The approach of the second millennium has become a worldwide phenomenon, feared by some and anticipated eagerly by others. Will it bring a Golden Age or the end of the world as we know it? Or, to the rational skeptics in our midst, will it be simply the passing of another calendar year.
For most of Douglas Mitchell's adult life, he has been giving voice to ancient tongues such as Old Icelandic and Sanskritoboth of which he teaches at Rice. But there were other voices flying around in his head, and they wanted out.
Internationally known multimedia performance artist Ping Chong will present production of "Undesirable Elements" with eight Hamilton College students
In today's world of fast-paced communication,, who has time for old-fashioned love letters? Just about everybody, says a professor of communication at North Carolina State University and one of the nation's top experts on the use and abuse of interactive media. The ease and speed of e-mail is helping revive the art of intimate correspondence, he says.
The Vassar College/New York Stage and Film Powerhouse Summer Theater Program for theater is accepting applications for the 1999 season.
A St. John's University English professor has edited an anthology of poetry by physicians entitled Blood and Bone: Poems by Physicians, newly released by the University of Iowa Press.
News that Cesar Chavez will be inducted into the U.S. Labor Department's Hall of Fame on Jan. 28 came as no surprise to one North Carolina State University scholar, who for decades has studied and written about Chavez's lifework.
A powerful exhibition of photography from the Civil Rights movement opens Friday, January 15, 1999, in the Prints and Drawings Galleries at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College and will run through Sunday, March 7, 1999.
Vassar loyalty is bringing a number of previously unexhibited masterpieces to public attention at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center (FLLAC). Seven decades worth of collectors -- Vassar alumni and several friends of the college -- have brought some of their finest works together for an exhibition which will open in April. The exhibition will include works of painting, drawing, sculpture, decorative arts, printmaking, and photography from 65 private collections.
Scholars may never know the details of William Shakespeare's love life, but they do know that the authoritative text for the bard's plays is the 1623 "First Folio," which is now available to scholars and students through Rice's Fondren Library.
ìUlysses,î recently voted No. 1 in a list of this century's greatest English-language novels, is a public domain work that can be published in the United States by anyone, a University of Tulsa English professor asserts in December's Yale Law Journal.
Coming full circle, the institution that first recognized the talent of acclaimed poet Virginia Hamilton Adair will again herald her genius, after more than 60 years, this January 11 at a special afternoon ceremony at Mount Holyoke College in Claremont, California.
America's favorite nut can settle into our tummies in many different forms thanks to University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers who have translated The Walnut Cookbook, a collection of recipes by Jean-Luc Toussaint, their summer neighbor in Perigord, a town in southern France.
In a relationship rare between higher education and the arts, Vanderbilt University has set aside several areas of its campus to be the home to one-of-a-kind sculptures by student-artists. The first of the artworks, four bronze sculptures, were dedicated Dec. 1.
A professor of decorative arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison says our holiday rituals underscore the importance of material objects to the way we present ourselves and how we envision our culture.
So the kids are getting out of school for the holidays, and you don't know how to keep them busy while you finish your own preparations? Education students at Millsaps College have come up with some fun activities to entertain children and to help everyone get into the holiday spirit!
A major collection of manuscripts by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Larry McMurtry, including novels and videos of daily filming for "Streets of Laredo"--complete with scribbled notes complaining because the TV towns needed more dust--arrived at Rice this week.
The spirit of William Stafford (1914-1993) is alive and well and living at Lewis & Clark College. The president of Lewis & Clark College honored the legacy of this poet, dedicating the William Stafford Room in the college's library and announcing the acquisition of a major collection of Stafford's work.
The best architects, designers and scientists have always immersed themselves in their work. But now, thanks to a new virtual reality theater at North Carolina State University, they can take it to a whole new level.
Research by renowned linguist Dr. Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State University's William Friday Distinguished Professor of English, and a team of researchers indicates that while the Lumbee in North Carolina's Robeson County lost their ancestral tongue generations ago, they have developed a unique Lumbee English dialect.
Five women will discuss their personal memories of Thomas Merton, one of our century's formative thinkers, on the 30th anniversary of his death. The Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine College in Louisville, Kentucky will bring together "Women Who Knew Merton:"
An Elizabethan scholar at the University of Wyoming says the new film "Elizabeth" provides a "fascinating version" of the early life of Queen Elizabeth I. The film depicts how Elizabeth sought to attain and keep England's throne in spite of family rivals and the protests of the Vatican.
If Andy Warhol were alive, chances are he'd be on the art world's bleeding edge, dipping into a high-tech, electronic palette to create art that can be seen -- and maybe even heard -- but can't be purchased in any gallery.
Californians are more likely to attend arts events and activities compared to other Americans, according to a just released survey conducted by the University of San Francisco and the National Endowment for the Arts.
In his recently released book, "Diversity and Unity," Martin Patchen, professor of sociology, takes a look at different approaches to handling racial and ethnic diversity. While not advocating any one approach, Patchen does point out a middle ground.
