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Music faculty member Bruce Williamson can be heard performing the jazz classic "Bye Bye Blackbird" with Diana Krall on the soundtrack for Public Enemies, a new movie starring Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Marion Cotillard. He also played on the soundtrack for the recent PBS documentary, Antonia Pantoja ¡Presente!

Faculty member Mansour Farhang appeared on Aljazeera.net this week to discuss fallout from the disputed presidential election in Iran.

President Coleman delivered the closing speech at the  in February, anchoring a lineup that included Al Gore, Bill Gates, Oliver Sacks, and Herbie Hancock.

MFA faculty member Amy Hempel has been selected to receive the 22nd annual PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the art of short fiction. Given in honor of the late Bernard Malamud, who himself taught at ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø from 1961 to 1984, the award includes participation in the 2009-10 PEN/Faulkner reading series at the Folger Shakespeare Library and a prize of $2,500.

Faculty member Mary Lum received high praise in recent issues of Art in America and Artforum for her solo exhibition , which was on display at Frederieke Taylor gallery in New York earlier this year.