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A recent afternoon celebration of Kevin ’70 and Karen Kennedy’s generosity and participation in American Art 1900-1950 offered all those involved, directly and tangentially, an opportunity to revisit the wealth of experiences incorporated in the course.
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Professor of Economics Derek Jones is the editor of a special issue of the Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership and the author of its lead article.
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The Zo, a series of videos from The Marshall Project that takes a look at life inside prison received the 2020 Excellence and Innovation in Visual Digital Storytelling from the Online News Association. The series is based on the sentiments expressed in letters in the American Prison Writing Archive founded by Professor of Literature and Creative Writing Doran Larson.
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A clawhammer banjo player and a scholar of Appalachian old-time and bluegrass music that focuses on women, Professor of Music Lydia Hamessley was the natural choice to write Unlikely Angel – The Songs of Dolly Parton.
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Associate Director for Digital Learning and Research Nhora Lucía Serrano recently participated in a virtual roundtable on scholarly publication in comics studies on Oxford University Press’ youtube channel spotlighting top scholars in a variety of scholarly fields.
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Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Zhuoyi Wang gave an invited Zoom talk to the Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA) on Oct. 10. Nearly 250 people, most of whom are Chinese language teachers across the U.S., attended the Zoom talk. The talk was titled “An introduction to film language: the analysis of To Live (1994) as an example.”
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Gordon Jones, the Stone Professor of Natural History and Professor of Physics, was recently announced as the winner of the American Physical Society’s 2021 Prize for a Faculty Member for Research in an Undergraduate Institution.
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Ty Seidule, a visiting professor of military history and retired brigadier general, is an expert on Confederate memorialization and the Lost Cause — the notion that the Confederacy was a doomed but noble undertaking is particularly attuned to the ways in which the war and its aftermath shaped American culture.
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Lisa McFall, associate director, metadata and digital initiatives in LITS, published a chapter in Quick Hits for Teaching with Digital Humanities: Successful Strategies from Award-Winning Teachers, recently released by Indiana University Press.
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