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'In The Next Room' begins Sept. 20


Lola Brooks, Dood Chair Lecture

The 2012-2013 Dodd Professor in the Lamar Dodd School of Art, jeweler Lola Brooks, will present the Dodd Chair Lecture on Tuesday, Sept. 18 at 5:30 pm in room S151 of the school of art. The lecture is free and public is invited to attend.

Brooks is an artist of international renown, whose… Read Article


Portrait of Oscar W.

The Irish writer and poet Oscar Wilde is famous for almost as many popular quotations as Mark Twain or Orwell. His late-Victorian world was peppered with all manner of dandyism and wise-crackery, captured perfectly in The Portrait of Dorian Gray. But his life was also colored by his… Read Article

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Talking Design in Myanmar


Sperduto Professor Lawrence Sweet

Lots of great coverage of the Franklin College in Columns this week, including a nice front page story on new faculty member Lawrence Sweet:

A clinical neuropsychologist whose research explores the relationship between physical changes in the brain and conditions as diverse as dementia,… Read Article