![]() ![]() In the scraps of time that remain, I also like to run (I did the Houston Marathon in 2007 and the Chicago Marathon in 2009), bake (but let’s don’t revive the “Cookie Girl” nickname, please), watch movies, and collage. Find out more: When I’m not reading, writing, or teaching, I hang out with my sons, Liam Miguel and Ethan Andrés. My novels are WHAT CAN'T WAIT, THE KNIFE AND THE BUTTERFLY, and OUT OF DARKNESS, a 2016 Printz honor book and named one of BOOKLIST's "50 Best YA Books of All Time." THE NEW YORK TIMES called it a "layered tale of color lines, love and struggle." OUT OF DARKNESS has been banned and removed in many school districts as a result of coordinated attacks against youth access to diverse books. When I’m not reading, writing, or teaching, I hang out with my sons, Liam Miguel and Ethan Andrés. ![]()
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![]() “Applause,” Lady Gaga (11:30 AM ceremony) Tepera Holman, Assistant Dean for Diversity and Student ProgramsįACULTY RECESSIONAL – “Recognition March,” John Philip Sousa Steve Vokes, Associate Professor, Molecular Biosciences Ruth Shear, Professor of Practice, Freshman Research Initiative ![]() African and African Diaspora Studies, Dean’s Honored Graduate, Distinctions in Research & in Service and Leadership (3:30 PM ceremony)Īnneke Chy, Assistant Dean for Advising and Student Support Neuroscience, Honors, Dean’s Honored Graduate, Distinctions in Research & in Service and Leadership (11:30 AM ceremony)Īyotoluwafunmi Osunsade, B.S. Michael Drew, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education WELCOME, OPENING REMARKS AND Alumni SPEAKER INTRODUCTION PROCESSIONAL – “Pomp and Circumstance,” Sir Edward Elgar Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Medical Laboratory Science, NeuroscienceĪstronomy, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Human Ecology, Human Development and Family Sciences, Nutrition, Public Health, Textiles and Apparel ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I cannot sleep! I cannot move! I cannot breathe! When I was younger so much younger than today I never needed anybody’s help in anyway but even all ghost members of Beatles cannot save me! I’m numb, terrified! I’m speechless! I’m about to do something in my pants but I don’t! I barely hold myself! Thankfully, I wore diapers before reading something sooooo scary! So I’m giving my 5 gaazzzzzillion ssstaaarss (I cannot even speak or properly write, this book is so horrifying! I wish I hold my childhood Teddy bear to gather my wits but I already ripped its head when I was nine, reading Salem’s Lot! Dammit!) ![]() Twilight zone’s intro music blasting out in my mind: nananana!!!! I’m in the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition and I’m at the dimension of imagination….Nanana!!! This is one of my favorite horror reads of the year and so far it’s my favorite novel of the author! ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s poignant, yes, but somewhat scary a trend, it turns out, throughout the book and heartbreaking. The recommended age for this graphic novel is higher than I initially thought or anticipated the opening scene, which shows the father’s death, touches a nerve. While simply done, Kibuishi conveys a whole lot of atmosphere in his illustrations. ![]() Another major attraction is the full color art. The storyline is solid enough, peppered with interesting characters, and has an ending that will leave readers clamoring for the next installment. After their mother is kidnapped by a tentacled monster, the kids set out to rescue her, and find themselves caught up in a world that may prove to be their greatest hope or their destruction.Īmulet is an intriguing graphic novel that has a lot of appeal. Once there, they quickly discover that there’s truth behind the rumor that something odd is happening in the house, and it begins with a very peculiar amulet. After Emily witnessed her father’s death in a car accident, her mother, prompted by grief, wishes to start fresh she moves Emily and her brother, Navin, to an old family estate, once owned by an eccentric relative. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Richard Martin Exhibition Awards, first given in 2002, are named for Richard Martin (1947-1999), curator of costumes at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Fashion Institute of Technology. A representative of each award-winning exhibition is invited to speak at the CSA National Symposium the following year and receives a $600 travel stipend and day-of-presentation registration fee, also funded by the CSA Endowment, to help defray travel and symposium expenses. The award-winning institutions each receive a certificate and a $750 award, funded by the CSA Endowment. ![]() Up to two awards are given annually to exhibitions of differing sizes and funding. Award-winning exhibitions demonstrate excellence and innovation in the interpretation and presentation of costume, providing a transforming experience to both students of costume and the public. Richard Martin Exhibition Awards recognize outstanding costume exhibitions presented by both small and large institutions. ![]() ![]() They show a Marilyn Monroe unsparing in her analysis of her own life, but also playful, funny, and impossibly charming. These bits of text, jotted in notebooks, typed on paper, or written on hotel letterhead, reveal a woman who loved deeply and strove to perfect her craft. ![]() ![]() This work is a collection of written