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University Center hosting Welcome Back celebration UH will be hosting a celebration for the new school year with the UC Welcome Back and Cougar Resource Fair from 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Wednesday inside and near the University Center. The Welcome Back will feature a wide variety of entertainment as well as free food, games and prizes for all participants. The Cougar Resource fair will introduce students to the activities and helpful organizations available on campus. In addition, Shasta’s Cones and More will be holding “Shasta’s Wet T-Shirt relay,” in which participants will compete to fill a container with the most water using only wet T-shirts. The winning team will receive free ice cream at Shasta’s everyday for the entire Fall semester. The event is free for all students. For more information, contact the University Center at lrdaniel@central.uh.edu. — Cougar News Staff
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District Judge Keith P. Ellison will deliver this year’s keynote address for the Honors College Fall convocation at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Hilton Grand Ballroom. Ellison is the judge for U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. A recipient of the Samuel Pessara Award, he was named “Trial Judge of the Year” by the Texas Association of Civil Trial and Appellate Specialists. He received his law degree from Yale and attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. Ellison currently serves as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Law Institute, and is the director of the Harry A. Blackmun Scholarship Association. The Honors College Convocation is free for all members of the UH community to attend, bringing esteemed scholars, academics and leaders each year to speak to the campus. To RSVP, go online to http://TheHonorsCollege.com/ convocation. — Cougar News Staff
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Mayor Annise Parker announces year-long festivities for the 175th anniversary of the Bayou City’s founding John Brewer
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Children celebrate the birthday by dancing and singing on stage with one of the event’s performers, Leah White & the Magic Mirrors. | Emily Chambers/The Daily Cougar
Sunday marked a milestone in the Bayou City as Mayor Annise Parker and the downtown District put on a birthday bash to celebrate Houston’s 175th birthday. The party was hosted at Market Square, where the original city hall once stood. As the center of Houston’s historic district, the space is dedicated to creating a sense of community for Houstonians and visitors. Families came from across the city to participate in the birthday celebration.
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Cougars compete to complete collection Trading card program offers scholarship for full deck Zahra Ahmed
THE DAILY COUGAR Students looking for extra money to pay for tuition can earn a scholarship worth $1,000 by completing a collection of 58 Cougar trading cards. Similar to sports trading cards, each card features an image of an important figure or symbol for the University, with details explaining their significance and history on the back. These collectibles showcase UH student and administration leaders and famous alumni, and they can save you a big chunk of school costs. Junior Nicholas Ritchey won the scholarship in Spring 2011. “It’s not as hard as it sounds,” Ritchey said. “They give away cards at dozens of events and locations every week.” Designed as an incentive to bring in more students to campus events and create more school
spirit, Cougar trading cards are handed out at athletic events, student organization gatherings, on-campus concerts, plays and academic workshops and lectures throughout the semester. In 2009, Director of Undergraduate Affairs and Advising and Chemistry professor Simon Bott, who frequently gives out extra-credit in his classes, and former Campus Activities advisor Bruce Twenhafel, who had the idea of making cards for UH athletes, combined their creative drives to come up with a trading card system that would motivate students to attend more events. “I believe strongly that a huge part of university education for a traditional student is what they learn outside the classroom,” Bott said. “They can expand their horizons by going to events.” Attending activities and hunting for cards turned out to be fun for many students. “I know collecting 50 plus cards
Kids had a chance to learn about the city’s history by watching an interactive theater as well as participating in various familyoriented activity booths set up around the event. “I am so happy to see kids of all ages having fun, despite the heat,” said Angie Bertinot, the spokesperson for the birthday bash. “This is a great way to learn how Houston started and how it got to where it is today.” A performance featuring a jazz band from the High School of Performing and Visual Arts was also there to accompany the range of events. In addition to the party, Parker
Estrogen hormones used to target specific cancers One thousand dollars is up for grabs for students who manage to collect all 58 cards at university-sponsored events on campus. | Yvette Dávila/The Daily Cougar
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seems like a daunting task, but for me each card was one step towards reaching the ultimate goal of a scholarship,” said Bethel Glumac, a sophomore who won her scholarship in Fall 2010. “It became a really fun challenge.” She said she enjoyed attending and learning about different events on campus. This year, students can win the scholarship by collecting a total of 58 cards, including limited distribution of a single rare card.
A research team at UH Center for Nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling are helping in the fight against breast and colon cancer by seeking out estrogen characteristics hormones that could be used as a treatment method. Cecilia Williams, an assistant professor in the UH Biology and Biochemistry department, said that the heart of the matter lies in two experiments that focus on how the two types of cancer cells react to different types of estrogen cell generators. One experiment that involved an estrogen receptor responsible
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