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Gratson to head national committee for online GLBT course
Scott Gratson will be heading up a national committee to create the first high school online GLBT Studies course. Based in Minnesota, this course will supplement the curriculum of the inaugural GLBT online high school and may be published for use by other high schools across the nation.
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StOC’s Gratson to mentor in University Internship Program
Scott Gratson was selected as a mentor for Temple's inaugural University Internship Program. He will be working with Ezra Hatch, an English major who will be working with the University Honors Program on aspects of communication and media.
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Point Foundation names StOC’s Gratson as mentor
The Point Foundation, an organization that focuses on meeting the educational needs of the GLBT (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender) communities approved Scott Gratson as a mentor for a Point scholar this year. The scholarship recipient pool is is highly competitive, with less than 2 percent of the applicants from last year being accepted. Each scholar is ... Read more »
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StOC chair publishes multivolume set on intercultural communication
Deborah A. Cai, professor and chair of the Department of Strategic and Organizational Communication, has edited a four-volume set entitled Intercultural Communication (Sage Publications). These volumes are a collection of previously published research articles that are important to the study of culture's influence on communication processes. The principal market for these volumes are libraries that are unable to house collections ... Read more »
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FMA Professor d’Agostino examines fall of Berlin Wall
FMA Professor Peter d'Agostino's new on-line work, WorldWideWalks/Lodz-Berlin-Sofia, commemorates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989.
The Lodz, Berlin and Sofia walks are explorations of personal histories and cultural memories during and after the Cold War. It was initiated at the Construction in Process III: Back to Lodz exhibition in Poland and ... Read more »
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Professor Gratson exhibit to honor 30th anniversary of Hetrick Martin Institute
Communications Program Director Scott Gratson’s exhibit honoring the 30th anniversary of the Hetrick Martin Institute (HMI) will be featured Nov. 10 at its Emery Awards.
HMI is the largest and oldest agency in the United States dedicated to serving GLBTQ youth and the award honors leadership and dedication for its cause.
The event will also celebrate the life of Harvey Milk, the ... Read more »
Journalism scholarship to memorialize Professor Jackie Steck
Her nephew, Danny Bonaduce, helped announce the Jacqueline Steck Endowed Scholarship at this year's Temple News reunion.
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FMA Professor Coover to speak in Norway
Professor Roderick Coover will present the paper "Pathmaking in the Unknown Territories: Interactive environments as a Model for Interactive Cinema" and the artist presentation "Panoramic Poems, Narratives and Travels" as an invited speaker at The Network as a Space and Medium for Collaborative Interdisciplinary Art Practice. The conference will be held at the University of Bergen, Norway, Nov. ... Read more »
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FMA Professor Coover’s paper published in Hyperrhiz
Professor Roderick Coover's artist paper "Taking A Scroll: Text, Image and the Construction of Meaning in a Digital Panorama" is published in the current edition of the Rhizome.org affiliated journal of new media cultures, Hyperrhiz. The paper can be accessed at http://www.hyperrhiz.net/hyperrhiz06.
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StOC’s Pompper to address diversity at two U.K. conferences