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Tonight's talk by Alice Greenwald, Director of the 9/11 Memorial Museum, has been postponed due to the weather. Stay tuned for a new date TBA.

• Wednesday, February 20: Arts and Culture Career Event, Gilman Atrium (5:15pm)
• Wednesday, March 6: Lecture "Passion on All Sides: The Challenges of Creating the 9/11 Memorial Museum" by Director Alice Greenwald, Gilman 50 (6:30pm, with reception in Gilman Atrium starting at 5:15pm)
• April 6: Museum Club bus trip to Barnes Foundation and other Philadelphia Museums. Contact Helen Schnell to reserve a spot

Applications are now being accepted for four paid opportunities: the Annual Student Curatorship at our very own Evergreen Museum and Library, the NEW Abrams internship in the Phillips Collection in Washington DC, the Robert and Nancy Hall Fellowship Program to work at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, and the NEW Robert and Nancy Hall Grant to support a student in an unpaid museum internship. For more information go here.

Elizabeth Rodini, Benjamin Tilghman and Reid Szcerba designed the GoogleEarth project Art on the Move for the practicum course "Material Migrations." The course invited JHU students to research the provenance of objects from the collection of the Walters Art Museum and the significance of the objects' biographies. Read the article about the project here.