GAIA Book and Video Discussion Series

Brill Science Library, King Library Hold GAIA “Amazing Read” Film and Book Discussion Group
Between November 2007 and April 2008, Miami University’s Brill Science Library and King Library will hold the GAIA “Amazing Read” Film and Book Discussion Group, a four-session series looking at films and books related to global climate change.
The discussion group complements an open house held on October 5, 2007 at Brill Science Library. During this event, participants explored several different “microclimates” devoted to research, information and literature about global climate change that helped them make their own informed decisions about the topic.
The first session of the discussion group will take place on Tuesday, November 13, 2007. During this session, participants will watch portions of the BBC series “Planet Earth,” narrated by Sir David Attenborough.
On Tuesday, January 22, 2008, the discussion group will view “Dimming the Sun,” the NOVA program that investigates the discovery that the sunlight reaching Earth has been growing dimmer.
Participants will gather on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 to talk about Michael Crichton’s State of Fear, a novel that takes an adventurous look at global climate change.
The series concludes on Tuesday, April 8, 2008 with a discussion of Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. In this book, Barbara Kingsolver shares her family’s experience relocating from Arizona to Appalachia to live among a community of local organic growers.
All sessions begin at 7:00 pm in room 320 of King Library, on Miami University’s Oxford campus. For more information, contact Eric Resnis (513-529-7205) or Betsy Butler (513-529-1698).

prize drawing done -- winners contacted

Winners were contacted on Thursday regarding the prize drawing... a second drawing will be done next Monday for any unclaimed prizes...so there is still a chance to win!!

GAIA General Prize Drawing

The general prize drawing for yesterday's open house will occur Thursday. We will e-mail the winners first thing Friday morning, and I will post to the blog once the drawing is completed.

We would like to thank all 350 of you who took time to visit us yesterday!

Photo Contest Winners -- Faculty Division

1st Prize -- Nick Noble, Economics













2nd Prize - -Christine Noble, School of Engineering
and Applied Science


















3rd Prize -- Christine Noble, School of Engineering
and Applied Science

Photo Contest Winners -- Student Division

If you visited the open house yesterday, you've already seen them. But here are the winners for those of you who couldn't make it...

Winners can pick their prizes up beginning Tuesday morning.




STUDENT DIVISION:

1st Prize (right): Angie Chan, Linguistics

2nd Prize (left): Brittany Barrett, Political Science
























3rd Prize (right): Mike Leonard,
Management Information Systems

For those required to attend or receiving extra credit....

Once you complete the open house/orientation, you will receive an attendance certificate which you will return to your prof. We won't be keeping attendance lists, so its important that you obtain the certificate and return it as required.

Prizes displayed at Brill

The full complement of prizes is now on display at Brill. A glimpse is included here, but be sure to stop by for a better look!