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Loretta Lux grew up in Soviet occupied East Germany. She was raised inside the Berlin Wall that came down when she was 20 years old. A year after the wall came down in 1990 Loretta stared studying paintings and art which she perused until 1996. Three years on and she had started studying photography. In 2004 she had her first solo show in America at the Yossi Milo Gallery, New York. In 2005, Loretta received the Infinity Award for Art from the International Center of Photography. Her work has since

“Amusing the Million” by John F. Kasson, is a book that presents the very cusp of modern social and economic culture pre WWI. The well cultured, but often considered ostentatious influential groups instituted several other forms of recreational activities for the public to take part in, but because of the sophisticated and banal nature of these undertakings, many of the people shunned them. John F. Kasson impacts his readers with his books on cultural history that vary through a high and low volume

he helped found the Society of Photographic Education. He received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1967 that recognized his “multiple imaging techniques”. Soon after, he gained wide coverage in art magazines in both the United States and Europe. Uelsmann has also received the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in photography in 1972. He is a founding member of the American Society for Photographic Education and a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society of Great

SUM by David Eagleman: Book Review Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives is a collection of short stories by David Eagleman. Eagleman is a neuroscientist, Guggenheim fellow, author/presenter of the PBS series “The Brain,” and a bestselling author. On his website Q&A, Eagleman claims the title is related to the Latin term for the highest, as in summa cum laude, or the English word summit. Sum is a work of fiction, each chapter a mutually exclusive story about what happens after you die. The characters

Prior to the IEEE the organization started as the IRE and the AIEE which eventually merged to form the IEEE on January 1, 1963 (IEEE “History of IEEE” 1). The AIEE was a group created by electrical professionals in New York in order to support their fellow colleagues in 1884 (IEEE “History of IEEE” 2). Many years later in 1912 Guglielmo Marconi and Lee de Forest built the foundation of a new industry that eventually became the IRE (IEEE “History of IEEE” 2). There are is a standard code of conduct

but eventually received his degree from Rice. As mentioned that he currently works at Baylor, this is also where he obtained his PhD from. Eagleman has also been and still is on many different high up councils and boards. Some of these include Guggenheim Fellow and World Economic Forum. Two other examples of other books he has written are: Sum and Why the Net Matters. He has a very impressive background (Wikipedia and

National Book Award for Nonfiction The John Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing The Henry Grier Bryant Gold Medal of the Geographical Societ The New York Zoological Society Gold Medal Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters Awarded a Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for research on the tidal coasts in preparation for her next book, The Edge of the Sea. 1961 “Silent Spring” is published 1962 President Kennedy talks about Carson’s book at a Press Conference and questions pesticide safety 1962 “Silent

Phi Beta Kappa chapter on campus. Saint Michael's has 1,900 undergraduate students, some 250 graduate students and 100 international students. In recent years Saint Michael's students and professors have received Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson, Pickering, Guggenheim, Fulbright, National Science Foundation and other grants, and its professors have been named Vermont Professor of the Year in four of the last nine years. The college is currently listed as one of the nation's Best Liberal Arts Colleges in the 2009

Jeffery “Jeff” Koons, born an American in York, Pennsylvania on January 21, 1955. As a teenager, Koons admired Salvador Dali’s art work so much that he would visit him in New York at the St. Regis Hotel. Later in his college years, Koons met artist Ed Paschke who became a major influence on him and helped be Paschke’s assistant in his art studio. Koons studied Painting at the School of Art Institute of Chicago and at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. He received a BFA from the Maryland

and short stories, and eight children's books. His honors and awards included a Guggenheim Fellowship (1934), Rosenwald Fellowship (1941), the Ainsfield-Wolf Book Award (1954), and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Spingarn Award (1960). By the early 1940 Hughes ceased his peripatetic lifestyle and settled permanently in Harlem. He continued however to write and interact with fellow Harlem Renaissance writers such as Arna Bontemps as well as younger writers he