Ten years ago, Robert January (b. 1948) visited what he calls the “greatest outdoor art museum on earth,” southern Algeria’s Tassili N’Ajjer.  Inspired by figurative art he has seen there and at other prehistoric sites, January’s paintings, drawings and photographs are now gathered in a solo show at Connecticuts’s Fairfield University entitled Art & Human Consciousness.  On view through December 6, the project has been organized by Walsh Art Gallery director Diana Mille and is accompanied by a 40-page catalogue with an essay by Fairfield University professor Philip Eliasoph.

Published in Fine Art Connoisseur - The Premier Magazine for Informed Collectors on 11/6/09

He was the man behind President Barack Obama’s campaign, the one who helped keep everything on track, the face in the background that helped with the making of history. And now he’s coming to speak at Fairfield.

Published in The Mirror on 11/4/09

Ethics in business has become more important now after Wall Street’s financial crisis, said David Schmidt, associate professor of business ethics at Fairfield University. “There’s increased expectation that we hold businesses to higher standards,” said Dr. Schmidt, the director of the University’s Program on Applied Ethics.

Published in Connecticut Post, Stamford Advocate, Greenwich Time, Danbury News Times on 11/5/09

“The [Uno] machines also take water bottles and there’s a ton of water bottles on this campus,” said Joe Bouchard, Director of Fire Safety Services, the department that handles the recycling program. He said that the university started recycling back in 1989.

Published in Connecticut Green Scene on 10/31/09

Authors Sigal Barsade, a Wharton management professor who studies the influence of affect or emotions on the workplace, and Donald Gibson of Fairfield University’s Dolan School of Business, examined how employees’ moods and overall dispositions have an impact on job performance, decision-making, creativity, teamwork and leadership. Leaders’ displays of emotions, they noted, influence followers through emotional contagion: “Positive, upbeat emotions of the leader are emulated by followers, resulting in positive outcomes.”

Published in the Harvard Business School blog on 11/04/09

It’s said there are no atheists in foxholes. Especially when the ammunition’s run out. Certainly all of us taxpayers, thrust as bailout cannon fodder into the battle to save global finance, may sometimes brood over America’s four word article of faith - “In God We Trust” - the entreaty that clings to the back of every dollar bill… We put the question of this dicey balance between faith and reason to Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and author, most recently, of The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World…

Published in Fairfield Weekly.com on 11/05/09

After they collaborated on the epic 1998 Broadway musical, “Ragtime,” composer Stephen Flaherty and lyricist Lynn Ahrens decided to lighten things up a bit by creating a smaller musical around the work of the beloved children’s author Dr. Seuss … An acclaimed touring production, by the excellent professional troupe Theaterworks/USA, will be presented at Fairfield University’s Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts today at 1 and 3 p.m.

Published in the Connecticut Post, Greenwich Time, Advocate, News-Times, California Chronicle on 11/1/09

Obituary for John Kenley, a Midwest theater impresario renowned for taking large-scale productions to small towns and cities and festooning the shows with headliners like Mae West, Gloria Swanson and Burt Reynolds, died on Oct. 23 in Cleveland. In 1928 Mr. Kenley began reading plays for the Shuberts. In 1930 he became assistant to one of the Shubert brothers, Levi, who was known as Lee - “Mr. Shubert’s left-hand man,” as Mr. Kenley put it in an interview with Martha Schmoyer LoMonaco for her history “Summer Stock! An American Theatrical Phenomenon” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).

Published in The New York Times on 10/31/09

Mukesh Sud, a professor of Entrepreneurship at Fairfield University, considers entrepreneurs the catalysts who will help promote economic recovery. In fact, he points out that small business owners are the backbone of the economy, not the corporate giants that grab most of the attention… Consider Emily Worden, a Fairfield University MBA graduate, who bypassed the corporate world to launch her own business that was more in line with her passion - creating handbags and accessories.

Published in the Westport Minuteman on 10/29/09

In the world of politics, David Plouffe is known for two things: kicking ass and kicking ass hard… Plouffe is signing copies of his book, The Audacity to Win, and speaking at Fairfield University’s Open Visions Forum… After that, he’s going to go out and kick some more ass.

Published in Fairfield Weekly.com on 10/29/09

Rick Miller does an array of voices from Matt Groening’s The Simpsons with the opening of MacHomer, his parody on Shakespeare’s Macbeth, playing tonight at Fairfield University’s Quick Center for the Arts.

Appeared on Fox 61 Connecticut Morning News on 10/23/09

Debra M. Strauss, J.D., assistant professor of business law at Fairfield University’s Charles F. Dolan School of Business, continues to make significant strides combating terrorism through the law.

Published in the Fairfield Sun on 10/26/09

“I’m a little surprised that the smaller banks didn’t get more market share, but when you see some of the larger banks on the list, it didn’t surprise me as much,” said Phil Lane, an economist with Fairfield University. “A lot of the larger banks in Connecticut gobbled up former smaller institutions, which has given them a stranglehold on market share.”

Published in the Hartford Business Journal on 10/26/09

Social networking sites such as Facebook give firms a very inexpensive and effective means of marketing products to youthful consumers, said David Gudelunas, associate professor of communications at Fairfield University. “This way, companies are able to start a campaign that is word of mouth, which is more appealing to the younger crowd than hearing it from the companies themselves,” he said.

Published in Stamford Advocate, Norwalk Advocate, Greenwich Time, Connecticut Post, Danbury News Times on 10/24/09

The book is dedicated, no surprise, to the memory of John XXIII, the “pope who made you feel like a person.” But if these warning signs encourage anyone to dismiss Orsy’s new book as just another liberal call to follow the spirit rather than the letter of the council, it would be a big mistake to give in to the temptation.

Published in America - The National Catholic Weekly (NAT) on 10/23/09