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Show Monday, March 25, 2013 University Journal Page 6 on r -- nnnnp v i n M f F j LiViUJ x ELISE ANDRUS UNIVERSITY JOURNAL Students line up for walking tacos, during Wednesdays Lunch on the Main for Founders Celebration. r! ELISE ANDRUS UNIVERSITY JOURNAL communication Students get nachos in the Centrum as a part of Lunch on the Main (left). Natasha Morgan, a junior of cake at a major from Lehi, serves Joseph Thomas, a freshman engineering major from Austin, Texas, piece Celebration (right). the Gerald R. Sherratt Library as a part of the Founders t Business Executive t i n Speaker Series ; . J 9 j X if-- " , s 5 j Ui t; Zt I i i J levin Uadlock iieslar Corporation 2 11:30 a.m. Thursday, February 7, 2013 Great Hall, Hunter Conference Center Tom Comstock u Hudson Gunn DiilionGrav3S.com Thursday, March 28, 2013 a 11:30 a.m. Starlight Room, Sharwan Smith Center Trent Jane SI Crown One Gvcow Cisco Thursday, April 4, 2013 11:30 a.m. Starlight Room, Sharwan Smith Center David Grant lYIotcIcraTt Technologies Thursday, April 18, 2013 11:30 a.m. Sharan Smith Center Starlight Room, SUU SCHOOL of BUSINESS v , - 2 r r-- u Presidential Medallion of Service President Michael T Benson read the recipients biographies before he presented the awards Redington retired this year after vvoikmg for 40 years as both a secretary tor the dean of students and then executive secretary with the Utah Shakespeare Festival, according to the program of the event an Knell. entrepreneurial who businessman opened southern Utah's first car wash and Cedar Citys first travel agency, was active in the Rotary Club, opened a laundromat and supported several SUU entities such as the Utah Summer Games Athletic and the Thunderbird Club, according to the program of the event Accoiding to the program, after graduating from the University of Utah, Sorenson moved to Brookln, NY to work as a After teacher kindergarten marrying, she and her husband became renowned for pei forming work that has philanthropic the arts and education, helped several universities such as SUU a welcomed SUU Friday, panel of psychologists from the nations top schools of psychology to discuss their most recent research on increasing human learning and memory Aaron The panel included of professor Benjamin, and neuroscience psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana, Robert Bjork, professor "JJ at UCLA; of psychology Scott Gronlund, professor of at the University psychology of Oklahoma, Lee, Timothy at of kinesiology professor McMaster University, and Daniel Schacter, professor of psychology at Harvard University Bjork said there is a lot of J research being done in the field of psychology, but it isnt being applied All of us can be dramatically better learners, he said There are broad principles that can be applied to all human learning that The suggested panel sit near students do the front of the classroom and avoid cramming in order master a subject The WAC womens gymnastics competition was the culminating celebration event of the week-lon- g first By WADE HESS whesssuune.vs com -- V n Last week, SUU hosted its annual Founders Celebration with several campus activities focused on the people who made the university into what it is today celebration week long The started Tuesday with the filth R Howard annual Driggs Memorial Lecture by Douglas about He spoke Brinkley Theodore Roosevelts love for the west, a characteristic shared by Driggs, one of SUU's four original faculty members Wednesday, students were able to get facts, a chance to w in prizes and free lunch through Lunch on the Main At each of the four booths located at the statue of Old Sorrel, Old Main, the Gerald R Sherratt Library and the Sharvvan Smith Center, students were able to receive a stamp on a piece of paper, and enter the paper into a raffle to win various prizes Students who got all four stamps can enter an essay of 250 words or less reflecting on what they learned during the Founders Day activities for a chance to win one of five Kindle Fire tablets freshman a Jill Wixom, undeclared major from Provo, said she learned some new things while visiting the booths Some alumni were telling us a bunch of random facts about SUUs history, she said Old Main was the first building on campus, and Old Sorrel saved the world with his big horse muscles Lacie King, a junior mathematics major from Hurricane, said she enjoyed the food They served nachos, tacos in a bag, cake and hot dogs, she said It was better than I thought it would be She said she hopes to win one of the Kindle Fire tablets but doubts she will because of the large number of entries Dinner and The Founders Awards Ceremony took place in the R Haze Hunter Conference Center Thursday evening, where those who attended ate dinner and enjoyed musical performances and the presentation of three Pam Both awards. service Redington and the late Doug 8eVerley Taylor Sorenson was awarded the self-testin- g, J |