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EURECA: a revolutionary 3 million university collaborative US-Russian launch a pilot program
0font-weight: bold;; overflow: hidden representatives “> EURECA consortium at the ceremony to launch the program at the American Councils for International Education in Washington, DC ( from left to right): Dan E. Davidson, President, American Councils for International Education, the Honourable James E. Collins, Chairman, USRF; Gennadievitch Igor Protsenko, deputy director of International Integration, Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Mark G. Pomar, President, USRF, John C. Vaughn, executive vice president, Association of American Universities, Vadimovich Andrey Kortunov, president, New Eurasia Foundation, Bob Huber, President of the Council National Eurasian and East European Research
Washington, DC (BUSINESS WIRE) October 11, 2010
Today, a consortium of Russian – New Eurasia Foundation (FNE) and two American NGOs – American Council on Education International: ACTR / ACCEL and the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEE), the Sub Branch of the Russian-American Foundation (USRF), announced the launch of a multi-year initiative to strengthen university research and entrepreneurial capacity (EURECA) program. The program aims to strengthen the Russian National Research Universitiesâ? (NRU) ability to commercialize their research results and promotion of entrepreneurial activity on campus. The program is in Russia and the United States by the American Board FNE NCEE and managed.
“Over the past two years, Russia has taken several steps in the critical transition to a knowledge economy,” Dan E. Davidson, President of the Councils of America said. “Boot sets the standard in EURECA the US-Russian university partnerships, creating a new way of substantive cooperation in the scientific causes, economic and social front. “
To continue the process should be to focus education on the development of intellectual capital and transfer of innovations to the marketplace. Integrating work and academic research, and culture of entrepreneurship among faculty and students are the main objectives of these reforms, to be made to promote favorable conditions for university-based property marketing intellectual inquiry.
In 2009, Russian Federal Law 217-FZ of the Russian universities control over their intellectual property, enabling the creation of small businesses on campus. This action is part of the Law on U. S. Bayh-Dole Act, enacted in 1980. In addition, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (MOE) 29 national universities as research universities (NRU) was called, allocating 1.7 billion rubles (0.1 mm) by a college to a world class development time 2009-2014.
To support these reforms, which provides for the allocation USRF 0.5 m per year, with a possible increase of 5 m in funding for projects to be implemented jointly by the newly created academic partnerships US-Russian relations during the pilot phase of two years EURECA stage. The partners expect the project to begin in 2011. Two Russian universities, State University of Nizhny Novgorod Lobachevsky (NNSU) and St. Petersburg Institute of Information Technology, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO), were designated by a tendering procedure as centers EURECA. As such, they will be responsible for developing and disseminating best practices in technology transfer between Russiaâ? S NRU whole community. EURECA wants to use international experts for sustainable development, support US-Russian long-term academic cooperation. USRF NRUsâ provides that the Russian? intellectual property rights, the transition to the market until the end of 2012.
Representatives of five
NRU Russia, including NNSU, ITMO, National University of Science and Technology (Misis), National University of Nuclear Research (MEPhI) and Bauman Moscow State Technical University (BMSTU) U.S. universities and four research â? ? Purdue University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), University of Maryland and the University of Washington (UW), attended the opening ceremony on 8 October EURECA plenary in Washington, DC Among the guests were senior officials Russian Federation and United States educational system, government and academia, including Mark Pomar, President USRF, Vyacheslav V. Moshkalo, Counsellor of the Embassy of the Russian Federation, Igor G. Protsenko, deputy director of International Integration, Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Dan Mote, president emeritus of the University of Maryland, Jim Jaffe, President and CEO of the National Association of Fund Starting and risk (NASVF) are responsible for education and industry.
? We are excited about the opportunity to be part of the program EURECA. To date, cooperation between American universities and NNSU limited short-term professional visits by students and faculty. EURECA is the first program that offers long-term institutional framework for sustainable technology transfer and knowledge transfer between research universities in both countries, and is very dear to us, â? said Alexander O. Grudzinskiy, vice president international and innovations in education and dean of MBA NNSU.
