Posted on: Thursday, January 20, 2005
EDUCATION BRIEFS
New deadline for KCC program
Advertiser Staff
The deadline for the Kapi'olani Community College study abroad program to Avignon, France, this June, has been extended to Jan. 31.
The four-week program will allow students to study beginning or intermediate French and earn credits for two semesters of work. Students will learn French through film and cuisine, and take several excursions in Provence and an excursion to Lyon and Paris.
They will stay with French families and be provided two meals a day. KCC French instructor Renee Arnold will accompany the students.
Applications are available at KCC in the Honda Center, Iliahi 112 or Arnold's office at Olapa 107. For more information, call Arnold at 734-9704 or e-mail reneearn@hawaii.edu.
The Hawai'i State Library is featuring the interactive exhibit "Astrobiology: Discovering New Worlds of Life," until Jan. 29.
The exhibit is part of a three-month traveling tour from the Carnegie Institution, which will feature stops on O'ahu, the Big Island, Maui and Kaua'i.
The exhibit is free and will be available for viewing during normal business hours. It also will be on display at Kapolei Public Library from March 18 to 31.
In addition, Brian Glazer will present a free lecture on astrobiology and hydrothermal vents at the Institute for Astronomy, 2680 Woodlawn Drive, at 7 p.m. Jan. 28. For more information about this program or about the traveling exhibit tour, call Mary Ann Kadooka of the UH Institute for Astronomy at 956-7954.
Astrobiology exhibit on display
