Lowry Burgess has been appointed to an International Advisory Board at Netanya Academic College in Israel. He was invited to Arizona State University in Tempe this April to assist in evaluating its new College of Interdisciplinary Art and Sciences. In March, a large article appeared in the LA Times concerning the conference that he organized with Marge Myers and Frank Pietronigro though the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at the CMU West Coast Campus in Mountain View, CA. Their interview about Space Art was broadcast twice on KQED in San Francisco. (In 1989, Lowry was instrumental in sending the first non-scientific payload into space). He also did a radio interview for a London, UK alternative radio broadcast on his work with the Toronto Manifesto and UNESCO in Paris and the World Bank in Washington, D.C.

Clayton Merrell has a solo exhibit, Pieces of Desert, at Roswell Museum and Art Center, New Mexico through May 29. He is also exhibiting in the Lessedra International Print Exhibition at the National Palace of Culture in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Elaine A. King presented her paper titled About A Face? Portraits, An Emergent Conglomerate of Social Values and Media at the American Culture and Popular Culture Conference in San Diego. She chaired the panel, American Art and Architecture IV: Contexts and Cultural Import. She has also been invited to be a reviewer for the Journal of American Culture.

Pittsburgh Center for the Arts presents Pittsburgh Masters V featuring works by: Charlee Brodsky, Professor of Design and Art; Douglas Cooper, Professor of Architecture; Ron Desmett (MFA '79); and Diane Samuels (BFA '70 and MFA '76). The exhibits opened April 1 and runs through August 21. http://www.pittsburgharts.org/main.asp?Section=Exhibitions.

Suzie Silver and Hilary Harp exhibited in a private show, The New Beasts, at the Chelsea Hotel in New York City on April 9. The exhibit featured works from Marshall Allan’s permanent collection.

James Duesing presented his work at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago on March 31. He held critiques and met with students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on April 1. His Animation Tender Bodies will be screened at the Athens International Film + Video Festival in Athens, Ohio. http://www.athensfest.org/. Also, James Duesing Animation, a collection of five animations is being distributed by Facets Multimedia. http://www.facets.org/asticat.

Golan Levin participated in the Interactive Multimedia Culture Expo at the Chelsea Museum, NYC in April. In May, he is participating in: Generative X: OneDotZero9, at the Institute for Contemporary Art, London; Sonarfiles 2005, at Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo in Seville, Spain; and Cut and Splice at SonicArtsNetwork, London. http://www.imcexpo.net/tmema.htm; http://www.onedotzero.com/programme.php?id=91&event=30952; http://www.caac.es/; http://www.sonicartsnetwork.org/cutsplice.htm. He is giving an artist's talk at UCLA for the Sensing Spaces: Media, Architecture & Design Lecture Series in May. He will also deliver the keynote lecture at the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression in Vancouver in May. http://www.dma.ucla.edu/events/calendar.php?viewmonth=5&viewyr=2005&viewDate=2005-05-16; http://hct.ece.ubc.ca/nime/2005/.

Andrew Johnson is exhibiting drawings in Skinless Capital: Neoliberalism and Resistance at Open Source in Champaign, Illinois, April 30 through May 13. http://www.opensource.boxwith.com/.

Ayanah Moor is exhibiting in a two-person show, From Hip Hop to Coal Funk at the Indianapolis Art Center, April 29 through June 5. http://www.indplsartcenter.org.

Melissa Ragona will present Sound and Surveillance: Strategies of Deterritorialization in the Audio-Visual Archives of V. Michael (The Spacewurm) and Robin Rimbaud (Scanner) at the Foucault Now symposium on May 13 at the New School in New York City.

Philip Pearlstein (BFA '49) had a solo exhibit An Economy of Specific Bodies and Particular Objects: Philip Pearlstein Drawings at Seattle's Frye Art Museum, January 7 through March 27, 2005.
http://www.fryeart.org/pages/Pearlstein.htm.

