Senior receives grant for print making art exhibitMiami University senior Nick Scrimenti, an art major, was one of four Ohio students selected for the Yeck College Artist Fellowship, a program at the Dayton Art Institute. Other students were selected from Central State University, Art Academy of Cincinnati and Wright State University.
To be accepted, Scrimenti created a body of work for display at the institute's Regional Artists Gallery April 18 to Aug. 23. Fellowship recipients also received $1,000 for materials to create their body of work for the exhibit.
Scrimenti's focus is on print making with figurative and abstract images.
The Dayton Art Institute galleries are open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday to Sunday with extended hours until 8 p.m. Thursday. Admission is free. For more information, visit www.daytonartinstitute.org.
Poetry collection to be '09 summer reading bookTaylor Mali's What Learning Leaves was selected as the 2009 summer reading book for incoming Miami University first-year students. The book is composed of a collection of poetry by Mali, a poet and teacher.
As the Summer Reading Program book, first-year students will discuss the poetry with faculty, staff and other students after convocation in August. Mali will also be the convocation speaker.
What Learning Leaves discusses education from various perspectives, including from those educated and the educator. Mali has won the National Poetry Slam competition four times and was also a recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts grant in 2001.
Miami graduate to speak about housing marketMiami University graduate Karl Case will present "The U.S. Housing Market and the Great Recession," at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, April 9 in Hall Auditorium.
Case, a professor of economics at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, is a nationally known economist and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. He has also authored and co-authored five books on topics including real estate, housing and public finance.
Case earned an undergraduate degree in economics at Miami in 1968 and went on to spend three years in active duty with the Army before earning his doctorate in economics from Harvard University in 1976.
Case's talk is free and open to the public.
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