Citizen ’Cane The Artful Dealer, from Reebok to Renoir For his business savvy in the worlds of sporting goods and modern art, Manhattan gallerist Herbert A. Rosenfeld, B.Ed. ’62, was selected to give this year’s Distinguished Alumni Lecture at the Newman Alumni Center. Rosenfeld shared his history of growing up in New York, the grandchild of […]
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Helping Students Overcome Language Barriers
Citizen ’Cane Helping Students Overcome Language Barriers The daughter of a Saudi Arabian diplomat, Taghreed Al-Saraj, B.F.A. ’99, M.S.Ed. ’01, has lived in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. Now at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is the school’s first Saudi female postdoctoral research fellow, Al-Saraj specializes in foreign language anxiety—the fear […]
Making Biomechanical Magic
Faculty Files Making Biomechanical Magic Hardwired into his soul when he was just a little boy, curiosity has helped Moataz Eltoukhy, Ph.D. ’11, come up with a better way for astronauts to perform tasks in outer space, for victims of cerebral palsy to take giant strides in improving their gait, and for his 6-year-old son […]
’Cane in the Act
When the city of Delray Beach in Palm Beach County, Florida, decided it wanted an artistic gateway to welcome motorists arriving from I-95, it turned to well-known textile designer Michelle S. Newman, B.Ed. ’72, to design the $1.8 million Community Redevelopment Agency effort. Unveiled earlier this year to civic fanfare, Newman’s Delray Beach Gateway installation features […]
