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Posted by Sean Flynt on 2015-04-14

Samford University’s Geography Department, Office of Environmental Stewardship & Campus Enhancement, and various campus organizations will offer a week of public events focused on environmental themes from academic, social and spiritual perspectives April 20-24. The events are part of the university’s annual Earth Day celebrations.

 

Film: Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
April 20, 3:30 p.m., Brock Forum, Dwight Beeson Hall
The Geography Department sponsors the documentary about Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai, whose simple act of planting trees grew into a nationwide movement to safeguard the environment, protect human rights, and defend democracy. [convo credit]

Film: Behind the Label, India's Genetically Modified Cotton
April 20, 5:30 p.m., Brock Forum, Dwight Beeson Hall
The Critical Languages Program sponsors this journey through India in search of the hidden world that lies between the folds of cotton – the most used textile fiber in the world.

Earth Day Fair and Solar Walk on the Quad
April 21, 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Ben Brown Plaza
Student and academic groups will display their expertise on a variety of environmental and educational issues. Outside vendors will be at the fair to market their own products and services. Technical Knock Out will be on-site to recycle anything that plugs in (fees associated with monitor and hard drive destruction).

Public meeting of Birmingham Astronomical Society
April 21, 7 p.m., Christenberry Planetarium

Alabama Spring Skies Show (telescope viewing immediately following).
April 21, 8 p.m., Christenberry Planetarium

Film: Nénette
April 22, 5 p.m., Brock Forum, Dwight Beeson Hall
The French Club sponsors this touching film about the life of a captive orangutan.

Convocation: Creation Calls, led by Peter Illyn, founder of Restoring Eden
April 23, 10 a.m., Reid Chapel

Goddess, Gearbox or the Garden: Lecture and Q&A with Peter Illyn, founder of Restoring Eden [convo credit]
April 23, 3:30 p.m., Brooks Auditorium, Brooks Hall

Film: The Host
April 23, 7 p.m., Christenberry Planetarium
The Film Club and Geography Department sponsor this viewing of Bong Joon Ho’s science-fiction horror tale of an environmental incident and a monstrous creature conceived in the waters of Seoul’s Han River.

 
Located in the Homewood suburb of Birmingham, Alabama, Samford is a leading Christian university offering undergraduate programs grounded in the liberal arts with an array of nationally recognized graduate and professional schools. Founded in 1841, Samford is the 87th-oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Samford enrolls 6,324 students from 44 states, Puerto Rico and 16 countries in its 10 academic schools: arts, arts and sciences, business, divinity, education, health professions, law, nursing, pharmacy and public health. Samford is widely recognized as having one of the most beautiful campuses in America, featuring rolling hills, meticulously maintained grounds and Georgian-Colonial architecture. Samford fields 17 athletic teams that compete in the tradition-rich Southern Conference and ranks with the second-highest score in the nation for its 98% Graduation Success Rate among all NCAA Division I schools.