Promoted and newly tenured faculty honored Promoted and newly tenured faculty were honored Nov. 8 with a reception and book plating in the Grand Gallery of Grainger Engineering Library Information Center. Sponsored by Provost Linda Katehi and Acting University Librarian Karen Schmidt, this year’s program involved about 80 faculty members. They selected books – either extant volumes or new additions to the collection – which were particularly important to their personal and professional development and included a written explanation of their rationale. Selections ranged from works such as “Matrix Computing” to “The Harried Leisure Class.” This was the seventh year for the program. After the reception, the selected volumes were relocated for display in the central corridor of the Main Library. At left, Cynthia Oliver, professor of dance and of gender and women’s studies, and her son, Elias Finkelman, age 2 1/2, look over “Faces of Africa: 30 Years of Photography,” by Carole Beckwith and Angela Fisher. Below, Wail S. Hassan, professor of comparative and world literature, right, and Gary Gang Xu, professor of East Asian languages and cultures, look at the volume that was bookplated in Hassan’s honor, “Close Reading: The Reader,” an anthology of literary criticism edited by Frank Lentricchia and Andrew DuBois. Photos by L. Brian Stauffer
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