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Staters Micaela Amateau Amato, professor of art and women's studies, has been invited to exhibit in Chicago's Wood Street Gallery and Sculpture Garden. Her exhibition, titled "Hallucinations (birds in her throat, she was dreaming)," is about ethnic cleansing and features sculpture and photography. Amato also has been invited to develop a 100-foot sculptural book with master printer Curlie Holten, to be shown in a traveling exhibition of artists' books in Egypt and across Europe. Audrey S. Bollinger, instructor of management information systems at Penn State DuBois, presented a paper, "Issues in Choosing CASE Tools: A Global Perspective," at the Information Resources Management Association 2001 international conference held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Co-authors were Kristina Krebs and Maja Mitrovic of Kent State University. The conference theme was "Managing Information Technology in a Global Economy." Barbara Campbell, instructor of visual arts, has been invited to display her recent oil paintings in a solo exhibition in Moreau Art Gallery at St. Mary's College in South Bend, Ind. Campbell's paintings also will be included in a group exhibition of works by Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture alumni at New York City's Knoedler and Co. Geoffrey C. Godbey, professor of leisure studies in the College of Health and Human Development, received the Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt Award for Excellence in Recreation and Park Research from the National Recreation and Park Association during the group's annual congress in Denver. The Roosevelt Research Award is given annually to someone whose contributions to recreation and park research have significantly advanced the cause of the recreation movement. Jeanne Krochalis, associate professor of English and comparative literature at Penn State New Kensington, gave a talk on "Hieronymus Münzer and his copy of Pseudo-Turpin" at the Sixth Congreso Internacional De Estudios Jacobeos, held in Santiago da Compostela, Spain. The Nittany Lion Inn on the University Park campus has been named a winner of an "Excellence of the East" award from Meetings East magazine, whose audience is meeting planners from across the United States, Canada and Mexico. Winners were showcased in the August/September issue of the magazine. |