FAU Arts and Letters Spring Newsletter 2012

Spring 2012 Newsletter

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DOROTHY F. SCHMIDT COLLEGE

of Arts and Letters This edition highlights some of the many diverse activities and events of Fall 2011 .

A Message from the Interim Dean: 2012 New Leadership Eric Freedman has accepted the position of Assistant Dean for the College and Noemi Marin will serve as Director of the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies (SCMS).

Eric has distinguished himself across the College and University as an outstanding educator and research/creative artist who is forward-thinking, ingenious, dedicated and perceptive. He will play a key role in strategic planning for the college related to curriculum, faculty development and facilities. Eric will continue to teach for the SCMS and will serve as advisor to the new director.

Noemi has great passion for the SCMS – for its curricula, for its students and for its mission. She brings tremendous enthusiasm, energy and vision to this position. Noemi will take over from Susan Reilly, who is leaving the position after serving as an exemplary leader for more than 13 years, during which time she transformed the school from a department with potential to one of the great jewels of the College.

– Heather Coltman, DMA Interim Dean

FAU

fine arts festival

The Department of Visual Arts and Art History hosted its second Fine Arts Festival in November. Artwork by 20 professional artists was for sale and more than 1,000 people visited the festival. For information about participating in next year’s festival, visit www. fau.edu/vaah.

Department of Music featured at FAU’s 50th Anniversary Gala Seven faculty and 139 music students were featured performers at FAU’s 50th Anniversary Gala, held Oct. 29 at the newly opened stadium on the Boca Raton campus. Sean Murray presented the Marching Owls in the special half-time show and the following faculty directed student performances on all levels of the stadium during the Gala: Patricia Fleitas, Ken Keaton, Laura Joella, Tim Walters, David Rossow and Rebecca Lautar. Also featured were performances by FAU’s student groups ¡Cantemos!, guitar ensembles, string ensembles and graduate vocal soloists.

Comparative

John O’Sullivan Memorial Lecture presented by

Studies Ph.D.

Jacob Hamblin

Applications are now being accepted for Fall 2012 for the Ph.D. in Comparative Studies in the College of Arts and Letters.

The Cultures, Languages and Literatures (CLL) track features an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary course of study that enables doctoral students to develop expertise within traditional disciplines as well as across disciplinary and cultural boundaries. At the heart of the program is the belief that cultures, languages and literatures are most fruitfully understood through comparative modes of analysis that include an ever-changing landscape of theory and methodologies. Primary areas of strength for this broadly based program include studies of literature and migration; rhetoric and composition; U.S. multi ethnic literatures; early modern literatures, gender, sexuality and embodiment in literature; modernity and post modernity in literature; space and place in literature; and postcolonial literature and culture.

For more information, visit www.fau.edu/comparativestudies.

Donation establishes

The Harold Glasser Fund

Marny Glasser, widow of Harold Glasser, recently made a donation for the Harold Glasser Fund in memory of her late husband, a World War II bombardier who became internationally known during his 27-year tenure as president of Miss Universe, Inc. The gift includes a wide variety of memorabilia, a fund to digitize and display the items, as well as a fund to support students who conduct research on World War II, 20th century JewishAmerican history or other related topics.

The Harold L. Glasser Collection is housed in the Wimberly Library on the Boca Raton campus and is open for public viewing Monday through Thursday from 1 to 5 p.m. or by appointment. More information can be found at www.fau.edu/library.

The John O’Sullivan Memorial Lecture Series sponsors annual public lectures and classroom seminars by some of the most distinguished scholars of American history. The series originated in the spring of 2004, when a group of senior audit students at FAU established a memorial fund to honor the memory of the late John O’Sullivan, a beloved professor of history who died in 2000. The 2011 event in November featured Jacob Hamblin of Oregon State University with “The Nuclear Promise: Global Consequences of an American Dream.” For more information on how to contribute to the O’Sullivan series, visit www.fau.edu/history.