The official opening ceremony
EURECA was part of a ten-day event with partner meetings held October 4-13. The program on October 4 in New Jersey, where the Russian participants attended a three-day start? Essentials of Technology Transfer? Of course, basic training of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM). Partners meeting two days in Washington, DC, October 7 and 8 was followed to Councilsâ U.S.? See. At this meeting representatives of universities in the United States and Russia were the preliminary development of strategic plans for the initial two-year pilot phase EURECA. Both drivers drove NRU hubs on the skills, knowledge and infrastructure necessary to concentrate the essential duties of the handle:
Realization of one? Auditsâ technique? to determine the commercial potential of research results;
Improving the management of university research;
Engage effectively bring innovation to business and government of the university;
The development of legal framework and legal instruments necessary to ensure the registration and patenting
University intellectual property, and
Obtain seed funding and venture capital to develop products for the market.
establish long term partnerships and sustainable development of modular projects were among the main topics of the agenda of the meetings DC. assessment analysis provided by a preliminary investigation, all universities and the needs of experts studied the universities EURECA critical areas of common interests and mutually beneficial cooperation on a variety of projects. Among the projects presented were: evaluating initiatives, faculty and student exchanges, business incubators and technology centers joint investment venture capital in start-ups to students, technology transfer and incubation professional certification programs, organizations for technology transfer. On October 11-13, delegates will visit the partner universities to pool their research facilities, offices of technology transfer and survey of incubators, and meet potential partners such as researchers, students and teachers.
? I see the future of technology transfer in Russia as very promising. Highly qualified and inherently innovative results showed great spirit in the Russian innovative technologies. However, the culture of adopting a friendly approach, with the plethora of existing intellectual property are slow to take root. EURECA we see as a tool that would make our university (Misis) and help implement management systems for research and cooperation structures in the gap between the almost unlimited possibilities of intellectual property research universities Russian and options are currently limited, this bridge market potential? ? said Sergey V. Salikhov, research director at the National University of Science and Technology (Misis).
After his return to Russia supported partnerships between universities in the US-Russian meetings of video-conferencing and where they continue to refine their draft strategic partnerships and modular projects to undertake. These modular projects form the basis of the pilot phase of two years of cooperation and as a result of long-term partnership between the U.S. and Russian research universities.
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Companies with innovative solutions to benefit Staffordshire University
0(UK PRWeb) October 8, 2010 to find out
An event for companies the benefits of innovation and collaboration with the Faculty of Computer Science, Engineering and Technology (FCET ) held at the University of Staffordshire.
InnovateFest fall 2010, Wednesday, October 20 is running the company the opportunity to socialize and see what the university can offer them.
you could see first hand how the knowledge and experience at the University of â? A and the close relationships with key funding agencies? Your company can benefit in todayâ? s market.
presentations and exhibitions
by external partner organizations throughout the event.
These include: the Technology Strategy Board, Manufacturing Advisory Service West Midlands Enterprise Europe Network and the Regional Knowledge Transfer Partnership advisers.
Professor Adrian Low, Director of Resources Faculty Research and Enterprise for FCET said:?. A The Department of Computer Science, Engineering and Technology at Staffordshire University for Economics and Technology together known
? Each year, the faculty supports local businesses, regional and national efficiency, increase productivity, ensure strong support project and receive the technical expertise necessary to improve ideas to life.
? The university has much to offer for the economy, both locally and nationally, that our current and past partnerships have been established. Events such as InnovateFest are a great way to forge new partnerships with many community groups in the p> company ????
InnovateFest provides information on partnerships to transfer knowledge (PTK), research and development, business processes and manufacturing, worker training, access to financial and fiscal incentives.
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recent success involved Grenville Engineering (Stoke-on-Trent) Ltd. The collaboration led to the development of a management information system (MIS), an increase in sales of £ 1,500,000 and £ 400,000 savings of staff time.
