Short Takes

Ron Fedkiw, associate professor of computer science, and Industrial Light and Magic collaborators Frank Losasso Petterson, PhD ’07, and Nick Rasmussen won a technical Academy Award for their work simulating fluids in motion. • Kathleen Chalfant, ’66, is co-starring with Mary-Louise Parker through March 23 in Dead Man’s Cell Phone at Playwrights Horizons in New York City. • The Distant Land of My Father, a novel by Bo Caldwell, ’77, is the communitywide reading selection for Silicon Valley after having been the choice of Pasadena last year. • Celebrating Women, an exhibit by Paola Gianturco, ’61, is on display at the Field Museum in Chicago. Photojournalist Gianturco’s new book is Women Who Light the Dark (powerHouse, $45); it benefits the Global Fund for Women. • The Fair Use Project of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society is helping defend RDR Books in a lawsuit seeking to block publication of The Harry Potter Lexicon.