In Memoriam
Ken Ferguson (A '52), Professor Emeritus of ceramics at Kansas City Art Institute, died December 20, 2004 at his home in Shawnee, Kansas. After graduating from Carnegie Mellon, he served in the First Calvary at Camp Sendai, Japan. He earned an MFA in 1958 under the GI bill at New York State School of Ceramics in Alfred. Between 1954 and 1964, Ferguson managed the Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Arts in Helena, MT. For the next 32 years, he taught and served as chairman of ceramic arts at KCAI, acting as a leader in ceramics education while practicing as a prolific artist. His New York dealer, Garth Clark, described his as "probably the single most important ceramics teacher in America in the last 25 years." He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Gertrude Elsie Houston, and three children.

Janet Culbertson (A '53) will exhibit her environmental paintings and drawings in Preserving the Land at the East End Arts Gallery, 133 East Main St., Riverhead, NY, May 27 - July 3. http://www.eastendarts.org/.

Philip Morsberger (A '54) had his artwork, Missing, discussed in a March 30 New York Times article on new acquisitions in museums across the country. Missing now belongs in the collection of New Orlean's Ogden Museum of Southern Art. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/30/arts/artsspecial/30acquisitions.html?ex=1113105600&en=64b0fcf3609f02cf&ei=5070; He has a solo exhibit of paintings at Mary Pauline Gallery in Augusta, Georgia, April 28 - June 11. http://www.marypaulinegallery.com.

Hilda Green Demsky (BFA '58) has just concluded an exhibition at the Galeria Nacional in San Jose, Costa Rica. Her next exhibition is at The Art Center Gallery in Saratoga Springs, June 2 - July 16. She paints water on mylar and canvas.

Raymond Saunders (BFA '60) has a solo exhibit at Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art in Santa Monica through May 28, 2005. His work is also included in Black is a Color: African American Art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, named after a pamphlet he wrote in 1967. This exhibit originated at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 2003 and will travel to: the Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati this fall; Mobile Museum of Art in Alabama, January through April 2006; and the Plains Art Museum in Fargo, North Dakota, October 2006 through January 2007. http://www.artnet.com/hs.html;
http://www.corcoran.org/exhibitions/travel_results.asp?Exhib_ID=62.

Katherine (Sproat) Kadish's (BFA '61) recent and current solo exhibitions include those at: Sun Gallery, Seoul, Korea (November 2004); University of Cincinnati, Reed Gallery (January-March 2005); Ruschman Gallery, Indianapolis in A Geography of Color: New Work (April 8-30, 2005); Ohio Prints from the 2003 Korean International Print Biennial at University of Cincinnati (2004); Archetype Gallery, Dayton, OH (2005); and Miami University, Oxford, OH (2005).

Mel Bochner (BFA '62) exhibited in Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form 1940s-70s at the Miami Art Museum, November 19, 2004 - April 24, 2005. http://www.miamiartmuseum.org/exhibitions-current-beyond.asp. He is exhibiting in Drawing from the Modern, 1945-1975 at MOMA in New York City through August 29, 2005.

Jonathan Borofsky (BFA '64) is exhibiting Walking to the Sky at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas through March 2006. http://www.nashersculpturecenter.org/.

Susan Schwalb (BFA '65) exhibits recent metalpoint paintings, Shards of Memory, at Solomon Fine Art, 1215 First Ave., Seattle, WA. April 6 - May 13, with a reception on Thursday, May 5, 5-8pm. http://www.solomonfineartinc.com.

Linda Pleet (MFA '65) creates small dog sculptures that are available at Pug Cafe.com
http://www.pugcafe.com/catalog/miniature-dogs.htm.

Dara Birnbaum (CFA '69) is exhibiting in For Presentation and Display: Some Art of the 80's at Princeton University Art Museum, March 19 - June 12. She particpated in the accompanying symposium, Working Through the 80's on April 14, http://www.princetonartmuseum.org. She also exhibited in Wonderwoman at Fonds Regionale d'Art Contemporain de Lorraine in Metz, France February 5 - March 1; screened works at Art Cinema Off Off (in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art - SMAK) in Gent, Belgium in February; and has work in a group exhibit, Regarding Terror: The RAF, through May 1 at Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, Germany.

