Weekly Bulletin

Flags lowered for Peace Officers Memorial Day

In accordance with President Barack Obama’s proclamation, Gov. Deval L. Patrick has ordered that the United States and Commonwealth flags be lowered to half-staff at all state buildings from sunrise until sunset on Wednesday, May 15 in honor of Peace Officers Memorial Day and Police Week.

Activist Laura X speaks on combating marital and date rape

Human rights activist Laura X will discuss her work combating marital and date rape in the United States and internationally on Thursday, May 16 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Center for Women & Community (CWC) in the second floor reading room in New Africa House.
 
Laura X will also present her groundbreaking interview on “60 Minutes” and join a panel of local experts from the CWC and Safe Passage to discuss contemporary strategies to end “rape culture” and sexual violence, including addressing human trafficking and the international sex trade in girls and women.

Applications open for Jazz in July summer workshops

The Fine Arts Center is now accepting applications for the 32nd annual Jazz in July Summer Music Programs, to be held July 8-19.
 
Jazz in July is a summer intensive workshop examining the technique, history and culture of jazz. Every summer for the last 30 years, the all-stars of jazz have come together to school the next generation of up-and-coming jazz musicians.
 
Students work with cutting-edge artists to hone their musical and performance skills through one-on-one sessions, lectures, group clinics, jazz theory and improvisation training, ensemble coaching, style explorations, jam

Summer hours at dining commons

Worcester and Berkshire dining commons will be daily open this summer as follows:

Worcester, May 20 to July 27, 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Berkshire, June 23 to July 3 and July 12 to Sept. 1, 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. (Berkshire will be closed July 4-11).

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ICB3 offers ‘Big Data’ course for life sciences industry and academic researchers

Registration is open for the one-day, short course, “Data Sciences for the Life Sciences in a High-Performance Computing Environment,” sponsored by the Institute for Computational Biology, Biostatistics, and Bioinformatics (ICB3) to be held  Aug. 27 at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center in Holyoke.
 
The course at the new state-of-the-art facility dedicated to research-oriented computing will offer a foundational curriculum in life sciences research using R, an increasingly important open source statistical programming language.

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