guest choreographer and recent winner of the National Choreography Award through Regional Dance America, Heather Gray.
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