Two Perspectives on Video Games
DoVA Faculty Members and Alumni Recognized as "Chicago's Artists' Artists"
Seven faculty members and alumni from the Department of Visual Arts appear in Newcity’s 2014 Art 50. Newcity publishes the list every other year “…to celebrate the accomplishments of a few people who work hard and smart, and who happen to call Chicago their home,” billing the artists as “Chicago’s Artists’ Artists.”
Victor Friedman Honored for Scholarship and Professional Service
The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) has honored Victor Friedman with the 2014 Distinguished Contributions Award.
Connecting Dickinson and Herbert: Strier Leads NEH Summer Seminar
This summer at UChicago Richard Strier led sixteen scholars through the works of two masters of lyric poetry in "George Herbert and Emily Dickinson," a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers.
Learning Through Play
Donning lab coats and pretending to be a group of time-traveling scientists in contact with the future would never qualify as a traditional teaching tactic. Nor would acting out a three-week sci-fi role-playing game along with 70 teenagers. But the team behind the Game Changer Chicago Design Lab believes such games can impart knowledge in ways that ordinary lectures can’t.
