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Compiled by Lamaretta Simmons
TV COVERAGE OF GENE SISKEL FILM CENTER SWEEPS LOCAL AND NATIONAL MARKETS
The May 31 opening and dedication of the Gene Siskel Film Center made television newscasts from coast to coast and on all local channels. Television outlets from Los Angeles and Denver to Boston, Philadelphia, and New York, including CBS network's Early Morning Show, carried the news. In Chicago, the story appeared on newscasts throughout the morning, mid-day and evening hours the day before and the day after the dedication with all Chicagoland stations reporting.
"BEST NEW DEVELOPMENT" ENDORSEMENT FROM FRIENDS OF DOWNTOWN
Citing SAIC's redevelopment of the corner of State and Randolph streets as "advancing the quality of life for downtown workers and residents," the Friends of Downtown named SAIC a recipient of its "Best New Development" award. The initiative, which included the 500-bed residence hall and the Gene Siskel Film Center, is being applauded for its design that integrates new and old structures.
PRESTIGIOUS "ROME PRIZE" GOES TO FACULTY MEMBER
Vanalyne Green, associate chair of the Film, Video, and New Media department, was selected by the American Academy in Rome as a winner in the "105th Annual Rome Prize Competition." She received a fellowship in Rome to work on a video essay that critiques and satirizes relationships between church and state. American artists and scholars are conferred Rome Prize fellowships to live and work at the Academy's twelve-building, eleven-acre site atop the Janiculum hill in Rome, Italy.
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