We are specially concerned at the demise of its internationally acclaimed visual arts department.
Beyond her subject matter and top-notch education, including a Ph.D. from New York University's acclaimed performance-studies department, she just seems like a good fit for Wesleyan.
The pieces in the Stuart Collection have been anything but the middlebrow official art that often decorates public spaces: Its inspirations range from political to conceptual, with artists such as Kiki Smith, whose sculptures concern the female body, and Bruce Nauman, whose neon "Vices and Virtues" installation on the sides of the university's theater department is acclaimed by art cognoscenti.
In 1966, the MRC awarded him a Lilly travelling fellowship to Stanford University, where he worked in Professor Henry Kaplan's department, much acclaimed for its excellence in relating laboratory research to treating patients.
Bratton, 46, a Boston native, began his career in the Boston police department and was acclaimed for his performance from 1990 to last year as head of New York's transit police before he took the top police job in Boston.
Today, the LAPD's Olympic Division, located in the heart of a Korean neighborhood, is among the department's most acclaimed.
Under him and his sidekick Jack Maple, the department developed COMPSTAT, the internationally acclaimed computerized crime mapping system that has become synonymous with the NYPD's new-found accountability.
This pioneering tradition continues today through 24 departments and several specialized research centers and institutes acclaimed for work in neuroscience and neurology, emerging infectious diseases, diabetes, community health, and many other areas of expertise.
It is two years since Professor Colin Buchanan's government-commissioned report on traffic and town planning was published and loudly acclaimed as a masterly blueprint for the future, after which all the departments concerned looked in the other direction.
FARIHAH ZAMAN is a graduate of the Film and Electronic Arts department at Bard College, where she was also the Film Editor for the critically acclaimed Bard Free Press.
I like being "acclaimed".