Duane Palyka (BFA '69) is Associate Professor in the School of Film and Animation at Rochester Institute of Technology. He was a panelist last fall, speaking on Form and Meaning in Herbert Brün's Lyrical Graphics at Kentler International Drawing Space in Brooklyn. Previous experience includes a year as Technical Director at Industrial Light and Magic in San Rafael, CA; four years teaching at University of Michigan School of Art in Ann Arbor; 12 years as research and development staff at NY Institute of Technology's Computer Graphics Laboratory; and CAD design and implementation at Envirotech Information Systems.

James Welling (Art '73) attended Carnegie Mellon University from 1969 to 1971 and later the California Institute of the Arts where he completed his MFA. In 2004, he exhibited at Regen Projects and UCLA Hammer Museum in LA, the ICA in London, Brigitte March Gallery in Stuttgart, and Galeria 2000 GbR in Nuremberg. He has also had solo exhibitions at the Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany (1999), the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (1998), and the Kunstmuseum Lucerne (1998). Welling was awarded an artist fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (1985), participated in Documenta IX in Kassel, Germany (1992), and was the subject of a traveling retrospective organized by the Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio (2000). James Welling lives and works in Los Angeles. A solo exhibit opened April 7 and runs through May 7 at David Zwirner Gallery, 525 W 19th, NYC. http://www.davidzwirner.com/.

Charles Ritchie (MFA '80) won one of three $50,000 Franz and Virginia Bader Fund Awards given to Washington, D.C. area artists over the age of 40. The award was announced in the April issue of Art in America. Charles is exhibiting in Drawing with Light & Graphite at Maryland State Arts Council James Backas Gallery through July 6 in Baltimore. His Suburban Journals solo exhibit, has traveled to University of Maryland Baltimore County, University of Richmond, and opens at Georgia Museum of Art on June 17 - August 14. It has been reviewed in the February 9 Baltimore City Paper and April 7 Style Weekly and reproduced in the March 3 Baltimore Sun and March issue of Baltimore Magazine.
http://www.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=9624; http://www.uga.edu/gamuseum/Exhibitions.html; http://www.msac.org.

Deborah Hosking (BFA '81) lives and works in Los Angeles where she is involved in marketing concepts, consultation and copy writing for 4Sight Communications and Studio B as well as freelancing. She also worked for The Designory and Pinkhaus from 1997-99. Between 1988 and 1995, she performed similar work along with art direction and graphic design in Paris and Hong Kong. Since her return to the USA, she has been teaching children's and adult classes at the Center for the Arts in Eagle Rock and exhibiting and winning awards in juried group shows at California venues such as Palm Springs Desert Museum, San Bernadino County Museum, and Angel's Gate Cultural Center. This year, she won a grant and work exchange award at the Vermont Studio Center.

Meridith McNeal, who studied art at Carnegie Mellon between 1980 and 1982 exhibited in Distance Made Good at The Fading Ad Gallery, 679 Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn, January 12 - February 27. She is showing next year in Threads of Memory, curated by Margaret Matthews Berenson at Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY.
http://www.figureworks.com/McNeal/mcnealhome.html.

ROY (BFA '84) created a new series of limited edition Rubber Duckie bracelets to be included in the following: Trashformations, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, traveling until 2008; Magnificent Extravagance: Artists and Opulence, Racine Art Museum, June 14 - November 26; Resources: Steel, Rubber, Coal and Salt, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, curated by Sue Amendolara, Carol Kumata and Cappy Counard, June 11 - August 21; and 925.+Ingenuity=Art Jewelry, The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA, February - May 1. ROY has 5 one-of-a-kind works represented in Educators/Educated: Jewelry and Metals in Ohio, curated by Gail M. Brown. The traveling exhibit opened at the Ohio Art Council’s Riffe Gallery, Columbus, November 2004 - January 3, 2005 and is currently at the Butler Institute of American Art, Salem, February 19 - May 29. It ends at The Cleveland Institute of Art, June 24 - July 25. ROY's work appears in 1000 Rings: Inspiring Adornments for the Hand by Marthe Le Van, published by Lark Books, 2004.

Elizabeth Dunning Kaplan (BFA '85) teaches at the Darlington Art Center in Boothwyn, PA. She has also taught at the Tower Hill School, Wilmington, DE; Friends School, Mullica Hill, NJ; The Winchester Thurston School, Pittsburgh, PA; The Carnegie Museum of Art's Children's Room, Pittsburgh, PA; and Allegheny County Association for Children.

