Volume 59, Issue 9  - October 16, 2006

Briefs

Distinguished Lecture Series

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and historian David McCullough will speak at 7 tonight in the SET-B Lecture Hall for UTB/TSC’s eighth annual Distinguished Lecture Series. Tickets are $150 per person and include a gala reception. To purchase tickets, call the Development Office at 548-8708.

Monday Night Physics

Soma Mukherjee, of the Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy, will present a lecture titled “Search for Gravitational Waves” at 7 tonight in the SET-B third-floor conference room. Admission is free.

Candlelight vigil

Friendship of Women Inc. will conduct its eighth annual candlelight vigil, titled “Remember My Name,” from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Livingway Family Church, 350 W. FM 802. Cameron County District Attorney Armando R. Villalobos will be the guest speaker. For more information, call 544-7412.

Meetings

The Disability Awareness Club meets at 3 p.m. each Wednesday in the Student Union’s Salon Bougainvillea. For more information, call club president Travis Briones at 545-7306 or send him an e-mail at Travis.Briones1@utb.edu.

The Gorgas Science Society meets at 1 p.m. each Friday in Life and Health Sciences room 1.314. For more information, call society president Joe Lee Rubio at 346-9177 or send him an e-mail at joeleerubio@hotmail.com or at Gorgassociety@yahoo.com.

The Sports Officials Student Organization invites students interested in becoming soccer referees to attend its regular meetings scheduled from 2 to 3 p.m. this Sunday, Nov. 3 and Nov. 17 in SET-B 2.260. Topics of instruction include assistant referee and offside. For more information, call organization president Fabian Neri at 371-1376 or adviser Pedro Trejo Jr. at 882-5945.

Food Bank fund-raiser

The Food Bank of the RGV Inc. will hold its Empty Bowls fund-raiser from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday in the Jacob Brown Auditorium. Tickets are $20 each ($10 for UTB/TSC students with ID) and can be purchased by calling the Fort Brown Memorial Center at 882-7945.

Veterans Barbecue

The Veterans Upward Bound department is selling tickets for a chicken barbecue fund-raiser to be held from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday at the Gazebos. Tickets are $4 each and are available by calling 882-7127.

‘Society Under Fire’

Mary Roach, author of “Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife” (W.W. Norton, 2005), will discuss her book on “Society Under Fire,” which airs at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday on KMBH-FM (88.9). Bill Strong, a professor in the English and Communication Department, is the program’s guest host.

Steal a Meal

The Catholic Campus Ministry sells a full meal for $1.50 at 11:30 a.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at the Newman Center. For more information, call 542-3942.

Katrina relief

The UT School of Public Health Brownsville Regional Campus and other Rio Grande Valley organizations are seeking donations for Mission Mississippi, a relief effort for Hurricane Katrina victims who are still struggling. Suggested donation items include: non-perishable foods, toiletries and baby items. Items can be dropped off between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. through December at the Regional Academic Health Center, located next to the Life and Health Sciences Building. For more information, call Belinda Reininger at 882-5161 or send her an e-mail at Belinda.m.Reininger@utb.edu.

Graduation applications

The Registrar’s Office reminds students that the deadline to apply for spring graduation is Feb. 1 and April 1 for summer graduation. For more information, call Esteban Martin at 882-8230.

Employee recreation

UTB/TSC employees are invited to participate in tennis recreation from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m., 1:15-2:15 p.m. and 5:15- 6:15 p.m. Monday through Thursday at the UTB/TSC tennis courts. To sign up go to http://www.utbtsc.edu/form/hr/wellness/tennis/. For more information, call Marisa Guerrero at 882-7614.

UTB/TSC employees are invited to participate in volleyball recreation from 7 to 9 p.m. every Wednesday at Sonic Drive-In, 205 Security Dr. For more information, call Marisa Guerrero at 882-7614.

‘Ghosts of Fort Brown III’

The Arnulfo Oliveira Memorial Library will host a discussion and book signing about the reported ghosts on campus at 11 a.m. Oct. 26 at the Gazebos and at 1:30 p.m. Oct. 31 in the library’s Hunter Room. Refreshments will be served. Volumes I and II of “The Ghosts of Fort Brown,” plus the new third volume, “The Ghosts of Fort Brown and Beyond,” will be available for purchase at $6 each. For more information, call John Hawthorne or Millie Hernandez at 882-7410.

--Compiled by Hugo Rodriguez

If you would like your organization or department news published in the Collegian’s Briefs section, call reporter Hugo Rodriguez at 882-5846 or send him an e-mail at collegian@utb.edu.