Image: A painting of Harold L. Glasser by E.P. Ziegler from the ‘Courage Takes Flight: The Life and Times of Harold Glasser’ Exhibition at the FAU Library, December 2011

JACK MILLER Forum

VISITING Author

Cristina García, author of the best-seller Dreaming in Cuban, visited FAU for a reading and book signing in October. García has written four subsequent novels, a poetry collection and three books for young readers. García’s visit was part of FAU’s celebration of the National Day on Writing and was sponsored by FAU’s Off the Page Literary Series in the Department of English.

Each year, the Jack Miller Forum hosts a speakers series that is open to all FAU faculty, staff and students as well as the South Florida public. Kevin Wagner organized the series and brought Congressman Ted Deutch and Congressman Allen West to campus in October and November.

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The Department of Music held its inaugural Madrigal Dinner in December at St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church in Boca Raton. Over 100 guests were entertained by musicians, jugglers and a jester, and served a medieval dinner. Other events included the Michael and Madelyn Savarick High School Honor Choral Festival and Vocal Competition, which brought 100 high school students from Broward, Palm Beach, and Miami-Dade counties to perform in the University Theatre. That same week also brought the first visit of the 2011-2012 Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar Michael McGlynn. FAU Choral Ensembles presented a concert of “Music of the British Isles and Ireland,” which featured the music of this Dublin-born composer.

GALLERIES Biennial

Faculty Exhibition

The University Galleries held the 2011 Biennial Faculty Exhibition in September featuring works by 37 artists that teach in the Department of Visual Arts and Art History, the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, and the School of Architecture. There were also four Artist Talks held during the span of the exhibition. These were presented by faculty in the Department of Visual Arts and Art History: Tom Scicluna, who teaches three-dimensional design; Tammy Knipp, an associate professor of art in graphic design; Ariel Baron-Robbins, an instructor of drawing and painting; and Suzie Khalil, who teaches photography.

Image: (Above) Visual Arts and Art History Students visit the Biennial Faculty Exhibition in the Schmidt Center Gallery, Fall 2011; (Below) Lisa Armbrust, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and CWGSS Advisory Council; Lena Georgas; Lora “Skeets” Friedkin, CWGSS Advisory Council.

FILM SCREENING Refuge The advisory council for FAU’s Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Morgan Stanley Smith Barney hosted an evening of film, discussion, drinks and tapas at the Living Room Theaters. The November event included a screening of the film “Refuge” and an appearance by Lena Georgas, an actress in the film. The event was a great success in raising funds for scholarships in FAU’s Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. www.fau.edu/womensstudies

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School of Communication and Multimedia Studies (SCMS) Shane Eason’s recent screenings and installations include “Works of the Flesh: Third Study” at: the FAU Biennial Art Faculty Exhibition, at the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art Amid the Street Noise Exhibition; and at Art Basel in the Multiversal Film Festival in the Hangar Gallery, Miami. “Works of the Flesh: Second Study” and “Film Still #2 Banner” were also recently exhibited at the DMZ Art Festival in the Seokjang-ri Art Museum, Yeoju-gun, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. Further, Eason recently curated the 4th Annual 1:1 Super 8 Cinema Soiréel at IWAN The Bubble in Fort Lauderdale.

Joey Bargsten published his first book Hybrid Forms and Syncretic Horizons (Lambert Academic Publishing: Saarbrücken, 2011).

A group of SCMS faculty participated and contributed to the National Communication Association Annual Convention in New Orleans in November. These include: •

Ryan McGeough presented “Labor Voices, Public Memory and Public Argument.”

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Melanie Loehwing presented a coauthored research paper titled “Civic Rhetoric: Aristotle Speaks Back.”

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Noemi Marin chaired and responded to panels on “Dissent, Prejudice and Peace: Cultural Impacts of Communication Technologies” and “Voices of the 2011 Revolutions: The Impact of Communication Technology in Tunisia, Egypt, and Elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa.”

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Deandre Poole presented “Toward a More Peaceful Existence: Religion and Culture in the 21st Century Classroom.”

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David Williams participated at the NCA Business meeting for the Eurasian Communication Association of North America, held during the convention.

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Anthropology Kate Detwiler was awarded a University Seed Grant and a Mentor/Mentee Faculty Award, both funded by the Division of Research, for a Genetic Study of Natural Hybridization in African Monkeys.