Mark Barratt, managing director of Grenville Engineering, said:? The transformed A KTP with Staffordshire University, our business processes from paper to electronic manual and automated, resulting in increased efficiency, better visibility and improved customer led> services.â ????
Tony Bowers, Science Advisor to FCET, added: “The project, engineering Grenville has been very successful and shows that the COA process can produce positive results for the company, its employees and the institution . â?
InnovateFest autumn 2010 by the Rector of the University of Staffordshire to view Professor Christine King. The research organization, recently renovated, the Thin Film Lab, Digital Forensics Lab in the afternoon will be open.
The event will be from 2:00 p.m.-7 30 pm Oct. 20 at the Palais des Octagon Side Beacon, Staffordshire University
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To register for the free event participants a registration form online, which www.staffs.ac.uk / fcetinnovatefest, where more details on the event can be found completely.
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Members of the press are invited to participate InovateFest autumn 2010. Please contact the press department of the University of Staffordshire on 01785 353401 or confirm press@staffs.ac.uk for details and participation.
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (PTK) from government funded collaborations are designed to help companies improve access to knowledge, expertise and scientific resources within the University of Staffordshire. For more information, visit http://www.staffs.ac.uk/business_solutions/knowledge_transfer/ktp/.
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Grantham University Awards Scholarships to Mia Baker of Glenn Dale, MD and Rashad Hamilton of Charlotte, NC
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Kansas City, MO (PRWEB) October 4, 2010
Grantham University, an online university specializing in educating working adults, announced today that it has awarded a scholarship to Mia Baker of Glenn Dale, Maryland, a member of Blacks In Government and a scholarship to Rashad Hamilton of Charlotte, North Carolina. Grantham University provides Blacks In Government Region XI with an annual scholarship to award to one of its members or an immediate family member. Because there were two equally deserving candidates this year, the scholarship was divided between them. The scholarship covers tuition costs, required textbooks, software, and fees.
Ms. Baker, who works for the Library of Congress, plans to complete a bachelorâs degree in Multidisciplinary Studies at Grantham University. âI was already on the path to completing my Bachelor of Arts degree, but desperately needed funding, so I applied for the scholarship,â said Ms. Baker.
When she is not busy studying and working, Ms. Baker volunteers her time and raises money for a variety of community organizations including Susan G. Komen and the Make a Wish Foundation. Ms. Baker has also served as the Second Vice President of the Library of Congress chapter in Blacks In Government and was instrumental in increasing her chapterâs membership by 50 percent.
Rashad Hamilton plans to pursue a masterâs degree in Information Technology at Grantham University. He currently works as an insurance agent; however, his ultimate goal is to open a homeless shelter in the Charlotte area and offer counseling, life skill classes and money management training, so they can have a second chance at life. Mr. Hamilton plans to use his education to make his dream a reality.
“We are very excited to have Mia and Rashad continue their studies at Grantham University,â said Dr. Cynthia Hoss, president of Grantham University. âLike so many of our working adult students, they both have a great deal of experience and are looking to build on that experience with a college degree.â
Granthamâs flexible accredited online degree programs allow students to access their coursework when and where itâs convenient for them, so they can fit education into their lives instead of arranging their lives around education. In a recent Student Satisfaction Survey, nearly nine out of ten students stated that they would enroll at Grantham again. To learn more, visit: www.grantham.edu.
About Blacks In Government
BIG is a non-profit 501(c) 3 bi-partisan organization comprised of Federal, State, and Local employees, and is committed to achieving excellence in Government through equal employment opportunity. For more information about BIGâs Region XI and the Grantham University Scholarship Program, visit: http://www.bigrxi.org/.
About Grantham University:
Established in 1951, Grantham University is a private institution that specializes in online education for the working adult student. Its mission is to provide accessible, affordable, professionally relevant degree programs in a continuously changing global society. The University prepares graduates for careers in business, engineering technology, computer science, criminal justice, healthcare, nursing, information technology and other professional fields. Grantham University offers a military scholarship program for active duty, reserve, guard, veterans and military family members, as well as scholarships for law enforcement professionals. Grantham’s courses are 100% online, allowing students to study at home, at work, on Temporary Duty (TDY) or from almost anywhere in the world. Accredited since 1961 by the Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council, Grantham University has compiled a distinguished record as a respected and accredited distance learning university spanning six decades of service to education. For more information, visit www.grantham.edu or call 1-800-955-2527.
