SLC in the News
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Douglas McGinness '10, Jessica Friedman '10,
Michael Donatich '10Sophomores Douglas McGinness, Jessica Friedman, and Michael Donatich were interviewed by WNBC's Carol Anne Riddell about being roommates in a story on all gender housing. Dean Allen Green provided the background to the College's policy, one of about two dozen nationwide, that allows male and female students to share a room.
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Rachel Stolzman '96
The Metro Spirit of Augusta, GA profiles Rachel Stolzman ’96 on the debut of her new novel The Sign for Drowning.
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Marisa de los Santos MFA '90
Marisa de los Santos MFA ’90, talks to the Philadelphia Inquirer about her novel, Belong to Me, which debuted at No. 5 on the New York Times best seller’s list.
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W. Ian Lipkin '74
W. Ian Lipkin ’74, a world renowned scientist, acknowledges his Sarah Lawrence College education as helping to equip him intellectually for the work he does. In his 2000 Commencement address to Sarah Lawrence’s graduating class, he referred to his liberal arts studies: “Many of the concepts I now use daily in molecular biology and neuroscience are rooted in lessons learned by reading Hegel, Levi-Strauss, and Thomas Kuhn.” Lipkin is featured in the Spring ’08 issue of NIAID (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health) Discovery News as “among the notable infectious diseases investigators in a remarkable generation of discovery.”
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David Lindsay-Abaire '92
Playbill profiles David Lindsay-Abaire ’92, named the winner of the 18th Annual Ed Kleban Award as America's most promising musical theatre lyricist.
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Suzanne W. Wright '98
Suzanne W. Wright '98 has been named to Time magazine's list of The World’s 100 Most Influential People. She and her husband, Bob, are featured in the Heroes & Pioneers section for their work in raising awareness about autism and greatly expanding the research into its causes and treatment. Wright reflects on how her Sarah Lawrence education prepared her for these efforts.
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Sara Rudner, Director of the Graduate Program in Dance
In a recent New York Times article, dance critic Alastair Macaulay extols the director of the College’s dance program, Sara Rudner, as a dance legend.
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Barbara Walters, Alumna
Sarah Lawrence College features in Audition, a new memoir by alumna Barbara Walters in which she talks about her tough adolescence, college years and her remarkable career. Articles in the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and Journal News are among the extensive media coverage the book is receiving.
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Carly Simon, Alumna
The Oregonian profiles alumna Carly Simon, whose career as a talented musician is written about in a new book, Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon and the Journey of a Generation.
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Holly Robinson Peete '86
Holly Robinson Peete '86 is featured on the National Public Radio show News and Notes. She discusses her new book, Book of Life: Making Your Best Days, with host Farai Chideya, as well as raising a child with autism, and the HollyRod Foundation, which she and husband, Rodney Peete, founded to improve the quality of life for people with Parkinson’s disease.
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Ann Patchett '85
USA Today reports, “Just in time for graduation season, best-selling author Ann Patchett's 2006 commencement address at Sarah Lawrence College has been turned into an inspirational book.”
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Fawaz Gerges, History Faculty
Fawaz Gerges, holder of The Christian A. Johnson Chair in International Affairs discusses the Middle East in a wide-ranging interview in the English edition of Asharq Alawsat, the leading Arabic international daily.
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Joan Silber '67
Publisher’s Weekly profiles Joan Silber ’67 and her new book The Size of the World. In Size, Silber traces a path around the world connecting disparate times and spaces including 1920s Thailand, 1940s Sicily, and present-day Indiana.
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Fawaz Gerges, History Faculty
Fawaz Gerges, holder of The Christian A. Johnson Chair in International Affairs and Middle Eastern Studies, provides his analysis on the Crocker and Petraeus testimony in Congress on the Brian Lehrer Show on National Public Radio.
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Maiysha Simpson '97
Top 40 Charts profiles Progressive Soul newcomer Maiysha Simpson ’97, and her debut album “This Much Is True.”
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Sonia Reese '73
The Network Journal (Black Professionals and Small Business Magazine) profiles alumna and College Trustee Sonia Reese, selected as one of “25 Influential Black Women in Business” by the magazine.
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Nicolaus Mills, Literature Faculty
Literature Professor Nicolaus Mills writes in The Canberra Times (Australia) about the Marshall Plan and what its principles could mean for today’s foreign policy, 60 years after “the most important foreign aid undertaking in modern American history” was signed by President Truman. Mills is author of the upcoming book, Winning the Peace: The Marshall Plan and America's Coming of Age as a Superpower.
