Nor did we think it necessary to detail the value of intense study of Chinese and Japanese or the value of an academic credential in either area. Nevertheless, Professor John Jing-hua Yin, Professor Emeritus Peter Seybolt and I sat in the Silver Maple Ballroom of the new Davis Center a few weeks ago nervously awaiting the vote of UVM's Board of Trustees on the College of Arts and Sciences' proposals to establish a new Department of Asian Languages and Literatures and new majors in Chinese and Japanese. [continued]

The driving force behind the program, supported for many years by generous grants from the Freeman Foundation, was Professor Peter Seybolt, a historian with a Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University, who is now retired. [continued]

For additional information, please contact the Art Department at 802-656-8818 or artdept@uvm.edu.

Robert Flynn, Assistant Professor of Art, received his B.F.A. from Florida State University and his M.F.A. from Rutgers University. He came to the UVM Art Department from Miami Beach, FL where he was an artist-in-residence at ArtCenter South Florida. [continued]

Kathy Carolin has been an employee of UVM for 14 years, and for the past seven years she has been in the Department of History. [continued]

RICHARD SUGARMAN, DEPARTMENT OF RELIGION
The George V. Kidder Outstanding Faculty Award is given annually to a UVM faculty member nominated by alumni, students, faculty, and staff for significant contributions to the broadening of students' academic experience and the enrichment of campus life.

This year's recipient, Professor Richard Sugarman, has been at the University of Vermont since 1970. His fields are phenomenology, philosophy of religion, and Jewish philosophy, and he has directed and taught in the Integrated Humanities Program. [continued]

PROFESSOR TONY MAGISTRALE WINS
BORDIGHERA POETRY PRIZE
Tony Magistrale, the 2007 winner of the Bordighera Poetry Prize, was born in Buffalo, New York, the grandson of Italian immigrants from Bari, Italy. After obtaining a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, Magistrale spent a year at the University of Milan as a Fulbright lecturer. Since then, he has returned to Italy on multiple occasions, and these trips inspired the poems in this collection. Magistrale is Professor of English and Associate Chair of the Department of English at the University of Vermont. He has also taught at the Breadloaf Young Writers Conference and as a visiting professor at the University of Augsburg, Germany. Tony Magistrale is honored with a reception/reading for his cash award of $1,000 and bilingual, book publication prize at The Calandra Insitutute at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 25 West 43rd St., Mid-Manhattan, on Thursday, November 8th at 6:30 PM. All are welcome to attend the wine and food reception, and reading, following the awards ceremony. Admission is free.

Please visit the Italian American Writer's website for complete award information.

PROFESSOR REX FOREHAND RECEIVES
2008 AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION AWARD Professor Rex Forehand has received the 2008 American Psychological Association (APA) Distinguished Career Contributions to Education and Training Award. This highly prestigious award recognizes the quality and depth of commitment to the field over the course of a career. As a recipient of the award, he will deliver an Awards address and receive the Citation at the 2008 annual APA Convention. The next convention is in Boston, August 14-17.

MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR RAUL HILBERG
Monday, October 22, 2007
Ira Allen Chapel, 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Reception to follow:
Billings Library, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Raul Hilberg, pioneering and preeminent historian of the Holocaust, passed away in Williston, Vermont on August 4, 2007. Author of the seminal history of the Holocaust, The Destruction of the European Jews, Hilberg was Professor of Political Science at the University of Vermont from 1956 until his retirement in 1991. [continued]