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Dr. Bernard Amadei
Delivering Sustainable & Appropriate Solutions to Developing Communities |
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Engineers Without Borders-USA |
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DATE: Mon, Feb 9, 2009
TIME: 7:30 PM
Vieve Gore Concert Hall in the Jewett Center for the Performing Arts and Emma Eccles Jones Conservatory
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please visit our website. | |
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Incoming International Visitors to Utah
 International Visitors are participants in the International Visitor Leadership Program administered by the US Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. All International Visitors are accompanied by Interpreters and/or Department of State Officers.
Home Hospitality is an opportunity for you to invite a group of up to 4 emerging leaders from around the world to your home for dinner and conversation. For more information or to volunteer, please contact Nina Busuladzic, Program Director, at (801) 832-3273 or nbusuladzic@utahdiplomacy.org.
Multiregional* - Hosts secured
Feb 11-15, 6 Delegates, U.S. Trade Policy
Multiregional* - NEEDED: 1 Home Host
Feb 11-15, 22 Delegates, Elementary & Secondary Education Issues
China - Hosts secured
Feb 14-18, 5 Delegates, Legal Issues
Azerbaijan - Hosts secured
Feb 18-21, 4 Delegates, Early Childhood Education
Multiregional* - Hosts secured
Feb 25 - Mar 1, 6 Delegates, Accountability in Government & Business
MARCH 2009
South Asia* - Hosting opportunities forthcoming
Mar 7-11, 8 Delegates, Human Rights Advocacy & Awareness
Multiregional* - Hosting opportunities forthcoming
Mar 18-21, 18 Delegates, Women & Justice
Middle East - Hosting opportunities forthcoming
Mar 19-24, 7 Delegates, Young Business & Economic Leaders
*For a complete list of participating countries, please visit our calendar. |
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2008/2009 Amb. John Price & Marcia Price World Affairs Lecture Series
 In partnership with American Express and Westminster College's Weldon J. Taylor Executive Lecture Series, UCCD presents an outstanding World Affairs Lecture Series designed to inform our citizens about key foreign policy issues and to create a globally savvy community.
Joel Sartore, National Geographic Photographer
Motivation in the Workplace: Wherever It May Be,
January 13, 2009 All lectures are free and open to the public, and held at the Vieve Gore Concert Hall, Westminster College, 1840 South 1300 South. For more information, please call (801) 832-3270 or visit our website.
Monday, February 9, 2009, 7:30pm
Delivering Sustainable and Appropriate Solutions
to Developing Communities
Dr. Bernard Amadei,
Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder
Monday, March 2, 2009, 7:30pm
The Next American Century:
How the U.S. Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise
Nina Hachigian,
Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress |
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2009 NCIV National Meeting 
Washington, DC - The National Council for International Visitors (NCIV) will hold its 2009 National Meeting on February 11-14, 2009, in Washington, DC. The National Meeting attracts more than 500 people representing community organizations from around the country, National Program Agencies, and the U.S. Department of State's Office of International Visitors and Office of Language Services. UCCD staff will travel to Washington, DC to deepen its understanding of U.S. public diplomacy, U.S. foreign policy, and the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP). The National Meeting also gives UCCD the opportunity to increase the number of International Visitors to Utah by promoting the state as a year-round destination, and a prime location for professional exchanges and exceptional cultural activities. Learn more. |
International Visitor Snapshot: FRANCE
By Jennifer Hefti, Director of Communications
 Salt Lake City - Mr. Akram Belkaid, a guest of the U.S. Department of State's International Visitor Leadership Program, and a Reporter, Le Monde Diplomatique, from France, visited Salt Lake City in January to examine the workings of American government at the Utah State level, as well as religious diversity. Mr. Belkaid's professional appointments included a classroom visit at Westminster College (pictured with Professors Tripp and Haslam), and meetings with Mr. Robert Spendlove, Policy Director, Office of the Utah State Governor; Ms. Pat Bartholomew, Clerk of Court, Utah State Supreme Court; and Mr. Colby Green, Legislative Aide, Office of Senator John L. Valentine, Utah State Legislature, among others. I sat down with Mr. Belkaid and asked him about his visit to Utah. Continue reading. |
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Photographer aims to save animals
By Nicole Warburton, Deseret Morning News
 Joel Sartore, World Affairs Lecture Series guest speaker in January, was featured in the Deseret Morning News.
"Think your job is bad? Try punching the clock when you must endure filth, flesh-eating parasites and sometimes fatal conditions to finish an assignment. But that's what Joel Sartore does. And he loves it. Sartore is one of about 70 core photographers for National Geographic. His specialty is in photographing vanishing animal species, and sometimes it requires extreme work environments." Continue reading.
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Four rules for a better civic life
By Gary Daynes, Associate Provost for Integrative Learning, Westminster College
Salt Lake City - "Our ability to solve problems, be it through politics or community action, depends on the civic skills of Utah's citizens."
Gov. Jon Huntsman's attention to civic participation in his State of the State address was surely a good thing. Any government whose legitimacy depends on the will of the people ought to be concerned when the people seem uninterested. If the governor wants to improve civic participation in the state, here are four rules he should follow. Continue reading. |
Community News
 Utah Interfaith Week 2009 (Feb 1-8)
Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker said Interfaith Week (through Sunday) is more important than ever in the city because there is more diversity here than ever before. Speaking at the press conference Monday to open the 2009 Interfaith Week at the Marriott Hotel, he said, "I know this is a wonderful outgrowth of the (2002) Olympics." Sponsored by the Salt Lake Interfaith Roundtable (founded in 1999 for the 2002 Olympics), numerous events are scheduled this week. "It's one of the great things that happen in our community to bring us together," Becker said. For a detailed Interfaith Week Schedule of Events, please visit www.utah-faiths.org/slc.
 Understanding the African American Spirituals (And Their Place in Public Education)
February 11, 7:30pm, Westminster Collge
The program will be presented by the Calvary Baptist Choir, and the BCC Singers of Bountiful Community Church. The Spirituals will be explained and narrated by Pastor France A. Davis, Calvary Baptist Church and Ms. Anita P. Baker, Teacher, Hill Field Elementary School. The event is free and open to the public and held in the Vieve Gore Concert Hall at Westminster College. For more information, please contact Jan Saeed, Director of Spiritual Life, Westminster College, at (801) 832-2232 orjsaeed@westminstercollege.edu.
 The Middle East Through Its FilmsThe Kite, January 28, 6-9pm,
Utah Museum of Fine Arts
Arabic, with English Subtitles. Lebanon 2008, 80 Minutes. In director Randa Chahal Sabbag's 'fairytale for troubled times,' sixteen-year old Lamia must cross a border checkpoint between Lebanon and Israel to marry a man she has never met. Neither she nor her betrothed are eager to consummate a marriage to a stranger - a matter further complicated by Lamia's surprising admission that she is in love with the Israeli soldier guarding the border. Sabbag's enchanting drama about marriage and tradition is underscored by delicate symbolism and artful references to politics of Lebanon's territories that have been annexed. Sponsored by the University of Utah's Middle East Center Outreach Program and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts in collaboration with the SLC Film Center. | |
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Sincerely,
Jennifer Hefti,
Director of Communications & Community Outreach |
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