Laura Kalba, the Priscilla Paine Van der Poel Associate Professor of Art at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, was awarded the Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies from the Institute of French Studies at New York University. The award is given out every two years.
Dr. Kalba was honored for her book Color in the Age of Impressionism: Commerce, Technology, and Art (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017). Earlier the book won the 2018 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award from the College Art Association. The book examines the impact of new color technologies on French visual and material culture.
Dr. Kalba is a graduate of Concordia University. She holds a master’s degree from McGill University in Montreal and a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California.
Although it was initially founded as school for women, the University of Montevallo has never had a woman president. Now the university has reached a historic milestone and selected selected Michelle R. Johnston to serve as its next president.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is a national program run by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. Dr. Yelick, a computer scientist and longtime UC Berkeley faculty member, will become the laboratory's next director on July 1.
The selected candidate should have expertise and experience in theoretical models in labor and public economics as well as in microeconometrics and programming.