Susan Love Brown gave her paper “How Communal Are Communal Societies?” at the annual meeting of the Communal Studies Association at Shaker Union Village in Kentucky. She also delivered the paper “Sacred Mission and Commercial Enterprise: Ananda at the Interface of Community, Nation, and Globe” at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Montreal, Quebec.

Clifford Brown co-authored, with Walter T. Witshey, The 2012 Historical Dictionary of Mesoamerica. (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press). He also presented “The Emergence of Inequality” at the FAU Center for Body, Mind and Culture Fall Colloquium.

Mary Cameron was awarded a Council of American Overseas Research Centers Multi-Country Research Fellowship grant of $12,000 to conduct medical anthropological research in Nepal and India.

She received a letter of commendation from the U.S. Congress for this grant. She also published two articles: “Why Not Nepal Ayurveda? Conservation Development and Cultural Diversity.” Studies in Nepali History and Society (SINHAS); and“Trading Health: Biodiversity Conservation, Traditional Medicine, Natures, and the Poor in South Asia.” Wadsworth Case-Studies in Applied Cultural Anthropology (web-based).

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English Lisa Swanstrom presented “Wares from the ‘Winter Market’: William Gibson, Cyberpunk Fiction, and Digital Culture” to the English Brown Bag Lunch Series.

Sika Dagbovie (along with Jane Caputi, a Women’s Studies graduate student and a LGBTQ specialist) held a “Feminist Forum on Sexual Abuse.”

Wendy Hinshaw presented “Making Ourselves Vulnerable: A Feminist Pedagogy of Listening” as part of the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Fall Colloquium Series.

Adam Bradford presented “The Collaborative Construction of a DeathDefying Cryptext: Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass” at the FAU Center for Body, Mind and Culture Fall Colloquium.

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History Ben Lowe has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, based in London.

Mark Rose was selected as this year’s recipient of the Lifelong Learning Society Professorship in Arts and Humanities.

Barbara Ganson presented a paper on the history of “Air Fashions of U.S. Women Aviators between the World Wars” at the annual meeting of the Society of History of Technology in Cleveland, Ohio. She was also elected to represent the Latin American and Caribbean Section to the Southern Historical Association, a member of the Executive Council for the Southern Historical Association.

Talitha Deflouria published “The Hand that Rocks the Cradle Cuts Cordwood: Exploring Black Women’s Lives and Labor in Georgia’s Convict Camps, 1865-1917.”

This article was nominated for the 2012 A. Elizabeth Taylor prize.

Derrick E. White published the book The Challenge of Blackness: The Institute of the Black World and Political Activism in the 1970s (University Press of Florida, 2011). He also published the article “An Independent Approach to Black Studies:

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The Institute of the Black World and its Evaluation and Support of Black Studies” in the Journal of African American Studies and presented “From Desegregation to Integration: Race, Football, and Dixie at the University of Florida” at the Association for the Study of African American Life and History in Richmond, Virginia.

Representing the Parisian Banlieue in Recent French Cinema” at the FAU Center for Body, Mind and Culture Fall Colloquium.

the Miami Herald. He has appeared on National television including NBC’s “The Today Show” and MSNBC.

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Philosophy

Sociology

Carol Gould was selected to be a 2012 scholar for the “Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives” NEH-funded program from the Aquila Theatre Company in New York City.

Mark Harvey published two articles: “Welfare Reform and Household Survival: The Interaction of Structure and Network Strength in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas,” Journal of Poverty; and “Welfare Reform and Household Survival in a Transnational Community: Findings from the Rio Grande Valley, Texas,” The Applied Anthropologist.

He also presented a paper at the Joint Meetings of the Rural Sociological Society and the Community Development Society titled “Rural Governance Regimes and the Persistence of Poverty: Perspectives of Community Leaders in the Mississippi Delta.”

