The Iranian student club will celebrate Nowruz — the Persian new year — with an event in the lobby of the Ed Lumley Centre for Engineering Innovation, Tuesday, March 21, at 11 am.

Nowruz has been celebrated in conjunction with the spring equinox for over 3,000 years and means “New Day”.

Traditional observances include the display of seven food items: wheat symbolizing rebirth and growth, a wheat germ pudding symbolizing sweetness and fertility, dried oleaster fruit symbolizing sweetness and fertility, garlic symbolizing medicine and health, apples symbolizing beauty and health, sumac symbolizing sunrise and new beginnings, and vinegar symbolizing age and patience.

The Iranian student club welcomes the campus community to join today’s celebration, which will feature refreshments.