Today's Stories:
New Summer Geology Courses Available
Movie "The Kite Runner" Being Shown Tonight on Campus
Environmental Awareness Week at RU Dining Services
Men's Tennis Clinches First Place in Big South
Applications for Library's Winesett Awards due Friday
RU Art Students Exhibit Work
Kudos: Art Professor Halide Salam
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Today's Top Story

New Summer Geology Courses Available in Association
with the Virginia Museum of Natural History
Want to dig for dinosaurs this summer? Two new summer field courses in the Department of Geology will allow interested students to do just that. In association with The Virginia Museum of Natural History, the department is offering Vertebrate Paleontology Field Techniques for undergraduate students (GEOL 498) and graduate students (GEOL 691). Students will travel to Wyoming to learn field techniques used by vertebrate paleontologists in documenting and excavating vertebrate fossils. The one-week (one credit hour) or two-week (two credit hours) course will include excavation techniques, making field jackets, field identification of specimens and documentation of collections, including field notes and mapping.

The two courses run concurrently from June 2 - 6 and June 9 - 13. Registration should be completed by Thursday, May 15, to participate in this experience. To learn more, contact Steve Lenhart at slenhart@radford.edu.

Campus News

Movie "The Kite Runner" Being Shown Tonight on Campus
The Campus Activities Board is showing the movie "The Kite Runner" in the Bonnie Auditorium at 8 p.m. tonight.

Environmental Awareness Week at RU Dining Services
With Earth Day right around the corner, RU Dining Services is taking action to increase environmental awareness on campus. This week, Dalton Dining Hall and the Terrace Shops will be turning out the lights during lunch hours and removing the trays in an effort to conserve electricity, save water and reduce food waste. Instead of turning on more than 400 lights, dining services will be utilizing daylight from the various windows in Dalton Hall during the day. With more than 15,000 trays a week being washed and an estimated five tons of food waste sent to the landfills, going trayless will help reduce food waste and conserve water.

Students, faculty and staff can help conserve our natural resources by doing simple things at meal time, such as using only one paper napkin per meal or skipping the "to go" box and dining in. To learn more, contact RU Dining Services marketing director Kim Spivey at kspivey4@radford.edu or (540) 831-7156.

Men's Tennis Clinches
First Place in Big South
The Radford men's tennis team clinched the Big South regular season crown and the top seed for the conference tournament with a win over Winthrop Saturday afternoon at the Dedmon Center Courts, then downed UNC Asheville Sunday to finish with a perfect 6-0 league record. The Big South men's and women's tennis tournaments will be held Thursday-Saturday in Rock Hill, S.C.

In other action this week, the women's golf team competes at the Big South Conference Tournament in Greenwood, S.C., today through Wednesday, while the Highlanders' track and field teams are in Rock Hill, S.C., Thursday-Saturday for their conference tournament. The women's softball team travels to Blacksburg Tuesday to take on the Virginia Tech Hokies in a doubleheader that begins at 5 p.m., and the baseball team plays at North Carolina State University Wednesday night. For more information and schedule updates, visit RUHighlanders.com.

Applications for Library's Winesett Awards due Friday
Have you written a paper or completed a project for a class which involved using the library? You're eligible to apply for the Winesett Awards for Library Research.

McConnell Library presents these awards in recognition of creative and original library research completed by RU undergraduate students. The best entries will be published in the Archives of the Winesett Scholars. One freshman/sophomore winner and one junior/senior winner will be awarded $500 prizes. Deadlines for applications for the awards are Friday, April 18. To learn more, visit the library's Winesett Awards web site.

RU Art Students Exhibit Work
RU's Department of Art will present two exhibitions featuring the best works of students in graphic design classes and the bachelor of fine arts program.

The graphic design exhibition is Thursday, April 17 - Saturday, May 3, at the Bondurant Center for the Arts, 1129 East Main St., Radford. The BFA show is Friday, April 18 - Saturday, May 3, in the RU Art Museum Downtown and Martin Gallery, Powell Hall 200.

Opening receptions for the BFA exhibition are Friday, April 18, at 5 p.m. in Powell Hall and 6 p.m. at the downtown museum. Admission to the exhibitions and reception are free and open to the public.

Kudos

Art Professor Halide Salam Publishes Book
RU art professor Halide Salam's first book, Between 2 Spaces: Reflections on the Spiritual in Art, has been published by Pocahontas Press of Blacksburg. The book is much like a journal, compiled of personal notes, essays and quotations. Salam writes of her painting process and objectives and the sources of inspiration in life. She credits her parents and religious upbringing with her success as an artist and teacher.

Salam teaches painting and has an international reputation for her paintings that explore spirituality as it relates to creativity. She began her teaching career at RU 30 years ago. To learn more, see the RU News Release.

The Back Page

On this day in 1865, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, Va., effectively ending the American Civil War. - History.com

Recent Releases from University Relations

Children's Author to Present Family History Preservation Workshop at RU >>Story

Concert Features Opera Ensemble Tuesday >>Story

Coming Up at RU

4/13-15, University Opera Ensemble
4/15, Softball at Va. Tech
4/16, Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band Concert
4/16, Baseball at N.C. State
4/17, Softball vs. Appy State
4/17-19, M&WT at BSC Tournament
4/17-19, T&F at BSC Championships
4/17, University Guitar Ensembles Concert
4/19, Softball vs. Liberty
(See RU Calendar for more info)

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