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Staff Highlight: Michael Frazier Receives CIMA Service Award

Special Collections conservator Michael Don Fraser received the Conference of Inter-Mountain Archivists Service Award at the organization's annual meeting in Carson City, NV on May 15-16, 2014. The award is bestowed annually to individuals who have demonstrated considerable service and leadership in the intermountain west region, and who have made significant contributions to the CIMA organization and/or the archival profession.

Eadington Gaming Fellow Richard Williams | In Residence May 19-30

Special Collections and the Center for Gaming Research welcome Eadington Gaming Fellow, Richard Williams

A cultural historian with a background in Classics and Art History, Richard has held teaching and research posts at universities including Newcastle and Glasgow, and has published on Greek drama and French revolutionary art. He has also co-curated exhibitions in both of these fields.

Currently Richard is working on genetic criticism of Erle Stanley Gardner’s A.A. Fair novels, arising from study of the manuscripts at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, as a visiting Research Fellow in 2011-12, and has given presentations on this work at a…Read More

Eadington Gaming Fellow Stefan Al | In Residence May 5-16

Special Collections and the Center for Gaming Research welcome Eadington Gaming Fellow, Stefan Al.

Stefan Al (M.S. Arch. with Distinction, Delft University of Technology, M. Arch., University College London, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is a Dutch architect, urban designer, and Associate Professor of Urban Design at the University of Pennsylvania. In his career to date, Al has worked on renowned architectural projects such as the 2,000-feet high Canton Tower in Guangzhou, the preservation of world heritage in…Read More