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Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature (LLCL) Under the stewardship of Myriam Ruthenberg, the FAU Program in Italian Studies received $5,000 from the Lena Camiccia Arnautou Foundation. This is the 15th year that the program has received this gift. Italian program students have benefited from this foundation’s generosity through the Lena Camiccia Arnautou Scholarship for Excellence in Italian Studies Endowment as well as through study abroad support. The Italian Cultural Society of the Palm Beaches (Il Circolo) also gave $7,500 to support study abroad and music scholarship support.

Nancy Poulson was elected to the Board of Directors of the Florida Humanities Council for a three-year term ending September 2014.

Emanuele Pettener’s novel “Proust per bagnanti” [“Proust for beachgoers”] has been accepted for publication in 2012 by an Italian Press.

Mary Ann Gosser Esquilin presented “Looking for Zombis in All the Wrong Places: Mayra Montero’s La trenza de la hermosa luna” at the 1st International Hispanic Conference of the Day of the Dead: “Monsters, Ghosts, Devils, and Orishas in Latin American and Peninsular Literature, Film, and Music.” She also published a book review: Autobiografía del esclavo poeta y otros escritos de Juan Francisco Manzano.

Frédéric Conrod travelled to Goa, India, to participate in an international conference on the Jesuit missions and St. Francis Xavier organized by the Universidad de Navarra (Spain). He also presented “Beyond Hate:

Simon Glynn presented several conference papers. The first was presented to the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences conference “20 years without the USSR: Lessons for the Future” organized by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung in Moscow. The paper was titled “The Rise and Fall of Soviet Communism and of Global Capitalism, and the Socialist Way Forward.” He also presented “From the Phenomenology to the Hermeneutics of Perception” to the annual meeting of The Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences meeting in conjunction with the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy 50th annual meeting in Philadelphia. The third paper was “Analytic Thinking,” which was presented to the Teaching Symposium held during the annual meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association.

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Political Science Robert Rabil was selected as this year’s recipient of the Lifelong Learning Society’s Professorship in the Social Sciences. He also published Religion, National Identity and Confessional Politics in Lebanon: The Challenge of Islamism (Palgrave Macmillan).

Rabil is frequently interviewed by national and international media. An opinion article

by Rabil titled “Why U.S. must step carefully in Syria” was recently featured by CNN. Kevin Wagner published Rebooting American Politics: The Internet Revolution (Rowman and Littlefield Press). He has lectured extensively on American politics and has been cited in many leading newspapers including the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, New York Newsday, the Dallas Morning News and

Phillip Hough published the following articles: “Hegemonic Projects and the Social Reproduction of the Peasantry: Examining the National Federation of Coffee Growers and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia in World Historical Perspective” Review: The Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center; and “Guerrilla Insurgency as Organized Crime: Explaining the So-Called ‘Political Involution’ of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia,” Politics and Society.

Patricia Widener recently published the book Oil Injustice: Resisting and Conceding a Pipeline in Ecuador. (Rowman and Littlefield).

Ryan Moore was published in The Chronicle of Higher Education with the article “Is Punk the New Jazz?”

Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies (CWGSS) Jane Caputi recently published the following articles: “Re-Creating Patriarchy: Connecting Religion and Pornography,” Wake Forest Journal of Law & Policy; “Feeding Green Fire,” Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture; and “The Pornography of Everyday Life,” Race, Class & Gender in the Media. Additionally she gave two conference presentations: “Feeding Green Fire: Ecofeminist Perspectives on Aldo Leopold,” American Environmental History Conference, Phoenix (with Sika Dagbovie); and “Robo-Divas: Black Female ‘Cyborgs’ in Popular Music,” National Women’s Studies Association, Atlanta. She also was invited to Virginia Wesleyan University to show her film “The Pornography of Everyday Life” and to lead a series of workshops on sex and violence in popular media.

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Music The Duo Turgeon performed at the Chicago International Duo Piano Festival; the Temple Beth Concert Series in Detroit; the Festival Duettissimo in Minsk, Belarus; and the World Piano Conference in Novi Sad, Serbia. In addition, Duo Turgeon were heard in broadcasts on BBC Radio I & II, for a special radio documentary devoted to the life and music of composer Moritz Moszkowski and on American Public Media stations performing music by John Corigliano and selections from their compact disc “Latin American Journey.”

