Terry B. Heled Travel Grant

On February 2, we celebrated the first ever recipient of the Terry B. Heled Travel and Research Grant. The Heled Travel Grant -- established by Mali Heled Kinberg (C'95) as a way of memorializing her mother, Terry B. Heled, and of honoring the students of her alma mater -- enables a student to travel for the purpose of conducting the research that will lead to a significant writing project. This year's winner, Alicia Puglionesi, spent the duration of her award interviewing WWII veterans and documentarians in her pursuit of a story on the "ghost army" of WWII, a unique camouflage unit whose main weapons were props, sound effects, and "crafty," homemade deception tools. Her piece "We are Ghosts: The Art of Deception in the Theater of War" represents a fine bit of writing; it's layered, detailed, historically deep, and formally challenging.