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USC, Ringling, School of Visual Arts Top Student Academy Award Winners
ReutersMay 14 (TheWrap.com) - The University of Southern California, Ringing College of Art and Design and the School of Visual Arts each placed two films on the list of Student Academy Award winners, which were announced on Tuesday by the Academy. Other...Tags: Swiss Confederation, New York University, Education, University of Michigan, Every Tuesday: A Portrait of The New Yorker Cartoonists (movie)
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reFramed: In conversation with WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY curator Anne Wilkes Tucker
FrameworkAnne Wilkes Tucker is currently the Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston where she has worked since 1976. She founded the Photography Department at the museum that now has a collection of over 28,000... -
Cornell Museum at Rollins wins prestigious grant
The Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College has been awarded an Interpretive Fellowship at Art Museums from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. The museum is one of only seven recipients nationwide given this honor; the others are the Metropolitan...
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School of Visual Arts Leads Student Academy Awards Finalists
ReutersMay 01 (TheWrap.com) - The School of Visual Arts in New York City leads all schools in this year's Student Academy Awards competition, which has been narrowed down to a list of finalists released by the Academy on Wednesday. Five films produced at the...Tags: Swiss Confederation, Germany, University of Michigan, Arts, Every Tuesday: A Portrait of The New Yorker Cartoonists (movie)
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PREVIEW-US court may limit use of race in college admission decisions
ReutersBy Joan Biskupic WASHINGTON, April 28 (Reuters) - Thirty-five years after the U.S. Supreme Court set the terms for boosting college admissions of African Americans and other minorities, the court may be about to issue a ruling that could restrict...Tags: Samuel A. Alito, University of Virginia, University of Michigan, Social Issues, Teaching and Learning
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Robert Langford Montgomery, Jr.
ROBERT LANGFORD MONTGOMERY, JR. 1927-2013 Robert Langford Montgomery, Jr., Harvard ’50 mcl, Ph.D. ’56 died on February 26, 2013 in Newport Beach, CA. A navy veteran of World War II, he was a professor of English and Comparative Literature at...
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Gun legislation failure dismays survivor of Texas mass shooting
Irma Garcia pulled back her sweater to show me where the bullet entered her shoulder and spun her around. It then torpedoed through her body and exited near the middle of her back. "I still have problems with it," she said, standing to show me how the...
Tags: Firearms, Psychology, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , Mental Illness
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Wide search expected in hunt for next UC president
With no obvious inside candidate to be the next president of the University of California system, experts predict a wide search that will concentrate on similar university systems elsewhere but could also stretch beyond academia. Whoever replaces Mark...
Tags: Bill Clinton, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of Michigan, Protest, Teaching and Learning
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UC expected to launch wide search for new president
Mark Yudof likes to point out that he was the first real outsider in more than a century chosen to run the sprawling University of California system. And he often jokes that, as a result of his leadership, it is likely to take a hundred years more...Tags: Regional Authority, Bill Clinton, University of Oklahoma, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of Michigan
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It's official: High-speed Google Fiber heads to Texas
Google Fiber, the ultra-fast broadband Internet service developed by the search-engine company, will be expanding to Austin, Texas, in 2014. In a widely expected move, Austin city officials and Google on Tuesday morning announced the expansion of Fiber....
Tags: Google Inc., Apple iPad, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Lil Wayne seizure puts spotlight on rappers' use of 'sizzurp'
The powerful narcotic popped up on the cultural grid around the turn of the millennium. A Texas producer-remixer named DJ Screw paid homage to its woozy, heavy-lidded high by dramatically slowing down beats and vocals to replicate the drug's sleepwalker...Tags: Lil Wayne, Music, Morphine (drug), Coughing, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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U.S. gay couples report poorer health than straight married counterparts
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - Gay and lesbian couples living together report poorer health than straight married couples, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday, speculating that legalizing same-sex marriage could reduce the disparities. Studies have shown that...Tags: Social Sciences, Sociology, University of Cincinnati, Same-Sex Marriage, Marriage
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