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Cheung (pictured, with his students), associate
professor of English language and literature, traveled
with nine students in late April to attend the 38th annual
pilgrimage to the Manzanar Internment camp site located
near Independence, Calif. The camp, a national historic
site, is the most well-preserved of the ten Japanese American
internment camps established during World War II. More
than 500 people attended the pilgrimage. Cheung accompanied
his students as part of his Narratives of Internment course. “It’s
eerie,” he told the publication Rafu Shimpo Online, a
Japanese periodical in Los Angeles. “It’s really
something to see a location which I’ve studied so
much and read so much about. It all comes together in a
new way.”
Fadzai Chinyengetere ’07 recently
won the Anna J. Harrison Award at the American Chemical Society’s
(ACS) Connecticut Valley Section Undergraduate Research Symposium
for her talk “Thermodynamic Studies of Spiroiminodihydantoin
and 8-Oxodeoxyguanosine DNA Lesions.” The prize, named
after the first female president of the ACS (and an emerita
member of the Mt. Holyoke College chemistry department faculty),
is given annually for the best talk given by a woman student.
 Award-winning
environmental journalist Simran Sethi ’92 is
the new host of , a
weekly show dedicated to the environment. Presented by Robert
Redford, The Green airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. Sethi
shares hosting with Majora Carter, a community advocate and
MacArthur Fellow. “The Green reflects the
current tipping point in public awareness about ecological
issues and the trend towards environmentally sustainable
approaches to modern living,” according to the Sundance
Channel Web site. Sethi, who also anchors news for TreeHugger.com,
began her career at MTV News. She was recently featured in Vanity
Fair and Domino magazine.
A film, Tango Passion, in
which Nancy Vining Van Ness ’67 plays
the female lead, will be screened at the Boston International
Film Festival on June 8. Van Ness, who is the founder and
director of American Creative Dance in Brooklyn, N.Y., plays
Claudia, who has a late middle-aged love affair with Philip.
The romantic comedy is set in a tango salon. Van Ness, who
also performs with her dance company, was a member of the
Barbara Mettler (Smith College ’28) Dance Company.
She is currently writing a book about being a modern dancer
who has taken up tango.
 Andrea
Leers and Jane Weinzapfel, owners
of Leers Weinzapfel Associates, the Boston architectural
firm that designed Smith’s Olin Fitness Center, recently
became the first woman-owned firm ever to win the American
Institute of Architects Firm Award. The institute’s
highest honor, the award annually recognizes practices
that have consistently produced distinguished architecture
for at least 10 years. The award was recently announced
in Architectural Record with photos of the team’s
projects, including the Olin Center.
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