The Colorado Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Symposium to be held on March 19 & 20, 2013, will draw together students, faculty and researchers; Coloradan non-profits; and internationally prominent development practitioners engaged in the WASH agenda. The two day event provides a platform for enlightening, encouraging and challenging discussions about global WASH issues and solutions. To be held in the DLC in the engineering complex, the event is free but registration is required: https://sites.google.com/site/coloradowashsymposium/

Is your quinoa habit harming someone? While we’re busy congratulating ourselves for making “healthy choices,” do we ever wonder about the heavy social, economic, and environmental toll on the places from which our new favorite foods are exported? Just what did it take for our trendy snacks to materialize in our supermarkets? Meet Thursday, Mar. 21, noon-1, in the Women’s Resource Center (UMC-416). Hors d’oeuvres will be served.

Course explores the recent rise of neo-Nazism, white separatism, Islamophobia, & anti-immigrant sentiment in the Nordic countries. Recognizing that radical nationalism is an aesthetic, social & intellectual movement in addition to being a political cause, our survey in this course will be multidisciplinary. We will consult scholarship from sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, philosophy, criminology & political science, as well as music, literature & film. Arts and sciences core requirement: ideals and values.

SWED 1110-001. Beginning Swedish 1 DILS. Course provides practical, communicative language skills for use in a variety of situations. Examines basic language structure and grammatical forms. Introduces students to Swedish history and contemporary culture and society. This course uses the Directed Independent Language Study (or DILS) model, where students study independently and meet regularly with a native speaker and language coach to do exercises, learn new material, and take exams. Course meets 1-1:50 MWF, 4 credit hours.

Come learn Hebrew, one of the official languages of the modern State of Israel, and the language of the Bible. Fall Course Offerings: HEBR 1010-001, Beginning Hebrew 1, 10 - 11:15 MWF HEBR 1010-002, Beginning Hebrew 1, 1 – 2:15 MWF HEBR 2110, Intermediate Hebrew 1, 11:30 - 12:45 MWF HEBR 3010, Third Year Hebrew 1, 12:30 - 1:45 TR

Join us Wednesday, March 20 at 12:00 p.m. in Guggenheim 201E to hear a first hand account of relief work in the wake of the 3.11 triple disaster in North Eastern Japan. What were the immediate challenges faced by victims and relief workers? How does a country with highly developed technology and top notch disaster preparedness deal with a natural disaster that exceeds all expectations and breaks all simulated models? A brown bag event featuring Jim Peterson, missionary in Japan with the Evangelical Covenant Church for the last twenty years.

Join us Friday, March 15 at 11:30 a.m. in Ketchum Hall 116 for a lecture by Professor Thomas F. Remington of Emory University. Remington’s research focuses on whether what business elites and average citizens wanted with respect to their welfare services was being heard by the government.

STAND presents Holocaust Remembrance Week (April 1-5) Join us! Reflect with us as we commemorate those impacted by the events of the Holocaust and the legacy that it left. Learn how you can get involved in making the "never again" promise a reality. April 1: Flag set up (Norlin Quad @ 3pm) April 2: Karen Z. Brass - Second generation Holocaust survivor (UMC 235 @ 3pm) April 3: Dance for genocide awareness (UMC 235 @7pm-11pm) April 4: Candle lighting ceremony (UMC fountain @7pm) April 5: Movie - The Diary of Anne Frank (HUMN 150 @7pm)

The Applied Exercise Science Lab is seeking sedentary male subjects aged 18-55 to study passive cycling (involves a stationary bicycle with a rotating motor - the bicycle pedals for you). The experiment will consist of four separate sessions each lasting 4 hrs. Benefits of participating include: body composition (% body fat), fitness assessment, bone density, glucose tolerance assessment and determination of caloric expenditure. You will be paid $160 for study completion. Interested? Email: James.Peterman@colorado.edu.