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Undergraduate students are invited to submit applications for the Office of Community Service’s January 2017 service trip to Nicaragua.

Held annually during winter break, the Nicaragua service trip is run through Mustard Seed Communities, an organization that works with the local Catholic church to serve the needs of abandoned or orphaned children with mental and physical disabilities.

Participants will work with children and young adults at Hogar Belen Diriamba Orphanage while staying in a dorm-style mission cottage on the campus. A majority of the orphanage’s residents cannot speak, so participants will learn to communicate with the children through other means.

Applications are available online and are due by noon Wednesday, April 6. Interviews will be held April 20-28 and decisions will be announced Friday, April 29.

The program fee of $1,700 includes round-trip airfare, transportation from campus to the airport, in-country transportation, seven nights lodging, most meals and project construction materials.

For more information, consult the Nicaragua service trip handbook or contact the Office of Community Service at (401) 341-2440 or community.services@salve.edu.

Community activists will join with student organizers and members of the Salve Regina community for a Black Lives Matter march through campus at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 1.

Members of the University community are invited to join organizers from the Multicultural Student Organization outside Our Lady of Mercy Chapel, where community activist Diana Garlington will offer opening remarks along with Berlenise Castillo ’16 and Tannis Neal ’16.

From the chapel, the group will walk through a campus route that includes Ochre Court, Rodgers Recreation Center, Wakehurst and McKillop Library before returning to the chapel, where a moment of silence will be observed. Activist Kobi Dennis will then offer remarks. Refreshments and debriefing will follow at 3:30 p.m. in the Mercy Center.

Garlington founded the Essence T. Christal Memorial Foundation in 2014 in the name of her late daughter Essence, who was tragically murdered in 2011. The program provides mentorship, professional development and domestic violence abuse prevention and support. The co-founder and current president of the #300Women Organization, she is a member of the Black Lives Matter Movement, NAACP, the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence and CBAA.

Dennis is a Providence resident, naval veteran and community leader who founded Project Night Vision, a program to provide care and services for inner-city youth. He is also involved with Partnership to Address Violence through Education, the Steven K. Latimer Foundation and the YMCA of Greater Providence.

Salve Regina is participating in a survey to understand the sexual misconduct climate on campus, and is encouraging all students to participate.

The survey was designed to capture students’ experiences and attitudes regarding aspects of sexual violence, from physical assault to harassment. The survey also collects student perceptions, assessed knowledge and use of the University’s sexual misconduct policy and resources.

All students will receive an email invitation to complete the survey from eduOutcomes. The survey will provide valuable information and help the University take steps to make campus safer and become more inclusive and reflective of the values of the Salve Regina community.

Participation is voluntary, and responses will be anonymous. A drawing for a $100 Salve Regina bookstore gift card is being offered as an incentive for those who participate. The form to enter the drawing is separate from the survey in order to preserve anonymity.

Many universities across the country have launched similar surveys as recommended by the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault. The Association of American Universities also recently released aggregate results of a campus climate survey that they undertook in partnership with 27 universities.

For more information on the campus climate survey, stop by the Office of Student Affairs, located in Miley Hall, Room 118, or call (401) 341-2145.

Photo: Political science majors from the Class of 2015 with faculty members Dr. Symeon Giannakos, Dr. Luigi Bradizza, Dr. Chad Raymond and Dr. Clark Merrill.

The Department of Political Science and International Relations will hold its 47th annual presentation and defense of senior research Saturday, Feb. 27 and Saturday, March 5 in the O’Hare Academic Center, Room 260. Eleven senior political science majors are scheduled to present and defend their research.

Members of the Salve Regina community are invited to attend, and may stay for any length of time. The schedule is:

Saturday, Feb. 27

• 8:30 a.m. – Christopher O’Keefe: “Salah Shehadeh: Morally Permissible Collateral Damage”
• 9:15 a.m. – Amanda Bailey: “Recognizing the Armenian Tragedy as Genocide: The Wrong Political Decision for the United States”
• 10 a.m. – Sarah Kiely: “Why Liberalization Could Not Breathe: A Case Study of Egypt”
• 10:45 a.m. – Taylor Enos: “Thawing Out: The Role of the Arctic Council in a Melting Arctic”
• 11:30 a.m. – Ariana Caputo: “The Rescission of the Equal Rights Amendment in Tennessee: A Case of Mobilized Opposition Inciting Legislative Fears”
• 12:15 p.m. – Brigid Sawyer: “The Guarantee Clause: The Issue of Justiciability”

Saturday, March 5

• 8:30 a.m. – Berlenise Castillo: “Kelo v. City of New London: Abusing the Taking Clause of the Power of Eminent Domain”
• 9:15 a.m. – Zarifa Hamidi: “Financing Terrorism: From Where and How the Taliban Receive Their Funding”
• 10 a.m. – Ellen Gensicki: “Standing Up to Chinese Cyber Espionage: Visible U.S. Responses to China’s Invisible War”
• 10:45 a.m. – John M. Farrell IV: “Jacksonian Democracy: How the Bank War Failed the Common Man”
• 11:30 a.m. – Derek French: “Subcontracting Liberation: Private Military Companies and Humanitarian Interventions”