David French (BFA '87) has a solo exhibit of recent oil paintings and steel sculpture at Montage Gallery, Baltimore, MD, May 3 - June 11. He is currently exhibiting in group formats at: Concept Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA; Beaureguard Gallery, Rumson, NJ; Iandor Fine Art, Newark, NJ; and Monmouth Museum, MCAC, Lincroft, NJ. His solo exhibit, Stretching the Boundaries, runs at Montage Gallery of Federal Hill in Baltimore, MD, June 1-30. http://www.conceptgallery.com; http://www.montagegallery.com.

Laura Sharp Wilson (BFA '87) will have work included in the summer exhibiton, Surfaced, at Byron Cohen Gallery in Kansas City, Missouri.

Robert Dunn (MFA '91) is exhibiting photographs in a three-person show at Marion Art Center in Marion, Massachusetts, April 8 - May 15. http://www.marionartcenter.org.

Jeff Konigsberg (BFA '91) presented work in the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Open Studios April 15-16. The studios are located on the 7th floor of 443 Greenwich St, New York City.

Clyde Forth (BFA '91, student name Jessica Reeves) recently presented work-in-progress at Deep Listening Space in Kingston, NY and at Dance Theatre Workshop in NYC. A full concert of new improvisational performance work based on her drawings will be presented May 21. The drawings, shown last spring at Gallery Evan in NYC, function as visual scores for dance and musical performance. The concert will be co-produced by the Shaker Heritage Society in the Meeting House of the Shaker Heritage Museum in Albany, NY. This is the first full concert of her original work with the company she founded, Clyde Forth Visual Theatre. The company consists of 15 dancers, artists and musicians from several locations, including Alex Cohen (BFA '91). Forth received a Special Opportunity Stipend from the New York Foundation for the Arts toward the production of the concert. She is also developing a new course for Spring 2006 at Eugene Lang College in NYC, related to her interdisciplinary work in visual art and dance.

Charlie Castaneda and Brody Reiman (BFA '92) are exhibiting in Welcome 2 the Jungle at DCKT Contemporary, April 9-30. http://www.dcktcontemporary.com.

Jessica Buben (BFA '92) presented E=mc2: Image Equivalence and Pop-Metaphysics in a panel on the production of knowledge in visual culture in the April 15-17 conference, Visual Culture Revisited: German and American Perspectives on Visual Culture(s) at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, sponsored by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation for Scientific Exchange, Cologne, Germany.

Marc Fischer (BFA '93), a member of Temporary Services, is executing a public project called Construction Site in Los Angeles, April 17 - May 1. The project is situated on a big donated empty lot in Echo Park at the invitation of Outpost for Contemporary Art. http://www.outpost-art.org. Marc will present Framing the Artists in the exhibition Populism at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany. http://www.populism2005.com/index.asp?page=1.

Mia Brownell (BFA '93) had her paintings presented by Jack The Pelican Presents of Williamsburg, Brooklyn at: Milano Flash Art Fair - International Fair of Contemporary Art in Milan, Italy, April 8-10; and at Art Chicago - International Fair of Contemporary Art in Chicago, IL, April 29- May 2.

Stephanie Serpick (BFA '93) is exhibiting in a group show at the Florence Trust in London, February 1 - July 31, 2005.

Andrew Johnson (MFA '94), Associate Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon and Anat Pollack (MFA '03), Assistant Professor of New Media, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, presented at the New School conference, Words, Images, and The Framing of Social Reality on April 18 in New York City. Johnson presented his installation Democracy on Ice and Pollack screened Super Bowl 2004.

Carin Mincemoyer (BFA '94) and Marc Boehlen (MFA '99) are both exhibiting in the University of Buffalo Art Gallery and Burchfield-Penney Art Center respectively as part of the eleven venue exhibit, Beyond/In Western New York 2005, April 24 - June 11. http://www.albrightknox.org/WNY2005/press_release.html.

