A West Virginia University alumnus and Emmy Award-winning composer drew on his reaction to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in writing a special score in honor of the WVU Marching Band's 100th birthday.
These days, the mad scientist with his laboratory full of horrors in the classic Frankenstein films may provide more laughs than screams, but the crux of the story is one that continues to fascinate and horrify us, according to a Florida State University professor who has written two books on Frankenstein films.
How many glass tiles does it take to get to the center of a 30-foot-diameter tiger mosaic? Artist Paul Jackson knows.
Music composer Bright Sheng, University of Michigan School of Music professor, is one of 23 individuals to receive the prestigious MacArthur Foundation award. Sheng will receive $500,000 over five years of "no strings attached" support.
The Denmark Vesey affair is commonly accepted as the largest slave rebellion plot in American history -- one that resulted in the hanging of Vesey and 34 slaves in Charleston, S.C., in 1822. Now, a Johns Hopkins historian is arguing that the plot never existed.
The heroic efforts of intended victims and would-be onlookers to oppose the Nazis' attempted genocide of the Jews will be examined through film, song and discussion during the 2001 Holocaust Lecture Series at Vanderbilt Oct. 25-Nov. 10.
Who says cave art went out with the Paleolithic painters? A Minnesota artist is creating the world's deepest mural half a mile down in the Soudan Underground Mine near Tower, Minn. The 25- by 60-foot mural will adorn a physics laboratory.
Richard Rhodes, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his book, "The Making of the Atomic Bomb," will be one of the leaders of The University of Tulsa's Oct. 26-27 writing conference, "The Shape of Discovery: Exploring the Chaos and Complex Systems of Creative Writing and Science."
Romanticized fiction about pirates plundering the sea has always captured the imagination of readers, but a new book edited by a Florida State University English assistant professor explores the real-life experiences of Englishmen on the Mediterranean Sea who were captured and sold into slavery by Muslim pirates during the 16th and 17th centuries.
The Third Man, The Seventh Seal and The Battleship Potemkin all have very different plots but each is related. The movies all contain top real estate moments in the history of world cinema, according to a recent article on the topic authored by a real estate scholar in Penn State's Smeal College of Business.
The work of V.S. Naipaul, awarded this year's Nobel Prize in literature, including his notes, recordings, photos and manuscripts are housed in the Special Collections of McFarlin Library at The University of Tulsa, and are available to the news media.
It is a coincidence befitting a Charles Dickens novel: University professor discovers cache of photographs, lost for more than half a century. Depicted are elder family members of an administrator at the same university where the professor works.
A special collaborative performance by nationally renowned poet Miller Williams and his daughter, Grammy Award-winning songwriter Lucinda Williams has been selected for nationwide distribution by National Public Radio.
As U.S. begins war on terrorism, retired NATO Commander Wesley Clark to speak at Temple on 'America's Global Strategy'.
In the weeks since the tragedy at the World Trade Center, people are finding consolation in poetry in an almost unprecedented way; poems can be found posted on bus stops, on improvised memorials across the city, and are being sent from friend to friend over email.
Michael Gorra, professor of English at Smith College and the author of "The English Novel at Mid-Century" and "After Empire: Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie," is available for comment when the Nobel Prize in Literature is announced.
Historical works describing the national, political, military, and ecclesiastical life of medieval times are the focus of a major research effort now under way by a Mississippi State University professor.
An MU researcher is tapping her way through history in hopes of examining and preserving her favorite art form. An associate professor of history and women's studies, is studying the interaction between tap dance and the women's movement in the United States during the 20th century.
1) Military history professor advocates use of militia for local defense; 2) Temple basketball coach John Chaney inducted into Hall of Fame; 3) Look for the start of stress-related problem to begin now, says Temple expert.
After a century of nearly complete scholarly silence about the poetry of the American left, scholars are now giving this revolutionary literature its due.