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Add university financial education for undergraduate degree programs, improve student success and retention
0Baton Rouge, Louisiana (openPR) 1 October 2010
Vicki Jobst, Business Benedictine University instructor used good money habits for students, a financial education program online. Jobst told the students in her class were receptive to financial education, and she loves the program. â? It is entered for all students should know now, and even if they leave school, â? Jobst said.
to offer good money habits students online courses in reducing debt, setting financial goals, budgeting, managing credit cards, student loans understanding and planning life beyond college. The program was created by the EDSA Group, a national leader in the financial field. He teaches financial management skills to lead through exercises in a row. The program can be used as a self-study or integrated into the curriculum. It can be offered as a course or accommodation in a pass / fail format. Lesson plans and a final examination for instructors.
Louisiana State University Professor Frances Lawrence said money habits for students is readily adaptable for teachers. â? Develop an online course is extremely boring. This program is already developed and ready to go, â? Lawrence said. â? Overall, the feedback was very positive. Students enjoy the flexibility of an online, interactive exercises and received good grades, â? She said.
For further information on the habits of a lot of money for students, please contact the point EDSA Group, the developer of the program, at (888) 760-3372 or by email at info (at) theedsagroup () com.
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Group Edsa and habits of a lot of money for students:
EDSA Group, headquartered in Louisiana, is a national leader in financial education. The EDSA Group offers live workshops, one-on-one meetings, education and online education, including good spending habits for students to teach a financial education program online financial education to students universities.
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The ICMA Centre 2nd place for the employability of Good Times University Guide
0Whiteknights, Berkshire (openPR) 3 October 2010
The ICMA Centre was 2 for employability by Good Times University Guide 2011 ranks *. This ranking shows the emphasis of the Centre premises, the graduates with skills and knowledge of the real value of the financial markets institutions.
Dr. Adrian Bell, Director of the School of Teaching and Learning, said: “We are excited about our position in this ranking reflects excitement of the Centre has good access to financial institutions in the city, our practical application of the theory used by financial. our major trading area and our dedicated service career. “
ICMA Centre Career Development Unit is dedicated to students and graduates. Add the unit, composed of experts not only tips, resume writing, are to produce efficient applications and help students organize internships, but also networking events with alumni and financial institutions.
Martyn Drage Career Development Center Manager, said: “We have long recognized the importance of professional development and have a built-in support for career management specialist in the first degree with the management module Career Skills and additional lectures and workshops by professionals and recruiters out. The service we offer real added value for students and it’s great to see that this is reflected in the classification for the center. “
ICMA Centre BSC Old Gurjit Kaur, said: “I do not think that I almost learned so much about the process of recruitment, investment bank or even to me and my ability, different career paths, if it hadn ‘t for seminars career management skills, Committee meetings careers and career paths of individual consultations have been. “
The ICMA Centre
covered well in the last national survey of students scoring overall satisfaction of 96%.
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* Accounting and Finance subject classification
About ICMA Centre:
The ICMA Centre at Henley Business School, University of Reading is unique and has an international reputation for Finance Bachelor’s degree (http://www.icmacentre.ac.uk/), Finance postgraduate courses (http:// www. icmacentre.ac.uk /), training for the financial markets and courses in Islamic Finance (http://www.icmacentre.ac.uk/study_and_research/msc_investment_banking_and_islamic_finance).
founded in 1991 with funding from the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) in Zurich, the bodies of the prior art are among the best in Europe provided. On his own award-winning construction of the center is the largest simulation in Europe and dealing with the outstanding teaching and research space.
more information about this press release or the ICMA Centre, please contact:
Lucy Hogg
Marketing Manager
ICMA Centre
Henley Business School
White Knights
RG6 6BA
+44 (0118) 378 6496
www.icmacentre.ac.uk
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Christian University of Oregon hosted a conference of national history
0About 200 researchers from around the country for George Fox University is the biennial meeting of the Conference on Faith and History stay October. 7-9. The conference will be preceded by an undergraduate student conference October 6 to 7.
