Melissa Stallard Awarded Summer Research Fellowship

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ETSU Alum Melissa Stallard (BFA 2003), who is currently teaching photography at the University of Akron, has received a Faculty Research Summer Fellowship for her work, The Shrinking City. Stallard was one of only 14 faculty members university-wide to receive an award in the amount of $10,000. Photographs from this project are scheduled to be shown in a solo exhibition at the Link Art Gallery of Kent State University later on this year.

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