• Art History graduating senior, Leila Prasertwaitaya, recently published a short book entitled "Untangling the Arabesque: Islamic Design Elements in the Monroe Park Campus" as the result of a School of the Arts Undergraduate Research Grant sponsored by Dr. Charles Brownell. The Fine Arts Library of Harvard University has specifically requested a copy for their Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture.

• Also in Art History news, Carolyn Porter and Emily Davis, Ph.D. students, presented papers at the 2008 Cleveland Symposium Feb. 29 at the Cleveland Museum of Art organized by students of Case Western Reserve University and the museum.

• Communication Arts Assistant Professor Sterling Hundley was featured in a glowing article in the February 23 issue of the Richmond Times Dispactch. The Society of Illustrators has awarded Hundley two gold medals in its annual competition - the highest annual honors for American illustrators.

• A February 15 Washington Post article reviews the Reynolds Gallery exhibit of 1992 Sculpture Alumna, Teresita Fernandez.

• Fashion Design and Merchandising students Jessica Lee and Casey Bianco are finalists in the highly competitive C2C/CITDA design competition. Casey has also been chosed to attend the SDC (Society of Dyers and Colourists) conference in April in England.

• A February 11 article in the New York Times chronicles Doha, Qatar's Education City and highlights VCU School of the Arts in Qatar.

• VCU School of the Arts in Qatar, the first branch campus in Qatar Foundation's Education City, launched its year-long 10th anniversary celebration January 20. The programs on the Doha campus, Graphic Design, Fashion Design, and Interior Design, reflect the structure, curricula, courses, and general requirements that are equivalent to those at the campus in Richmond, Virginia.

• Sculpture + Extended Media MFA student, Ledell Moe, will be included in this year's Invitational Exhibition at the American Academy of Arts and Letters March 6 - April 6.

• The radio program, With Good Reason, will rebroadcast an interview with Photography and Film assistant professor Sonali Gulati, February 23-29 on WCVE 88.9 as well as other Virginia and Washington, DC affiliates.

• Brian Bernhard's (1999 BFA) "Art or Something Like It" has been nominated for a NY Emmy, by the same committee that picks the national winners.

• On February 14, Flashpoint Gallery in DC “Anima Mundi” opened. This three-person show features work by Department of Photography and Film 2007 MFA alumnae Nellie Appleby, Amanda Sauer, and current MFA student Vita Litvak. The show runs through March 29.

• The 2008 edition of Best of College Photography Annual, published by Photographer's Forum Magazine will include a photograph by Department of Photography and Film undergraduate Jacob Cunningham.

• The book, Meggs: Making Graphic Design History, by Graphic Design's Rob Carter, Sandra Wheeler (along with Libby Meggs) has been selected to appear in a special section of Print Magazine's Creativity and Commerce edition (September/October 2008).