Arts patrons Peter and Judy Jackson are sending a holiday gift to music lovers throughout the region: As part of a charitable remainder unitrust, they are leaving at least $500,000 to the Salisbury Symphony Orchestra at Salisbury University.
Wellesley College President H. Kim Wellesley College President H. Bottomly announced today the appointment of Lisa Fischman as the Ruth G. Shapiro ' 37 director of the Davis Museum and Cultural Center. Fischman, who will take up her appointment on Feb. 1, has served as chief curator of the University of Arizona Museum of Art in Tucson and Gallery Director at the Atlanta College of Art. Trained as an Americanist, she has focused on investigating the relationships among the fine arts, material culture, design and popular culture, and locates her interest “among creative spheres often presumed not to intersect.”
Nominations for the 2009 Izzy Award are officially open. The annual award for special achievement in independent media — named after legendary muckraker I. F. “Izzy” Stone — is a project of Ithaca College's Park Center for Independent Media. Last year’s inaugural award was shared by blogger Glenn Greenwald and “Democracy Now!” host/executive producer Amy Goodman.
Emeritus Professor José Emilio Pacheco (Department of Spanish and Portuguese) has been awarded the prestigious Premio Cervantes Prize for 2009. It is the highest literary honor in the Spanish-speaking world.
In its latest online rollout, Ithaca College’s Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) 2009–2010 invites everyone, everywhere to raise the dead, bring fantasy creatures to life, and join alternative reality gamers in collectively exploring “Open Space,” the theme of this year’s festival.
Imagine serving as a bosun's mate sailing aboard explorer Henry Hudson's vessel, Half Moon. Or being in the shoes of Union private A.J. Hamilton as he guarded Confederate prisoners at Fort Delaware during the Civil War. These are among the intriguing scenarios that brought the past to life for University of Delaware students engaged in history internships over the past several months.
Tufts University Professor Gregory Crane will lead a team of international researchers to use computer data analysis techniques to track topics about the Greco-Roman world in a million documents, spanning thousands of years.
Susan Reverby, professor at Wellesley College, has delved into the shocking and revealing Tuskegee syphilis study as a lesson to us today as we argue over health care reform. In her new book, "Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy" (University of North Carolina Press, 2009), Reverby looks at the study’s racist history, explains how people experienced it and why the doctors thought it was the right thing to do.
Two University of Delaware graduate students recently stumbled upon a letter written by President Thomas Jefferson while sifting through thousands of documents and other items donated to the university’s library.
This December 9th Project Homeless Connect will give people experiencing homelessness a chance to turn their lives around. The event is part of National Project Homeless Connect Week (December 7-13) which is being marked in San Francisco and dozens of other cities around the U.S.
On June 18, Sidney Burris and Geshe Thupten Dorjee, a Tibetan monk who teaches at the University of Arkansas, walked into the Dalai Lama’s compound in Dharamsala, India, with 15 students from the university. The students were traveling abroad to work on the TEXT Project, or “Tibetans in Exile Today,” an oral-history program designed to record the stories of Tibetans currently living in refugee settlements in India. The project focuses on the Tibetans who left their country in 1959, but still have vivid memories of traditional Tibetan culture.
The My Lai Massacre and anti-war propaganda blurred the facts about the training, capabilities and educational background of junior officers in Vietnam.
Twenty years ago, history beckoned to Dr. David Michelson. Michelson, then 14, was living with his family in Bucharest, Romania. When Romanians took to the streets in protest in late December, Michelson’s father took him out to see history unfold first-hand.
This year, another movie based on Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” hit the theaters, the latest in a long list of film, television, and opera adaptations of the popular novel. Why does the Victorian-era author have such enduring appeal, particularly at Christmastime?
Henry Glassie, College Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, has been awarded the Charles Homer Haskins Prize of the American Council of Learned Societies.
Scoot over winds and brass, strings and chorale – it is time to make room for the laptop orchestra. Virginia Tech's laptop group is the first Linux-based orchestra in the world with focus on ultra-affordable design.
The tranquility of gardens is no coincidence; careful planning is required to create that sense of escape from the daily grind. According to one Ryerson researcher, achieving that contemplative atmosphere depends on a garden being designed not as disparate elements, but as a sum total of its parts—and her proof is in the picture.
University of Iowa Journalism Professor Stephen G. Bloom set out to trace a single pearl, from the moment a diver in Australia scoops from the ocean floor a giant oyster to the moment a woman 10,000 miles away fastens the clasp to a shimmering pearl necklace. The result of Bloom's improbable four-continent odyssey is "Tears of Mermaids: The Secret Story of Pearls," a nonfiction book released this week by St. Martin's Press.
It’s a holiday tradition you don’t want to miss! The annual Spelman-Morehouse Christmas Carol concert will, again, kick-off the Christmas season for metro-Atlanta residents. Mark your calendars and join the Glee Clubs for some Christmas cheer.
Two revolutionary, pioneering world-class leaders in politics and philanthropy, the Honorable Shirley Franklin, two-term mayor of Atlanta, and Alison R. Bernstein of The Ford Foundation, will be the new William and Camille Cosby Endowed Professors in 2010 at Spelman College.
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