Word: biennials
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...Research on Women (ICRW) Geeta Rao Gupta won the award, which is given to an individual who has contributed significantly to women’s professional growth. ICRW is a non-profit organization that focuses on women in developing and transition countries. GSE Dean Kathleen McCartney presented the biennial prize to Gupta in front of a crowd of around 100. Gupta also discussed her work in a lecture entitled, “Unlocking the Power of Women: Is Education the Key?”, drawing on her own life as a case study for her research. “Everything...
...calendar of anniversaries, somewhere between Christmas (an annual) and Halley's comet (a demisesquicentennial), there is the biennial. Held in about 60 cities throughout the world, the art biennial (or biennale, to give it the oft-preferred Italian name) affords local and invited international artists a chance to [an error occurred while processing this directive] meet and show off their creations, and provides art lovers with an opportunity to see lots of new work by undiscovered talent. Since about 85% of biennials are government-initiated, there's often a strong community aspect to these events. Instead of disappearing after...
...surprising that this happens in economics, with its student-faculty ratio of about 20 to 1, nor in government, which has a ratio of 14 to 1. But 15 percent of undergrads concentrate in economics, and another 10 percent concentrate in government. While he was dean, Lewis conducted a biennial survey of seniors about their advising experiences. He found that economics and government consistently scored lowest in quality of advising: for instance, while 56 percent of all seniors reported that their academic interests were covered in advising conversations, only 28 percent of economics concentrators and 37 percent of government concentrators...
...auction ($2,869,500 in 2002 for his 1966 Portrait of Nick Wilder). His devotion to representational art has sometimes made him seem out of step, sometimes in. Two years ago, he was one of just a handful of artists of his generation to be included in the Whitney Biennial, the New York City museum survey that tries, however bumptiously, to define what's happening. The curators credited him with "serving as a model for painting's renewed focus on the intimate and the figurative." And with the Boston show, which will travel to Los Angeles and London, Hockney...
...Liberals' next biennial convention isn't due until spring 2007, but insiders are already lobbying for a leadership confab as early as this fall. That would give would-be candidates less than six months to recruit delegates and build a campaign team--one reason that pressure is already building for hopefuls to declare themselves. Former Justice Minister Martin Cauchon was among the first to sniff the winds: he called a prospective supporter (unsuccessfully) three times for lunch. Others, like former Newfoundland Premier Brian Tobin, powerful Toronto-area M.P.s Maurizio Bevilacqua and Joe Volpe and former hockey great Ken Dryden...