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CULTURAL AWARENESS: Deron Jackson, a Slippery Rock University accounting major from Clairton, and Rachelle Daniels, a biology major from Pittsburgh, discuss multicultural programs Tuesday during an Office of Multicultural Development open house in the University Union. The office, which provides diverse learning opportunities promoting cultural awareness, recently changed its name and has a new director, Corinne Gibson.

SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. - Sometimes there is just enough truth in folklore and home remedies on which a serious scientist can base a cure. Such is the case for Wayne Forbes, assistant professor of biology at Slippery Rock University, who has been awarded a U.S. Patent for his isolation of a compound that kills an often-fatal intestinal parasitic roundworm called "threadworm."

This parasite, formally known as Strongyloides stercoralis, is commonly found throughout the tropics. Read More

SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. - Keeping track of the academic credits, individual courses undertaken, grades earned, credits added, home addresses, campus addresses, phone numbers - both cell and landline - of 8,648 current Slippery Rock University students, and the same information for more than 61,000 alumni is the responsibility of this year's recipient of the President's Award for Outstanding Service - Eliott Baker.

Baker is SRU's executive director of Academic Records and Summer School. Read More

SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. - Jesse Pattison's path toward reducing the carbon footprint began in his boyhood. The Slippery Rock University physics major grew up in Titusville, where non-renewable oil was first drilled in 1859. Early on, he became fascinated with exploring solar energy - "capturing sunlight and converting it," he s

Pattison's understanding of solar energy is being illuminated through a student-faculty research project at SRU. He is building a solar panel he hopes will provide a new method of capturing solar energy, with potential application on campus. While most solar panels capture direct sunlight on roofs, Pattison and other SRU students are experimenting with window units. Read More

Saturday
Saturday classes meet as usual

Monday
Spring break begins
(Classes resume 8 a.m. March 15)
University offices open.

Wednesday
Hazwoper emergency training drill
All day, Morrow Field House

Friday, March 12
Movie Night: Planet Earth - The Future
McKeever Environmental Learning Center

Monday, March 15
In Sisterhood: The Women's Movement in Pittsburgh
Noon, Martha Gault Art Gallery
(Continues through April 3)

Tuesday, March 16
Diversity and Democracy Series, Part 1:
11 a.m., Who Am I and What do I Bring to SRU
12:30 p.m., Tony Norman, lectures
2 p.m., Being BLANK at SRU
3:30 p.m., Welcoming Diversity
5 p.m., How Hate Perpetuates
All events in the University Union

Knee High Nature
2 p.m., McKeever Environmental Learning Center

Wednesday, March 17
Women's lacrosse hosts IUP
7 p.m., Thompson Stadium

Mozart Sonatas for Violin and Piano
7:30 p.m., Swope Music Hall

Thursday, March 18
ARC celebrates 10-year anniversary
6 p.m., Alcohol Free Mix Off
8:30 p.m., Velveeta concert
(Pa. Intramual Basketball Tourney
March 20)

Student Conductor's Concert
7:30 p.m., Miller Auditorium

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