Recognitions
Ricky Allman (Art and Art History) has been awarded one of The Charlotte Street Foundation’s Awards for Visual Artists for 2011. The grant is in the amount of $10,000. For more, see:
http://www.charlottestreet.org/2011/04/2011-charlotte-street-visual-artist-awards-fellows-announced/
Richard Delaware (Mathematics and Statistics) won the 2011 Missouri Section of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics, awarded on April 1 in Columbia, MO, at the annual section meeting. His nomination packet was also forwarded to the MAA to be entered in the national competition for the 2011 Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics, and he will learn this summer whether he is one of the up to 3 annual winners. See:
http://www.maa-mo.org/teachingaward/teachingaward.html
William Ashworth (History) organized an exhibition last year for Linda Hall Library: The Grandeur of Life: A Celebration of Charles Darwin. The Library has just learned that the online catalog of the exhibition (which he wrote and designed) has won the national award given by the Association of College and Research Libraries, Rare Books and Manuscripts Division, for best online exhibition of 2009-2010. Linda Hall had only won it once before, for his earlier printed catalog, The Face of the Moon (1991). The award will be presented on June 26, 2011 in New Orleans at the annual meeting of the ACRL; Bruce Bradley, curator of rare books at Linda Hall, will accept it. For the award winning catalog, see:
James Sturgeon (Economics) was interviewed by NBC Action News about the legislative debate in Jefferson City on a proposed Right to Work Law for Missouri. For more see:
Kati Toivanen ( Art & Art History) gave a Visiting Artist Presentation at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art on March 24, 2011. For more see:
Monica Mingucci (Applied Language Institute) was interviewed for the Wednesday Sun about ALI and its programs. For more see:
Maude Wahlman (Art and Art History) was curator for an exhibit of African Art at Northwest Missouri State University that ran April 4 through April 22, 2011. She gave the opening night lecture as well as wrote the catalog. For more see:
- http://www.nwmissouri.edu/dept/art/deluce/2010/african.htm
- http://www.nwmissouri.edu/dept/art/pdf/deluce/AfricanCatalog.pdf
Bill Black (Economics) who had served as the Federal Government’s director of litigation during the savings and loan crisis was again interviewed by the New York Times about the way those who seemed to have precipitated the current financial crisis have been treated. See:
