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Philip Klinkner, associate dean of students and James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government, was quoted in a September 24 New York Times article titled "1994, the Election to Embrace (and Avoid)" about the lessons current politicians took from the pivotal Republican campaign of 1994. "There were lots of Democratic incumbents who went down in 1994 who thought they were in safe seats," said Klinkner, who edited Midterm: The Elections of 1994 in Context (Transforming American Politics).

Sylvia de Swaan, lecturer in art, presented two projects at the Society for Photographic Education (SPE) regional conference in Tallahassee, Fla., on Oct. 15. The first, titled "Return," is a series of photographs and texts about personal history, memory and war. The work is the result of seven extensive journeys to Germany, Poland, Romania and Ukraine over a 10-year period to explore the terrain of her post-World War II childhood. The second project, titled "Sub-version," is a work in progress begun in response to the events of 9/11 in which de Swaan combines documentary with staged photographs that incorporate images from the media, to show how politics and world events seep into the fabric of our lives. SPE is a nonprofit organization which promotes the photographic arts through education, exhibitions and programming.