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Fawaz Gerges, History Faculty
Fawaz Gerges, holder of The Christian A. Johnson Chair in International Affairs and Middle Eastern Studies, is quoted in recent articles in American Thinker, Christian Science Monitor, Associated Press, and the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.
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Thomas Lux, Guest Faculty
Guest Faculty Thomas Lux sits down with Smoky Mountain News to discuss what he enjoys most about teaching, what he is currently reading, and why people should read poetry.
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Caroline Lieber, Director of Joan H. Marks Graduate
Program in Human Genetics
Caroline Lieber, MS '80, Director of Joan H. Marks Graduate Program in Human Genetics, says in an article on Fort Collins Now that people who decide to have their DNA tested should “work with genetics professionals who can walk them through it and explain what the results mean.”
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Diana Jones '84
Diana Jones ’84 talks to the Evanston Review about the inspiration behind the songs on her new album “Better Times Will Come,” to be released in June.
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Ingrid Sischy '73
Media Industry Newsletter, a trade publication that "reports on the news, deals, trends and personnel moves shaping the consumer magazine publishing industry" features an article on alumna Ingrid Sischy '73, who departs as editor-in-chief of Interview magazine (which includes her final interview, with Madonna) to become international editor of Vanity Fair's Italian and German editions. (Subscription only)
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Karen Lawrence, President
"Preparing Students to Live with Curiosity": President Karen Lawrence talks about challenges and opportunities in Diverse Issues in Higher Education.
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Nick Mills, Literature
Literature Professor Nick Mills, in a Newsday op-ed, provides his perspective on Barack Obama’s recent speech on racial unity.
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Rosamond Bernier '38
Rosamond Bernier ’38, the "world’s most glamorous lecturer on art and high culture," gave her final lecture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on March 13th, as described in The New Yorker.
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Julianna Margulies '89
The Day reports on a new FOX television series, Canterbury’s Law, starring Julianna Margulies ’89 as a defense attorney.
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Ann Patchett '85
Ann Patchett ’85 sits down with the Palm Beach Post to talk about her books, Bel Canto and Run (her most recent) and the power of female friendship.
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Georgette Bruenner MS '07
More magazine profiles Georgette Bruenner MS ’07, and lists her job as Genetics Counselor as one of the best ten jobs for midlife women.
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Gabriel Vaughan '00
In an interview with Tampa Bay's Creative Loafing, Gabriel Vaughan ’00 talks about playing Hamlet, the role all actors dream about.
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Nick Mills, Literature
Literature faculty member Nick Mills writes on the fallout of the Texas and Ohio Democratic primaries in Dissent magazine online.
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Dance Program
An article in the Journal News highlights the College’s Dance Outreach Program at the Enrico Fermi School for the Performing Arts in Yonkers.
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Barbara Schecter, Director of the Graduate Program
in Child DevelopmentBarbara Schecter, psychology faculty member and Director of the graduate program in Child Development was quoted in a Toronto Star story on "tomboys," based on her letter to the editor of the New York Times about the term used to describe the star of Juno. The story also received attention from a celebrity website.
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Women's History Month
A CNN.com article notes that Women’s History Week, the precursor to Women’s History Month, originated at Sarah Lawrence College.
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Courtney Hunt '86
Courtney Hunt ’86 talks to The Independent about her new movie Frozen River, which recently won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, the most prestigious award given at Robert Redford's annual celebration of independent films.
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Mark Campbell '98
Mark Campbell ’98 joins the ensemble cast of "Mamma Mia!" as the Broadway smash returns to Omaha, NE for the third time, as reported by the Omaha World-Herald.
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Alice Brock '62
Alumna Alice Brock ‘62, of "Alice's Restaurant" fame in the 1966 Arlo Guthrie anti-war song, talks about art, religion, collecting rocks, and being a restaurant owner in a recent Boston Globe article.
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Barbara Schecter, Director of the Graduate Program in Child Development
In a letter to the editor of the New York Times Barbara Schecter, Director of the Graduate Program in Child Development at Sarah Lawrence College, voices concern about the word “tomboy” in describing the actress Ellen Page, star of Juno.
