FEATURES
By David Zurawik and David Zurawik,SUN TELEVISION CRITIC | October 7, 1999
When I first heard about the show "Wasteland," I thought, "Hey, that's interesting. They're bringing T.S. Eliot to prime time."Not exactly, old boy."Wasteland" is ABC trying to bring a slightly older, urban version of "Dawson's Creek" to viewers in their 20s, hoping to get them to switch over from NBC after "Friends" and "Jesse." It could happen, if viewers in their 20s are willing to ditch "Frasier" for a set of self-absorbed, kind of whiny characters their own age who make more references to their "generation" than F. Scott Fitzgerald did to his."
NEWS
By Tim Smith and Tim Smith,Sun music critic | May 4, 2008
In his last year at the University of Milan, where he majored in music history, Paolo Micciche wrote his thesis on the origin of comic opera in the 17th century. Some years hence, a university student may well write a thesis on the origin of Micciche's trademark high-tech graphics in the staging of operas, comic or otherwise. On Stage Madama Butterfly will be performed at 8:15 p.m. Saturday and four more times through May 18 at the Lyric Opera House, 110 W. Mount Royal Ave. $46 to $132.
EXPLORE
December 23, 2011
James Daniel Whitfield , a 2002 graduate of Eleanor Roosevelt High School and a 2006 graduate of Morehouse College, in Atlanta, received his doctorate from Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. He completed all requirements for his doctorate in chemical physics by defending his thesis, "At the intersection of quantum computing and quantum chemistry. " In the acknowledgments section of his thesis, James thanked Prince George's County for being a wonderful place to grow up and recognized Michael McRae, his mathematics teacher and mentor at Eleanor Roosevelt High.
ENTERTAINMENT
By Sarah Schaffer | March 25, 2004
`Asian Translations' Works inspired by Japanese culture are the focus of A Fusion of Asian Translations, the new show at the Kushnir-Taylor Gallery in Ellicott City. Nancy Tankersley's oils on canvas, Susan McElhinney's terra-cotta figures and Benjamin Tankersley's photographs will be on display through March 31. The Kushnir-Taylor Gallery is at 8289 Main St., Ellicott City. Hours are 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Thursdays-Sundays. Call 410-465-4467. MICA thesis exhibit The Maryland Institute College of Art presents the first in its series of graduate thesis exhibitions.
NEWS
By GREGORY KANE | June 1, 2003
SOME FOLKS need to learn a lesson about getting the last laugh. Those students in Coppin State College's criminal justice program who sneered at Joycelyn Evans for doing a thesis had better think about that. Here's a brief recap of the Coppin controversy: In March, 14 students in Coppin's graduate criminal justice program filed a lawsuit alleging that the faculty had ill-prepared them for the comprehensive final exams and seminar papers required for graduation. Evans chose to do a longer 40- to 50-page thesis instead of taking the final exams and preparing a shorter seminar paper.
NEWS
By Adam Sachs and Adam Sachs,Staff Writer | August 5, 1992
County Commissioner Julia W. Gouge expects to graduate from the University of Oklahoma's Economic Development Institute next week armed with a thesis outlining a plan for business growth in Carroll.Mrs. Gouge will leave Saturday for Norman, Okla., to attend a week of courses taught by business and industrial specialists on subjects such as conflict management and trends of the 1990s. Taxpayers have picked up about $3,000 of the cost of her attendance. This is her final year in the three-year program.