Tarleton Diversity and Inclusion hosts i-Bodies exhibition
TSU Newsroom
STEPHENVILLE Tarleton State University’s Department of Diversity and Inclusion will host the “i-Bodies” art exhibition through Feb. 26 at the Clyde H. Wells Fine Arts Center Gallery in Stephenville.
Titled after gestalt psychologist James Kepner’s term, “i-Bodies” is a collection of prints, paintings and collages that draw on the human body as a source of inspiration and lived experience.
Representative and abstracted, the works of participating female artists Tiara Unique Francois, Lynne Bowman Cravens, Kay Ford, victoria j brill and Madelyn Sneed-Grays process the ongoing narrative of the body through ambitious works of different scale pulling on different materials and methods.
Hughes-Fulford, trailblazing astronaut, Tarleton grad dies at 75
The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO Millie Hughes-Fulford, a trailblazing astronaut and scientist who became the first female payload specialist to fly in space for NASA, died following a yearslong battle with cancer, her family said. She was 75.
A Tarleton State University graduate, Hughes-Fulford was selected by NASA for its astronaut program in 1983 and five years later, in June 1991, spent nine days in orbit on the shuttle Columbia, conducting experiments on the effect of space travel on humans as part of the agency’s first mission dedicated to biomedical studies, STS-40. She and her crew mates circled the Earth 146 times.
Alarming number of Texans died in custody from pre-existing medical conditions, study finds
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People gather in Chicago s Federal Plaza Wednesday, July 13, 2016 to remember Sandra Bland, a Black woman whose controversial arrest following a traffic stop by a white state trooper led to her confinement in the Waller County jail. She was found hanging from a jail cell partition three days later, a plastic garbage bag around her neck. The death was ruled a suicide. The trooper was fired and accused of lying about the traffic stop.Paul Michna, MBI / AP
Almost a third of the nearly 11,000 people who have died in the custody of Texas police, jails and prisons since 2005 succumbed at least in part to a pre-existing medical