Carving a Jack-O-Lantern with your children is a fun tradition that teaches creativity and knife safety.
Southern Methodist University's William P. Clements Jr. Center for Southwest Studies has four new scholars in residence. The center, part of SMU's Dedman College and the William P. Clements Jr. Department of History, promotes research, publishing, teaching and public programming in a variety of fields related to the American Southwest. Most of the scholars are spending the year at the center to turn their dissertations into book-length manuscripts.
Enchanted by the unique real-time global intimacy that the computer age provides, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler is about to premiere worldwide something that has never been done before. Beginning Oct. 30, viewers tuning in on the Internet or on television will be invited "Inside Creative Writing," to peer over a master's shoulder, keystroke for keystroke, as he creates an original story.
A UAB University Professor has written a hymn, "We Stand Strong," dedicated to the families of those lost in the Sept. 11 attacks.
An MU historian spent nearly six years exploring Walt Disney. Now, the findings of his research, which explore the life of Disney and his powerful influence on American culture, are available in his recently published paperback book, "The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life."
More than 6 million ancient Nile Valley artifacts collected by an SMU anthropology professor will be added to the collections of the British Museum in London.
Nearly a decade after John Cage's death, a new staged version of his 1982 radio play "Marcel Duchamp, James Joyce, Erik Satie: An Alphabet" will receive its U.S. premiere Sept. 29 at the UI's Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.
"Unique" is often applied indiscriminately to things that just aren't. But no other single word more accurately describes University of Illinois music professor Rudolf Haken's new amoeba-shaped, five-string instrument.
Jacques Lipchitz may not be as widely known beyond the borders of the art world as his contemporary, Pablo Picasso, but artists, historians, critics and others always have placed the cubist sculptor on a pedestal of his own.
1) Internet taxes could weave a tangled web for dot-coms. 2) It's back-to-school at Temple with the largest freshman class and a 1,000 bed residence hall. 3) Student advisor has tips for students entering school without a major.
1) Temple's freshman move-in day sees 1,500 students arrive for first day of school. 2) New 1,000 bed residence hall boasts all the comforts of home. 3) All parents should be aware of dangers of bullying.
Lord Byron's battle with manic-depression will be considered when scholars from around the world interested in the famous 19th-century Romantic poet gather for the 27th International Byron Conference, to be held Aug. 4-13, in three locations including the University of Delaware.
To say that the French novelist Marcel Proust was attentive to every detail of publishing his great work, "A la Recherche du Temps Perdu" ("In Search of Time Lost"), is a bit of an understatement.
The link to place has long been considered a defining characteristic of Southern literature. But many Southern writers are moving their plotlines to the American West. A literary researcher examines the implications for Southern writing and regional literature as a whole.
Being a published poet is a high-risk occupation -- more dangerous than being a firefighter or deep-sea diver, says a University of Texas at Austin psychologist who recently concluded a new study on language use in poetry.
1) Let's face it, man isn't made to communicate electronically; 2) Bush plan helps big biz by keeping cost of AIDS drugs high; 3) NYC teacher ads could serve as model for Philadelphia.
1) Could merger be the last call for AT&T?; 2) Temple summer course teaches high schoolers robot wars -- Philly-style!; 3) Life is good for WNBA all-stars, but what about the rest?; 4) Click mouse, not shutter for temple pictures: online photo archives now accessible by the news media; 5) X-Games could be big biz for more than city ER's.
Independent filmmaker and Marlboro College film professor Jay Craven is currently in production on Novel City Pictures' "The Year That Trembled," a coming-of-age story set in the shadow of Kent State during the turbulent spring and summer of 1970. Craven wrote the script, which is based on the novel by Scott Lax.
Thanks to a new book of essays in honor of a living eminent historian of Victorian Britain, readers can trace the modern department store to the expansive, elaborate and sometimes ethereal market halls of Liverpool and Leeds, built in 1822 and 1857, respectively.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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."
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.
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.
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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