JEDDAH: Saudi feature film “Scales” has been chosen to represent the Kingdom at the upcoming 93rd Academy Awards (Oscars).
Directed by Shahd Amin, the movie, also known as “Lady of the Sea,” will compete in the best international feature film category and was nominated by a special committee and selected by the Saudi Film Commission to be the Kingdom’s entry.
The flick will go through several screening stages before a final list chosen by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which will be awarding the Oscars is revealed. The winner will be announced at the awards ceremony on April 25.
Award-winning storytellers join Fairfield University s MFA workshop
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Fairfield University’s annual Master of Fine Arts (MFA) residency will feature three award-winning guest lecturers during their series of workshops running Dec. 27 through Jan. 3.
Novelist Zadie Smith, filmmaker Mira Nair and U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey will offer advice and expertise to aspiring writers participating in the creative writing program.
Carol Ann Davis, MFA director and english professor said the three guest lecturers will answer questions about their writing habits, process and experience. Davis said they will each speak about an assigned text of the speaker’s choice as well as their recent work.
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Julius, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco, will join HHMI’s Board of Trustees.
David Julius, PhD, has been elected an HHMI Trustee. Credit: Susan Merrill, UCSF
David Julius, PhD, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), has been elected a Trustee of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), the largest private biomedical research institution in the United States. His appointment will begin on January 1, 2021.
Julius, a biochemist and molecular physiologist, studies the molecular mechanisms underlying sensations such as heat, cold, and pain. His lab has examined menthol, wasabi, capsaicin (the ingredient that makes chili peppers hot), and other natural products to discover how sensory nerves detect temperature, itch, and other sensations.
Syracuse Stage Poetry and Play
New Instalmment Just Dropped Every other Monday, Starting October 5 (Source: Syracuse Stage) By Craig Thornton | October 12, 2020 at 4:16 PM EDT - Updated December 21 at 1:22 PM
The online video series is an extension of an existing live performance series that paired poets and poetry with similarly themed Syracuse Stage plays. The move to presenting the series online is part of Syracuse Stage’s response to the closure of theaters due to Covid-19. The online version will feature poets and actors self-recording and reading poems written about experiences in the theatre.
The poems are like “love letters to the art form we miss so dearly,” said Kyle Bass, Syracuse Stage’s associate artistic director who is curating the series with Martin, an award-winning poet and Syracuse resident. “It’s been very rewarding to engage with some of the country’s best poets who love and write about theatre or live performance in their work,” said
Standing before eager young writers, scientists, artists and leaders, George C. Schatz addressed north country graduates during a pre-pandemic ceremony eight years ago.
That spring day, the theoretical chemist was presented with an honorary doctorate from Clarkson University, his alma mater.
âForty-one years ago,â he told the Clarkson class of 2012, âI sat where you are now today and I wondered, âwhat is the future going to bring?ââ
Now nearly 50 years since his own Clarkson graduation, Mr. Schatz was named this year to an updated ranking of the worldâs leading chemists. Compiled by data scientists for Academic Influence â which publishes metric-based lists of colleges and educators â the latest top chemists âhave significantly impacted the academic discipline of chemistryâ between 2010 and 2020.