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Ellen Page
Ellen Page, nominated for Best Actress for her role in Juno in this year’s recent Academy Awards, talks about her friends at Sarah Lawrence and that “she often muses about enrolling” in an article written by Ginny Chien of the LA Times.
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Nick Mills, Literature Faculty
Faculty member Nick Mills writes stirringly in Dissent magazine online about the interdependent black and white forces that brought about the 1964 Civil Rights Act from JFK's 1963 speech following federal intervention that allowed two black students to enroll at the University of Alabama, to the momentum generated by Martin Luther King, the grassroots work of SNCC's Bob Moses and others, to the legislation stewarded by Lyndon Johnson.
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LaShonda Barnett, History Faculty
History faculty member LaShonda Barnett talks about the research behind her new book I Got Thunder: Black Women Songwriters on Their Craft in the San Francisco Chronicle. Listen to what LaShonda learned from her book in a National Public Radio interview.
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Robert LeLeux '03
The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy, written by Robert LeLeux ’03, has been widely reviewed including in The New York Times and the Seattle Times.
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Caroline Lieber, Director of the Joan H. Marks Graduate Program in Human Genetics
Caroline Lieber, MS '80, Director of the Joan H. Marks Graduate Program in Human Genetics, gives her analysis of new direct-to-consumer genetic testing services on Public Radio’s Marketplace.
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JJ Abrams '88
JJ Abrams '88, director of the new movie Cloverfield, is featured in Newsday.
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Eric Mabius ’90
Eric Mabius ’90, from the popular TV show “Ugly Betty”, is featured on the cover of The Improper Bostonian, as reported on BostonHerald.com.
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Fawaz Gerges, History Faculty
Fawaz Gerges, holder of The Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Chair in Middle Eastern Studies and International Affairs, talks with National Public Radio’s Madeleine Brand about President Bush’s recent visit to Kuwait. Listen to the interview.
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Joanna Heimbold '90
Joanna Heimbold '85, M.S. Ed. '90 has been elected to the board of trustees of the Westport Country Playhouse, of which Joanne Woodward '90 is Co-Artistic Director, as reported on NorwalkPlus.com.
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David Peritz, Politics
Politics faculty member David Peritz discussed civil rights with State Senator Jeff Klein on WVOX-AM in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The program, which included Louise Mirrer, President of the New York Historical Society, and Democratic County Election Commissioner Reginald La-Fayette, can be heard on the New York Historical Society Web site. A second radio program on WVOX with Professor Peritz is available as an mp3 download.
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John Yannelli, Music Faculty
Electronic music is a central component of the music curriculum at Sarah Lawrence as well as in other schools. The Journal News featured SLC students and faculty member John Yannelli in an article about the integration of electronic and traditional music: Watch the video.
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Joshua Muldavin, Geography
Joshua Muldavin, Geography faculty member, currently doing research in China, writes about the West’s share of responsibility for the environmental destruction caused by China’s global economic integration in an op-ed published in the Boston Globe and the South China Morning Post.
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Brian Morton '78, Writing
Writing faculty member and alumnus Brian Morton ‘78 is interviewed in Inside Higher Education about his acclaimed novel Starting Out in the Evening, which has been made into a newly released movie starring Frank Langella.
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Elizabeth Atkins '07
Elizabeth Atkins, who graduated from the College in May, died on November 19 after a struggle with brain cancer, diagnosed during her junior year. Her courage and persistence were evident at her commencement. She will be missed by all who knew her. Obituaries were published in the Boston Globe and the Cambridge Chronicle.
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Nick Mills, Literature
Literature faculty member Nick Mills reviews an exhibit of photographs called "Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq" by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders in the current online edition of Dissent magazine. Focusing on three of the 13 images, currently on display at the Steven Kasher Gallery in New York through December 22, Mills concludes: "... when it comes to arguing that the time has come to bring the Iraq War to a close, nobody has made the case in a way more likely to convince the undecided than Greenfield-Sanders. His visual politics forecloses debate."
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Bianca Butler '10
National Public Radio aired an essay by Bianca Butler ’10, in which she describes her initial culture shock as a first year student at Sarah Lawrence.
