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 NEWS/EVENTS OF NOTE AT AUBURN UNIVERSITY -- April 9-15, 1995
            Auburn University - University Relations
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4/7/95                                     Bob Lowry

AUBURN DAYBOOK
Monday, April 10, Francisco Dallmeier, director of Smithsonian
     Institution Man in the Biosphere Biological Diversity Program,
     gives Weaver Lecture on "Toward a Global Network of Forest
     Biodiversity Monitoring Sites, AU Hotel and Conference Center,
     Meeting Room I, 3 p.m.
     ** Economist James Hurst of AU Department of Agricultural
          Economics, speaks on "Economic Impact of Poultry Industry
          in Alabama," Animal Science Bldg., Room 247, 3:10 p.m.
     ** Husband and wife TV journalists Barbara and John Cochran
          will be Visiting Franklin Professors, giving public
          presentation, "A Conversation with Barbara and John
          Cochran," Foy Union Gallery, 4 p.m. (Media availability
          at 3:30 p.m., Foy Gallery.)

Tuesday, April 11, General Faculty meeting to elect chair-elect and
     secretary-elect, Broun Hall, auditorium, 3:10 p.m. CONTACT:
     Conner Bailey, 334/844-5632.
     ** Jesse White Jr., federal co-chair of Appalachian Regional
          Commission, gives 1995 Sherman Lecture in Public
          Administration, Pebble Hill, 4 p.m. CONTACT:
          334/844-5371.

Thursday, April 13, Robert Kreiser, associate secretary of American
     Association of University Professors, speaks on university
     governance, Rouse Life Sciences Bldg., Room 112, 4 p.m.
     CONTACT: Glenn Howze, 334/844-5631.
     ** Dr. Nancy Lord, 1992 Libertarian Party vice presidential
          nominee, addresses AU Libertarian Club, Lowder Business
          Bldg., Room 005,  7 p.m. 

                     UPCOMING EVENTS    
Monday, April 17, Robert Coles, one of nation's most renowned child
     psychiatrists, lectures as part of Franklin Lectures series on
     subject of "Moral Energy in Young People: Sources of Idealism
     in College Students and Others," Broun Hall, auditorium, 2
     p.m.
     ** Andrew Sinclair, research professor at Royal Melbourne
          Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, and
          internationally known researcher in field of lipid
          metabolism, presents spring York Lecture on "Twentieth
          Century Diets - Food for Thought," AU Hotel and
          Conference Center, auditorium, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 20, Ron Simpson, director of University of
     Georgia's Office of Instructional Development lectures on
     "Evaluating Instruction: The Validity of Student Ratings," in
     conjunction with "Talking Teaching at Auburn," Haley Center,
     Room 1203, 4 p.m. CONTACT: Mary Miller, 334/844-3936.

Friday, April 21, Ron Simpson, director of University of Georgia's
     Office of Instructional Development, leads student/faculty
     discussion on "Do We Really Know What Good Teaching Is?" Haley
     Center, Room 2326, 8 a.m. 

STORY IDEAS FROM AUBURN  
     (DNA) Results from DNA testing, soon to be one of most hotly
debated subjects in O.J. Simpson murder trial, are valid evidence
in criminal cases if tests are done properly, AU scientists say.
CONTACT: Curtis Bird, 334/844-4690; Marie Wooten, 334/844-9245; Kim
Norgren, 334/844-4085; and Carlos Rabren, 334/887-7001.
     
     (WATERWATCH) Alabamians are learning to study and protect
wetlands of their state with help of water quality monitoring
program coordinated by AU faculty. Alabama Water Watch, funded in
part by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Alabama
Department of Environmental Management, was developed in 1993 by AU
Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures. CONTACT: John
Grover, 334/844-9119.
     
     (EASTER1945) Fifty years ago Alabamians celebrated Easter by
holding all-day prayer vigils, canceling Easter egg hunts, inviting
far-from-home servicemen into their homes, and longing for the end
of World War II. Today, Alabamians prepare to celebrate Easter with
much more joy, hope and tradition, say AU faculty. CONTACT: Charles
Britt, 334/844-6776 (mornings only) or 334/821-4127; and Leah
Atkins, 334/844-4946. 

     (ARANT) The late Frank Selman Arant, who influenced
generations of professors and students at AU during his 49-year
career in College of Agriculture, has left $465,000 bequest to the
university. Auburn received the bequest for a
scholarship/fellowship endowment in the Entomology Department from
the estate of Arant, who died in November 1992. CONTACT: Roy
Summerford, 334/844-9999. 

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