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News

• All you need to know about Oil in Houston
• Third Ward’s history embodied in school building on Elgin Street
• CLASS well represented in Honors College’s “The Great Conversation”
• Catching Up with Edward Albee
• Newsroom Becomes Classroom for Journalism Students
• Study seeks to learn how immune and central nervous systems work together

Events

• March 2: Creative Writing prof kicks off book tour with Brazos Bookstore reading and signing
• March 2: Screening of the documentary Haynesville: A Nation’s Hunt for an Energy Future
• March 3: Table Talk 2011 chairs are experts in the field of economics, law
• March 3 - 6: Cowboy Comedy Wild Oats satirizes the Old West
• March 4: The Homeless and the Hobolicious: Rhetoric, Public, and Images of "Homeles Chic"
• March 4: Gulf Coast Magazine Reading Series
• March 7: Inprint Reading Series: Chitra Divakaruni and Gish Jen
• March 7 – 11: Send One Suit Week benefitting Dress for Success
• March 10: Anticipatory Governance, Queer Difference and the Emirati Post-Oil Generation by Dr. Noor Al-Qasimi, King’s College, University of London
• March 14 – 19: Spring Break
• March 22: The Cuzco School of Photography lecture by  Dr. Silvia Spitta, Dartmouth University.
• March 23: Contemporary Salon with Johan Grimonpre
• March 24: Pride Scholarship Essay Contest deadline
• March 25: Deadline to apply for 2011-2012 CLASS Scholarships
• March 28: Houston gets preview of art historian's book on abstract expressionist Lee Krasner
• March 29: Judaism and Mexican Heritage In Conversation

In the News

• Domingo not done with 'Il Postino,' but Texans have composer's OK to jump in
  Moores School of Music and Voice Professor Joseph Evans mentioned
• New NAACP Seeing More Gay, Diverse Chapter Leaders
  Tatcho Mindiola, director of the Center for Mexican American Studies, quoted
• UH exhibit focuses on Third Ward history, people
  Center for Public History research professor Carroll Parrott Blue and art professor Cheryl Beckett quoted
• Houston area's job growth beats earlier estimates
  Barton Smith, professor emeritus of economics, quoted
• An optimistic outlook on history may yet prevail
  Op-ed article by History professor Robert Zaretsky
• City may consider job performance when laying off workers
  Barton Smith, professor emeritus of economics, quoted
• Eversole faces toughest fight in long career
  Political science professor Richard Murray quoted
• Happy 175th Birthday, Texas
  Articles written by Journalism students, History professor Raul Ramos quoted