The FAU Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Laura Joella, held a Side-By-Side Honors High School Orchestra Festival in November.

This brought students from four high schools onto FAU’s campus to rehearse with students from FAU’s Symphony Orchestra during the two-day festival to create a 50-member string orchestra. The FAU string faculty involved were Rebecca Lautar, violin; Diane Weisberg, viola; Cornelia Brubeck, cello; and Benjamin Joella, bass.

The FAU Bands Program, under the direction of Kyle Prescott, presented the 3rd Annual FAU Band-O-Rama in November at the

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Mizner Park Amphitheater in downtown Boca Raton. This event included the Wind Ensemble, Jazz Band, the Marching Owls (directed by Sean Murray) and seven chamber music ensembles. The event was possible due to the cooperation of the City of Boca Raton. The free event filled the amphitheater, with an audience estimated to be 2,500 patrons.

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Theatre and Dance Clarence Brooks was selected as a 2012 Associate Artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. This artist residency program in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, brings together internationally acclaimed master artists from different disciplines with talented artists selected by the masters.

This is Brooks’ second ACA Associate Artist residency.

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Visual Arts and Art History (VAAH) Carol Prusa was recently awarded the artist-in-industry residency through the Kohler Foundation to work in the main Kohler facility in Wisconsin for several months to create a large installation work in ceramic. She is also a finalist for a public art project for the Department of Mathematics at the University of Oregon. This fall her work appeared in three museum shows and three gallery shows.

Blane De St. Croix has been selected to serve on the College Art Association’s (CAA) Service to Artists Committee for a three year term starting in January 2012. Blane also received the 2011 Massachusetts College of Art Alumni Award for Outstanding Creative Accomplishment. His sculpture is featured on the cover of the December issue of Sculpture Magazine.

Karen Leader recently completed the Stories on the Skin: Tattoo Culture at FAU project. She also co-curated (with Rod Faulds) the Figured Spaces Exhibition.

Brian McConnell recently curated the exhibition “Chiura Obata - Ways of Art” at the MacArthur Campus Library Gallery.

New faculty The Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature (LLCL) recently hired Nuria Godón-Martínez as assistant professor of Spanish. Nuria joined LLCL as a Visiting Instructor, and later, Visiting Assistant Professor, in the Fall of 2009.

Before coming to FAU, she was an Assistant Professor at Creighton University. Originally from Spain, Nuria earned her Ph.D. in Spanish at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Nuria comments “I was particularly attracted to FAU by the amount of students trying to improve their communicative Spanish skills in order to deepen their bicultural identity.”

Mentor|Mentee awards For the second year in a row, the Division of Research is funding the Faculty Mentoring Program which promotes the exchange of ideas and best practices in funded research. Senior colleagues with significant extramural funding experience are paired with tenure-track faculty members who wish to be mentored and commit to submitting a fundable research proposal at the end of the one-year mentoring period.

The mentor receives a monetary award of $1,000, and the mentee receives $2,000.

The following faculty members have received awards as part of this program: Anthropology Mentor: Tanja Godenschwege (Integrative Biology) Mentee: Kate Detwiler (Anthropology) Visual Arts and Art History Mentor: Mary Cameron Mentee: Jeane Cooper Mentor: Blane De St. Croix Mentee: Juana Valdes

Sabbatical awards One Semester: Susan Mitchell, English; Patricia Darlington, SCMS; Thomas Atkins, Theatre and Dance;Eric Berlatsky, English Two Semesters: Jane Caputi, CWGSS; Carol Prusa, VAAH; Nora Erro-Peralta, LLCL; Martha Mendoza, LLCL; Ryan Moore, Sociology;Naihua Zhang, Sociology

Eminent Scholars

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ALUMNI

Alan L. Berger

Raddock Family Eminent Scholar in Holocaust Studies The manuscript “Trialogue and Terror: Abrahamic Faiths After 9/11” was accepted for publication. Berger also co-authored the article “The Burden of Inheritance: The Holocaust in the Novels of Nicole Krauss” which was submitted for publication.

