Recognitions
Bob Stewart of BkMK Press has written to tell us of the good word that a BkMk Press book of stories, Homicide Survivors Picnic, by Lorraine M. Lopez, is a finalist for the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The PEN/Faulkner Award is the largest peer-juried fiction prize in the country. The winner of this award — the “winner among equals” — will be announced on March 23. The other four finalist books were published by Grove Press, Harper, Knopf and Doubleday.
Beth Miller (Political Science) has been interviewed by media from several continents about the results of the research she and Jennifer Lundgren (Psychology) recently published on obesity and political candidate evaluations. For two of these interviews see:
- www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7092996/Overweight-male-politicians-are-more-popular.html
- http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2010/01/body-size-obesity-political-candidates-voters.html
Randy Wray (Economics), at the invitation of the President of the Dominican Republic, participated in program hosted by the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development in San Domingo during the week of January 19, 2010.
- For more on the Foundation see: http://www.globalfoundationdd.org/gfdd/
- For a summary (in Spanish) of Randy’s talk see: This entry was posted on Monday, March 15th, 2010 at 3:09 pm and is filed under Faculty Recognitions. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
