Sholarships for study abroad information meeting

David L. Boren Scholarship

Undergraduate Scholarships for Study Abroad

Information Session

Thursday, March 25, 2010

12:30 p.m. - Hood House 203

The David L. Boren 2009-10 scholarship competition provides opportunities for exceptional U.S. students planning study abroad (summer 2011, fall 2011, spring 2012) to become more knowledgeable about the cultures and proficient in the languages of world regions critical to U.S. security interests, including Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East.

The Boren Scholarship is designed to provide U.S. students with the resources and encouragement they need to acquire skills and experiences in areas of the world critical to the future security of our nation, in exchange for a commitment to seek work in the federal government (Department of State, Homeland Security, Department of Defense or the Intelligence Community).

The UNH campus deadline for the completed application is December 15, 2010. In addition to attending an information session, interested students should attend visit http://www.borenawards.org/ to learn more about the program. Campus interviews will be held in late January or early February 2011 in preparation for the February 10, 2011 national deadline.

NSEP Campus Advisor: Sheila McCurdy, Hood House 224

Interesting events to attend

Just relaying this announcement from the department of anthropology:

Dear Colleagues: I would like to ask you to encourage your students to come to two events taking place this week. Both of these events are significant as they are meant to inform the students about contemporary lives of Muslims in different parts of the world; political and social activism by Muslim women and men; and struggle with contemporary critical issues, indeed global in their scope, such as economic depression and political oppression and violence.

The first event is a documentary “Inside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think” truly lives up to its title. It is a 50 min. intense and interesting film based on in-depth research carried out by the Gallup Poll. The documentary will be screened on Tuesday, March 23d at 12:40 pm (MUB 332). This event is envisioned as an opening part of the 2010 Holden Lecture, which will be given by a famous scholar of gender, politics and Islam, Dr. Margot Badran.

Dr. Badran’s lecture “Islamic Feminism Today,” is 2010 Holden Lecture sponsored by John T. Holden Memorial Fund in the COLA, the Department of Anthropology and Center for the Humanities. It will take place on Thursday, March 25th at 12:40 pm (MUB 334/336).

Please, join us at these events.

Svetlana Peshkova, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of New Hampshire

Exam after vacation

اهلا اعزائي الطلاب ان شاء الله عطلتكم سعيدة

For your exam on March 26, keep the following in mind. Think of it as a cumulative test that covers all vocabulary and grammatical concepts which you have learned thus far. For Arabic 402, it should be one paragraph, or up to a page if double spaced. For Arabic 504, it should be two paragraphs, or up to two pages if double spaced. You will be required to read it in class, and you will be judged on your ability and ease of reading. Feel free to write to me or Faris if you have any questions.

حظ سعيد

For Tuesday, March 9

اهلا طلابي الاعزاء

لدرسنا في يوم الثلاثاء

Arabic 402 quiz:

Don't forget to practice conjugation with verbs from your vocabulary list and ones on page 59, in addition to memorizing going back and forth between Arabic and English for your vocabulary.

Arabic 504:

In addition to your homework, and instead of عنوان المقال, please read the short articles from exercises 14 and 15 for comprehension and summary.

The quiz is on

Dear Students,

It looks like, that despite the power outages, the school remains open. And so it follows, that we must have our quiz tomorrow, March 2.

Arabic 402:

Come having studied your plurals, your possessive pronouns and the vocabulary on page 46, exercise 12.

Arabic 504:

Please complete and bring to class Exercises 3&4 as your take-home quiz.