Lester Embree

Dietrich Eminent Scholar in Philosophy Embree authored seven scholarly articles including: “Indirect Experiencing Reflectively Analyzed,” PhaenEx ; Del ‘Nosaltres’ al ‘Jo’ i de tornado: Aprenent encara de la New School,” Anvari de la Societat Catalana de Filosofia; “Schutz on Groups: The Concrete Meaning Structure of the Socio-Historical World,” PhaenEx; and “Seven epochēs,” Phenomenology and Practice.

Frederick Greenspahn

Gimelstob Eminent Scholar in Judaic Studies Greenspahn published the following: “Sadducees and Karaites: The Rhetoric of Jewish Sectarianism” in the 2011 issue of Jewish Studies Quarterly; and Jewish Mysticism and Kabbalah: New Insights and Scholarship (an edited volume from the Gimelstob symposium). He also delivered a paper on “Deuteronomy and Centralization” at the Society of Biblical Literature’s annual meeting in San Francisco.

Michael Zager

Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Performing Arts The second edition of Zager’s book Music Production was released in December.

Student news Kate Novak, a 2012 Diplomacy Program student, has been accepted into the Global Youth Connect Human Rights Program. Kate will travel to New York City in June for three weeks of training at the United Nations.

Expenses for her program will be taken care of by the Diplomacy Program thanks to the generous donations of members of the South Florida public.

Twelve FAU art students were selected by several New York City galleries to serve as interns for the Miami Art Basel exhibition.

Also, Jeane Cooper’s (VAAH) work appeared in a gallery at Miami Art Basel.

Dawn Dubriel is a filmmaker and Master’s student in Italian Studies, and a previous study abroad student in Florence, Italy.

In December, she presented her three short videos dedicated to the FAU Study Abroad Program in Venice. “Venice and Its Reflections” is a description of the course taught by Ilaria Serra, assistant professor of Italian and comparative studies.

In November, 11 Italian program students participated in an essay contest, underwritten by the Italian Consulate general in Miami, and in conjunction with the University of Miami and Florida International University.

The following FAU students won, respectively first, second and third prizes: Sara Sokolin, Carla Mutterstein and Jessica Monje.

The Sixth Annual Concerto and Aria Competition was held in November. Out of the 16 FAU students involved, the winners were Isidora Jovanovic, a master’s student and Provost Award Graduate Student from the piano studio of Edward Turgeon; Kyle Mechmet, a junior majoring in Music Performance from the saxophone studio of Neal Bonsanti and Mike Brignola; and Corona De Los Santos, a freshman majoring in Music Performance from the vocal studio of Patricia Fleitas. The runner-up was Takako Tokuda, a graduate student from the piano studio of Judith Burganger. (Image above L-R): Kyle Mechmet, Corona De Los Santos, Isidora Jovanovic, Takako Tokuda

Communications student Garrett Astler completed his documentary film “The Salango Project.” The film documents the FAU anthropology field school in coastal Ecuador. Recorded over a period of six weeks, the film follows an international group of students as they are trained in the field techniques of archeology and experience a life-changing journey along the way. The video can be viewed at www.youtube.com/ floridaatlanticu#p/a/u/0/RTppVcyjGN8. The project was made possible by the Innez Persson Bailyn Endowment.

E-LEARNING at FAU E-Learning continues to grow at FAU. The following faculty were approved to teach E-Learning classes in the coming year: Geraldine Blattner, LIN 4600 Sociolinguistics Doug McGetchin, PAX 3001 Introduction to Peace Studies Fred Fejes, MMC 1540 Introduction to Media Studies Timothy Dial, THE 4284 History of Fashion & Décor 1 Marcella Munson, FRE 5060 Readings for Research in French Kate Detwiler, ANT 3586 Human Evolution Sandra Norman, AMH 3372 History of American Technology Evelyn Trotter, GER3400 Advanced German: Reading and Composition Francis McAfee, COM 4930 Special Topics: Graphics and Animation for Mobile App Barbara Ganson, LAH 3200 Modern Latin American History Mark Nicholas, AMH 2010 U.S. History to 1877

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