Faculty Staff Achievements, Feb. 28, 2008

Award

Doretta Miller, Robert Davidson Professor of Art, was awarded grants from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Puffin Foundation to support the exhibition "Beijing NOW: Oil Paintings by Twelve Chinese Artists," on view at First Street Gallery, 536 West 26th St., New York City, through March 1. A bilingual catalogue accompanies the exhibition, with Mandarin translations by Visiting Professor Lingyi Hu, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.

Exhibition

Deb Hall, associate professor of art, will participate in "Der Zeitgenosse: A National Exhibition of Contemporary Art" Feb. 28-April 3 at the Eastern Washington University Gallery of Art.

In the News

Sandy Baum, professor of economics, was a source for "Getting Aid: Many top-flight schools reluctant to load students with debt," published Feb. 25 in the Wall Street Journal.

Regina Janes, professor of English, is the author of a letter to the editor of the New York Times Book Review titled "Tristam, Tom and Gulliver" and published Feb. 24.