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VOL. 22, NO. 22APRIL 25, 1997


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Schamus. Record Photo by Joe Pineiro.
  • Three professors and one alumna of the School of the Arts Writing Division have won awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Maureen Howard, professor, and Luc Sante, adjunct assistant professor, received awards for literature. Receiving the Academy's Witter Bynner Poetry Prize was Mark Doty, adjunct professor of writing (1995-96). The Academy's Rome Fellowship was awarded to former M.F.A. student Fay Myenne, '83.

  • James Schamus, assistant professor in the School of the Arts Film Division, on Apr. 14 delivered the University Lecture in Low Rotunda. In his talk "Narrative Rights," he described his role a film producer: "I trade in the futures market of life stories."

  • Robert Pollack, professor of biological sciences, has been appointed president of the Jewish Campus Life Fund of the Robert K. Kraft Family Center for Jewish Student Life. He is an alumnus of the College and served as its dean for seven years.

  • Glenda Rosenthal, director of the Institute on Western European and adjunct professor of international and public affairs, has been appointed the first occupant of the new Fulbright Chair in EU-US Relations at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. The new chair was established under the December 1995 agreement between the U.S. and the European Union to promote transatlantic ties in a variety of fields, including education.

  • George Saliba, professor of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, has won the 1996 prize in Arabic and Islamic Scientific Heritage from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, for his work in astronomy over the last ten years. He will receive the award in Kuwait, where he will lecture on "Features of Originality in Arabic Astronomy."

  • Xiaobo Lu, Barnard assistant professor of political science, is the recipient of the 1996-97 Emily Gregory Award for Excellence in Teaching at Barnard. The award annually honors a faculty member for excellence in teaching and for devotion and service to Barnard students.

  • Donna Lee, a J.D. candidate in the Law School, will study the mail-order bride business in the Philippines on a Fulbright scholarship during the 1997-98 year. Her work will build upon her article "Mail-Order Brides: Prostitution or Involuntary Servitude?" which will appear in the Berkeley Asian Law Journal later this year.



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