The event brings together a community of researchers exploring the relationship between Christian faith and history. It consists of members from various Christian traditions around the world and researchers from countries outside the Christian tradition. Ultimately, the Conference? The goal is to â? Encourage excellence in the theory and practice of history from the perspective of historic Christianity, â? depending on the conference website.
than 150 lectures will be presented at the conference, whose theme? The search for peace, justice and Equality.â? Check-in will begin at 17.00 clock Thursday, October 7, in the lobby of the universityâ? S Hoover Academic Building.
plenary, entitled â? Is there a â? Latin American Christianity? â? Negotiating religious identity and space in the 19th and 20 Century â? followed by 19 clock in Hoover 105th
Several sessions are held throughout the weekend and discussions on faith, the faith-based perspective, Christianity in early America and sexuality and gender, among many others. The chairmen of the different sessions represented universities such as Georgetown, Baylor and Wheaton College.
The conference will end with a plenary address by Professor Elizabeth Todd George Fox at noon, Saturday, 9 October, in Hoover 105th
register or learn more about the conference, visit georgefox.edu, and look for the Conference on Faith and History.
undergraduate student conference will be a presentation by Allie Duncan, a junior history major from George Fox. To register for the conference of students, please contact Caitlin Corning 503-554-2673. The students are not charged to visit, but there are the costs of meals and school expenses for a banquet of the faculty.
Conference on Faith and History is a subsidiary of the American Historical Association.
George Fox University is ranked by Forbes
as a top Christian college in the Pacific Northwest and the first three Christian colleges in the country. George Fox is the only Christian university in the northwestern United States ranked by News & World Report as a first tier National University. More than 3,400 students attend classes on the universityâ? S campus in Newberg, Oregon, and training centers in Portland, Salem, and Redmond, Oregon, and Boise, Idaho. George Fox offers bachelor? S degree in 40 majors, programs for graduation for adults, five seminary degrees and 11 master’s thesis? S’s and doctoral degrees.
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Caitlin Corning
Professor of History
503-554-2673
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Bellarmine Art Museum opens to the public at Fairfield University on 25 October
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Fairfield, CT (Vocus) 1 October 2010
With the long-awaited opening of the Public Art Museum for 25 Bellarmine Begin in October, introduced Fairfield University, a permanent sanctuary for his collection of art of cultivation and future exhibitions. Opening times are Monday to Friday from 10.00 to 03.00 clock, during term time.
The museum, built at a cost of 0.2 million, is a dynamic new center of learning for all members, including students of all ages and stages, arts professionals and members of the public. The Bellarmine also maintains links to great Community College Museum, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Museum Cloisters Museum and the Acropolis in Athens. Loans and grants that they and others, the institutions of the museum’s permanent exhibition reinforced base and facilitated a remarkable breadth of view of a museum the size of Bellarmine. It is expected to become of this architectural gem, which includes three galleries and a corridor accessories as a cultural destination and an invaluable resource for art lovers, residents and visitors to the region.
celebrate the month of October begins a whirlwind of receptions and events on the campus of the museum? s opening. It will be a special private reception Thursday, 14 October, invited to the members of the artistic community, the press and special friends of the university were. Monday 25 October 10 clock, Museum of Art Bellarmine opens its doors to the public.
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Deupi, JD, Ph.D., assistant professor of art history at Fairfield? s Department of Visual and Performing Arts and Director of the Museum of Art Bellarmine has expansive plans for the Museum Education. â? There is no doubt that the museum significantly improve Bellarmine art history and all it has to offer. With works of art in a central location that has an intelligent classroom on the site are multi-media, hands-on learning is level.â in a new result?
