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Around Campus Art Students Shine in Local and National Competitions
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his year, several Episcopal students were recognized for their artistic achievements at the local and national levels. In February, 20 EHS students were awarded Gold Keys in The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards of 2009. This national competition, established in 1923 and organized by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, recognizes student achievement in creative writing and visual arts. Past winners include Andy Warhol, Sylvia Plath, Richard Avedon, Truman Capote, and Charles White. Scholastic received more than 140,000 submissions this year and awarded just 800 Gold Keys. Spencer Moore ’09 received a Gold Key for painting, and Paul Blake ’10, Katie Chapman ’09, Jimbo Hardison ’09, Carter Irwin ’09, Paula Pavlova ’09, Katie Rozelle ’09, and Nick Styles ’10 received Gold Keys for photography. Hardison, Pavlova, and Styles each received multiple awards. Also on the national level, Sarah Dillard ’10 and Tom Gosnell ’10 were juried into the K-12 Ceramic
Phil Dujardin ’09
Jimbo Hardison ’09
Katie Rozelle ’09
National Exhibition. Their work will be shown in Arizona this April at the annual conference for the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts. Locally, two EHS students placed in the 2009 Best of the Independent Schools Art Competition, which showcases the best of the visual artists at Washington-area independent schools. Phil Dujardin ’09 took first place in the photography category, and Katelyn Halldorson ’09 placed second in sculpture. Fourteen EHS artists were included in the juried competition, based on the strength of their work. n
Three Attend Howard Hughes Lecture Series, “Making Your Mind”
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his December, three EHS students attended the annual Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Holiday Lectures on Science. This year’s lecture series, “Making Your Mind: Molecules, Motion, and Memory,” focused on whether molecular biology can help scientists understand mental function. Beirne Hutcheson ’10, Whitley Raney ’09, and Will Winkenwerder ’10 heard from speakers Eric R. Kandel, M.D., and Thomas M. Jessell, Ph.D., of Columbia University during the two-day lecture for high school biology students. Kandel has made profound discoveries in the field of memory
and received the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology. Jessell has spent the past 20 years studying the way neural circuits are assembled during development in order to understand the organization and function of the nervous system; he won the inaugural Kavli Prize in Neuroscience in 2008. “The Howard Hughes Lecture was an amazing opportunity to move outside the traditional classroom setting to learn about new advances in science,” said Hutcheson. “I particularly enjoyed the forum portion of the lecture, which created a discussion between the student audience and the leading researchers of autism and bipolar disease.” n
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