April 2022 | Issue 16
NEXT ISSUE: May 2022
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DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE AND FILM
Stages Musical "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee"
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Music and lyrics by William Finn, and book by Rachel Sheinkin
Conceived by Rebecca Feldman, with additional material by Jay Reiss
THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE is a delightful musical about an eclectic group of mid-pubescents vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing "ding" of the bell that signals a spelling mistake.
Dr. Matt Foss, associate professor of theatre and film and director of the musical, says “It features an ensemble of misfit kids trying to belong in a world that doesn’t always see value in their imaginations or idiosyncrasies — especially their ability to spell incredibly difficult words.”
The original 2005 Broadway production was nominated for six Tony Awards and won two for Best Book of a Musical and Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical.
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UPCOMING PERFORMANCES
- Friday-Saturday, April 15-16 (7:30 p.m.)
- Friday-Saturday, April 22-23 (7:30 p.m.)
- Sunday, April 24 (2 p.m.)
TICKETS - $15-$25
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DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Professor's New Book Part of Series on Royal Women
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History professor, Dr. Kristen Geaman's book, "Anne of Bohemia," was published by Routledge Press, one of the premier academic publishers in the U.S. "Anne of Bohemia" is the first book-length biography of Anne in English. The book is the second published work of a much larger series, Routledge's Lives of Royal Women. The project has three strands: Queens of England (where Anne of Bohemia fits), Queens and Empresses of Europe, and Royal Women of the World.
Using sources from the depths of the English national archives, Dr. Geaman tells the story of how Anne, the first queen of Richard II (1377–1399), expertly leveraged her wealth and status to become one of England’s most powerful medieval monarchs.
Dr. Geaman says, "The book explores Anne's political role, focusing on her acts of intercession and patronage, and the medical and religious remedies she used in her attempts to become pregnant. Ultimately, Anne died childless, but her widower, King Richard II of England, ensured that she was commemorated as a 'mother to her subjects.'"
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COLLEGE OF ARTS AND LETTERS
THANK YOU! CAL Day of Giving Raises More than $30K
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Donors contributed $30,303 to the College of Arts and Letters for UToledo's annual Day of Giving campaign. The funds receiving the most in donations included the CAL Student Success Fund and the Glen Ames Graduate Research Fund (History). However, giving was widespread across the college. If you'd still like to donate, please visit the UToledo Foundation website. Thank you! |
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DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY AND PLANNING
CAL Students' Tree Map Shows Where to Plant Trees
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Students in Dr. Kevin Czajkowski’s (Geography and Planning) Digital Image Analysis course developed and presented a map of Toledo’s tree cover for the City of Toledo. The city plans to use the GIS data layer to identify where more trees could alleviate the effects of “urban heat islands”—places when pavement and other urban surfaces absorb and retain heat—and will then plan a tree planting campaign for neighborhoods that need more trees. |
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DEPARTMENT OF ART
Students Curate Exhibit at Toledo Museum of Art
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A new exhibit curated by University of Toledo art students and on display at the Toledo Museum of Art, takes a critical look at how museum collections represent works by marginalized artists and the fluidness of identity.
Titled “Contrary Bodies,” the exhibit was developed by 15 students as part of their concentration classes in graphic and interactive design and art museum practice. More than a year of research, collaboration and communication between the students and faculty members went into the exhibit.
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PUBLISHING, CREATIVE ACTIVITY, AWARDS & MORE |
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PUBLISHING AND CREATIVE ACTIVITY
Two professors from the Department of Economics, Drs. Aliaksandr Amialchuk and Onur Sapci, published an article on the long-term health effects of initiating smoking in adolescence, in Health Economics, a top journal in the field of health economics.
Dr. Ayendy Bonifacio’s (English) article, “Our Patrias Cannot Liberate Us from Anti-Blackness: Post-Racial Myths in the Latinx Diaspora,” was published in The Black Scholar, the first modern Black studies and research journal.
Dr. Nina Atanasova (Philosophy) is the first author of “Science in Practice in Neuroscience: The Cincinnati Water Maze in the Making,” which is co-authored with the inventors of the Cincinnati water maze (Michael T. Williams and Charles V. Vorhees). The Cincinnati water maze is a method used to assess egocentric, route-based navigation in rats. This book chapter is included in the edited volume The Tools of Neuroscience Experiment: Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives, published by Routledge.
Dr. Chelsea Griffis's article, "George HW Bush and The Simpsons," has been published in Popular Culture Review, Volume 33.1, Spring 2022.
