Binghamton University student receives Graduate Excellence Award

BINGHAMTON, NY (04/01/2014)(readMedia)-- Each year, Binghamton University recognizes research excellence by graduate students with a set of awards designed to recognize the wide variety of approaches to the advancement of knowledge on the Binghamton campus and the important role played by graduate students in research at the University.

Joshua Franco from Odessa, TX has recently received a Graduate Student Excellence in Research award from Binghamton University, State University of New York:

Josh T. Franco is researching the complex ethnic and aesthetic topographies of Marfa, Texas, home to the Chinati Foundation, which preserves and exhibits the estate of American sculptor Donald Judd, and also home to a significant Chicano/a population, including members of his own family. He holds a Publicly Active Graduate Education Fellowship from Imagining America and is currently a predoctoral diversity fellow in the Department of Art History at Ithaca College. He serves as an artist-guide at the Judd Foundation in New York City and has co-founded 7STOPS Magazine, an online monthly that publishes seven variations on a theme. He has published four book chapters and two scholarly periodicals, has contributed to two websites and has presented four exhibitions. In addition, he has a dozen conference presentations and papers to his credit. His nominator writes that he is an outstanding student whose scholarly work is informed by, and informs, his personal experiences.

Binghamton University is one of the four university centers of the State University of New York. Known for the excellence of its students, faculty, staff and programs, Binghamton enrolls close to 15,000 students in programs leading to bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. Its curriculum, founded in the liberal arts, has expanded to include selected professional and graduate programs.