Dyson College of Arts and Sciences
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Event Highlights Dyson College Event Highlights 2011-2012 AUGUST 2011 Dyson Emeritus Professor Florence L. Denmark, PhD, is presented with the award for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to Psychology at the American Psychological Association 2011 annual convention. SEPTEMBER 2011 Pace Remembers 9/11: The Dyson Center for Ethical Thinking hosts a symposium dedicated to rethinking the significance and the impact of the terror attacks; the 9/11 Oral History Project—comprising more than 90 interviews with members of the community who witnessed the 9/11 tragedy conducted, recorded, and transcribed by Pace students—debuts; and the Confucius Institute hosts "Peace and Harmony: Reflections from Chinese New Yorkers on the 10th Anniversary of 9/11." Performing Arts Department presents The Syringa Tree written by Pamela Gien and directed by Theater Arts Professor Jennifer Holmes. OCTOBER 2011 Adjunct Art Professor Stomu Miyazaki's Mindscape exhibition goes on display in the Choate House Gallery. Associate Professor of Art Jillian McDonald's solo exhibition Body Count is on view at the Peter Fingesten Gallery on the New York City Campus. Distinguished Professor and renowned art historian Janetta Rebold Benton, PhD, kicks off the Pace Presents season with a lesson in the "Lord of the Lights," the mystery behind Mona Lisa's smile, and more as part of her lecture series Great Painters and Their Masterpieces. Students, faculty, and alumni join together for the annual Dyson Society of Fellows Weekend Retreat which explored the theme "The Good Life: Interdisciplinary Perspectives" with faculty leaders from the Psychology Department Rostyslaw Robak, PhD, and Paul Griffin, PhD. NOVEMBER 2011 DECEMBER 2011 Performing Arts students take on a production of Melanie Marnich's These Shining Lives, directed by Dyson Professor Ruis Woertendyke. Performing Arts students present their original one-act plays at the annual Student Directing Festival in the Schaeberle Studio on the New York City Campus. Art students display their work at the Fingesten Gallery as a part of the bi-annual Project Studio Exhibition. JANUARY 2012 Pace New Musicals presents Zoe Sarnak's A Lasting Impression, staged reading performances with a live band, directed by Amy Rogers, assistant professor, and with music direction by Robert Meffe, assistant professor. Corporate leaders and representatives from local, state, and federal government convene at Pace for the Summit on Resilience: Securing Our Future through Public-Private Partnerships, co-sponsored by the Center for Homeland Defense and Security University Agency and Partnership Initiative. Keynote speakers include the Honorable Tom Ridge, first Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Margareta Wahlström, Special Representative of the SecretaryGeneral for Disaster Risk Reductions within the United Nations. Pace announces a 21-year lease on Dyson's Performing Arts Department's new home at 140 William Street, which will house classrooms, studio and practice spaces, scene and costume shops, a TV studio, multiple performance spaces, and a state-of-the-art, 100-seat theater to be used year-round. Author of Teenage as a Second Language; Adjunct Professor of Psychology Jennifer Powell-Lunder, PsyD; Director of the Master of Science in Counseling program Rostyslaw Robak, PhD; and fellow psychologists host a panel on "Teen Speak: What Teens Really Mean." FEBRUARY 2012 Pace Poet-in-Residence Charles North hosts the Poets@Pace fall reading with award-winning poet August Kleinzahler. Choate House Gallery hosts the annual "Small Works Invitational" high school art exhibit. The Department of Performing Arts presents Kiss Me Kate at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts. 18 | Dyson College of Arts and Sciences