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Physics grad inducted into
Physics Honor Society
Daniel R. Winger, ’13, of Limestone, N.Y., was inducted into Sigma
Pi Sigma, the National Physics Honor
Society, on May 13, 2013.
Winger completed his degree requirements in May 2013 and went on
to graduate study in physics at the
University of Buffalo with a Graduate
Teaching Assistantship.
Inductees to the society must
demonstrate outstanding scholastic
achievement both in physics and in
their overall program of study.
Robert Prince, ’13

Robert Prince, ’13, showcases
work in senior exhibition
The Senior Art Exhibition at St.
Bonaventure, showcasing the work of
Robert Prince, a visual arts major from
Olean, opened with a reception and
gallery talk March 22, 2013, at the
Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts.
The event also marked the opening
of the university’s Spring Art Show at
The Quick Center, featuring pieces by
beginning and advanced student-artists.
Prince’s exhibition was titled “Robert
Prince: Numbers One-Thirteen.” Prince
enrolled at St. Bonaventure as a psychology major in 2008 and didn’t take
his first painting class until his junior
year. He discovered his passion for art
while taking a photography class
through St. Bonaventure’s study abroad
program in Perugia, Italy.
It was during a subsequent study
abroad trip to Oxford University in England that Prince researched and developed a deep respect for the work of
Vincent van Gogh.
The exhibition demonstrated
Prince’s development as an artist. Early
pieces, in black and white, show van
Gogh’s influence and include Prince’s
impression of van Gogh’s “Starry Night,”
as well as an intriguing self-portrait. Later
pieces show the introduction of color in
Prince’s work and the emergence of his
own style as he shifts from interpretation
to making his own statements through
his art.

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Modern languages grad in
Johns Hopkins Ph.D. program
Modern languages graduate
Ian Rogers, ’13,
was accepted into
a Ph.D. program
for modern languages at Johns
Hopkins University.

Harris awarded Fulbright
at Brock University
Dr. Kaplan Harris, associate professor of English and director of the
Master of Arts Program in English,
was named the 2014 Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Transnational
Studies at Brock University.
Harris’ project title is "Poetry
Magazines at the US-Canada Border."
For the research component of
the Fulbright, he will be writing at
least one chapter of a book project
on small press publishing practices in
the wake of the modernist little magazines.
His recent scholarship on poetry
and poetics appears in American Literature (2009), Contemporary Literature (2006, 2012), Jacket2 (2011),
Open Letter (2013), Paideuma (2010),
Postmodern Culture (2011), Sagetrieb
(2013), Wild Orchids (2010), and
more.
He has forthcoming essays in the
Cambridge Companion to California

Literature and the Cambridge Companion to American Modernist Poetry. He is editor, with Peter Baker
and Rod Smith, of “The Selected
Letters of Robert Creeley” for the
University of California Press.

String Ensemble, Band,
Choir show off their work
St. Bonaventure’s String Ensemble, Band and Choir performed
April 21, 2013, in the Rigas Family
Theater.
“This was the culmination of
the students’ work this semester,”
said Dr. Leslie Sabina, professor of
music.
The SBU String Ensemble played
selections by Vivaldi and Smetana.
The choir performed pieces by Ola
Gjeilo, Leonard Be