Deupi currently working on systems, guided tours, public relations and K-12 arts education, which include a wide range of activities covers. His colleague in this effort is New Canaan resident and professor at the Yale Center for British Art Kathleen Leitao, whose son Daniel is a junior at Fairfield. Among the projects the theme is based on one Saturday per month for the family to the art.
Jim Childress, FAIA, and Stephen Holmes, AIA of Centerbrook Architects and Planners of Centerbrook Connecticut has transformed a warehouse space in a commercial space stylish and functional. Childress said the thick concrete walls in the basement catacombs of house type at home gives a sense of mystery. â? As you enter through the back door basement door of the lobby, you find a place of refuge from the world, â? He said. â? The form we have designed the gallery was inspired by a plan almost complete cross, which we discovered in p> ???? the Main Gallery, The Frank and Clara Meditz gallery to honor the parents of the main financial contributors to the project of the University trustee John Meditz a named? 70, an early Christian basilica plan and present calls in the ten paintings of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque â? Works, which were donated to the University of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation through Bridgeport? s Discovery Museum.
in a small side street gallery highlights the University’s collection of plaster casts of the exemplary work of ancient Rome and Greece, including eight recently donated to the University Museum of Acropolis in Athens, is displayed. The corridor adjacent to the gallery presents Meditz plaster casts of important parts of the Parthenon (Athens as well). The gifts d’Athènes
??? Casts from the New Acropolis Museum, photographs by Socratis Mavrommatisâ? Exhibition will be on 2 Open November and runs until 17 December.
more historic plaster casts, houses the museum a number of objects of non-Western art (including ships pre-Columbian 19th century sculptures from Southeast Asian and African masks), and the chance to keep objects from the late antiquity, Celtic, Latin Middle Ages and the time on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Museum Cloisters.
Leitao, who is donating his time and know-how in the planning of museum education, took the opportunity at Bellarmine Museum with the schools work? they help make our collection as part of the curriculum, especially the casts of ancient Greek sculptures.â? She said: â There are a lot of interest in education is now a museum about the possibilities of art in the classroom to bring goals supported the program, rather than primarily a museum field trip p. â ???????? >
Deupi Leitao and work together to find ways to establish connections between the museum and find out how Leitao said â? the Universityâ? s students and for local schools and community? ? The intrigue and is a physical space? Also interested in how the intimate nature of this museum and its collection will be students and community members to read more about several pieces of the collection visits in a way that they would not usually the type of experience in a large museum.â??
Bellarmine
Museum of Art has been and will be a real joint project. First, the vision came from the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences, the buy-in from administrators who understand their fit in the Jesuit universityâ? Mission and strategic plan and began to provide funding. In addition, Meditz, other donors for this project, Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the Charles and Mabel P. Jost Foundation. Fundraising for the project and personnel costs of the museum is not yet complete. The National Endowment for the Humanities has also provided generous support through 0000 to provide financial guarantee of twelve fifty-six challenge to increase the university million by 2013 to receive the NEH challenge. Individuals and representatives of companies and foundations in cooperation with the University of the museum support Interested candidates are invited Geri Derbyshire, head of the great gifts at
contact gderbyshire@fairfield.edu.
Caption: The Art Museum Bellarmine, Fairfield University
Photo: John Santopatre / Fairfield University
Caption: Paolo de Matteis (Italian, 1662-1728) â Andromeda and Perseus, â ???????? c. 1710 Bellarmine Museum of Art at Fairfield University, Samuel H. Kress Collection of the Discovery Museum (Bridgeport, Connecticut)
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Fairfield University offers its students and regional community a wide range of opportunities to enjoy the arts and to enrich their lives through study, performance, recognition, and thinking. The annual ticket for Arts & Minds event in Fairfield has a large number of cultural and intellectual events that Regina A. include Quick Center for the Arts season of the popular lecture series Open VISIONS Forum, shows professionals and students, art exhibitions, lectures and a variety of other learning opportunities. For information, contact other www.fairfield.edu / art.
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