Campus Notes
Arts, Culture and Literature Major theater production lau’s major spring theater production, “Kafka, His Father, the boss, the Wolf, and the Pigs,” was presented may 8–9 and 13–16 at lau beirut’s irwin Hall theater. Dr. lina abyad, the play’s director and an lau assistant professor of theater, and Rachid al Daif translated Franz Kafka’s texts into arabic for the purposes of the play. the theater production was organized by lau’s Department of Communication arts.
Library Open House During the second annual library Open House on may 4, the lau libraries in beirut and byblos organized daylong activities to promote their services and resources through video games. top video game companies gave presentations, and at stands set up on both campuses, library staff distributed informational materials, handed out freebies, and organized games and other activities.
Lecture on preservation of ancient churches in Lebanon Dr. Ray Jabre mouawad, lau assistant professor of history, talked about her work on the study and restoration of medieval frescoes in lebanese churches, during a brownbag lecture on march 15 at lau beirut. She showed the audience before-and-after photos of frescoes that have been restored by the association pour la Restauration et l’etude des Fresques médiévales du liban (aReFml), which she heads.
Health-Care Education Nursing Day at LAU lau’s alice Ramez Chagoury School of nursing, which will open in fall 2010, invited high school students to learn about its b.S. in nursing program during the “nursing Day” events held on the byblos and beirut campuses on march 10 and 17, respectively. approximately 250 students from more than 15 lebanese high schools learned about the benefits of studying nursing at lau from the school’s founding dean, Dr. nancy Hoffart, and its faculty, as well as nurses from lau’s university medical Center – Rizk Hospital.
Challenges facing medical schools On march 17, lau’s School of medicine hosted 10 regional medical school deans and u.S. experts at lau byblos, in a discussion of the challenges and opportunities related to the development of medical programs in lebanon and the middle east. experts from the united States and the middle east gave presentations, followed by a panel discussion.
Medical school community visit twenty-five lau medical students, along with faculty members and staff, visited community health centers in byblos, march 18. the event was organized by medical faculty member Dr. mona Haidar as part of the school’s social medicine curriculum — which emphasizes that social, economic and political forces influence the occurrence and course of most diseases.
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