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UH-Clear Lake Foreign Language Program helps runner prepare
09-Mar-2010: Learning a foreign language or improving conversational English can do more than enhance career goals. For Doc Pepper, a League City resident and marathon runner, learning to speak a second language helped him communicate during a French marathon where participants run the course sampling wine instead of water.
Running a full marathon distance of 26 miles through the heart of the Bordeaux wine country of France in 2007, Doc and his wife Laura were two of only 107 Americans to run the Marathon Du Médoc, an event established in 1984 by a group of passionate marathon fans. More...
Prof receives national award for innovative teaching
23-Dec-2009: University of Houston-Clear Lake Assistant Professor of Humanities Daniel Silvermintz wants students to get more out of their required Western Civilization class – he wants them to see the relevance of ancient texts for today’s world.
“I want students to be excited about learning and forget that this is a required class,” Silvermintz said. “Students really get it when they see that we are still struggling with some of the same foundational questions about or humanity that people have been contemplating for thousands of years.” More...
UH-Clear Lake Autism Center launches new speaker series
13-Nov-2009: In their efforts to assist more local families, care givers and teachers of autistic children, University of Houston-Clear Lake’s Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities will launch a new speaker series in January 2010.
The informative lectures, which are sponsored by CHRISTUS St. John Hospital, will be provided by the center at no cost. Scheduled speakers are graduate students of the university's Behavior Analysis program. A question and answer session and complimentary lunch will follow each lecture. More...
Prof shares art expertise with Serbian students
4-Nov-2009: As an internationally known artist, University of Houston-Clear Lake Professor of Fine Arts Sandria Hu has traveled the world. So have her art and her expertise.
Most recently the artist, who began teaching at UH-Clear Lake in 1975, served as artist-in-residence as a Fulbright senior specialist in Serbia. More...
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