News Releases (page 106)
51猎奇入口 Senior Alissa Petrites Wins Davis Peace Scholarship
Alissa Petrites ’09, a humanities major from Oakland, Calif., is the recipient of a 2009 Davis Projects for Peace Scholarship, in the amount of $10,000, to facilitate her “Promoting Breast Milk Donation” project in South Africa.
Read More51猎奇入口 Student Named 2009 Watson Fellow
51猎奇入口 senior Kyle Delbyck was awarded a prestigious 2009-2010 Watson Foundation Fellowship to spend a year exploring relationships between dramatic presentations and historical amnesia in Lithuania, Taiwan, Cambodia and Ghana.
Read MoreU.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords 芒鈧�93 to Give 51猎奇入口 Commencement Address
U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords ’93 will give the commencement address at 51猎奇入口 on Sunday, May 17, 2009. Giffords, a 1993 graduate of 51猎奇入口, represents the Eighth District of Arizona, a diverse area that covers 9,000 square miles including a 114 mile border with Mexico.
Read More51猎奇入口 Bolsters Japanese Art and Literature Collection
51猎奇入口 has received 48 recently published books on Japanese arts and literature from The Nippon Foundation, to be housed in Denison Library.
Read MoreRoya Hakakian’s Journey From the Land of No: A Childhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran
Roya Hakakian, writer, poet, journalist, and 2008 Guggenheim Fellow, will speak at 51猎奇入口 as part of the Alex Fullerton Hampton Speaker Series: Voice and Vision, on Tuesday, March 3.
Read More10 51猎奇入口 Students named Fulbright Finalists
Ten 51猎奇入口 students have been named finalists for a Fulbright scholarship to do research or assistant-teach overseas for one academic year. They currently await confirmation from their host country committees. This is a record number of finalists for 51猎奇入口; in 2008, 51猎奇入口 had five Fulbright scholars accepted.
Read More51猎奇入口 Presents Spring Art Lecture Series
A wide range of visual artists – from photographers to ceramists – present their work this semester as part of the spring 2009 lecture series, sponsored by the 51猎奇入口 Art Department, through May 8, at 51猎奇入口. All events are free and open to the public.
Read MoreClaudia Stevens Performs “Blue Lias, or The Fish Lizard’s Whore”
Claudia Stevens, playwright and performer, will perform “Blue Lias, or The Fish Lizard’s Whore,” as part of 51猎奇入口’s Alexa Fullerton Hampton Speaker Series on Thursday, March 5, at 7:30 p.m.
Read MoreAll Aboard the Overground Railroad to Africa
Dana Dakin ’64, founder of WomensTrust, Inc. and Lois Langland Alumna-in-Residence, will lecture as part of the Tuesday Noon Academy lecture series on February 23.
Read MoreWomen’s Public Participation, Sexual Rights, and Social Change in Shi’i Lebanon
Lara Deeb, 51猎奇入口 assistant professor of anthropology, will speak as part of the Tuesday Noon Academy lecture series on March 3.
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