In January, an academic open journal in Mexico published "The Assassination of Don Quijote de la Mancha by the Coward Sansón Carrasco," a paper by Dr. Manuel R. Montes (Department of World Languages and Cultures).
From the Department of Art, Professor and chair Barbara Miner’s work, “Night Harvest 1,” was one of 65 national juried artworks selected for the “Works on Paper 2022” exhibition at the Long Beach Island Foundation of Arts and Sciences. Professor Karen Roderick-Lingeman is one of the participating artists at the biennial 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts Ceramics National Juried Ceramics Exhibition.
AWARDS
Dr. Kimberly Mack received an award for her first book, "Fictional Blues: Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White." The book was honored with the 2021 College English Association of Ohio Nancy Dasher Award at the annual conference this month at Lake Erie College.
Dr. Friederike Emonds received a Women in German Faculty Research Award 2022 in February. She also published "The Making of a Football Myth: Memory, Masculinity, and the Media,“ forthcoming in Football Nation: The Playing Fields of German Politics, Society and History, Boston: Berghahn, 2022. (in press). Dr. Emonds also presented "Happily Never After: The Forgotten Women behind Grimm's Fairy Tales" at the public library in Fremont in March.
Tisha Mays, assistant lecturer in the Department of Communication, won a Mosaic Educator Award through The 2022 American Advertising Federation of Toledo for her aMAYSing Kids program. Live stream of the event can be seen here www.aaftoledo.org/the_show. Tisha's interview and presentation is at the 36:30 mark in the video.
The Performance Studies & Autoethnography Interest Group of the Central States Communication Association (CSCA) awarded Dr. Tasha Dunn (Department of Communication) the Performance Studies/Autoethnography 2022 Outstanding Book Award for her book "Talking White Trash: Mediated Representations and Lived Experiences."
NOTEWORTHY ACTIVITIES
Dr. Gaby Semaan, Department of World Languages and Cultures, presented at the 2nd International Conference of Arab Studies Quarterly at The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. The Conference theme was Politics, Media, Art, & Culture in the Contemporary Arab World. The title of Dr. Semaan’s presentation was "The Role of FM Radio Stations in Creating a Space for Civil Public Discourse during and following the Years of Civil War in Lebanon." In addition to his presentation, Dr. Semaan chaired a session at the conference.
A UToledo visiting artist, John Sauvè, has developed an art making program with high school students from the Achieve Academy in Toledo, Ohio. Students of the Achieve Academy are "at risk youth," dealing with an array of social, personal, and economical issues. The class created small scale, individualized “Man of the City” sculptures. This project encompassed both education and use of the figure to emphasize the urban city and one's place within the city and environment. The students' work will be on display through July 29 in the UToledo Center for the Visual Arts.
In March, History doctoral student David Lacy presented his research paper, "Nearer to Freedom: Slave Hiring in Antebellum Richmond," at the very competitive 27th Annual Barnes Club Graduate Student History Conference sponsored by Temple University in Philadelphia.
Dr. Kim Nielsen, Distinguished University Professor and chair of disability studies, will be the guest speaker for this week's University Women’s Commission awards luncheon. Her talk is titled “Disability Studies: What it is, How it Relates to All Careers and How it Helps Us Understand the World Around Us.”
CONGRATULATIONS!
The clinical psychology doctoral program once again had a 100% match rate for internship placement this year, with all four of the students who applied being matched to nationally-recognized internship sites.
The University of Toledo’s award-winning student-produced news program, UT:10 News, has been added to the BCAN lineup!
UToledo graduate Jessica Gonzalez, (Women and Gender Studies and Master of Public Administration) has been accepted at AmeriCorps City Year, Detroit. She will be working to help under-served students build on their strengths to cultivate social, emotional and academic skills.
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Today.com: Dr. Matthew Tull, a psychology professor, discusses when anxiety about health becomes a mental health condition.
Dr. Matthew Tull, a psychology professor, discusses when anxiety about health becomes a mental health condition.
Dr. Joel Voss, an associate professor of political science, talks with Morning Wave, a news radio program in South Korea, about the more than 1.7 million refugees who have fled Ukraine.
RadioLab: Dr. Kim Nielsen, Distinguished University Professor and Disability Studies Chair at UToledo was part of a podcast helping to debunk a Tiktok video claiming Helen Keller was a fraud.
Dr. Joel Voss, an associate professor of political science, discusses the president of Ukraine’s address to Congress.
Dr. Joel Voss, an associate professor of political science, discusses how he thinks the Russia-Ukraine conflict may end.
Dr. Kevin Egan, professor of economics, discusses gas prices.