A new theatrical staging of stories by Flannery O'Connor, the first to be authorized in decades, will have its world premiere Nov. 5-15 at the University of Iowa, where O'Connor attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Like a comet that blazes a trail through the night sky once in a blue moon, Frank Lloyd Wright's most ambitious and monumental creation -- Chicago's Midway Gardens -- came and went before most observers even knew what had passed before their eyes.
Nostratic is a language hypothesized to be the common ancestor of a number of modern language families. A new book edited by Wisconsin and Ohio State scholars tackles the issue of whether Nostratic really existed.
An NC State University archeologist discovered what was believed to be the oldest Christian church in the world in Jordan last summer. "All lines of evidence are converging to support the date of the church and its place in history."
Distance learning has taken center stage at the University of Utah where the theatre department, in collaboration with Sundance Institute, has begun a new graduate program offering the nation's only on-line MFA degree in theater education and directing.
Many of the personal papers and records kept by Gen. William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan during the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals are now housed in the Cornell University Law Library, where they will be accessible to researchers, thanks to the efforts of New York lawyer and Cornell alumnus Henry Korn.
To mark its sixtieth anniversary, the Kenyon Review will recognize perhaps the most influential of America's postwar poets by hosting a "Celebration of Robert Lowell" November 6 and 7. The event takes place sixty years after Lowell left Harvard to attend Kenyon College, where he studied under John Crowe Ransom, who, in the winter of 1938, published the first issue of the Review.
A.R. Ammons, Cornell professor emeritus, is the winner of the 1998 Tanning Prize for poetry. Ammons is the fifth person to receive the $100,000 award, granted through the American Academy of Poets. The award is named after Dorothea Tanning, a painter.
Cleveland is the first major city to publish a city encyclopedia online. The Web resource updates the 1987 "Encyclopedia of Cleveland History," the first encyclopedia produced about a major U.S. city.
Artist Edwina Sandys, the granddaughter of Winston Churchill who used sections of the Berlin Wall to create a sculpture at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo., will now have a second sculpture on a Missouri campus: the University of Missouri-Rolla.
Five highly accomplished graduates of the sculpture program in the University of Delaware's Department of Art will return to their alma mater Oct. 20 to participate in an exhibition that honors the sculpture program and Joe Moss, UD professor of art and the program's director for the last 29 years.
National Disability Employment Month -- Jorian Clair is a writer, editor and graphic designer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She's also almost completely blind, and has been for the 14 years that she has held this position at Cedars-Sinai.
If you want to scare yourself silly this Halloween, a Purdue University researcher has seven sure-fire suggestions on how to do it. However, he suggests that parents not make watching scary movies a family event.
The University of Arizona Foundation will receive a gift from the estate of Naomi Riddle, the wife of the late arranger and composer Nelson Riddle, to benefit the College of Fine Art's School of Music and Dance.
Acclaimed writer Pete Hamill, distinguished novelist Howard Fast respected historian Kenneth T. Jackson, will be among the speakers at "Brooklyn USA: A City Apart," a three-day conference and cultural event extravaganza taking place at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus, October 21- 23.
Did William Shakespeare write "King Lear" as an object lesson for England's King James? A Shakespeare expert at the University of Missouri-Rolla thinks so, and also believes the play was first performed before King James' court, rather than at the Globe Theater.
A rare and early how-to book straight from and for the horseÃs mouth is the 9 millionth volume for the University of Illinois Library. The book, published in 1616, is an original German Baroque treatise on the breaking and training of royal cavalry horses.
A famed scientist who left Iowa State University more than a century ago is still inspiring students today. George Washington Carver, Iowa State's first African American student, graduate and faculty member, died in 1943. Fifty-five years later, the man who was born into slavery is the focus of a university-wide celebration at Iowa State.
A Purdue University expert on ethics offers a "report card" grading the conduct of president Bill Clinton and those who oppose him.
The University of Illinois Library is ready for the 21st century. It just rolled out an online cataloging and circulation system that not only meets the international standard for data-sharing, but also is Year 2000 compliant. The system also gives users a powerful way to access materials.
A major exhibition about the literary career of Laura (Riding) Jackson will open Oct. 8 in the Exhibition Gallery of the Carl A. Kroch Library on the Cornell University campus.
Move over, Blanche DuBois -- step aside, STEL-LAAAH!!! -- hit the road, Brick. A whole new cast of Tennessee Williams characters is bringing drama to life on the world's stages this year. It's a raw and gritty tale of prison torture.
The first-known examples of glass from the Iron I archaeological era were found in the Cornell University research area of the Tel Dor, Israel, archaeological site, according to Jeffrey Zorn, Cornell visiting lecturer in Near Eastern studies.
The Marine Biological Laboratory's Science Writing Fellowships Program and the Center for Children's Environmental Literature is co-sponsoring an Author, Illustrator, Biologist Institute during the weekend of October 9th in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
The World Wide Web is the home for millions of pages of information on every topic that the human mind has been able to conceive. It also is a home for plagiarism.
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