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Judith E. Stein, current Lannan Foundation writer in residence, is a writer and independent curator. Her biography-in-progress of the art dealer Richard Hu Bellamy earned a Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant. Among her honors is a Pew Foundation Fellowship in the Arts; an Award for Best Catalogue, International Art Critics Association, for the book I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin; and a writing residency at the Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy. For the last 30 years, her features and reviews have appeared in Art in America, Art News, The New York Times Book Review, and Ms. She is a former arts reviewer for NPR’s Fresh Air and Morning Edition. A graduate of Barnard College, she earned a doctorate in art history from the University of Pennsylvania.

KRTS mathematicians Hein Hundall & Carl Cotner, on artificial intelligence.

For the last four years, Joselyn Fenstermacher, of Alpine, has worked for the United States Antarctic Program. On this program Fenstermacher talks about living and working in Antarctica. She’ll be spending the next 9 months growing food for the residents of the South Pole station.

Big Bend National Park birding tour guide Mark Flippo discusses Big Bend area birds in winter.

For seventeen years in Big Bend, Mark served as a supervisory park ranger – naturalist, providing educational and interpretive programs with an emphasis on birds, their life histories, and their conservation. His audiences included general park visitors, school groups from elementary to university level, elder hostels, and professional and amateur ornithologists. Additionally, he contributed quarterly reports to American Birds, a publication of the American Birding Association, summarizing rare bird reports and current environmental conditions that impacted avian populations, performed annual breeding bird surveys within the park, coordinated annual National Audubon Christmas Counts, participated in Colima warbler surveys, and served as liaison to the Texas Bird Records Committee with the goal of providing clear and concise documentation of rare bird species for the NPS and the state of Texas.