Campus Briefs

Khaled Hosseini to speak Tuesday

Author and Santa Clara graduate Khaled Hosseini will lecture Tuesday evening in the second event of the President's Speaker Series.

Hosseini wrote The Kite Runner, a novel about two boys and their experiences during the various political upheavals in Afghanistan. The book was adapted into a screenplay and is in the process of filming for a movie. He will read excerpts from his novel and take questions from the audience.

Although tickets are sold out, students can get overflow tickets at the box office before the show.

Santa Clara Review release party Friday

A new issue of The Santa Clara Review is out Friday, and all are invited to pick up a copy in Kennedy Commons at 5 p.m.

Contributors will be reading selections from the issue, and refreshments will be served.

Nominations open for teaching award

Students are invited to nominate faculty members for the Brutocao Award for Teaching Excellence from now until April 6.

The Brutocao Award is endowed to recognize faculty members with an outstanding classroom style who also promote intellectual curiosity, rigor and challenge students to continue learning after their course has ended.

Only students, current and alumni, can nominate a professor. Letters of nomination must include the faculty member's name, department and examples of both teaching excellence and lasting impact.

In order to be eligible, the faculty member must have been at Santa Clara for 10 or more years, have substantial teaching experience at the undergraduate level and have not previously won the award.

Past recipients include Fred Parrella, religious studies, Eric Hanson, political science, Timothy O'Keefe, history and Phil Kesten, professor of physics, who won last year.

Nomination letters should be addressed to the Brutocao Award Committee, Faculty Development Program, Walsh Administration Building.

Letters can be hand-delivered, e-mailed to klove@scu.edu or faxed to (408) 554-2389.

More information is available in the Faculty Development Office, 103 Walsh Administration Building.

From staff reports.E-mail news@thesantaclara.com.