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Finally, the Foundation's grants process distributes more than $13.000 each semester to student groups for projects that advance the Foundation's mission of fostering cross-cultural understanding and improved interracial relations. Grant allocations are decided by the Foundation's Student Advisory Committee, which is comprised of a student leader from each campus ethnic or cultural group...
Funded primarily by the Barker Foundation, along with a grant by the Intel Corporation, the Technology Showcase provides access to cutting edge multimedia equipment free of charge. This gives students who otherwise would not be able to purchase or use such expensive machinery the opportunity to work on involved, long-term audio and video multimedia projects--or to simply create a web page, said the Director of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Computer Services (FASCS), Franklin M. Steen...
When he died in 1885 at age 83, Victor Hugo was beyond question the most famous man of letters in France, and perhaps the world--his only rival being Charles Dickens. The English put up plaques to show where their literary celebrities lived or were born, and sometimes grant them burial in Westminster Abbey. Hugo, however, is the only writer to have a stone mark his place of conception. His parents' epochal embrace took place in a forest 3,000 ft. up on the flank of Mount Donon, overlooking the Rhineland, in May 1801, though it's typical of Hugo...
...Richmond as a base to visit the last two tour stops: the Petersburg National Battlefield, where months of fighting led to the fall of Richmond, and Appomattox Court House, where Lee ultimately surrendered to Grant. Both are easy and worthwhile day trips from town--and a fitting way to end your tour...
Sure they teach the civil war in school. But to bring one of the most important events in American history to life, there's nothing quite like standing on the same ground that General Ulysses S. Grant stood on more than a century ago or walking across the fields where tens of thousands of soldiers died...