Each of the estimated 1,200 new freshmen who walk through the doors of the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD) in fall 2010 will have a common bond: they will have read Malcolm Gladwell’s bestselling book Outliers: The Story of Success.
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Sister Helen Prejean, a nationally recognized opponent of the death penalty who wrote “Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States,” will speak at the University of Houston-Downtown at 6 p.m., Wednesday, March 3, in the Wilhelmina Cullen Robertson Auditorium on the third floor of the Academic Building.
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It’s the first musical in the University of Houston-Downtown’s history and director Thomas J. Lyttle will have waited more than 30 years to see a musical in UHD’s intimate O’Kane Theatre when the curtain goes up on opening night for “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” at 8 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 30.
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University of Houston-Downtown Associate Professor of Music, musicologist and performer Yvonne Kendall, will share the rich musical history of Spain at the 2nd Annual UHD Hispanic Heritage Month Concert, 4 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 25.
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