Artist Ogden Minton Pleissner was born in Brooklyn, New York and educated at the Brooklyn Friends School; however, Ogden Minton Pleissner spent his two summers at a boys camp in Dubois, Wyoming and a third summer at a dude ranch. The rugged western scenery captivated him and he captured it in sketches. From 1922 to 1926, he studied at the Art Students League (Manhattan, NYC) with Frank DuMond, George Bridgeman and Frederick J. Boston. He then taught at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New .
Artist Abbot Fuller Graves was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts and had originally studied to become an architect. However, a latent interest in floral still-life painting prompted him to travel to Paris, France 1884 for art study, where he roomed with another Boston artist, Edmund Charles Tarbell. In 1886, with his financial success as an artist assured, he married and his friends Childe Hassam and Edmund Tarbell served as his ushers. In 1887 Graves made a second trip to Paris, this time .
January 20, 2021
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David Post (Photo credit: Dan Renzetti)
David Post, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed dean of faculty of Yale-NUS College, effective July 1, 2021, for a term of three years.
Post, who will succeed Dean of Faculty Jeannette Ickovics, will lead faculty development, drive research endeavors, and refine Yale-NUS College’s innovative curriculum.
Yale-NUS is a college in Singapore jointly founded by Yale and the National University of Singapore (NUS). It was established in 2011 and admitted its first students in 2013.