Olivia DrakeHari Krishnan, artist-in-residence in the Dance Department, was featured in the March 13 issue of The Toronto Star. In an article titled, "Dance: Traditional Meets the Postmodern," Krishnan speaks about his dance troupe, InDANCE, which performs Indian classical dance style bharatanatyam with Western contemporary eroticism. Krishnan was raised in Singapore, part of the small island republic's Indian minority. He studied bharatanatyam and an imported European form of ballet. He embraced Western contemporary dance as an undergraduate in Canada. He holds a master's degree in dance from York University in Toronto. As a result, he's hard to categorize and this has proved to be…
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David LowRobert Gardner ’51 recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) at the group’s annual meeting on February 20, 2010 in San Diego, Calif. Gardner was recognized for writing more than 130 hands-on science books for children during the past 35 years. Terry Young, chairman of the award selection committee, noted that Gardner’s clear presentation of science at all grade levels, along with his creative writing and use of common household materials, have excited thousands of children to get involved in science and understand the scientific method, all while having fun. The…
Corrina KerrSteve Stemler, assistant professor of psychology, is the co-author of "The socially skilled teacher and the development of tacit knowledge," published in the British Educational Research Journal, Feb. 24, 2010
Rae Armantrout’s Versed, published by Wesleyan University Press, won the National Book Critics Circle Award in the poetry category. “The poetry award went to Rae Armantrout’s Versed (Wesleyan University Press) for its demonstration of superb intellect and technique, its melding of experimental poetics but down-to-earth subject matter to create poems you are compelled to return to, that get richer with each reading.”
J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, associate professor of American studies, associate professor of anthropology, delivered the keynote address during the Hawai'i American Studies Association Symposium March 11 at the Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her lecture was titled, "A Sorry State: Hawaiian Nationalism and the Politics of Imperialist Resentment." Kauanui's talk was co-sponsored by the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Sasha Rudensky '01, visiting assistant professor of art, is exhibiting her work in the "31 Women in Art Photography" exhibition at Affirmation Arts in New York City. The exhibit is open until April 10.
Norman Shapiro, professor of romance languages and literatures, is working on an opera titled "La Castrata," with David Francis Urrows, associate professor of music of Hong Kong Baptist University. Shapiro is providing the libretto, or text of the opera.