Gary Breslin (BFA '95), Creative Director of Panoptic, an artist's collective and video production company headquartered in New York, collaborated with Christoph Draeger on The Brazil Project, a film and installation at Roebling Hall in NYC, March 5 - April 9. http://www.artnet.com/galleries/Exhibitions.asp?gid=908&cid=72996&rta=http:;
http://www.panoptic.org/.

Yaming Di (MFA '95) has been working on games as early as 1998 and has been credited with graphics and video roles on those developed by the following companies: Vicarious Visions, Inc., Neversoft Entertainment and Papyrus Design Group, Inc. He is currently working in Boston for Turbine, Inc. - one of the largest online gaming companies in North America. http://www.geocities.com/yamingdi/fine_fram.htm.

Paul Vanouse (MFA '96) has published online NeMe: Millenium Museum Journal http://neme.org/main/index.php?id=57. He is exhibiting The Active-Stimulation Feedback Platform in a solo show at Big Orbit Gallery in Buffalo, NY as part of Beyond/In Western New York 2005, April 24 - June 11, 2005. http://bigorbitgallery.org/bigorbit/future.html.

Paola Cabal (BFA '98) presented a commissioned installation, with Sumakshi Singh, titled ElsewHERE at The William Halsey Gallery at the College of Charleston's School of the Arts in Charleston, SC, January 21 - February 12, 2005. Cabal was artist in residence at the Gimnasio del Norte School in Bogota, Colombia, before completing her MFA at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2003. Her work has been exhibited in Chicago, Omaha, and Ft.Lauderdale as well as in Bogota, Colombia. She lives and works in Chicago where she is currently at work on a public project, Points of Passage, sponsored by The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Gallery 400’s ‘At the Edge’ Program. She will also be presenting a solo installation project at Polvo, an alternative space located in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood, opening May 20, 6-10pm through June 11, 2005. http://subaltern.org/paola.html; http://www.polvo.org/.

Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga (MFA '99) is participating in Live Pictures: The Digital World Animates Contemporary Art at Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning in Jamaica, New York. The exhibit examines the impacts of multimedia/digital technology on creative artistic practice, curatorial presentation, and public reception. Keywords like game, surveillance, simulation, and automation guide the selection of works for the exhibition, curated by Heng-Gil Han and running April 9- June 4. http://www.jcal.org/.

Marinda Stretavsky (BFA '00) has two figurative sculptures in the Annual Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition, opening May 14 at The Andy Warhol Museum.

Shawn Lawson (BFA '00) presents Aura at the Chelsea Art Museum for the IMC Expo, April 13-23. He also presented Mona Lisa, at Art Interactive's exhibition Intimachine in Cambridge, MA this winter. http://www.crudeoils.us/.

Thomas Feulmer (MFA '00), former assistant curator of education at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, is now Educational Director of The Rachofsky Foundation in Dallas, TX. http://www.aegis.com/news/dmn/2005/DM050303.html.

Elizabeth Monoian (MFA '00) is a new media artist who integrates the Internet, electronic noise, video, and performance. Her work has screened in venues such as: the XXIII Moscow International Film Festival, Moscow, Russia; Open Screen Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia; Festival of Actual Kino, Novosibirsk, Russia; Ocularis, Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn,
NY; and Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales (CDAV), Habana Vieja, Cuba. She has organized an exhibition of 100 artists at Musee de Monoian at 526 E. 6th Street, #12, New York City, opening April 23, 7-11pm. The show is open by appointment (bmonoian@aol.com) and on April 29, May 6 and 13. It includes works by Monoian and adjunct faculty Ruth Stanford (MFA '05), George Magalios (MFA '01) and Grisha Coleman, Fellow at the Studio for Creative Inquiry. Monoian also presented her video, I Want to Feel, at Anthology Film Archives on April 14 in NYC.

Adrian Herbez (BFA '01) exhibited in Hybrid Vigor at Beall Center for Art & Technology, University of California, Irvine (where he is completing his MFA degree), April 6-16. Adrian is an aesthetic programmer concerned primarily with the creation and evolution of real-time interactive spaces and generative systems. He has worked professionally producing both real-time and pre-rendered content and teaching 3d animation. He has been part of the OmniCircus theater since 2000, where he builds and operates Virtual Puppets (VRpits) that integrate with live performance. He teaches Maya at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. http://www.purplestatic.com; http://beallcenter.uci.edu/hybridvigor2005/.

