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Release
"Winning Monsters"
Student Competition Winners
Honored May 4
Contact: Catherine Herman (518) 437-4980
ALBANY, N.Y. (April 29, 2005) -- "Winning
Monsters," an event honoring the Frankenstein
Student Competition winners, will be held on
Wednesday, May 4, 2005 from 3-5 p.m. in the
University Art Museum. Angie Torres, a junior
from Monroe, N.Y., and author of "Women of
the Skies," will read an excerpt from her winning
entry. The event is free and open to the public
Eight UAlbany undergraduate students took
up the challenge to write a play, short story,
or hypertext fiction addressing themes and
ideas presented in the exhibit "Frankenstein:
Penetrating the Secrets of Nature." All eight
students will be recognized during "Winning
Monsters".
"Winning Monsters" is a culmination of "What
Is 'Nature' in the 21st Century?", a series
of programs, panel discussions, and films that
amplify themes articulated in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
The traveling exhibit from the National Endowment
for Humanities (NEH), "Frankenstein: Penetrating
the Secrets of Nature," led off the programs,
and was on display in the atrium of the Science
Library, Dec. 22, 2004-Feb. 18, 2005. Co-sponsors
and participants included Albany's University
Libraries, the Friends of the Libraries, the
University Art Museum, the College of Arts
and Sciences, the Science Library Colloquia,
the New York State Writers Institute, Women's
Studies, the Institute for Research on Women,
the Center for Humanities and TechnoScience
(CHATS), the Department of English, the Program
in Journalism, and the School of Information
Science and Policy (SISP).
Sponsored by the University Libraries, the
Frankenstein Student Competitions and the Winning
Monsters event are supported by the UAlbany
Bookstore, a grant from UAS Program Funds,
the Friends of the Libraries, and the University
Art Museum.
Albany's University Libraries are ranked in
the top 100 research libraries in the United
States by the Association of Research Libraries.
The Libraries serve the University's community,
the citizens of New York State, and scholars
and researchers from around the world. For
up-to-date information about the University's
Libraries, see the website: http://library.albany.edu.
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