In Brief

Five graduate students have recently been selected to receive the Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student. This is the 17th year of competition for the award, which recognizes graduate students who assist in undergraduate teaching and have had significant interaction with undergraduates in the classroom or in the laboratory.

President Thomas Jackson, Provost Charles Phelps, and University Dean of Graduate Studies Bruce Jacobs are presenting the awards at a luncheon on Monday, May 1. The award recipients are Matthew Bribitzer-Stull, Department of Music Theory, Eastman School; Seth Brodsky, Department of Musicology, Eastman School; Sumitra Himangshu, Department of Biology; Evelyn Powell Jennings, Department of History; and E. Jane Wesely, Department of Physics and Astronomy.

Jacobs selected the winners based on nominations from departments or undergraduate student groups. Each student will receive a $500 award with an additional $250 going to their departments for improvements in undergraduate course materials or lab equipment. Gallery hosts benefit art show

More than 25 children and adults will sell their artwork on Thursday, May 4, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Memorial Art Gallery. Proceeds from the show benefit Children's Hospital at Strong.

Some 150 oils, watercolors, pastels on velour, and acrylics will be on display and for sale. The works include impressionism, realism, and a series of reproductions of some works by the "Canadian Group of Seven."

Admission will be charged for the event. For more information call x3-5948. ID Office begins summer hours

The ID Office starts summer hours on Monday, May 1. Those hours are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The office will be open on Saturday, May 6, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Regular hours will resume on Monday, August 28. Choir to give concerts in Italy

The University of Rochester Choir will make its second appearance abroad with an 11-day sojourn in Italy beginning Monday, May 15. Thirty-two students and their director will present three public concerts as part of the trip. Thomas Folan, director of choral activities in the College's Department of Music, will conduct the choir.

The University Choir is a mixed chorus of approximately 65 members. The students will perform an extensive repertoire of motets, anthems, madrigals, and spirituals in locations such as Arezzo, Lucca, Bologna, and Venice. The trip also will include sightseeing and touring of other famous cities on the Italian peninsula. Take a 'Stroll' for the kids

Hundreds of walkers are expected to take part in the "Stroll for Strong Kids" on Saturday, June 3, at 10:30 a.m. in Genesee Valley Park. Proceeds will benefit Children's Hospital at Strong.

Everyone is invited to participate in the scenic two-mile walk. Afterward, walkers will be treated to a free lunch provided by Outback Steakhouse. There also will be music and activities for the kids.

Participants raise money through sponsorship pledges. Those who raise $75 or more will receive a commemorative T-shirt, and prizes will be awarded to the top fund-raisers. Last year some 750 people took part, raising more than $60,000.

For more information and to register call x3-5948. MAG exhibit is by the numbers

In an exhibit now open at the Memorial Art Gallery, an artist puts a new twist on the self-directed paint-by-number technique. Instead, he has taken the shapes and objects of the New York cityscape that he discovered and turned them into paintings of numbers--and letters.

The result is Stephen Johnson's two award-winning children's books--Alphabet City and City by Numbers--and MAG's exhibition of 14 of his original pastel paintings created for the books.

"The idea for Alphabet City came to me while I was walking along a city street," Johnson wrote. "I noticed an ornamental keystone that looked like the letter S. Then suddenly I saw the letter A in a construction sawhorse and the letter Z in fire escapes." Eventually, he managed to find all 26 letters of the alphabet and the numbers 1 through 21.

Johnson's exhibition remains on view in the Children's Corridor until Sunday, June 18.

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