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Recent HAA Undergraduate Student Achievements
2008-2009
HAA major Lauren MacLaughlin received a Research Abroad Program (RAP) grant and a Chancellor's Teaching Fellowship to work with Prof. Dennis Looney of Pitt's French and Italian Languages and Literature Department. Lauren will research Italian frescoes and also work to "art historicize" Prof. Looney's class that discusses Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio.
The department of the History of Art and Architecture is delighted to announce that Ike Harijanto and Nicole Scalissi are this year's recipients of the John Haskins award for academic excellence and outstanding achievement as graduating seniors. Faculty of the Frick Fine Arts Special Commendations were awarded to Alex Dixon and Julie Steinbrink for the breadth of their impressive accomplishments.
HAA majors Ryan Simmons and Julie Steinbrink and AS major Bridget Kane were elected to the 2009 class of Phi Beta Kappa.
Kiri Mack-Hansen (HAA) is the 2009 recipient of the Judy Cheteyan annual summer scholarship at the Society for Contemporary Craft. Congratulations to Kiri for winning this competitive award! She will spend her summer working for the Society for Contemporary Craft in the strip district. The scholarship is intended to provide professional experience in arts management.
Cara Steiner's (HAA) paper "The Biographies of Bernini," written under the direction of Prof. Ann Sutherland Harris, was accepted for the Bowling Green State University Art History Symposium. The 2009 symposium is titled "New Perspectives in Visual Culture."
Ike Harijanto (HAA) won the Friends of the Frick Fine Arts Writing Award in December for her paper, “’Michelangelo’ and Half-Carved Blocks as Art,” written for Kathleen Christian. Honorable mentions were given to Catherine Mueller for her paper, “Bernini’s Aeneas Group,” written for Ann Sutherland Harris, and Nicole Scalissi for her paper, “Past in Present: Bernhard Heisig and Anselm Kiefer Grapple with a German Identity,” written for Barbara McCloskey.
HAA major Nicole Scalissi's paper "Past in Present: Bernhard Heisig and Anselm Kiefer Grapple with German Identity," written under the direction of Prof. Barbara McCloskey, was accepted for the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR). HAA major Ike Harijanto, who is working with Prof. Josh Ellenbogen, will also present a paper at NCUR.
Kara Snitger (HAA 2008) won the 2007-2008 Ossip Award in research writing from the School of Arts and Sciences for her paper "The Faces of Berlin: Interpretations of the Communicative Architectural Facade" written for Gretchen Bender.
Ike Harijanto was the co-winner of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program Annual Writing Award.
Recent Graduates - Continuing Education and Future Plans
Lauren M. Burinsky — Eastern Virginia Medical School, MS in Art Therapy
Debra Dundas-Broeker — University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences, MLIS program
Lori M. Frola — University of Pittsburgh School of Education, MAT program
Julie Marie Steinbrink — University of Pittsburgh Medical School, Retinal Ophthalmology
Kelly Ann Tobias — Philadelphia University, MS in Textile Design
Emily Wilson — City University of London, Information Management in the Cultural Sector
Jenny Wu — University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine
Elizabeth Harris plans to work with AmeriCorps in Pittsburgh before pursuing an MFA in Poetry.
Susan C. Heiss will remain as Executive Assistant, Institute of Politics at the University of Pittsburgh.
Kristi Jan Hoover intends to pursue Art Education certification at
Carlow University.
Anna-Lena Kempen is employed in Phantom of the Attic’s Comics Division.
Amanda Lynn Matta will continue to work at the Carnegie Museum of Art in the education department.
Katie M. Stapinski will continue in her position at PNC Bank.
Alexandra Cabble Teale plans to join AmeriCorps next year.