Campus and community briefs
ISC banquet to be held Saturday
The International Student Council, a representative body of international students on campus, is hosting its annual international banquet at the Taggart Student Center Ballroom on Saturday at 7 p.m.
Expect tantalizing cuisine from around the world, served with warmth and vitality. The spread will be prepared by students from 10 countries. A colorful cultural presentation will add to the excitement at what organizers promise will be “the biggest multicultural show this year.”
Tickets are priced at $14 and are available at the Ticket Office. For further information, visit www.usu.edu/iss/forms/ib.jpg.
EIRI conference to be held Tuesday
In preparation for National Child Abuse Prevention Month, the 10th Annual Conference of the Early Intervention Research Institute, co-sponsored by the Center for Persons with Disabilities and the College of Education, will be held Tuesday at the Haight Alumni Center, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
David Chadwick from the Center for Child and Family Services in San Diego will speak on the health harms and the health helps for child abuse.
From 12:15 to 1:30 p.m., an afternoon poster session will be held.
The posters will cover a wide range of early intervention research and demonstration projects within Utah State University and Cache Valley Service Agencies will provide information on child abuse prevention and family crisis/intervention services available to abuse victims in Cache Valley.
There is no charge for attending the conference. To RSVP for the conference, or for more information, contact Mary Ellen at 797-0088.
Scholarship fund hosts concert
On Friday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Pier 49 Pizza will be presenting Long Night’s Journey in a concert to benefit the Rosa Hernandez Scholarship fund.
The scholarship fund was established to honor the memory of Rosa Hernandez, a 14-year-old student at the North Cache Freshman Center who was killed in an auto-pedestrian accident the last week of May 1988.
The scholarship is offered annually to an outstanding local Latina student and depends solely on contributions for its existence.
Long Night’s Journey is an eclectic jazz duo featuring vocalist Christine Christensen and guitarist Todd Milovich. Pier 49 Pizza will donate all profits from the evening to the Rosa Hernandez Scholarship.
Friends and family are welcome to gather at Pier 49 to eat some great pizza, listen to some smooth jazz and blues music and help provide a great future for a deserving young Latina student.
USU hosts fourth landscape conf.
Utah State University will host its fourth annual Sustainable Landscapes Conference, “Uncommon Ground: Collaboration and the Nature of Design” on March 26 and 27.
The symposium, organized by student volunteers, attempts to integrate sustainable principles into our curricula and communities.
Keynote speaker David Orr, author of “The Nature of Design,” “Earth in Mind,” and “Ecological Literacy,” and co-author of “The Global Predicament,” and “The Campus and Environmental Responsibility,” will speak Wednesday, March 26 at 7 p.m.
On March 27, keynote speakers Carolyn Adams, Kristina Hill, Miranda Maupin and Hitesh Mehta will bring expertise in the area of green technologies and smart architecture, and urban planning and design. Concurrent sessions will focus on community involvement, collaboration and Latter-day Saint views on the environment.