Life News (Arts & Humanities)

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1)Temple ACES program gives voice to people with speech disabilities. 2)Temple engineering professor offers tips to beat the heat. 3)Got white space? 4)Campaign finance fighting to stay on the Hill.

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Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, today announced that the innovative, London-based architecture firm of Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners has been selected to design Rensselaer's new electronic media and performing arts center.

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Ancient relics taken from third-world nations should be returned to their rightful owners. This principle sounds fair enough, but who really owns the past? The question of "cultural patrimony" is not as simple as it seems says a University of Illinois legal scholar.

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In 1859, William Gilmore Simms was heralded as the greatest living American writer. 150 years later, his works have disappeared from literary anthologies. Now, a researcher is working to reinstate Simms in the literary canon.

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The handwritten preface for an 1873 Mark Twain novel that gave its name to an era of greed and corruption will be printed for the first time in a Mississippi State University scholarly journal.

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An MU historian hopes Americans will turn to history more often to gain a better understanding of present-day politics. Now, in a new column for the online American history magazine "Common-Place," Jeffrey Pasley, professor of history, offers a resource to help people do just that.

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ASU's Joan and David Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics will host a major national conference entitled "Ethics and the Arts" October 28 to 30. The conference is aimed at being the first large scale intellectual and practical discussion of the topic. Keynoters: Sherman Alexie, Anna Deavere Smith; Rory Kennedy

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Nationally renowned poet Miller Williams and his daughter, Grammy Award-winning songwriter Lucinda Williams, will be featured on CNN in the first program of a new series called "America's Best."

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1) Rain won't go away; expect floods another day, says ecosystem expert. 2) Outside or online? Temple psychologist suggests parents and kids do both. 3) No residency required, no impact on shortage of Philly teachers.

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The nation's first regional Center for the Quilt, designed to document, preserve and share the history and stories of quilts and quilt makers, has been established at the University of Delaware, in cooperation with the Alliance for American Quilts.

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The publication of "The Heritability of Attitudes: A Study of Twins" (J. of Personality and Social Psychology, Jun-2001), raises profound religious and philosophical questions. Commenting on this research are the Rev. Dr. Lindon Eaves, whose own twin research is cited by one of the study's authors, and Dr. Ted Peters, author of Playing God: Genetic Determinism and Human Freedom.

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1) All Sixers all the time may not be a bad news strategy. 2) For kids in courts, rehab rather than scare tactics. 3) Keeping your cool while burning fat this summer.

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Jon A. and Virginia M. Lindseth '56 have bestowed a major collection of material documenting the American women's suffrage movement to Cornell University Library.

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African-American writer Richard Wright is famous for his books "Native Son" and "Black Boy." But during the 1950s, he produced four travel books that examined the struggles in Africa, Asia and Europe against colonialism and oppression.

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With a bevy of summer comedies on the way, an Arkansas researcher points out how Communist themes have invaded many movie plotlines. Not to worry, though, they're there to soothe not subvert.

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Dr. Robert Brent Toplin, professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and author of History by Hollywood: The Use and Abuse of the American Past, is available to comment on Hollywood's latest treatment of the Pearl Harbor story.

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An Arkansas researcher examines African American poetry produced between the two world wars and finds that for many, the American dream was a dream deferred.

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Poland native Joseph Stevens survived the Holocaust by outsmarting the Nazis: the young Jew posed as a Catholic by day and took part in underground raids by night. He now recounts his wartime experiences and its lessons for today in his new book.

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To celebrate the art and artistry of Jazz legend Louis Armstrong, and to honor the musical mentors that are a part of New Orleans' musical heritage, the University of New Orleans is hosting the Louis Armstrong Centennial Conference, August 2 -4, 2001 at the Louisiana State Museum.

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In celebration of one of the founding fathers of jazz and the father of one of America's most celebrated jazz families, the University of New Orleans is hosting Satchmo to Marsalis: A Tribute to the Fathers of Jazz, a concert featuring Ellis Marsalis, his four sons, and his most well-known student.

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World-renowned author Ellen Gilchrist has been appointed an associate professor in the University of Arkansas creative writing program.

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Not much had been written about Jolan Gross-Bettleheim's and her lithographs. However, that has changed thanks to a Grinnell College student and curator of an exhibition of Gross-Bettleheim's American work at the college.

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In the late 1930s and 1940s, five Louisiana State University art students literally painted history onto the walls of the university's Allen Hall. A restoration of this student artwork was one of the projects undertaken to celebrate the university's 75th Campus Jubilee.

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The Univ. of Ark. will host the fourth annual meeting of The Space Between Society, an interdisciplinary group dedicated to the study of the art, literature and culture that emerged between the two world wars. Conference dates: May 17-19.

