Tag: News
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Who’s Coming to Reunion?
More of the folks who will be presenting at Reunion! David Alm David Alm is a New York City-based journalist and adjunct professor at Hunter College and NYU’s School for Continuing and Professional Studies. He has written for more than a dozen magazines, covering new media business, culture, and art; independent film; and his avocation,…
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Who’s Coming to Reunion?
We’re just about five weeks away from the MAPH Reunion. To help you all get a sense of the great panels that we’re having during the afternoon, we’ll be posting bios of the MAPH alums who will be speaking in the afternoon. Today, it’s two alums on our Writers Panel. Remember that festivities kick off…
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Can you Keep up with Adam Richardson (MAPH 97)?
MAPH Alums from the inaugural Class of 1997 have been checking in over the past week. I’ll be talking with Adam Richardson, based in San Francisco–where he is Strategy Director for Marketing at Frog Design–tomorrow. In what must be a copious amount of spare time, Adam blogs about design at Amphibious Blog. This very…
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An Elegy for Amelia Johnson
A quick Google search for Andrew Rostan will produce a video of the 2010 MAPH alum dominating on Jeopardy! in 2007. But his run as one of the top 10 all-time winningest contestants is almost old news as of March 8, 2011. Today’s the day that Rostan’s anticipated (and already well reviewed) graphic novel An…
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MAPH Reunion: The Fifteenth Class!
MAPH Celebrates the graduation of its FIFTEENTH CLASS this year on Friday, June 3. Consider the following: In 1996, Alanis Morissette won a Grammy Award in the category of Best Record for Jagged Little Pill. Fargo was nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards (but lost, much to the dismay of Elaine Benes, to…
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Contrary Magazine Honored
Contrary Magazine was named in the Writer’s Digest list of the Top 50 Online Literary Journals in their new November-December issue. Contrary is the online literary journal founded by MAPH alumni in 20o3 and many MAPH alumni have been published in Contrary. MAPH writing advisor, Jeff McMahon, is quoted in the article. Congratulations to Contrary…
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Kiki Petrosino featured on Poetry Foundation Reading List
This news is a bit delayed, but is nonetheless exciting. Kiki Petrosino, poet and 2004 MAPH graduate, published her first book of poetry, Ford Red Border, in 2009. Fort Red Border has been reviewed in The Believer and Rain Taxi, and was shortlisted for the Forward Book of the Year Award in Poetry. Most recently,…
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RIOT ACTS!
MAPH Alum Simon Strikeback just premiered a new documentary at the Reeling Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. Here, Simon tells us about the project! On November 11th, the full-length documentary RIOT ACTS: Flaunting Gender Deviance in Music Performance premiered at Reeling Gay & Lesbian Film Festival in Chicago. The film was directed by local filmmaker…
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Student Loan Gremlin Cartoon – or how you might stop ridiculous monthly payments and learn to love your nonprofit job
Check it out – IBR (Income-Based Repayment) is a new Direct Student Loan repayment option that’s worth at least a once-over. Anyone who qualifies for, and enrolls in IBR (through their lender) will be assessed a monthly payment that – for all save those in the highest income brackets (watch out humanities grads!) – will…
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What is a Master’s Degree Worth?
I wouldn’t presume to answer such a question, but the folks over at the New York Times have taken a stab at it. See what they have to say: http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/what-is-a-masters-degree-worth/