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Illinois Wesleyan University
IWU, ISU Welcomes Author Sarah Vowell
Author, journalist and radio personality Sarah Vowell spoke at Illinois Wesleyan and Illinois State Universities on Tuesday, Oct. 24, as the featured author for the 5th Annual Ames/Milner Visiting Author Program. The author of four books, Vowell won Newsweek's "Rookie of the Year" non-fiction award in 1997 for her first book, Radio On: A Listener's Diary.
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Stetson University
Stetson University receives $1 million for Art Center to House Bluemner Collection
Stetson University’s extensive art collection by Modernist painter Oscar Bluemner (1867-1938) soon will have a permanent gallery on the Stetson campus – thanks to the generosity of longtime Stetson trustee and alumna Dolly Hand and her husband, Homer Hand. The Hands are donating a $1 million lead gift for an art center to be built between Sampson Hall, home of the university’s Art Department, and the duPont-Ball Library on campus.
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William Jewell College
Jewell Debaters Earn Top National Ranking, Travel to Oxford Tournament
William Jewell senior debaters Kevin Garner and Lilia Toson, both of Kansas City, North, are the top parliamentary debate team in the nation according to the National Parliamentary Tournament of Excellence rankings. Garner and Toson competed at Oxford University November 10-12 in their first attempt at world-style parliamentary debate. Teams from all over the world compete at Oxford, including Ivy League universities in the United States.
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Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
Kyle Maynard Opens Edinboro University’s Sesquicentennial Celebration
In the long history of Edinboro University’s Louis C. Cole Auditorium – Memorial Hall, few speakers have had such a profound impact on an audience as did Kyle Maynard. He was born with “congenital amputation,” a rare condition causing him to have no arms beyond his elbows and no knees. Despite this lifelong disability, the 20-year-old student at the University of Georgia became a high-school wrestling star, earned a 3.7 GPA, learned to drive a car, type 50 words a minute, and develop impeccable handwriting.
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Hampshire College
Two Hampshire Student Films in Festivals
Two senior project films by Hampshire College alumni have been accepted into prestigious film festivals. Unwilled Inheritance: A Portrait of Three Generations, a short film by Nathan Broaddus, has shown in seven festivals and won first prize for animation in the University Film and Video Association’s touring festival of student films. Joey Carey’s film on biodiesel fuel, Greasy Rider, was recently shown at the Woodstock Film Festival and will screen at the Northampton Independent Film Festival in November.
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Utica College
UC Professors Confirm Major Archaeological Find
Utica College Associate professors Drs. Thomas and Molly Crist, working with a joint American-Canadian team of forensic anthropologists, have completed analysis of a skull buried during the winter of 1604-1605 at St. Croix Island in Maine; the team confirmed that it is the earliest evidence of a European autopsy found in the New World. The autopsied skull was discovered during excavations at the island by the National Park Service (NPS) in June 2003.
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