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 | MacKeith receives national ACSA honor Peter MacKeith, associate dean of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and associate professor of architecture, has received one of three national Creative Achievement Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). MacKeith received the award for the design studio "Lighthouses: Adventures on the Mississippi," which he led in the spring of 2007. Trustees grant faculty promotions, tenure At recent Board of Trustees meetings, faculty members were promoted with tenure, appointed with tenure or granted tenure effective July 1, 2008. Of note Katherine M. Grillo, Kenneth Harrington, Samuel L. Stanley Jr., Samuel A. Wickline, M.D., William A. Peck, M.D., and more ... Campus Author: Richard A. Watson The court ballet "La Naissance de la Paix" ("The Birth of Peace") has been translated to English for the first time in a book by Richard A. Watson, Ph.D., professor emeritus of philosophy in Arts & Sciences. Along with providing the translation, the book, "Descartes's Ballet: His Doctrine of the Will and His Political Philosophy," demonstrates that the ballet, commissioned by Queen Christina of Sweden in 1650 and long attributed to French philosopher Rene Descartes, was almost certainly not written by him. Notables policy Submit all Notables to | |