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| Professor Eric Kramer and post-doctoral research associate Heidi Rutschow published an article in Plant Physiology. This article is the first to result from work Kramer and Rutschow have carried out through a National Science Foundation grant | |
| Zachary Mason was a guest on WNYC’s The Leonard Lopate Show, discussing his novel, The Lost Books of the Odyssey | |
| Bridges Visiting Artist Alison Bechdel ’77 spoke on campus on March 7th, days after the release of The L Life. Check out Bechdel’s spread in the book on AfterEllen. Bechdel’s work is also featured in It Gets Better, a book that resulted from the viral anti-bullying campaign of the same name | |
| Ashley (Ray) Pérez ’00 recently published her first young adult novel, What Can't Wait. Kirkus Reviews praised the novel, calling it “un magnifico debut” | |
| Professor Peter Filkins discussed his recently published translation of H.G. Adler’s Panorama as a guest on WAMC’s The Roundtable | |
| Rebecca Hunter, fitness director at the Kilpatrick Athletic Center, placed first in her age group at the 31st Hyannis Marathon, qualifying for 2012 Boston Marathon | |
| Professor Tanya Marcuse ’81’s work is on display in an exhibition, Heroines, at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid | |
| Emily Calderalo ’07 interned at the production of Newsweek and the Daily Beast’s second annual “Women in the World Stories and Solutions” summit | |
| Adjunct Professor Karen Allen, who stars in the recently released film White Irish Drinkers, was profiled in the Boston Globe | |
| Local media outlets including iBerkshires.com and the Berkshire Eagle featured Simon’s Rock’s International Women’s Day conference | |
| Jessica Mah ’06's small-business application inDinero was featured at Reuters and the Huffington Post, which called Mah “inspiring” | |
| Professor Asma Abbas presented at Lewis University’s 16th annual philosophy conference. She was also quoted as an expert in a Berkshire Eagle article that touched on recent congressional hearings into Islamist radicalization | |
| Bridges Program Visiting Artist Tomás Kubínek performed for a very full house in the Daniel Art Center’s McConnell Auditorium. The show concluded with a song and dance routine featuring Heather Fisch ’01 and Annakeara Stinson ’04 | |
| Darkroom Manager John Snyder was quoted in a Berkshire Record article about an exhibition of works by photographer Lucien Aigner, with whom Snyder worked | |
| Matthew Strassler ’81 lectured on how experiments in the Large Hadron Collider could help explain fundamental questions about our universe at New York’s Secret Science Club | |
| Roosevelt Institute senior fellow Eli Pariser '96 spoke at TED about how the algorithms used by the likes of Google and Facebook might be limiting users’ exposure to unfamiliar and diverse content. See write-ups of Pariser’s talk about the balkanization of the web at Huffington Post and Wired | |
| Bard College at Simon’s Rock students including Zac Mason ’09, Lauren Payne-Riley ’09, and Abi Peña ’09 were featured in the Berkshire Eagle for having completed a sex education training program that will bring them into local schools to work with youth on issues like the prevention of teen pregnancy and transmission of STDs | |
| John McWhorter ’81 advanced a policy position against the war on drugs in a piece on NPR | |
| Staff member Mark “Monk” Schane-Lydon appeared in Animal Planet's Fatal Attractions episode, “A Buffalo Rides Shotgun” | |