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Visiting faculty member Phillip B. Williams has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award for his debut book of poems, Thief In The Interior. 

Faculty member Kitty Brazelton is part of a group of American women—four composers and a librettist—whose song cycle on another great American woman, Fierce Grace—Jeannette Rankin, will be performed at the Library of Congress at their invitation in April.

Faculty member Erika Mijlin was quoted in an article called "Sanders claims most 'likes' in congress," which appeared in the Times Argus this week. 

In an address to Congress on November 29, Vermont Senator Leahy praised the work of the Arava Institute, of which Michael Cohen is one of the founding faculty members.

Robert Ransick was involved in Letters from Home, in which residents of Queens sent postcards to remind the president-elect that the borough where he spent his formative years is one of the most ethnically-diverse places on earth. The project, organized by The Center for Artistic Activism with the help of the Queens Museum, was covered in Hyperallergic.