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Brigham Young University students won awards and rights to publication for their participation in the European Union Center of California's Sixth Annual Undergraduate Research Conference in Claremont, Calif. Andrew Christensen, won a full scholarship to the EU Summer School at the University of Rome. Sarah Boman won a scholarship to the University of Washington EU Summer School in Brussels, Belgium. Three BYU students' papers were also selected to be published in an edited volume that is produced after each year's conference: Christensen's "Answering the Immigration Problem: The Prospect of Post-National Identity in Denmark," Boman's "Adapting to the Twenty-First Century: A Flexible NATO," and David Drake's "Sarkozy's New Diplomacy: A Reassessment of the Third Rift in Franco-American Relations."

Annual Museum Block Party to celebrate Kachina tradition

The Museum of Peoples and Cultures will host its annual Block Party in honor of Utah Prehistory Week and its new exhibit, "Kachinas of the Southwest: Dances, Dolls, and Rain," Saturday, May 10, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

This event is free and open to the public.

Activities include petroglyph face painting and an open archeology dig. There will also be a special dance performance by the Native American performing group Morning Star. Free food will be provided for all visitors. Complimentary museum tours will be held throughout the day and will include the new exhibition, "Kachinas of the Southwest: Dances, Dolls, and Rain."

BYU finds relationship between Armstrong's music and dancers

In an article in the current issue of the Journal of the American Musicological Society, music professor Brian Harker shows that a partnership with a dancing duo may have heavily influenced the rhythms of Jazz musician Louis Armstrong, Harker's article provides evidence that Armstrong's trumpeting actually took on a more free flowing and flexible style when he performed duets with the dancers between the summer of 1926 and the summer of 1927.

Student wins video contest

PricewaterhouseCoopers announced last week that BYU sophomore Trevor McKendrick was one of five winners in its Leadership Adventure Video Contest, which asked undergraduate business students nationwide to submit two-minute videos answering the question, "What makes a great leader?" Each winner received a $3,000 scholarship and will be invited to attend the 2008 PwC Leadership Adventure, a program for high-achieving college students interested in accounting or information technology careers.

Student nurses to celebrate National Nurses Week

Student nurses will celebrate National Nurses Week with a free blood pressure screening clinic Tuesday through Thursday. On Tuesday, student nurses will conduct screenings from 10 a.m. until noon in the main entrance of the Spencer W. Kimball Tower and from noon until 3:30 p.m. in both the Wilkinson Student Center Terrace and the Nursing Learning Center on the first floor of the SWKT. On Wednesday and Thursday, students will perform screenings from 10 a.m. until noon in the SWKT main entrance and from 1 until 3 p.m. in the WSC Terrace.

Former Pakistani judge to discuss war on terror

Chaudry Ali, a judge in Pakistan for more than 25 years, will present a Global Awareness Lecture, "War on Terror by Reluctant Fighters," on Wednesday, May 14, at noon in Room 238 of the Herald R. Clark Building on the Brigham Young University campus.

In September 2006 he and his family were forced to flee Pakistan leaving their belongings and property behind. They were granted asylum in the United States in October 2007. He is currently pursuing a degree at the S. J. Quinney Law School at the University of Utah. The lecture will be archived online. For more information visit kennedy.byu.edu.

Coming up . . .

TODAY

DEVOTIONAL: English professor Gregory Clark will speak at a university devotional at 11:05 a.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall, Harris Fine Arts Center.

TOMORROW

LECTURE: Marc Olivier, associate professor of French studies, will present "Border Horror: Identity Anxiety in Recent French Cinema" at a Global Awareness Lecture at noon in 238 Herald R. Clark Building. Admission is free.

SERVICE: The BYUSA Service Squad meets each Wednesday for weekly service activities around campus from 7 to 8 p.m. in 2300 Wilkinson Center.

FRIDAY

LECTURE: Author Stephen R. Covey will speak at the BYU Emeriti Alumni Association's "Evening with Friends" at the BYU Salt Lake Center, 345 W. North Temple in Salt Lake City at 7 p.m. For more information, call 422-5447 or visit wasatch.aa.byu.edu.

UVSC

UVSC to hold technology expo and 3-D derby

Utah Valley State College will host the annual Technology Expo May 12 at the Orem campus. The Expo is an all-day event with skills competitions for high school students in the morning, a 3-D Derby and an exhibition for student projects. The project exhibition will be open to the public from 5 to 7 p.m. The public open house will be followed by an awards ceremony.

The 3-D Derby is a high-tech, large scale equivalent of a pinewood derby competition and involves contestants racing cars created and drawn with 3-D solid modeling software and then produced on 3-D prototyping machines. They will be judged on model design and drawing quality, as well as speed.

Layton Construction donates $38,000 to UVSC

Layton Construction has agreed to make a four-to-one match of the student donations in UVSC's annual "Giving the Green" campaign, amounting to $38,000 on their part, totaling $47,000 for the campaign. Almost 200 students, faculty and staff donated during the four-day March 17-20 campaign and raised almost $10,000.

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Mountain

Graduate program director receives award

Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions announced that Susan Michlovitz, has been named the 2008 Nathalie Barr award winner from the American Society of Hand Therapists. The Nathalie Barr Lectureship honors a member of the ASHT who has made significant original contributions to hand rehabilitation in development or refinement of professional theory and techniques, and contributions to hand therapy development as a profession. Her lecture, titled "Better: Getting Our CHT Together" will be delivered at the ASHT Annual Conference in Boston, October 2008. Michlovitz is the Graduate Program Director of the elective track for certified hand therapy in the doctoral physical therapy and occupational therapy degree programs.