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RESEARCHER: Becky Wadsworth, a Slippery Rock University psychology major from Pittsburgh, hangs her dwarf galaxies research poster in the University Union Tuesday. More than 35 undergraduates presented posters during the 2012 Symposium for Student Research, Scholarship and Creative Achievement. Click here for more photos:
Kaleidoscope Arts Festival kicks off
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Slippery Rock University's 14-day Kaleidoscope Arts Festival begins April 15 with the SRU Senior Synthesis Dance Concert, followed by an April 17 hip-hop concert and an April 19 opening celebration on the Quad.
The opening celebration will be at 12:30 p.m. – common hour, which occurs 12:30-1:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. Colleen Reilly, professor of theatre and festival director, said organizers coined a new moniker for the occasion. (read more)
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. - The sound of harmonicas, children's entertainer Hal Walker and other fun activities will fill the air during Slippery Rock University's April 21 Children's Day, which is the premier family event of SRU's April 15-29 Kaleidoscope Arts Festival.
Children's Day will be offered from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in front of SRU's Russell Wright Alumni House and Conference Center. (read more)
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. - Andrew Frank, a Slippery Rock University marketing major from Severna Park, Md. is Keepin Cold with a cool $1,000 as winner of SRU's Sustainable Enterprise Accelerator "Rock the Boat Business Pitch Competition."
Frank, who partnered with Brian Brodeur, an SRU communication major from Saxonburg, for help in preparing his "business pitch" said, "This is an idea that I really think will work." (read more)
Today
Baseball hosts Mercyhurst
1 p.m., Critchfield Park (DH)
Softball hosts Mercyhurst
3 p.m., SRU Softball Complex
SGA Movie: War Horse
8 p.m., Watson Hall
Saturday
Dave Labor SRU Invitational
outdoor track meet
All day, Mihalik-Thompson Stadium
Freshman Orientation
8 a.m., University Union
Scholarship Luncheon
Noon, Weisenfluh Hall
Sunday
Senior Synthesis Dance Concert
2 and 7 p.m., Swope
SGA Movie: War Horse
8 p.m., ATSH
Monday
Wacky Science Projects
3:15 p.m., SR Elementary School
Tuesday
Academic Assembly
Acting President Charles Curry
12:30 p.m., Swope
Responding to Sexual Violence
12:30 p.m., University Union
Ill Style dance group
7 p.m., University Union
Wednesday
Earth Week: Marcellus Shale Leases
6:30 p.m., ECB Auditorium
SLAB Literary Magazine release
7:30 p.m., Alumni House
Evolution of Dance
Judson Laipply
8 p.m., University Union
History Film: Agora
8 p.m., Spotts
Thursday
Young Women’s Day at the Rock
All day: Opens at Weisenfluh
American Red Cross Blood Drive
10 a.m., University Union
Good Guys-Men Doing
Anti-Violence Work
12:30 p.m., Strain
Kaleidoscope Opens
12:30 p.m., Quad (Rain: Boozel)
Earth Day Festival
12:30 p.m., Quad
Climate Ethics;
Nancy Tuana lecture
12:30 p.m., Spotts
SGA Senate meeting
12:30 p.m., University Union
Earth Week: OSGATA vs. Monsanto
7 p.m., Spotts
Bob Dylan and the Poetry of the Blues
Evening with writer Michael Gray
7:30 p.m., Swope
CARE-aoke
7:30 p.m., University Union
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