 Rare
Book Room Exhibition Showcases Illustrative Bookbindings
An exhibition, "Inpired
Design: The Mentoring Stamp," now on view in the Mortimer
Rare Book Room, features several bindings by book artists,
many from the Pioneer Valley. The bookbinders each
artistically treated the book Designing the Mentoring
Stamp, which depicts the story of designer Lance Hidy's
experience creating a stamp for the U.S. Postal Service
in 2002. The exhibition, which opened Aug. 10, remains
through Dec. 20. |
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This
year's version of the dining services carry-along Smith
College water bottle comes in orange or blue, and sports
an easy-to-use cap, a space to label it with the owner's
name, and the message: "Use it and Reuse it, the
Earth is the bottom line."
In her book, Inventing
the New Negro: Narrative, Culture, and Ethnography,
Daphne Lamothe, Afro-American
studies, explores how literary
figures adapted ethnographic and folkloric experience
in their narratives of Black culture.
With the installation of more than 30 "blue-light" emergency
calling units, people on campus will have more than 70 stations from which
to quickly contact public safety when needed. The units stand more than 10
feet high and are topped with iridescent blue lights visible from across campus. |
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President Christ
is among 129 chancellors and presidents of U.S.
colleges and universities who recently signed the Amethyst
Initiative. Launched in July 2008, the initiative supports
informed public debate on the 21-year-old drinking
age.
Elizabeth Crews
AC’09
wrote
an award-winning essay at the Oxford Summer Seminar.
A film produced by Victoria Gamburg ’93 is
up for an Emmy Award. And Janine Olthuis ’08
won a scholarship from the New England Psychological
Association.
The recorded voices of dozens of women
who have contributed in myriad ways to advancing women's issues and equality
during the latter half of the 20th century are featured in "Voice of Feminism," an
electronic compendium of their perspectives in the Sophia Smith Collection.
The project is ongoing.
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