• Beta Beta Beta, the biology honor society, would like to thank everyone who participated in their "Bowling for Uganda" bowl-a-thon on 10 November 2007. The event was a great success, raising money for Hope North, a camp for internally displaced people in Uganda. 

Tri-Beta especially thanks Dr. Ogilvie and the 2007-08 chapter officers, who planned and coordinated the event. 
• Dr. Ogilvie reports: 
On Nov. 10, twelve teams (55 people in all) participated in the Bowl-a-thon at Bartlett Bowling Lanes.  The teams included two CBU Honors teams, two faculty teams, three alum teams, a TKE team and a Biology 111 lab team sponsored by the team's lab instructor, Lynda Miller. 
Profits from bowling and a raffle (in which T-shirts and dinner gift cards were given away) garnered $1635 for Hope North in Uganda (that's 1,998,708 Ugandan Schillings!).
Winners of the event will receive a trophy.  The winners are as follows:
• Highest individual scorer, John Waldorf.
• 1st place team, CBU alum team #2 (Lee Allen, Engineering 2005, Jennifer Longo, Psychology 2005, Matt Morgan, Physics 2007 and Scott Coll).
• 2nd place team:  Allen & Friends Team with an average of 134.87 points per game (Blake Allen, Dan Mest, Philip Bach, Myles Parma, & Craig Allen).
• 3rd place team: Honors Team #2 with an average of 129.20 points per game (Jacky Wong, Computer Engineering 2010, John Waldorf, Engineering 2009, Heather Gosnell, Biology 2009, Stephen Hill Biochemical Engineering 2009, & Kristi Prevost, Biology 2010).
• Highest pledges raised: CBU Honors program which raised $417 (updated total).
• Participating Teams:  Faculty Team (x2), BBB Officers Team, Alum Team (x2), TKE Team, Alpha Xi Team, Honors Team (x2), Biology 111 Team (sponsored by Lynda Miller), Allen & Friends Team, Kappa Sig Team.

 
• Special thanks to Michael Herr (Tri Beta president), Jeremy Armstrong (Tri Beta vice president) and Tri Beta treasurer, Daniel Darnell (Tri Beta Treasurer) for planning and implementing this very successful event.

Hope North is a remote village in Uganda and is commonly referred to as a self-sustainable internally displaced people’s camp, created as the result of a civil war in Uganda.  The Acholi people have been the targets of this war, in which their own children have been abducted by the “Lord’s Resistance Army” and then forced to kill their own kinfolk.  The U.N. and many other non-profit organizations have set up camps in Uganda in hopes of protecting many of the displaced Acholi people.  These camps are overcrowded and have been infiltrated by many diseases such as Typhoid, Malaria, and now most commonly Cholera. These are only a few of the numerous challenges that the villages face.

A few photos from Hope North are on the MHIRT Uganda web page.  The Minority Health International Research Training grant to CBU supports undergraduate and graduate students who are selected to join summer research projects in Brazil and Uganda.  The application deadline is 27 Jan. 2007.

• Reports from Manny Patel working in Hope North Village near Kampala, Uganda  Report #1  Report #2  (July 2005 from Caduceus).

• The CBU Chapter of Beta Beta Beta also serves as a Biology Club welcoming interested students to participate in a variety of social and career related activities.
• Dr. Ogilvie is the faculty advisor for BBB.

• Mu Tau Chapter Officers for 2007-08:

President: Michael Herr
Vice President:  Jeremy Armstrong
Treasurer: Daniel Darnell
Secretary: John Legge
Historian: Alicia Scarborough

• Committee Chairs for 2006-07:

Social Chair: Erin Green
Philanthropy: Antony Eddy 
Publicity: Kelly Towns
Fundraising: Caitlin Clay
Volleyball Game: Nicole Bates
Bowl-a-thon Chair: John York