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Brandon’s photos exhibited at Providence City Hall

Photographs by Liane Brandon, professor emerita of Education, are featured in the exhibit “Masters of the Craft: Gallery of Memory,” on view through March 15 at Providence City Hall.
 
The exhibit commemorates the 80th anniversary of the founding of the city’s Local 1329 of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA), the first labor union in New England organized predominantly by Cape Verdeans.
 
The formal portraits by Brandon feature members of Local 1329 longshoremen, their families and descendants, and are part of the project Working the Boats, a documentary-in-progress about the

Espada interviewed on 'Moyers & Company'

English professor Martín Espada was interviewed about poetry's power to capture ideas on the PBS series "Moyers & Company" on Jan. 18.
 
Espada also read his poem, "Litany at the Tomb of Frederick Douglass," which he wrote at the time of President Obama's first inauguration.
 
Watch the interview
 
Photo by Dale Robbins
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Obituary: Grace E. Markert, helped establish Copy Center

Grace Edith (Taylor) Markert, 97, of Chicopee, who helped establish the Copy Center, now Print Services, died Jan. 14.

Born in Chicopee, she lived in Willimansett until her marriage to the late Herman A. Markert in 1948.
 
Her campus service began in 1962 as a part-time clerk in the University Store. She later worked in the Library as a part-time desk assistant and then as a junior clerk in the Student Union. She transferred back to the University Store in 1964 and then to its new Copy Center in 1968. She left in 1980 but did some work as a clerical assistant in 1981.

She was a member of

Randhir advises Turkish researchers on dealing with climate change

Timothy Randhir, associate professor of Environmental Conservation, served as a scientific advisor on modeling climate change and ecosystem services during a trip to Turkey from Jan. 6-15.

The visit was supported by TUBITAK, Turkey’s counterpart of the National Science Foundation, which aims to strengthen efforts in climate and landscape research in the country.

Randhir addressed several research groups at Istanbul University on advanced modeling techniques in landscape modeling and evaluating climatic impacts in watershed ecosystem services.

La Raja discusses effects of Citizens United decision at Cato Institute

Ray La Raja, associate professor of Political Science, participated in a Jan. 23 panel discussion about the effects of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision on elections at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C.
 
He was joined on the panel by Robert Bauer, former counsel to the president and general counsel for Obama for America 2012, and Bradley Smith, the Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Designated Professor of Law at Capital University Law School and former commissioner at the Federal Election Commission.

 
 

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