| July 8, 2016 | Submit a note |
Dear College Faculty and Staff, This was a short but busy week. We had a productive two-day Dean's Office retreat and then had a great evening rocking to Brit Floyd at Mountain Winery.
In the musical spirit, I share a few reflections for this week.
Welcome back to our summer campus and world map features. We will be dropping pins to show where our faculty are this summer—whether engaged in research or creative work. So, when you send your "notes" (which I know you are going to do by clicking on the big red bar that says "Submit a Note") please indicate the location of your work so we can all travel with you and you can say "Wish You Were Here." Did the College provide "Money" for you to do your research this academic year and/or summer? If yes, the answer is not to "Run Like Hell" but instead to share your outcomes and results with us by pushing that lovely red bar on the top of College Notes.
So, did I mention the big red bar? We want to be able to show our incoming students, our alumni, parents, each other, and all sorts of other folks that we are not "Comfortably Numb" but are in fact working hard to engage in our scholarship to ultimately help our students as they are "Learning To Fly."
Ok, I have clearly hit the end of my creative abilities (yes, you may argue I never had any to begin with).
Have a great weekend and, please, hit that red button!
Debbie Tahmassebi, Dean Faculty and Staff Highlights
Christine Bachen (Communication), Pedro Hernández-Ramos (Education), and Chad Raphael (Communication) co-published an article with former undergraduate Amanda Waldron (Political Science): "How do presence, flow, and character identification affect players’ empathy and interest in learning from a serious computer game?" The article, which appeared in the journal Computers in Human Behavior, develops and tests a model of the psychology of computer game play and several civic learning outcomes.
Photo: Ido Wernick, City College of New York; Sam Brinton, Clean Energy Fellow at Third Way; Vance-Trembath; Peter Teague, Co-founder Breakthrough Institute
Kathy Aoki (Art and Art History) was commissioned by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum (PAFA) in Philadelphia to create three new humorous prints for the exhibition "Happiness, Liberty, Life? American Art and Politics," on display now through September 18, 2016. Aoki's new works are direct responses to famous portraits of George Washington in the collection of the PAFA museum. In early June, the PAFA collections committee approved all three of Aoki's prints for acquisition. For the exhibition installation, the museum intermixed Aoki's contemporary prints with works from the 18th and 19th centuries on the "Wall of Washington." Democrats in town for the national convention will enjoy Aoki's piece "Small Hands," which portrays George Washington breaking up a fight between Donald Trump and Marco Rubio.
Her op-ed on the Orlando Massacre was picked up by TIME, RawStory.com, and other websites. She was also interviewed on KPFA radio on the history of gay bars. Photo: Nancy with Alice Hoagland, mother of Mark Bingham, one of the heroes of Flight 93 on 9/11/2001. This photo was taken after Nancy's talk "Long Journey to Stonewall: An Illustrated History of LGBTQ America" to the Humanist Community of Silicon Valley on June 12. Save the Date
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