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Graduate Program: Health Advocacy
The nascent profession of health advocacy for which Sarah Lawrence has the first and only master's degree program in the country is discussed in a front page article in the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Fawaz Gerges, History Faculty
Fawaz Gerges, holder of The Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Chair in Middle Eastern Studies and International Affairs, reviews three books — Suicide Bombers in Iraq: The Strategy and Ideology Of Martyrdom By Mohammed M. Hafez, A Poisonous Affair: America Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja By Joost R. Hiltermann and Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible by Douglas Farah and Stephen Braun in the Washington Post. The review addresses the question "How much of the war on terror is 'blowback' from U.S. policies?"
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Marvin Frankel, Psychology; Nicolaus Mills, Literature
Faculty members Marvin Frankel, psychology, and Nicolaus Mills, literature, discuss baseball, Alex Rodriguez, and Barry Bonds in an opinion piece in Newsday.
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Joan Countryman '62
Joan Countryman ’62, recently returned from helping Oprah Winfrey establish an academy for girls in Johannesburg, South Africa, has agreed to serve as interim head of the Atlanta Girls School. Countryman has been praised as a world-class educator for her work as head of the all girls Lincoln School in Providence, R.I., for many years, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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Nicolaus Mills, Literature Faculty
The current issue of American Prospect includes an article by faculty member Nicolaus Mills comparing the decision the U.S. must make in Iraq to that of Great Britain in India 60 years ago.
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Christopher Roush ’08
Musician Christopher Roush ’08 was profiled in the Hayward Daily for his upcoming performance at the Park Theater in Hayward, Wisconsin.
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Deborah Hejl MA ’76
Indianapolis social studies teacher Deborah Hejl MA ’76, describes her week as a House fellow in Washington D.C. for the Indianapolis Star.
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Melinda Yeomans MFA ’96
Melinda Yeomans MFA ’96, now working on a doctoral degree at the speech and communications department of Southern Illinois University, has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Scholarship reports thesouthern.com.
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Marjory Sweet ’08
Marjory Sweet '08 co-writes "Local Bites: An eclectic guide to Mid-coast region's eateries," a series of weekly restaurant reviews for The Times Record in Maine.
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Jeffrey McDaniel ’90
"The Foxhole Manifesto", a poetry/animation collaboration between faculty member Jeffrey McDaniel '90 and Nick Fox-Gieg has been seen by over 18,000 people on YouTube. The short is described as "whip-smart experimental animation" by The Guardian in England.
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Lauren Powledge ’07
Lauren Powledge ’07 comments on her love of riding in The Roanoke Times.
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Sarah Merchlewitz ’07
Sarah Merchlewitz '07, a community columnist for the Winona Daily News, reflects on the television program "Chic-A-Go-Go."
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Farah Bala MFA ’03
The Mumbai Newsline reports the India tour of To the Death of My Own Family, a one-woman play starring Farah Bala MFA '03.
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Lillian Farber MA’66
An obituary in The Brattleboro Reformer remembers Lillian Farber MA ’66, a former dean of student services at Sarah Lawrence, known for donating time and money to countless art, educational and social service institutions in her community.
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Caroline Lieber, Director of the Joan H. Marks Graduate Program in Human Genetics
Caroline Lieber, MS '80, Director of the Joan H. Marks Graduate Program in Human Genetics at Sarah Lawrence College, spoke about genetic testing and the role of the genetic counselor with Timberly Whitfield on the Hallmark Channel's show New Morning.
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Jeffrey McDaniel, Poetry Faculty
Professor of Poetry Jeffrey McDaniel ’90 performs at "The Drums Inside Your Chest," a Slam Poetry event in Los Angeles to benefit the American Heart Association.
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Josie Merck ’69
Artist and environmental advocate Josie Merck ’69 talks about her work exhibited at Encore Gallery in Block Island, New Jersey.
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Nicolaus Mills, Literature Faculty
An essay by Nicolaus Mills, literature faculty, on what FDR and Elizabeth Edwards have in common can be found on The American Prospect Web site.
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Omega Okello MA ’04
Health Advocacy Program graduate Omega Okello MA ’04 is pursuing her calling as a musician, aimed to release three multi-genre albums spanning jazz, world music, and praise and worship in 2008. The full story can be accessed from allAfrica.com.
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Abby Felder ’04
Abby Felder ’04, camp leader of a weeklong puppetry camp for elementary school students, comments on the discipline and shares instructions on how to make your own rod puppet in The Charlotte Observer.
