Life News (Arts & Humanities)

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There are prizes and there are PRIZES. Perhaps none such fun as the newest - The Dr. Norman Hugo '55 Prize for Reconstructing an Ancient Sculpture.

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A new book about women's writing in the First World War reveals how both authors and citizens created fictional spaces to escape the pressures of society and war on the home front.

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The new book by UAB historian George Liber, Ph.D., chronicles the life of a Ukrainian filmmaker whose movies are hailed as classics of the silent and early sound era.

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If you're having a hard time getting into the holiday spirit, try listening to festive music.

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The University of California, Santa Cruz, has received a donation of photographs from renowned photographer Pirkle Jones (a colleague of Ansel Adams) and his late wife Ruth-Marion Baruch valued at more than $1 million--including their landmark Black Panther series of photos.

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1) With fewer and fewer shopping days left until Christmas, retailers are playing upon the emotions of consumers, Temple marketing professor says. 2) 'Tis the season to be stressed... 3) Window-less computer doesn't leave you in the dark.

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Over the past six months, faculty and students in the nationally-ranked University of Arkansas programs in creative writing have produced numerous publications, from poetry to fiction, essays and translations. Here's where to find them.

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Virtual reality tours sound like "only in the 21st century." So what would you think of a 16th-century virtual tour? It's new sprung by three recent Williams College graduates. Their virtual tour is of the Pallazo del Te, built in 1526 in Mantua, on the island of Te, and considered the quintessential example of Mannerist architecture.

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The language and legends of several Pacific Northwest Indian tribes are being saved from extinction, thanks to a University of North Texas linguist.

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1) Remembering the hero of Valley Forge. 2) Tips from the author of Holiday Blues: Rediscovering the Art of Celebration. 3) Cool your yule with holiday plant tips from Temple professor.

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The University of Maryland is launching a new journalism center designed to help news organizations use innovative computer technologies to develop new ways for people to engage in critical public policy issues.

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Sites once occupied by the ancient people who created some of the pre-Columbian world's most exquisite art and largest ground drawings, most ingenious hydraulic engineering, are identified and explored in a new book.

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Architecture students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign won the bid to host the annual national conference of the American Institute of Architecture Students, and they moved the event to the city of tall buildings: Chicago.

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In downtowns across America -- most notably, in the Midwest -- brick-and-terra-cotta tributes to Louis Sullivan still line the blocks, holding their own with newer additions to the urban landscape.

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Professor Michael Drout of Wheaton College in Massachusetts has created a distinctive niche as an expert in the writings and legacy of J.R.R. Tolkien. He discovered an unpublished book by Tolkien while working on a project in an Oxford library in 1996. The book, "Beowulf and the Critics," was published this week.

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1) Determination, technology--and a little luck--help propel over-30 pro athletes, Temple professor says. 2) Pop culture at Christmas? Why not? 3) Lighting up the holidays takes careful planning.

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Alice Fulton, professor of English at Cornell University, has been awarded the 2002 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, sponsored by the Library of Congress, for her 2001 book "Felt."

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In two recent essays, Amanda Cockrell, director of the graduate program in children's literature at Hollins University, takes a close look at why the Harry Potter series has generated some surprisingly hostile reactions.

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1)The real winners of the 2002 election. 2) Temple chefs talk turkey with Thanksgiving tips. 3) Experts available to discuss joy, stress, wonder of holidays.

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President George W. Bush has designated the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial for 2003-2006, beginning in Virginia Jan. 18. Dan Thorp of Virginia Tech's history department is an expert on the Lewis and Clark expedition and can tell some stories probably not found many places.

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If you want to speak a foreign language, skip the audiotapes and online courses, says UAB associate professor of Spanish Sheri Spaine Long, Ph.D. "Language tapes involve the audio-lingual method, where listeners repeat words and phrases."

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Whether it's trying to please children by buying every toy on their Christmas wish list or explaining the role of Santa Claus, a Purdue University child development expert says it's important to keep the spirit of giving a priority this holiday season. "Start with the giving, not the getting," says Judith Myers-Walls.

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Gettysburg College Holiday Tipsheet 1) What makes a good family board game? 2) Star of Bethlehem may have been supernova.

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While Christmas, by its very name, reflects the holiday's roots in Christianity, some of its traditions are traced to decidedly secular influences.

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This year, the holiday gifts you give can keep on giving by helping students receive college educations. Both functional and decorative handmade crafts made by students at Berea College, a small liberal arts college in Kentucky's southern Appalachian region, preserve the region's craft tradition and support educational opportunities for students.

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1) It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...a lot earlier. 2) Is there a link between hip-hop and violence? 3) Bad apples or bad barrel...Why the corporate scandals?

