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Transylvania to host Lexington mayoral candidate forum Tuesday, October 26 at 7:30 p.m.

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—A public forum for the two Lexington mayoral candidates, incumbent Jim Newberry and challenger Jim Gray, will be held on Tuesday, October 26, at 7:30 p.m. in the Carrick Theater in the Mitchell Fine Arts Center. The forum, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Community Action Council, the Child Care Council of Kentucky, God’s Pantry Food Bank and the Lexington Urban League. Questions for the two candidates will address poverty, child development and other human services issues. The event will also feature an interactive Twitter session, allowing those with Smartphones to tweet comments and questions which will appear on a screen next to the candidates. Student volunteers will be in the audience to help those without Smartphones to tweet their thoughts and questions. For more information or to submit questions for the candidates, contact Kara Cecil at 244-2221 or kara.cecil@commaction.org.

"Memories of the Past": Morlan exhibit of world-class contemporary Chinese ink brush paintings runs October 29 through November 30

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—A world-class exhibition, “Memories of the Past: Contemporary Chinese Ink Painting,” opens Oct. 29 in Transylvania University’s Morlan Gallery. The exhibit, curated by eminent Asian art historian Kuiyi Shen, features 15 internationally recognized contemporary Chinese artists and runs through Nov. 30. The featured artists are from mainland China, the United States and Taiwan, and include Xu Bing, Pan Gongkai, Lu Fusheng, Wang Dongling, Zhang Yu, Wang Tiande, Qiu Deshu, Feng Bin, Xu Lei, Li Huayi, Zhang Hong, Wu Yi, Zheng Chongbin, Li Huai and Luo Qing. “This selection of contemporary ink art represents the highest caliber work by important Chinese artists working in the medium today,” said Julia F. Andrews, an expert in Chinese painting and modern Chinese art, who has written extensively on the subject and curated many important exhibitions in the United States, France and China. “The paintings in the exhibition present an extremely refreshing, even surprising, view of the many ways Chinese artists are finding to build upon and surpass their tradition. The power of these images testifies both to the contemporary quality of contemporary ink painting and to the continued vitality of an art form that has flourished in China for a millennium.” Morlan Gallery Director Andrea Fisher credits Transylvania art history professor Wei Lin for orchestrating an exhibition of this caliber. “Dr. Lin is a scholar who specializes in Asian art history and has worked closely with Dr. Shen to bring the work of

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Transylvania University invites high school students to two Fall Preview Days: Friday, October 22 and Saturday, November 13

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania University invites high school students and their families to campus for two Fall Preview Days, Friday, October 22, from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m., and Saturday, November 13, from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Both events will take place in the Clive M. Beck Athletic Center on the corner of Broadway and Fourth Street. Fall Preview Day includes a welcome with President R. Owen Williams, faculty presentations, an academic information fair, campus and residence hall tours, a student panel discussion and a complimentary lunch. Students and their parents will have the opportunity to talk with faculty members and current students about all aspects of life at Transylvania, including scholarship and funding opportunities. For more information or to register for either Fall Preview Day, call Transylvania’s admissions office at (800) 872-6798 or (859) 233-8242, or visit www.transy.edu/admissions.

Transylvania dedicates renovated laboratories in Brown Science Center

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LEXINGTON, Ky.-Transylvania University dedicated the renovated and refurbished laboratories of Brown Science Center today. During the ceremony, President R. Owen Williams emphasized the importance of the project for the university’s science faculty and students. “This major project enhances teaching and learning in our already very distinguished science programs,” Williams said. “Our labs are now the kind of physical spaces that encourage the high degree of collaboration among professors and students that is characteristic of modern scientific investigation.” William T. Young Jr., chairman of the Board of Trustees, was on hand to welcome everyone to the dedication and express gratitude to the donors who made the project possible. “It took a broad and supportive group of very generous donors to fund what is truly one of the most meaningful projects in the university’s recent history,” Young said. “Each and every one who supported this initiative has our deep appreciation.” Highlights of the multi-phase renovation include new fume hoods and other scientific equipment, along with moveable furnishings that make lab spaces more flexible. The addition of windows, brighter lighting, and lighter colors for walls and floors combine to make exceptionally appealing spaces for the study of science. The $9.2 million project is one of three main components of Transylvania’s 225th Anniversary Campaign, which concluded in June with a total of $47.3 million raised against a goal of $42 million. Thus far, nine of 11 labs have been completed. The work began in

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“Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers” is topic for fall Kenan lecture to be given by Kwame Anthony Appiah

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—The fall Kenan Lecture at Transylvania University will be delivered on Wednesday, October 20, by Kwame Anthony Appiah, Laurence S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. The title of his presentation is “Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers.” His book by the same title won the 2007 Arthur Ross Award from the Council on Foreign Relations. Cosmopolitanism is the name given to Appiah’s new system of ethics, which examines competing philosophical claims of various civilizations on the one hand, and groundless moral relativism on the other. He then arrives at an ethics that celebrates our common humanity while offering practical ways of managing our differences. Appiah holds an appointment in Princeton’s University Center for Human Values and is associated with the Center for African American Studies, the programs in African studies and translation studies and the departments of comparative literature and politics. He has taught at Yale, Cornell, Duke and Harvard. He joined the faculty of Princeton in 2002. Born in London, but raised in Ghana by his African father and English mother, he earned B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in philosophy from Clare College, Cambridge University. He is the author of numerous articles and books, notably “Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race” (1996), “The Ethics of Identity” (2005), “Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers” (2006) and “Experiments in Ethics” (2008). The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be in Haggin

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