http://www.mills.edu Mills College is a nationally renowned independent liberal arts college for women with coed graduate programs. Selected by the New York Times as one of three outstanding California colleges. http://www.mills.edu/news/2009/newsarticle11042009ethnic_studies.php More than forty years after students staged sit-ins at Mills and other Bay Area colleges to demand that academia include the perspective of students of color in the classroom, the Mills College Ethnic Studies Department has evolved into one of the longest-running and most innovative in the field. http://www.mills.edu/news/2009/newsarticle10162009public_art.php Mills College art professor Catherine Wagner will debut Ghost Grove, a new public art project for the city of Los Angeles. The laser etched aluminum installation with orange-colored mylar circles, is located in the Ronald F. Deaton Civic Auditorium, a part of the new Los Angeles Police Department's downtown headquarters. http://www.mills.edu/news/2009/newsarticle10022009chen_documentary.php Mills College assistant professor and book artist Julie Chen will be featured in Craft in America, a two-part television series premiering nationwide on PBS on Wed. Oct. 7, 2009. http://www.mills.edu/news/2009/newsarticle09292009kernan_award.php Holly Kernan, director of the Public Radio program at Mills College, has won top honor as Journalist of the Year from the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists in its 2009 Excellence in Journalism Awards. Journalism instructor Meredith May also won for feature writing. http://www.mills.edu/news/2009/newsarticle09282009roth_exhibit.php Today Mills College art history professor Moira Roth teams up with Pauline Oliveros and others for The Library of Maps: an Opera in Many Parts, an evening of storytelling, sounds, and dance at the Firehouse North gallery in Berkeley, CA.