Vivian Chen, Nanyang Technological U, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, has received S$1.68 million (US$ 1.17 million) from Singapore’s National Research Foundation to conduct research over the next 3 years on "Enhancing Education in Environmental Awareness: A Game-Based Approach to Ambient Learning."
Benjamin Detenber was appointed Chair of Nanyang Technological U's Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information.
Boise State U is the recipient of a Hemingway-related research collection presented in memory of John Robert Bittner. Housed in the Special Collections Department of Boise State’s Albertsons Library, the Bittner Collection consists of 300 research books on Ernest Hemingway's life and writings, supplemented by works on the expatriate life of 1920s Paris, Spanish bullfighters of Hemingway’s era, Hemingway’s editor Maxwell Perkins and other Hemingway literary associates. Hemingway first came to Idaho in the 1930s to hunt, fish and write in Sun Valley and died in Idaho at his home in Ketchum in 1961. The collection was donated by Denise Alexander Bittner of Eagle, Idaho, in memory of her late husband, John Robert Bittner, a Hemingway scholar and award-winning professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Bittner died of pancreatic cancer in 2002 at the age of 58. Professor Bittner assembled the collection during the course of many years of research and writing about Hemingway. Additional material from Bittner’s research and writings on Hemingway is archived in the Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston and the Ketchum, Idaho, Community Library. Bittner is buried 10 feet from Hemingway in the Ketchum Cemetery. The collection was formally accepted and dedicated Sept. 8 in the Albertsons Library at a reception for family and friends of the Bittners. At the reception, Rena Sanderson, professor of English at Boise State, and Marty Peterson, a Hemingway scholar and assistant to the president of the University of Idaho, offered remarks about John Robert Bittner and his legacy to Hemingway scholarship.
