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International Agricultural Fair takes place on April 14-16 in Tartu. The EMU has exponents both in the exhibition hall and on the exhibition grounds.

Last week EMU student body held its elections and the new members of the board are now known. 4th year veterinary student Gerlin Järvela became the chairwoman. Her deputy is sophomore Andre Purret, who is studying forest industry.  In addition to that two committees got new leaders. More information: Gerlin Järvela, chairwoman of the EMU Student Union, ph 56 478 84.

April is the month of landscape architecture. From 2006 different activities related to landscape architecture and design take place all over the world. In April the EMU library holds an exhibition on different books and journals related to this subject. Besides the book exhibition visitors can also see the landscape design projects done by EMU students. The exhibition will remain open till May 13.

On Tuesday, 19 April 2011, at 14.15 Minna-Maarit Kytöviita  from  Jyväskylä University in  Finland gives a lecture on Ecosystem effects of reindeer grazing. The lecture is held in Tartu, at 40-218 Lai Street.  

Dear colleague, you are welcome to attend an international conference which takes place April 07 - 08, 2011 in the Estonian University of Life Sciences (Tartu). 

The 58thAnnual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan selected the article «A review of light interception in plant stands from leaf to canopy in different plant functional types and in species with varying shade tolerance» by Ülo Niinemets, a professor at the Estonian University of Life Sciences, one of the three best articles published in «Ecological Research» in 2010. In total there were 110 articles to choose from. 

April 11th–12th 2011 Tartu (Exhibition House of the Estonian National Museum), Estonia The conference “Recollecting and mediating food culture: Individual and institutional perspectives” will be focused on individual as well as institutional practices of remembering and mediating food culture.

April 6-8, 2011 Tartu, Estonia Department of Semiotics, University of Tartu Organizedin the framework of the international conference “Zoosemiotics and Animal Representations”.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is based on the magnetic resonance phenomenon, and is used for medical diagnostic imaging since ca. 1977. The MRI equipment to be installed in our Animal Clinic will make it easier to diagnose neurological and joint diseases of animals.