English professor Dara Wier’s new poetry collection, “You Good Thing,” was published April 2 by Wave Books.
A review in the Jan. 21 issue of Publishers Weekly said, “Opening with a sketched map and quote—“by the longest possible route”—from Fernando Pessoa, Wier’s 11th collection delights in its turnings and tangents, line to line, poem to poem. These loose sonnets—in some respects traditional lyrics addressing a illusive Other—echo Pessoa’s experiments with how the self writes and is written.”
Writing in Heavy Feather Review, Jordan Sanderson said, “In the collection, imagination and
Associate professor Emery Berger of the School of Computer Science has won a Software Engineering Innovation Foundation (SEIF) award, which includes a $25,000 grant, for his work on a system to automatically find errors in spreadsheets.
Mari Castañeda, associate professor of Communication, was a featured speaker at the inaugural Faculty Women of Color in the Academy (FWCA) conference held April 3-5 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Professor Barton Byg, founding director of the campus’s DEFA Film Library, and Ralf Schenk, director of the DEFA Foundation in Berlin, were featured “In Conversation” on March 7 at the Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership in Chicago.
New recommendations by a National Research Council (NRC) expert panel on green and sustainable building performance could lead to a revolution in building science by creating the first large building performance database, says panel member Paul Fisette, a nationally recognized sustainable building expert in the Environmental Conservation Department.