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Brandon Bibby, an alumnus of the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, will return to the U of A campus to deliver the schools 2023 Spring Commencement address.

NEW ORLEANS (press release) – Prospect New Orleans is pleased to announce its newest public art commission, Artists of Public Memory. This inaugural

A memorial to Coretta Scott and Martin Luther King Jr. has received stinging criticisms, but time will tell whether ‘The Embrace’ will endure as a cherished work of public art.

News from Grant County, New Mexico

The Black Lives Matter protests inspired activists to demand the removal of controversial names from campus buildings. Many universities have established practices to guide them.

Flagler College offers a wide selection of study abroad programs that let students develop a global perspective while gaining real-world skills. During the spring 2022 semester, three different faculty-led trips gave students an opportunity of a lifetime to better understand the world around them by traveling to Ghana, Poland, and Panama.

This is part one of a two-part article. Essayist Anaïs Nin famously said: “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” Although this may

Central Lecture Series to Focus on History of Indigenous Iowa

Central Lecture Series to Focus on History of Indigenous Iowa

After the pandemic, how will society remember more than 3 million lives lost to COVID-19? This spring, the Remembering Epidemics course delved into both the history of disease outbreaks in Philadelphia and the nature of public commemoration and collective memory. The National Covid Memorial Wall, consisting of more than 150,000 hearts hand-painted by volunteers representing each person lost to COVID-19 in the UK, stretches more t...