Dr. Gaby Semaan, associate professor of Arabic and director of Middle East Studies, discusses Ramadan.
Dr. Matt Foss, associate professor of theatre and film, discusses the Tony Award-winning musical presented through April at the UToledo Center for Performing Arts Center Theatre.
The Department of Theatre and Film will present the Tony Award-winning musical, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” April 7-10, 15-16, and 22-24.
David Jex, a professor of music, discusses the return of live orchestras for a new ballet production.
Live music returns to the Spring Festival of New Music at UToledo this year.
The free, public event today highlights the works of Dr. David Jex, a composer and professor of music at The University of Toledo.
Gina DiGirolamo also accepted an internship at Northwestern Mutual Toledo early last year and has since discovered a passion for financial advising.
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DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE AND FILM
Performance Dates: April 15, 16, 22, 23, 24
Center for Performing Arts (CPA), Center Theatre
(Center for Performing Arts, Center Theatre)
The Showcase is a celebratory screening of our UToledo film/video majors finest work chosen in juried competition. All seats $5. Visit: utoledo.tix.com
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DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC
UToledo Center for Performing Arts, Recital Hall
The Barbara Rondelli Perry Competition for Superior Achievement in Classical Voice Performance challenges voice students to demonstrate their skill and compete for scholarship money. UToledo Center for Performing Arts, Recital Hall
This year’s competition is only open to chamber ensembles composed of strings and piano. Ensembles may consist of three to six musicians and may not use more than one piano.
The competition includes two divisions - high school and college. Visit the competition website for more information about repertoire expectations for each division and for entry forms and details.
University Hall, Doermann Theatre
University Hall, Doermann Theatre
University Hall, Doermann Theatre
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DEPARTMENT OF ART
The Holding Project - After Friday, April 15
For the rest of the semester, this exhibit, which began at Toledo Lucas County Public Library branches, will move from the library in the Center for the Visual Arts (CVA) to Carlson Library on main campus. The exhibit is participative, collaborative and interdisciplinary. It is a growing book composed of pages containing messages from ordinary, everyday people from all walks of life. The cards ask each responder, "What makes you feel safe?" and "What makes you feel unsafe?" The anonymous responses are not generic, but closer to home and often deeply personal. Collected together, page by page, they tell the unvarnished, uncurated story of a community. Some express outrage, fear and even hatred. But most speak of love, family and respect for others. This is a can't-miss experience that is very revealing and ongoing. You are invited to participate and complete your own card.
B.F.A. Exhibition Reception - Friday, April 22, 6-8 p.m.
B.F.A. students Austin Baker, Rhiannon Byrd, Alaina Coote, Justin Fisher, Logan Herl, Jazele Rabbani, and Ryene Rowan will be feted with a reception celebrating their best work. The work is on display in the CVA main gallery now through May 6.
Biodesign Challenge - April 27, 7 p.m. (Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion)
Four teams of students will compete in this year's event. Below is each team's topic area:
- Biodegradable Transitional Housing
- Microplastics and Childhood Education
- Biologically Equitable Burials
- Speculative Bioluminescent Futures
The University of Toledo’s Biodesign Challenge course offers Art and Design, Bioengineering, Earth, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Honors students the opportunity to envision future applications of biotechnology and biomaterials that address complex global challenges. Students are connected with community experts to develop innovative solutions through interdisciplinary research and iterative protoyping. The winning UT team will move on to the International Biodesign Challenge Summit in New York City this June.
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COLLEGE OF ARTS AND LETTERS AND LATINO ALUMNI AFFILIATES & THE TSO
The infectious rhythms of Spanish dances tell the colorful stories of Spain’s rich heritage in The Three-Cornered Hat. The beloved melodies from Bizet’s Carmen get a unique treatment spotlighting the percussion section of the Toledo Symphony Orchestra. Enjoy group seating in the raised B section of the Peristyle Theater at the Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street, Toledo) with a social gathering for UToledo alumni and friends before the 8 p.m. show. Cost is $25/adults, $5/child. Must register in advance.
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ROGER RAY INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES
In a recorded talk available on the Toledo Lucas County Public Library website, Dr. Kim discusses the recent rise of Korean pop culture as a global phenomenon. From films like "Parasite" to the record-breaking series "Squid Game," she looks at a host of Korean cultural exports including films, music, and food, tracing South Korea’s development into a major driver of global and U.S. cultures.
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IMPORTANT SPRING 2022 DATES
Apr. 29, 2022: Last Day of Class
May 2-6, 2022: Finals Week
May 7, 2022: University Commencement, 9 a.m. in Savage Arena
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