MSU remembers alumna and former trustee Barbara Sawyer-Koch
The Michigan State University community is remembering alumna, trustee emerita and philanthropist Barbara Sawyer-Koch, 72, who died March 6, 2021.
Born in Menominee, Michigan, Sawyer-Koch was retired from the Michigan Department of Treasury. She earned her master’s degree in public administration in 1990 from the College of Social Science and served on the MSU Board of Trustees from Jan. 1, 1979, through 1994. Her husband, Donald Koch, a professor emeritus in the Department of Philosophy in the College of Arts and Letters, preceded her in death in 2018.
The pair were members of the Wharton and Landon giving societies, supporting MSU over many years and in many ways.
Elizabeth McGraw named head of Department of Biology
Elizabeth McGraw has been named the head of Penn State s Department of Biology, effective April 1. Image: Patrick Mansell, Penn State
Elizabeth McGraw named head of Department of Biology
Gail McCormick
February 25, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Elizabeth McGraw, professor and Huck Scholar in Entomology and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics (CIDD) at Penn State, has been named the new head of the Department of Biology, effective April 1.
“Beth is an accomplished scholar and brings a keen commitment to advocacy and excellence, and to furthering the success of students, postdocs, faculty and staff,” said Tracy Langkilde, Verne M. Willaman Dean of the Eberly College of Science. “I am confident that she will provide strong and effective leadership to the department.”
Recently, English shared with me his reflections on our current moment, how art has changed over the past several decades, and why generalizations of Black art are so problematic.
You are very keen on the problems of generalization within the art world with regards to how African American art is taught, critiqued, and discussed. What is your biggest problem with these generalizations? How, in your opinion, can historians work to remove and/or reduce their use of generalizing?
My issue with generalization is that it feels an irresponsible way to respond to art’s diversity and specificity. If you understand art as something different from yourself, as the work of another consciousness, then it is very hard to generalize about it. Art reflects the immense variation in the field of experience, offers us opportunities to explore and come to terms with that plenitude. Accounts of art that suppress variation, that are nonchalant about those precious opportunities, need to be resisted.
February 22, 2021
Applications for the Richard G. Law Excellence Award for Undergraduate Teaching at Washington State University will be accepted through Thurs., April 1, 2021.
Following reviews by the Law Award Committee, the new recipient will be announced mid- April.
Those eligible for the Law Award include instructors on all campuses, whose teaching has included at least one UCORE class annually for at least the past three years.
Detailed information about the award and the online application process is available on the Law Award webpage.
Presented since 2013, the Law Award recognizes outstanding teaching by faculty on all campuses who teach courses in the University Common Requirements (UCORE) general education curriculum. Nine faculty members have so far received the Law Award, said Karen Weathermon, member of the award selection committee. UCORE is part of the Division of Academic Engagement and Student Achievement (DAESA), in the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice
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