September 8, 2017
Author: Kari Scott
Tyler Associate Professor of Horticulture Sasha Eisenman, PhD recently participated in a novel project between PennDot, Villanova University and Temple University to use gardens to mitigate rainwater runoff from Highway 95 as it runs through Philadelphia. The project uses plants identified by Dr. Eisenman to allow rainwater to soak into the ground instead of running into an overtaxed water treatment system in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia's daily Inquirer wrote a feature about the project, which you can read here.
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September 6, 2017
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
The international conference was held at Alfred Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg in Greifswald Germany. Price's paper was titled, "The Baltic Connection: Georg Brandes, German Secession and Anna Ancher’s Modernism.". THe organizers of the conference plan to hold a second part in Berlin in 2018.
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April 26, 2017
Author: Lynn Mandarano
Lynn Mandarano, Associate Professor and Chair of the Planning and Community Development department, was invited to deliver a tribute to Dr. Jeffrey Featherstone at the Water Resources Association of the Delaware River Basin 35th Annual Recognition Awards Dinner. The WRA selected Jeff to receive the Samuel S. Baxter Memorial award. The Baxter award is given to the nominated "candidate who best exemplifies the purposes of the WRA as evidenced by the contribution to sound water management that was the keystone of Philadelphia's former Water Commissioner. in recognition of his accomplishments in protecting water resources." The award was presented to Nancy Featherstone at the Downtown Club in Philadelphia on April 19, 2017.
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April 24, 2017
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Elizabeth S. Bolman's (Art History) new book, The Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt (Yale, 2016) was reviewed by Peter Brown, an eminent scholar of Medieval Studies, for the NY Review of Books (April 2017).
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/05/11/gw-bowersock-muhammad-center-roiling-world/
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March 1, 2017
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Prof. Tracy Cooper was elected to serve on the Board of Directors for the Save Venice, Inc. foundation, on the 50th anniversary of the devastating 1966 floods that inspired the formation of international organizations for conservation of the priceless heritage of now-World Monument cities.
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February 13, 2017
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Prof Evans was invited to be part of a colloquium, "City and Empire in Seleucid Asia Minor: Sardis from the King's Peace to the Treaty of Apamea", Feb 23-24, 2017 at Harvard University. She will be presenting a lecture, "The Mint at Sardis amid the Changing Political Landscape of the Third and Second Centuries".
http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/sardis-conference-2017/home
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January 23, 2017
Author: issarevell
Art Education and Community Arts Practices faculty will be presenting several panels and presentations at the 2017 National Art Education Conference in NYC on March 2-4, 2017. Scheduled times for these panels and presentations are to be announced.
March 3, 2017
CAC Forum: Alliance for Creative Change - Socially Engaged Arts Education
Along with socially-engaged artists and community arts educations, Pepón Osorio will explore related goals, strategies, and possibilities for cross-pollination of practices, while considering the implications of creating a more direct dialogue between the disciplines.
Changing the Discourse: Aren't We All "Special"?
Lisa Kay will join members of the NAEA Special Needs in Art Education and the Women's Caucus on a panel to dialogue about the language of "special" in current educational discourse.
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November 7, 2016
Author: Kari Scott
Tyler Landscape and Horticulture Professor Lolly Tai was named Faculy of the Game at Temple's October 29 football game against Cincinatti. Professor Tai is an accomplished, talented and innovative landscape architect and professor at Tyler School of Art. Dedicated to her students and Temple, Lolly has served as department chair and senior associate dean for the Ambler campus. Her creative approach to applied learning and hands-on education has helped shape Temple’s Landscape Architecture and Horticulture department into one of the most unique in the country. An award –winning book author, Lolly has had a strong and lasting impact on her many students and alumni. Let’s give it up for Lolly!
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October 26, 2016
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Prof Evans testified yesterday in Washington, DC on behalf of the extention of the Memorandum of Understanding to impose import restrictions on Cypriote antiquities into the United States. The bilateral agreement between Cyprus and the United States lasts for five years, and Evans noted the dangers of looting to the national security of the US, as smugglers do not specialize in antiquities, but use the smuggling networks to move arms, drugs and humans as well as antiquties. She wanted to especially bring to the attention of the advisory committee the special vulnerability of coins, which are found using metal detectors (the use of metal detectors is highly regulated on Cyprus, as in most antiquities-rich countries). Looters searching for coins destroy important information about entire sites, leading to the loss of the knowledge of not only the history of Cyprus, but all human history.
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October 20, 2016
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Dr. Tacy Cooper gives the Warwick in Venice Bienniel Lecture in the History of Art, "The Last Dogaressa: Material Presence, Gender, and Elite Identity in Early Modern Venice", October 21, at the Palazzo Pesaro Papfava, Venice.
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