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PEOPLE
NEWS
 Daisy
Fried, the Grace Hazard Conkling Writer-in-Residence
at Smith, has been named a finalist for the National Book
Critics Circle Award for her book of poems My Brother
is Getting Arrested Again, published by the University
of Pittsburgh Press in 2005. Fried, author of She Didn’t
Mean to Do It (2000), was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship
last year. The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974,
is an organization of book reviewers that presents annual
awards in fiction, general nonfiction, biography/autobiography,
poetry, and criticism. Winners of this year’s awards
will be announced in March. My Brother is Getting Arrested
Again is Fried’s second published collection.
 Andrea
Hairston, professor of theatre, has been nominated
to receive the 2006 Philip K. Dick Award for her science fiction
novel Mindscape, published in 2006 by Aqueduct Press.
The award, which is named after the renowned science fiction
writer, is given annually for distinguished works of science
fiction published in paperback original form in the United
States. Sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society,
the award will be presented on April 6. Judges for the 2006
award include Geary Gravel, staff interpreter
for the deaf in Smith’s Office of Disability Services,
and the author of 11 science fiction and fantasy novels, who
was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award for his 1984 book
The Alchemists. Mindscape is Hairston’s
first novel; she is currently working on her second, Exploding
in Slow Motion.
Senda Berenson,
the first director of physical education at Smith, from 1892
to 1911, will be inducted into the in Commack, New
York, on April 29. After becoming friends with Dr. James Naismith,
who invented the game of basketball at Springfield College,
Berenson adapted his rules for a women’s game in 1892,
and directed the first women’s collegiate basketball
game on March 22, 1893, in Smith's Alumnae Gymnasium, which
pitted the classes of 1895 against 1896 in close competition.
The score: 5 to 4, class of 1896. Berenson will be inducted
along with Olympic gold medalist swimmer Mark Spitz, legendary
broadcaster Howard Cosell, and eight other sports figures.
Sarah-Marie
Belcastro, a visiting assistant professor in mathematics
and statistics, was featured in an article, “Mathematicians
are Knitting and Crocheting to Visualize Complex Surfaces,”
published in Dec. 23, for her combination of craftwork
and mathematical expertise, as realized in her knitted creations
of algebraic shapes. Belcastro co-organized an exhibition
of crocheted, knitted and sewn mathematical principles for
the 2005 annual Joint Mathematics Meeting, and displayed her
own knitted torus (a doughnut-shaped object that reflects
mathematical networks) at an event last March. Belcastro is
co-editing a book on the topic, Making Mathematics with
Needlework, in collaboration with Carolyn Yackel, a mathematician
at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia.
Index
of People News 2005-06
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