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The art works of six artists from around the nation will be featured showcasing their new technologies and digital working strategies. Curated by Gang Geul Han, assistant professor of Digital Arts at Wayne State University, the exhibition's opening is Jan. 30, 8 p.m., at the Elaine Jacob L. Jacob Gallery, 480 W. Hancock, in Detroit. The exhibition will run through April 3.
• Freedom: The UAW and the Release of Nelson Mandela
Exhibit at Wayne State's Walter P. Reuther Library Feb. 2 - 27
Wayne State University's Walter P. Reuther Library announces the opening of "Freedom: The UAW and the Release of Nelson Mandela." This exhibit demonstrates the role of the UAW, and specifically President Owen Bieber, in the release of Nelson Mandela from Victor Verster Prison and the subsequent end of apartheid in South Africa.
• Scholar's Days 2009 at Wayne State University (Feb. 7, 8, 14, 15)
Beat the national economic woes - Scholars Days provides automatic 4-year tuition scholarships for qualified attendees
Scholars Day is a series of invitation-only events that brings together outstanding first-year applicant students who are considering Wayne State's Honors College. During the event, which averages more than 300 attendees, prospective students participate in group interviews, campus tour, and various presentations. Every student who is invited and participates in Scholars Day will receive an award. The minimum award amount for the 2008 Scholars Day is a tuition scholarship of $2,000 a year for four years. Participants also will be considered for increased scholarship offers, up to and including the four-year, full-tuition Presidential Scholarship as well as privately funded scholarships.
• Wayne State University Big Band and Concert Chorale will perform the world premiere of Suite Justice, an original jazz composition by WSU professor Russell Miller at First Presbyterian Church of Farmington on Sunday, Feb. 22, 4 pm.
Suite Justice includes eight pieces representing each of the beatitudes from Matthew (5: 3-10) wherein the strengths of the Concert Chorale and the Big Band are combined in a presentation of original jazz compositions that reflect the composer's thoughts and feelings about these teachings.
• Thomas Sugrue, author, historian, educator to be keynote speaker Feb. 27 at Wayne State University's Richard C. Van Dusen Forum on Urban Issues
Sugrue's latest book, Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North, chronicles the struggle for racial equality in the north from Illinois to New York and how the northern struggle differed from the fight down south. His earlier book, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit was selected in 2005 by Princeton University Press as one of its 100 most influential books of the past 100 years. Sugrue explains in this work how Detroit and many other once prosperous industrial cities have become the sites of racialized poverty. Once called America's "arsenal of democracy," Sugrue contends that Detroit over the last 50 years has become the symbol of the American urban crisis.
• WSU President Jay Noren Inauguration, April 7
As the nation moves forward following the Inauguration festivities for President Barack Obama, Wayne State University will host its Inauguration event for Dr. Jay Noren, WSU's 10th President.
The ceremonies will take place on Tuesday, April 7.
• FOCIS Event April 23
David T. Suzuki, co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation and award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster, will be the featured speaker during Wayne State University's FOCIS event.
Suzuki is well known to millions as the host of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's popular science television series, The Nature of Things. Wayne State University's Forum on Contemporary Issues in Society (FOCIS) program, eestablished in 2007, is a special initiative designed to focus the university's problem-solving resources on an eclectic range of topics important to the campus community and beyond.
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