Professor emeritus of Art Jack Coughlin will sign his books at White Square - Fine Books & Art in Easthampton on Saturday, Dec. 8 from 5-7 p.m.
Limited edition signed prints from Coughlin's extensive portrait collection of literary figures and musicians will also be for sale.
"A Brush with the Blues: 26 Portraits," a visual and verbal tribute to famous blues artists, grew from a collaboration between Coughlin and Steve Tracy, professor of Afro-American Studies. The book is a collection of portraits of blues musicians, with accompanying text by Tracy.
Coughlin's prints, drawings and
Thomas R. Schneeweis, the Michael and Cheryl Philipp Professor of Finance at the Isenberg School of Management, was honored Nov. 29 by the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association (CAIA) with its inaugural Award for Academic Excellence and Alternative Investment Research.
Paige Warren, associate professor of Environmental Conservation, is the co-editor of a recently published book from the University of California Press, “Urban Bird Ecology and Conservation.” Her co-editor is ecologist Christopher Lepczyk of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The book collects views of leading researchers on cities, one of our most “under-studied environments,” Warren notes.
Gretchen Gano, a lecturer with the Center for Public Policy and Administration (CPPA), is speaking Dec. 6 at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars In Washington, D.C., about engaging the public in evaluating technology use in science and in social decision-making.