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The University Lectures continues its 20th season this spring with four dynamic speakers: Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, on Tuesday, Feb. 16; Misty Copeland, principal dancer with the American Ballet Theater, on Tuesday, Feb. 23; Stephanie Johnson-Cunningham, agent for arts and culture, on Wednesday, March 17; and Nyle DiMarco, deaf activist and winner of “Dancing with the Stars” and “America’s Next Top Model,” on Tuesday, March 23.
The University’s premier speaker series, the University Lectures brings to Syracuse University audience members and the larger public notable guest speakers of exceptional accomplishment who share their diverse global experiences and perspectives. The series was created through, and is supported by, the generosity of alumnus Robert B. Menschel ’51. Media sponsor for the University Lectures is WAER.
The University of Hartford announced it will launch an aerospace engineering program for undergraduate students.
UHart s College of Engineering, Technology and Architecture will start offering the course in the fall, 2021 semester, according to the university. It will include hands-on instruction on new technologies, and building relationships with people in the aerospace manufacturing field. The new program is launching at a time when the field of aerospace engineering is growing, UHart said in a statement announcing the program. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects this industry to see 3% job growth nationally and 7.3% job growth locally in Connecticut over a 10-year period.
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BMOP/Sound Releases New Album By Robert Carl
Carl is a prolific writer penning reviews for Fanfare Magazine and books on 20th and 21st century aesthetics.by BWW News Desk
Known as the nation s foremost label launched by an orchestra and devoted exclusively to new music, Grammy Award-winning BMOP/sound today announced the release of Robert Carl: White Heron, led by conductor Gil Rose and performed by the intrepid Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP). Featuring four of the composer s orchestral works, this portrait album concerns Carl s life-long fascination: time and space-concrete, geographical, and metaphorical.
Currently chair of the composition department at The Hartt School, University of Hartford, Carl is a prolific writer penning reviews for Fanfare Magazine and books on 20th and 21st century aesthetics. He was originally a student of history before he refocused his efforts to music. As a result, his music plays with a sense of time and of the past being present. My work
Watch: Maine Voices Live Waterville with Matt Apuzzo
The chat with the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter took place Feb. 16.
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Matt Apuzzo is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times based in Brussels, where he is part of the paper’s international investigative team. Before joining the international staff, he spent more than a decade in Washington covering law enforcement and security matters. He is the co-author of the book “Enemies Within.” A graduate of Colby College in Waterville, he joined The New York Times in 2014 after 11 years with The Associated Press. He previously worked for the Standard-Times in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and got his start on the night sports desk for the Morning Sentinel in Waterville. He teaches journalism at Georgetown University and once successfully argued a motion from the audience in federal court.