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	Are you making news? Did we miss your story? Please share it with us at editors@simons-rock.edu Educating Outside the Lines: Bard College at Simon’s Rock on a “New Pedagogy” for the Twenty First Century was published in May. Edited by Nancy Yanoshak, faculty in history and women’s studies, the book is the result of the collaborative efforts of 29 Simon's Rock faculty members and alumni

	The Berkshire Eagle carried the news that Peter Laipson, currently dean of faculty at Concord Academy, will become the next provost and vice president of the College. Click here to learn more about Dr. Laipson

	Professor Chris Coggins was awarded a grant to conduct research on village fengshui forests in southern China. Coggins and four students—Joelle Chevrier ’08, Maeve Dwyer ’08, Lindsey Longway ’07, and Michael Xu ’08—will travel to China for a month to conduct research on ecological and cultural features of fengshui forests

	Professor Emmanuel Dongala was awarded the Prix Kourouma 2011 at the Geneva International Book Fair

	Professor Larry Wallach reviewed Wozzeck at the Met for New York Arts

	Asma Abbas, faculty in political science and philosophy, gave expert commentary on WAMC. She spoke about the significance of the death of Osama bin Laden

	PopMatters published a review of Zachary Mason ’88’s The Lost Books of the Odyssey. Read about Mason’s text on RockNet, the Simon’s Rock alumni site

	The *Washington Post* and CNN mull over the insights contained in Eli Pariser ’96’s newly released book, The Filter Bubble

	Publisher’s Weekly selected Veronica Chambers ’87's Amigas: A Formal Affair for its list of 2011’s best multicultural books for young adults

	Jessica Mah ’06 is number 74 on Fast Company’s “100 Most Creative People in Business 2011”

	Ethnomusicologist Isaac Hirt-Manheimer ’96 has established a center in Ghana “to preserve traditional arts, provide employment and housing, and to provide a meaningful destination alternative for students and tourists,” reports the Ridgefield Press

	Academic Dean Anne O’Dwyer co-authored a chapter in Treating Young Veterans: Promoting Resilience Through Practice and Advocacy, with a professor and students from Berkshire Community College

	The first-years-cum-sophomores are interning this summer. Isys Rucker-Peoples is teaching math at Breakthrough Atlanta, while Jared Weiss is at the Center for Genomics and Human Genetics at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research

	Professor Peter Filkins was awarded a Faculty Research Grant by the German Academic Exchange Service to do research in the archive of H.G. Adler. His article “Stimme und Stimmung: Translating H.G. Adler” appeared in a special spring issue of Monatshefte. Filkins was also named writer-in-residence at the James Merrill House in Stonington, CT for the spring of 2012

	Young Writers Workshop attendee Carrie Ann White told the Independent Tribune “the most inspiring place I've ever written at was at Bard College at Simon's Rock”

	Artificial intelligence researcher Ben Goertzel ’82 spoke at “Transhumanism Meets Design,” a conference at Parsons The New School for Design

	Board member John McWhorter ’83’s recent pieces in the New Republic included musings on the rapper Common’s appearance at the White House’s poetry night and the significance of school integration

	Sophomore Eleanor O’Neil was profiled in the Federal Way Mirror

	Local Talk News of Newark heralds the arrival of Bard High School Early College

	Incoming first-year Kelly Walker was profiled by Village Soup

	The Santa Ynez Valley News featured the artwork of Zoe Nathan ’98