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Cassandra Medley, Theatre Faculty
Cassandra Medley, theatre faculty and playwright-in-residence at New Voices for the Theater in Virginia, discusses how she encourages students to produce the best work they can with the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
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Fawaz Gerges, History Faculty
History faculty member Fawaz Gerges, who has been conducting extensive research in the Middle East as a Carnegie Scholar, explains challenges in the region to al-Qaeda in a Washington Post article. (Free registration required to read article)
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Nicolaus Mills, Literature Faculty
What Now for Diversity? Literature and American Studies faculty member Nicolaus Mills examines the recent Supreme Court ruling prohibiting the explicit use of race to achieve diversity, and notes that income-based plans were not cited in the decision and remain unchallenged and untested in a Newsday opinion article.
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Darby Dizard ’77
All About Jazz reviews Down For You, the debut album of vocalist Darby Dizard ’77.
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Jennifer Cipri ’07
Jennifer Cipri ’07 spoke at a recognition ceremony for students who completed the Home Instruction and Alternative Routes to Success (ARTS) program. Read more on The Stamford Advocate Web site.
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Jeremy Olshan ’96
Jeremy Olshan ’96 writes about the process of in-vitro fertilization on his blog, Mechanical Reproduction, hosted by The New York Post.
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Karen Lawrence, Administration
Education Update profiles incoming president Karen R. Lawrence.
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Clair Farley ’06
“Red Without Blue,” the family portrait documentary starring Clair Farley ’06 and her twin brother Mark, is gaining popularity in the film festival circuit. Read a review by The San Francisco Chronicle.
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Linwood Lewis, Psychology
Psychology professor Linwood Lewis talks about parents, children and money in an article in The Journal News on Father’s Day.
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Sarah Merchlewitz ’07
In her latest column for the Winona Daily News, Sarah Merchlewitz ’07 describes her discovery of making a difference through the practice of microfinance.
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Lesley Gore ’68
Lesley Gore ’68 discusses her new album, today’s teen stars, fan mail and her favorite song with the South Bend Tribune.
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Jennifer Wallace MFA ’98
A coordinator of the Right-to-Write program while at Sarah Lawrence, Jennifer Wallace MFA ’98, continues to share her craft with ex-offenders re-entering society in a Baltimore workshop profiled on citypaper.com.
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Flavia Facio MS ’01
Genetic counselor Flavia Facio MS ‘01, explains the goals of a study exploring the challenges facing individualized gene sequencing in a clinical research setting, in which she is lead associate investigator. The study, called ClinSeq, is described in detail on the National Human Genome Research Institute Web site.
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Fawaz Gerges, History
History faculty member Fawaz Gerges, an expert on the insurgency movement in Iraq and on the jihad movement, shares his opinions with the media:
NPR: "Remember, al-Qaida breeds on chaos and war. And if the Palestinians descend into all-war, in the next few weeks we'll likely witness the emergence of new networks, who tend to subscribe to al-Qaida ideology."
Counterterrorism Blog: "It's going to be a very hot summer in tiny Lebanon. You have Al Qaeda-inspired groups ready to die. These people fight until the end."
Daily Times: “The Middle East is boiling, and not just in Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq. What official Washington views as “clarifying moments” are deepening institutional crises shaking the foundations of Middle Eastern societies.”
CNN: “I think the administration has boxed itself in. It has become a hostage of its own rhetoric. And that's why American diplomacy is not as effective as it should be.”Christian Science Monitor: “Rather than democracy's advance, we have deepening and widening fault lines shaking Muslim and Arab society.”
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Rudolf Arnheim, Former Psychology Faculty
Washington Post and New York Times obituaries memorializing Rudolf Arnehim, the founder of the field of psychology and art and a professor at Sarah Lawrence between 1943 and 1968, mark his passing at 102.
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Shakira Croce, Undergraduate
Shakira Croce ’09, has won a College Activist Award from peta2—a youth animal rights organization—for her contributions towards making vegan food widely available on campus. Read more in the press release on peta.org.
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Kaui Hart Hemmings '02
Kaui Hart Hemmings MFA ‘02, author of The Descendants, discusses her identity as a Hawaiian and a woman in relation to her novel, which was recently optioned to Fox Spotlight for a film to be directed by Alexander Payne. Read the full article on the Honolulu Advertiser’s Web site.
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Robin Givens '84
Actress and alumna Robin Givens promotes her book, Grace Will Lead Me Home, a memoir chronicling how three generations of women in her family dealt with domestic abuse. Learn more at ABC News.
