"Tamara L.," written and directed by Kazimierz Braun, professor of theatre and dance, will have its final performance at 7 p.m. on Sunday as part of the Irish Classical Theatre Company's Sundays at Seven series. The play, which explores an episode in the life of Polish painter Tamara Lempicka, stars Ana Kay France, associate professor of theatre and dance, as Mother Superior.

Loss Pequeño Glazier, director of the Electronic Poetry Center and adjunct associate professor of English, has authored a book, "Digital Poetics: The Making of E-Poetries." In the book, Glazier argues that the increase in computer technology and accessibility, specifically the World Wide Web, has created a new and viable place for the writing and dissemination of poetry.

SUNY's online learning program, the SUNY Learning Network (SLN), has received the 2001 EDUCAUSE Award for Systemic Progress in Teaching and Learning. The award recognizes programs supporting "learner-centered teaching" in sustainable and replicable ways. Created in 1995, SLN now has more than 25,000 students who can choose from 1,500 courses and more than 40 online degree programs.

Stuart C. Shapiro, professor of computer science and engineering, was one of four "world experts in knowledge representation" who participated last month on a panel, "Knowledge and Language: Building Large-Scale Knowledge Bases for Intelligent Applications," held as part of the Symposium in Honor of Casimir Borkowski, co-sponsored by the Eugene Garfield Foundation and the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. Shapiro spoke on "Knowledge Representation for Natural Language Competence."

Shonnie Finnegan, emeritus archivist and a fellow of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) since 1975, was honored at the 64th annual meeting of the society, held recently in Denver. SAA President H. Thomas Hickerson of Cornell University dedicated his presidential address to Finnegan, who served as president of the society in 1985-86.

Shahin Vassigh, assistant professor of architecture, has been recognized by the Architectural Research Centers Consortium for best presentation at the consortium's spring research meeting held at Virginia Tech. In making this award, the consortium board cited "the compelling relationships (Vassigh's) work establishes between the mathematical abstractions used in structural analysis, the visual clarity of the analogous springs, pins and blocks used to represent the physical phenomena acting on structural members and the compelling architectural examples, which are fully integrated with the descriptions of analysis and physical phenomena through skillful employment of fades and dissolves."