Announcements
2012-13 Magnus the Good Awards announced
Dear Colleagues;
Each year the Center for Integrative Studies (CIS) has the honor of bestowing the Magnus The Good Award using funding generously provided by Professor Emeritus of Mathematics Paul Fjelstad. The award provides funding up to $2000 for research or performance projects involving students and faculty as equal partners in collaborative undertakings. This year two projects received funding.
The first, proposed by faculty member Dona Freeman and students Sari Abelson '13 and Isaac Rysdahl '14, is entitled "Theater-Making As Therapy for Adults with Developmental Disabilities." The trio has been invited to participate as theater specialists for Callan, Ireland's annual Abhainn Ri Festival this summer. The festival, which is run by the Callan Camphill Community, uses theater to enrich and celebrate the lives of adults with intellectual disabilities. The Magnus The Good grant will support the trio in their preparation for the festival, and for their participation in the festival.
The second successful proposal, submitted by faculty members Marc Robinson of Russian Studies and Jeanne Willcoxon of Theatre, along with student Sterling Melcher '14, will result in the adaptation of Dostoyevsky's short story "White Nights" to a full-length English language play. The play will then be performed at St. Olaf in the spring term of 2013. Marc Robinson will be working with Sterling during the adaptation and translation process, while Jeanne Willcoxon and Sterling will be co-directing the resulting play. All three will be working together throughout the project as the adaptation and performance phases each move forward.
