The Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan has published Leigh Li-Yun Wen: Prints & Paintings, the work of an 1985 M.A. and 1994 MFA alumna of the University. Li-Yun Wen, a Niskayuna resident, has been the subject of numerous exhibitions and has received several prizes and honors for her work. She has collections at the University Art Museum, the University of Wisconsin, the Art Pool in Budapest, Hungary, and the Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Museum in Taipei.

“Standing before Li-Yun Wen’s work, a viewer will find her paintings and prints calling forth a loneliness that is familiar yet hard to contact,” wrote Times-Union art critic Timothy Cahill in the catalog’s preface. “In the vast expanse of her oceans and skies, her twilights and starry nights, she leaves one emotionally unmasked, stripped of the layers of commotion that swaddle us in our day-to-day lives.”

Li-Yun Wen, currently an adjunct faculty member in Russell Sage College’s department of art, worked professionally as an artist from 1985 to 1993, when she returned to the University in order to concentrate on the graphic arts.Two Ph.D. alumni in psychology were the subject of large pieces in a leading publications this spring for their groundbreaking work in child psychology.

Kerby Alvy, Ph.D. ’70, was spotlighted in the American Psychological Association journal, Monitor, in May for his Center for the Improvement of Child Caring, which he designed and founded in 1974.

Monitor writer Nathan Seppa said that “Alvy has developed a program for training parenting instructors, authored books on the subject, become a public spokesman for good parenting and distributed educational materials by the truckload. He has reached thousands of people — perhaps millions indirectly — with his message: Effective parenting is the basis of a sound society.”

Thomas Lickona, Ph.D. ’71, was featured in the New York Times Magazine of April 1995 for his leadership in the “burgeoning character education movement.” Lickona has established the Center for the 4th and 5th R’s (Respect and Responsibility) at the SUNY Cortland, where the development psychologist serves on the education faculty.

A past president of the Association for Moral Education, Lickona serves on the board of directors of the newly formed Character Education Partnership, a national coalition working to promote character development in schools and communities.