Emily de Araujo (MFA '01) had a solo exhibit this March, Dirty Bombs e Outras Ideias, at La Casa do Brasil in Madrid, Spain.

Abe Orden (BFA '02) is a regular contributor to Artnet, Art Week, ArtUS, Flash Art and Contemporary magazines and is currently working on an interview of Erwin Wurm whose survey exhibition is currently on view at the Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center. His next article is for a Flash Art Aperto section on San Francisco. Orden has been invited to join the curatorial committee on the board of directors for the non-profit New Langton Arts in San Francisco.

Semi Ryu (MFA '02) screens Hungboga at the Taiwan International Animation Festival in Taipei, May 20-29. Her presentation in The 6th International Research Conference: Consciousness Reframed: Qi and Complexity in Beijing, China was considered of “exceptional quality” in the January Leonardo Reviews (publisher: MIT Press). She is publishing in two international journals: Ritualizing Interactive Media:  Technoetic Arts, Volume 3.2. (publisher: Intellect Ltd, Bristol, United Kingdom); and Virtual Puppetry and the Process of Ritual: Computers and Composition, Summer 2005 issue. (publisher: Elsevier Inc). http://www.people.vcu.edu/~sryu2/;
http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/reviews/jan2005/qi_grigar.html.

Jennifer Mi Rae Chung (BFA '03) will enroll in the Master of Architecture Program at Columbia University this fall.

Adam Grossi (BFA '03) had work in a group show at the Overland Park Convention Center in Kansas. and also exhibited with alumni Noel Hefele (BFA '02) and Robin Hewlett (BFA '03) at the Carnegie Mellon University Center Gallery, April 11-16. http://www.opkansas.org/_Res/Things_to_Do/Arts_and_Music/Art_at_the_Center/; http://adamart.ice.org/.

Joana Ricou (BSA '04) has one of her paintings on the cover of the April 13 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience.

Cassandra C. Jones (MFA Class of 2004) has a solo exhibit at Pittsburgh Filmmakers Galleries, May 20 - June 26. http://pghfilmmakers.org/gallery.html.

Ruth Stanford (MFA '05) will be joining the faculty this fall at Georgia State University in Atlanta. She was awarded a $27,000 Creative Heights Residency Grant through the Heinz Foundation for a project with the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh.

Kelly Schmal (BFA '05) has been engaged for a two year teaching position in New Orleans, Louisiana through Teach for America.

For a review of the current School of Art MFA Thesis Exhibit, visit:
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/search/s_318804.html.

Matt Barton (MFA Class of 2006) has been awarded $500 in Graduate Student Small Project Help (GUSH!) funds. These funds have been made available through the Graduate Student Assembly and the Provost's Office. The goal of this funding is to enable more Carnegie Mellon graduate students to reach their full potential in their degree-related work.

Seniors Luke Meeken, Jennifer Murray, Michele Reinhart, Kelly Schmal and Rye Zupancis have accepted nominations to the Phi Kappa Phi Honorary Society, the oldest and largest collegiate honor society dedicated to the recognition and promotion of academic excellence in all disciplines.

Laura Warne (BHA 2005 in Art and Anthropology) was accepted into graduate programs in anthropology at University of Chicago, NYU, University of London and University of Cambridge. She will be attending Cambridge this fall.

Julia Bamford (BHA 2005 in Japanese and Art, and Professional Writing) was awarded a scholarship from the Carnegie Mellon Women's Association.

Two videos by CMU Undergraduate students have been included in the selection of this year's Tres Court European short film festival: Spinning Round by Jessica Greenfield and Charles Pratt in collaboration with Bauhaus students Wendy Dettmann and Maurice Hüsni and Hidden Dimension by Ekaterina Mirochnik and Jennifer Sunshine in collaboration with Bauhaus students Tobias Blumtritt and Marc Gerbing. Both videos were developed in an international three-day workshop with participating students from the School of Art at CMU and the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. The workshop took place at CMU in Spring 2004 and was initiated by Dipl. Ing. Peter Benz (Bauhaus University Weimar) and Visiting Assistant Professor Fabian Winkler.

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