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FAU Calendar of Events for the Week of February 21, 2011
BOCA RATON, FL (February 21, 2011) – Florida Atlantic University will host the following events:
FAU Jupiter’s Lifelong Learning Society to Host 10th National Film Festival
The event will take place on Tuesday, March 15, at 6:30 p.m. in the Lifelong Learning Auditorium, 5353 Parkside Drive, John D. MacArthur Campus, Jupiter. Cost is $10. For more information or for tickets, call 561-799-8667 or visit http://www.llsjupiter.com
LUNAFEST, a
unique film festival, will highlight women as leaders in society,
illustrated through 10 films by women filmmakers. The films range
from animated shorts to fictional drama, and cover topics such as
women’s health, body image, spirituality, relationships,
cultural diversity and breaking barriers. All proceeds from
LUNAFEST will go to FAU student scholarships and the Breast
Cancer Fund. Thus far, LUNAFEST, which is sponsored by LUNA, the
Whole Nutrition Bar for Women, has
raised more than $570,000 for
women’s organizations.
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FAU’s Raddock Family Eminent Chair on Holocaust
Studies Presents the Lecture ‘Speaking of the Middle
East: Jews and Christians in Dialogue and Dispute’
This free event takes place on
Thursday, March 3, at 7:30 p.m. in the
Live Oak Pavilion, FAU Student Union, 777 Glades Road,
Boca Raton campus. For more information, call
561-297-2979.
This lecture is presented by Amy-Jill Levine, the E. Rhodes
and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies at
Vanderbilt University Divinity School.
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FAU’s Peace Studies Program Presents Dr. Mona Lisa
Schulz with ‘Medical Intuition and Our
Health’
The lecture will take place on
Thursday, March 3, at 7 p.m. in the
University Theatre, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton
campus. Tickets are $25; FAU faculty, staff and
students may obtain admission for free. To purchase tickets,
call 1-800-564-9539 or visit www.fauevents.com. For more
information, call 561-297-2337.
Dr. Mona Lisa Shulz is a neuroscientist and psychiatrist,
and has been practicing medical intuition for 20 years. She will
explore how emotional situations are associated with the risk of
illness in a specific organ within the body.
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FAU’s Department of Music Presents Pianist Andre de
Groote in Concert
The concert will take place on
Saturday, March 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the
University Theatre, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton
campus. Admission is free with a $10 donation
suggested. For more information, call 561-297-3820.
The program for the concert includes Chopin’s Sonata
in B minor, Op. 58, and other pieces by Rachmaninoff.
-FAU-
About Florida Atlantic University:
Florida Atlantic University opened its doors in 1964 as the fifth public university in Florida. Today, the University serves more than 28,000 undergraduate and graduate students on seven campuses and sites. Building on its rich tradition as a teaching university, with a world-class faculty, FAU hosts 10 colleges: the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts & Letters, the College of Business, the College for Design and Social Inquiry, the College of Education, the College of Engineering & Computer Science, the Graduate College, the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing and the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. For more information, visit www.fau.edu.