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1)Mothers have worked for peace since 1800's. 2)Electricity demands may generate higher natural gas prices. 3)Open windows to keep cool this summer. 4)"Boot Camp" recruit about to graduate from Temple.

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Perhaps the strangest creative writers' colony ever to operate in the lower 48 was more a prison than a haven, its director more a warden than a muse.

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Of the thousands of items that journalist Shana Alexander has just given the University of Illinois, perhaps none telegraphs her career better than her box of press passes.

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"Maps of Africa to 1900: A Checklist of Maps in Atlases and Geographical Journals in the Collections of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign," newly published, is thought to be the largest published checklist of maps of Africa.

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A century after his death in 1901, French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec still manages to capture the imagination of a public hungry for a taste of the licentious side of life in late 19th century Paris' Montmartre district.

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Two Florida State University professors, classics Associate Professor James Sickinger and theatre Assistant Professor Laura Edmondson, have received summer stipends for 2001 from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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1) Temple engineering professor suggests cleaning now to avoid over heating in the summer. 2) Sports psychologist offers tips for parents to let kids "play" ball.

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Among the recently announced 2001 Guggenheim fellows is Louisiana State University Professor of English J. Gerald Kennedy. Kennedy was awarded the fellowship for his latest project, a book titled Inventing America's Story: Literary Nationalism in the Age of Poe.

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"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Famous words by Franklin Delano Roosevelt repeated dozens of times by U-M history Prof. Sidney Fine in his second semester American History class. After more than a half century of teaching, Fine held his last lecture on April 16.

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Powerful art exhibit tells stories of individual pain, recovery, emotional strength, and human endurance.

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An advanced creative writing program has been established in the American heartland. The new University of Illinois program will offer, its planners say, a first-rate opportunity for the nation's most promising writers.

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"Ebertfest," the off-beat festival focusing on films that Ebert believes deserve wider attention, brings the films and many of their producers, directors and actors to Champaign-Urbana to showcase them for general audiences, distributors and critics from around the world.

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A team of multidisciplinary researchers at Illinois are pooling their talents on a project that will "build a virtual conducting-training environment that will help conducting students learn the craft."

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Johann Sebastian Bach is widely regarded as perhaps the greatest composer of all time. Now, a new piece of music is being credited to the composer, a popular trumpet fanfare, known as Abblasen.

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1) Temple March Madness: How sweet (16) it is! 2) Winning big-time college coaches measure success beyond W's and L's. 3) Investors have psyched the market into overdrive.

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When Jon Solomon views the Oscar-nominated "Gladiator," he sees one more installment in Hollywood's century-long love of the dramatic stories of classical Rome and Greece and the ancient Middle East. J. Douglas Canfield sees westerns in the same historical perspective. Both professors in the University of Arizona College of Humanities have recently published books that explore award-winning movies.

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Some endeavors like medicine or clinical research are described as combining art and science, meaning they bring the facts and figures as well as the intuitive and emotional interpretation of them. The April 11 kickoff of construction at the University of Michigan's Life Sciences Institute melds art and science in a number of ways.

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A symposium at Smith College will examine the role of Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee which, through clandestine operations, rescued some 2,000 writers, artists, intellectuals and activists from Nazi-dominated Europe in 1940.

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1) the hype surrounding Hollywood and the Oscars; 2) "The markets are looking for a bottom, and long-term investors can benefit from buying more;" 3) Class of 2005 hosted for campus visit.

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In the mid-19th century the art of portraiture was threatened with obsolescence by the advent of photography.

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An English professor at the University of Georgia has unearthed a Norse grammatical usage in a manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle -- pushing back the first written evidence of a Norse word in what would become modern English by a century.

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eMotion Pictures: An Exhibition of Orthopaedics in Art, featuring 132 artists from 11 countries successfully opened this February in San Francisco for the beginning of a multi-city tour to be completed in 2002.

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Art World To Rediscover Southern Art: The Ogden Museum to Feature Fine Art; New five story building and a historic library, built in 1888, to house museum. The entire museum will exceed 67,000 square feet of space for exhibiting the permanent collections; to open in October.

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If wit is, as Mark Twain said, the poor cousin of humor, then that cousin is now in debtors' prison. Sure -- the quip is still revered in conversation, but in literature, wit gets no credit or respect.

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Rare and often sentimental insights into the lives of ordinary Spanish-colonial women living between 1770 and 1820 were unearthed by an American history scholar at Southern Methodist University, who has prepared a study on the wills of 20 women from San Esteban de Nueva Tlaxcala, a frontier settlement in northern Mexico.

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1) Conference to focus on economics of sports. 2) Falling stocks shouldn't mean rising stress, says Temple health studies professor. 3) New publication from Temple serves everyone.