Spectrum

Minxu Zhang ’12, an economics major from China, talked about starting an organization that attempts to make Chinese consumers more aware of risky food production practices on WBEZ’s “Worldview” radio program on September 22. Read more »

Gorter Chair of Islamic Studies Ahmad Sadri commented on the removal of an Iranian opposition group with a violent anti-American history from the U.S. terrorist list in an August 16 article in the Christian Science Monitor.

“Handwritten documents convey important cultural information about authors,” Davis Schneiderman, chair of the English department, said in an August 10 article on CNN.com. He continued: “These documents also suggest an authenticity that electronically produced documents do not. The Declaration is an index of its time as well as clue to the physicality of its signers.”

A.B. Dick Professor of Economics Robert Baade co-authored a feature piece for America’s Quarterly summer 2011 issue about the economic impact of hosting a major sporting event. Also, The Nation quoted Baade and his nearly three decades of research in a column titled “Why do majors love sports stadiums?” for its August 15 issue.

College Archivist Arthur Miller published an article in View, the magazine of the Library of American Landscape History, titled “Warren Manning’s Picturesque Vision of Lake Forest College.”

Betty Jane Schultz Hollender Professor of Art, Emeritus, Franz Schulze discussed Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House project in an April 23 Wall Street Journal column about the home, one of the country’s most admired and influential residential masterpieces.

Gustav E. Berly Jr. Assistant Professor of English Joshua Corey talked on WBEZ 91.5 FM’s show “Eight Forty-Eight” about his new book of poems, Severance Songs, on April 18.