Harrison in the Indianapolis Star, Thomson in the New Britain Herald, Sherman Museum in the Hartford Courant

University President Walter Harrison was quoted in the Indianapolis Star on April 2. Harrison, who is also chair of the NCAA's Committee on Academic Performance, talked about a study showing a 60% graduate rate for students who played in the men’s Final Four between 1991 and 2007. Harrison said he is "pleasantly surprised, especially since you're looking at years before academic reform." Read the rest of the story on indystar.com.

The Hartford Jewish Film Festival ended on a symphonic note, as 70 student-musicians from The Hartt School premiered an original score to accompany the 1922 silent film "Hungry Hearts." The April 1 edition of the West Hartford News marked the event with a photograph of some of those who were there to celebrate, including University President Walter Harrison, Hartt School Dean Aaron Flagg, Hartt School Director of Bands Glen Adsit, and Joseph Turrin, who teaches film scoring at Hartt.

Bill Thomson, an assistant professor of illustration at the Hartford Art School, was the subject of a feature article in the March 31 edition of the New Britain Herald. The article focused on an exhibition of some of Thomson's original work at the Barnes-Franklin Gallery of Tunxis Community College through April 22. To read the full article, go to newbritainherald.com.

The "Write Stuff" column in the April 1 "Cal" section of the Hartford Courant featured a preview of a lecture and exhibition opening at the Sherman Museum of Jewish Civilization at the University of Hartford. “Freedom is Never Free: Norway and the Jews,” an exhibition that  initially opened in September 2008 at the Oslo Jewish Museum, presents the history of Jewish involvement in Norwegian Arts and Culture, as well as the Jewish role in the Norwegian resistance struggle against German occupation in the Second World War. The Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies program was kicked off by a talk by Irene Levine Berman, a longtime Bloomfield resident who was celebrating the publication of her memoir, We Are Going to Pick Potatoes - Norway and the Holocaust, The Untold Story (Rowman and Littlefield, 2010).