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What if the next Robbie the Robot is wired with human feelings? What if an advanced cousin of R2D2 finds himself falling in love? How would kinder-gentler cyborgs express their emotions and affections?

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Musicologist Gabriel Solis is among the many interested in jazz legend Thelonious Monk. What Solis is focusing on he calls the "reception history" of Monk and his music.

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Although notoriously impenetrable to the common reader, the French novelist Marcel Proust has somehow managed to infiltrate many popular cultures over the decades since his death. He even got into a recent episode of "The Sopranos."

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Carl Sandburg considered himself a "Poet of the People." But a newly discovered document reveals that he once had other aspirations: "President of the People" -- president of the United States, that is.

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For centuries, architects have been designing three-dimensional spaces based on two-dimensional drawings and plans. But what if architects were able to design in 3-D right from the start?

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1)"Campaign 2002": Temple course gives students working knowledge of electoral process. 2) Hackers less likely to break through cell phone security. 3) Job searches during holiday season require increased focus, persistence.

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The influences that guided the transformation from reticent boy to confident commander are explored in "Stonewall Jackson's Book of Maxims," compiled and edited by James I. Robertson Jr., executive director of the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech.

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1) Forty years later, North Korea and Iraq become eerie reminders of the Cuban Missile Crisis. 2) Can Bonds help baseball cash in during fall classic? 3) Temple expert weighs in on the Pennsylvania Gubernational campaign; Temple researcher shares finding on early childhood education in Pennsylvania.

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There is more to the element of horror in books and film than the gross-out, in-your-face horror of films like "Friday the 13th" or "Nightmare on Elm Street," says Jack Morgan, an instructor in the English department at the University of Missouri-Rolla.

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As the 200th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark expedition approaches, Arkansas researchers note that these weren't the only explorers scouting the new territory. A new documentary from award-winning filmmakers chronicles the journey of two lesser-known adventurers and their "Forgotten Expedition."

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"Grave Matters" includes haunting black and white photographs by Dietrich Christian Lammerts of the graves of 150 artists, architects, writers, philosophers, and musicians who shaped 20th-century American and European culture. The photographs are arranged chronologically from Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, to Ralph Ellison, 1914-1994.

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1) The sniper terrorizing the nation is likely a thrill-seeker, a "Type T" (thrill-seeking) personality who thrives on uncertainty, novelty, variety and intensity, says Temple psychologist Frank Farley; 2) Temple experts also comment on Lautenberg candidacy and the FCC radio.

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The 28th Annual Celebration of Traditional Music takes place on October 25-27 at the Phelps Stokes Chapel in Berea, KY.

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Halloween story idea: Why did 15th century theologians come up with the idea of witchcraft, encourage people to believe in it and accuse women (and men) of being witches? To get God off the hook for infant mortality, the plague and crop disasters and to explain how a world created by a watchful and benevolent God could be such a mess.

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1) New data on missing children. 2) Don't get 'burned' by your furnace; check it now. 3) Temple Homecoming 2002

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Acclaimed North Carolina artist Ben Long, perhaps best known for frescoes he has created throughout the state, will be featured in a local exhibition, "Capturing the Essence: Portraits by Ben Long."

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At Smith College and beyond, digital imaging is revolutionizing the fields of art history and studio art, enhancing not only how faculty members teach but, more importantly, how students learn.

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Smith College's renowned art department and art library have a distinguished new home--the newly named Brown Fine Arts Center--thanks to the completion of a two-year, $35-million building renovation and expansion.

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Under the leadership of Assistant Professor Laura Terry, eight University of Arkansas students spent their summer designing and building an archery pavilion with adaptable stations for wheelchairs at Camp Aldersgate in Little Rock.

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Waxman's areas of expertise are as follows: Middle East politics, Israeli domestic and foreign policy, Turkish domestic and foreign policy, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Iran, Iraq, Terrorism.

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What caused the "Carroll A. Deering," the pride of Bath, Maine, to run aground on the outermost reaches of the Outer Banks -- and what became of her captain and 10 crew members -- have remained enigmas for more than 80 years. In his new nonfiction novel writer Bland Simpson of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill revisits the event and those that followed.

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1) From father knows best to Dr. Phil knows best; 2) Relocation of the Barnes Collection could make Philadelphia an art mecca; 3) Teachers and parents have little faith in privatization.

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At the age of 72, acclaimed poet Miller Williams has produced his first book of fiction. In the preface, Williams writes: "These [stories] are about one Kelvin Fletcher...who wanted to be good and wanted to grow up. What stood in the way of either was the other."

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An historical novel about the man still considered professional baseball's fiercest competitor is the new work of an English department faculty member at Mississippi State University.