In the News

The University’s multi-disciplinary Center for Integrated Design was the focus of a piece by Hartford Courant columnist Tom Condon in the Courant’s July 13 “Place” section. Condon wrote about the work that University students and faculty have done to develop proposals for the redesign of Bloomfield’s Wintonbury Mall. Among those mentioned in the column were Vice President of University Relations John Carson, who suggested the partnership to Bloomfield’s town planner, and faculty members Jim Fuller, David Pines, Nancy Wynn, Terri Hahn, Jeffrey Cohen, and Terri Albert. “Their work should be of great help to Bloomfield Center,” Condon wrote, adding that the faculty and students should also be given projects in the city of Hartford. Read Condon’s column.

Warren Goldstein, chair of the history department in the College of Arts and Sciences, had an article titled “Ten Years: One Book” in "The Chronicle Review" section of the July 4 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education. He recounted the personal and professional stress he experienced during the several years it took to research and write William Sloane Coffin, Jr.: A Holy Impatience. Read Goldstein’s article in The Chronicle.

The University’s Center for Professional Development was highlighted in a July 3 Hartford Courant article about how to get new college graduates started on their career paths. The article also quoted Stacy Lieberman, office manager at the Center who is also studying for her bachelor's degree.

Robert Davis, professor in The Hartt School Theatre Division, was cited in the Hartford Courant's "Word Watch" column on July 1. Davis offered his teaching method for helping students avoid saying "the" as "thuh." He has his students use a slight "y" sound to connect words, so that "the apple" sounds like "thee yapple."

An article in the July 2 edition of the Stamford Advocate noted that the University High School of Science and Engineering is currently the only high school in the state operating under the early college model. The article also noted that nearly all of the high school's 70 graduating seniors were going on to college.

Michael Robinson, assistant professor of history in Hillyer College, had an opinion article about a possible manned spaceflight to Mars, and cutting the space science budget to pay for it, published by George Mason University's History News Network. Robinson, who is author of The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture, wrote that NASA should consider the wasted efforts of explorers trying to reach the North Pole before it considers a manned mission to Mars. "In their relentless pursuit of the North Pole, explorers had abandoned science," Robinson writes.

Rosemary Metcalf, a Hartt School senior pursuing a degree in music management with a concentration in flute, is working for the National Symphony Orchestra as her internship at the Kennedy Center Institute for Arts Management, noted an article in the July 6 edition of the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. As part of her internship, she works with young musicians at the center's Youth Fellows Program and promotes the role of performing arts education in Washington, D.C. and nationally.

Joanna Borucinska, associate professor of biology in the College of Arts and Sciences and a veteran pathologist who tracks pollution and cancers in sharks, attended the 38th annual Montauk Marine Basin Shark Tournament, noted The National, the daily newspaper in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on July 3. By attending such tournaments, Borucinska says she can "compare the tissue of younger and older sharks because they are good bio-indicators and we find a lot of pollutants and toxins."

Andy LaVerne, who teaches jazz piano at The Hartt School, was the subject of a question-and-answer interview on Jazz.com on June 30. LaVerne, who is also a composer and arranger, has worked with such artists as Frank Sinatra, Stan Getz, Woody Herman, Dizzy Gillespie, Chick Corea, Lionel Hampton, Michael Brecker, and Neil Sedaka.