artifacts, notes to herself, letters, even poems, in Marilyn's own handwriting, never before published, along with rarely seen intimate photos. Now, for the first time, we can meet this private Marilyn and get to know her in a way we never have before. To confront the mounting difficulties of her life, she wrote. Even as Hollywood studios tried to mold and suppress her, Marilyn never lost her insight, her passion, and her humor. But what of the other Marilyn? Beyond the headlines, and the too familiar stories of heartbreak and desolation, was a woman far more curious, searching, and hopeful than the one the world got to know. Her serious gifts as an actor were sometimes eclipsed by her notoriety, and the way the camera fell helplessly in love with her. Every word and gesture made headlines and garnered controversy. Marilyn Monroe's image is so universal that we can't help but believe that we know all there is to know of her. ![]() ![]() In 2016, as part of the Annual Lambda Literary Awards, the novel won an award for "Best Lesbian Fiction". ![]() ![]() The novel is Okparanta's first, following her short stories collection Happiness, Like Water (2013), and has received generally positive reception since its publication in 2015. Okparanta's mother had watched her father die in the same way during the Nigerian Civil War that the novel's protagonist sees her father die, linking with how Okparanta's own real life experience has informed her in the context of writing the novel. The novel is told in a first person narrative from the protagonist's viewpoint, namely Ijeoma, and as such, the story is told with her voice and perspective. ![]() It is set in 1960s Nigeria and follows the story of Ijeoma, a girl growing up in war-torn Nigeria who must come terms to term with her sexuality and the conflict this presents in society. Under the Udala Trees is a novel by Nigerian-American author Chinelo Okparanta written in 2015. ![]() ![]() ![]() K is, seemingly, a man of contradictions: tattooed, battle scarred, and weathered by farm work, he is a lion of a man, feral and bulletproof. With the same fiercely beautiful prose that won her acclaim for Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Fuller here recounts her friendship with K. Her father’s response was a warning to steer clear of him he told Bo: “Curiosity scribbled the cat.” Nonetheless, Fuller began her strange friendship with the man she calls K, a white African and veteran of the Rhodesian war. When Alexandra (“Bo”) Fuller was home in Zambia a few years ago, visiting her parents for Christmas, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known for being a “tough bugger”. You can read this before Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier written by Alexandra Fuller which was published in 2004–. ![]() Brief Summary of Book: Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier by Alexandra Fuller ![]() ![]() ![]() The bound drawings had been in the collection of Queen Christina of Sweden and after her death in Rome in 1689, had been bought by Pope Alexander VIII for the Vatican collection. Soon after that, it was revealed that another eight drawings from the same manuscript were in the Vatican Library. Lippmann had moved swiftly and quietly, and when the sale was announced there was a considerable outcry in the British press and Parliament. ![]() In 1882 the main part of the manuscript was added to the collection of the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin (Museum of Prints and Drawings) when the director Friedrich Lippmann bought 85 of Botticelli's drawings. Botticelli had earlier produced drawings, now lost, to be turned into engravings for a printed edition, although only the first nineteen of the hundred cantos were illustrated. The manuscript eventually disappeared and most of it was rediscovered in the late nineteenth century, having been detected in the collection of the Duke of Hamilton by Gustav Friedrich Waagen, with a few other pages being found in the Vatican Library. The images are mostly not taken beyond silverpoint drawings, many worked over in ink, but four pages are fully coloured. The Divine Comedy Illustrated by Botticelli is a manuscript of the Divine Comedy by Dante, illustrated by 92 full-page pictures by Sandro Botticelli that are considered masterpieces and amongst the best works of the Renaissance painter. ![]() Dante and Virgil are each shown 6 times, descending through the 10 chasms of the circle via a ridge. Canto XVIII, part of the 8th circle of Hell. ![]() ![]() ![]() But he has no choice-because there is another nightmare walking the Earth, one that must be hunted.and this monster is one that Dream, lord of all nightmares, did not make. The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country Series by James Tynion IV The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country Series 6 primary works 7 total works Spin-off of the acclaimed Sandman series by Neil Gaiman, following the nightmare The Corinthian. Letting the Corinthian out among mortals is the most dangerous thing Dream could possibly do. The most feared of all Dream's nightmares, his ravenous mouths have made him a legend among serial killers. Today the Corinthian walks the Earth again. ![]() And sometimes, if it is Dream's will, those nightmares escape those halls, and go out into the world. Every night when you sleep, the Lord of Dreams chooses the path you'll follow.into a sylvan Elysium, or down the hallways of your darkest fears. ![]() |